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SAN Extension

Brocade next-generation SAN extension platforms provide best-in-class Fibre Channel and FCIP port density, bandwidth, and throughput to address the most demanding business continuity, compliance, and data mobility requirements for open systems and mainframe storage. They enable organizations to move more data faster and further than ever before for remote data replication, backup, and migration solutions.

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Next-Generation SAN Extension for Remote Data Replication, Backup, and Migration
Brocade extension solutions provide an ideal foundation for building or expanding a high-performance SAN extension infrastructure for disaster recovery, data protection, and data mobility storage solutions. They leverage cost-effective IP WAN transport to extend open systems and mainframe disk and tape storage applications over distances that would otherwise be impossible, impractical, or too expensive with standard Fibre Channel connections.

Best-in-class Fibre Channel and FCIP switch port density, bandwidth, and throughput address today's dynamic I/O and workload requirements and are designed to meet tomorrow's evolving requirements for virtual data centers. Brocade extension products enable replication and backup applications to send more data over FCIP links in less time, protecting high-priority traffic and optimizing available WAN bandwidth.

Innovative extension technology maximizes throughput over distance using advanced compression, disk and tape protocol acceleration, and FCIP networking technology. The next-generation Brocade FX8-24 blade and Brocade 7800 switch introduce new performance and optimization technologies, including FCIP Trunking, Adaptive Rate Limiting, and FCIP Quality of Service, that move more data faster and further than ever before.

Brocade extension solutions leverage the core technology of Brocade systems performing at greater than 99.999 percent uptime in the world's most demanding data centers. The combination of technology leadership and proven capabilities enable a high-performance and highly reliable network infrastructure for disaster recovery and data protection.

Extensive Management Across Multiple Fabrics
Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) provides unified management of SAN fabric and SAN extension infrastructure through easy-to-use administration tools that streamline and automate repetitive tasks. DCFM simplifies SAN extension management with a comprehensive view of the SAN extension infrastructure, an intuitive FCIP tunnel configuration dialog and robust monitoring

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Brocade products conform to industry standards in a manner consistent with accepted engineering practices and procedures.

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This Solution Brief describes and illustrates scenarios that demonstrate how Brocade fabrics can be connected to remote data centers through Ciena optical networking systems.

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Silver Peak NX appliances complement the Brocade 7500 by overcoming common WAN challenges that can adversely impact distance strategies in the data center.

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The rapid adoption of server virtualization is changing the requirements for data center infrastructure capabilities and design. Virtualization concentrates business processes and data to a smaller group of physical resources, as a result, businesses need to ensure that the data generated in this virtual server environment is properly protected.

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This paper explores the various approaches Brocade is taking toward heterogeneous fabric connectivity following its acquisition of McDATA.

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This paper describes how FastWrite, a Brocade capability available in Brocade SAN Routers, addresses the performance issues of SCSI write operations over long-distance, high-latency links.