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Brocade 415, 425, 815 and 825 Fibre Channel HBAs
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The Brocade® 415 and 425 4 Gbps Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) and the Brocade 815 and 825 8 Gbps Fibre Channel HBAs are a new class of server connectivity products with unmatched hardware capabilities and unique software features. This new class of HBA is designed to help IT organizations deploy and manage end-to-end Storage Area Network (SAN) services across next-generation data centers. To get more information on Brocade products, contact us. |
Today's IT professionals continue to seek ways to reduce cost and complexity in their environments while maintaining the ability to effectively comply with a wide variety of new Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) and industry regulations. In order to do so, they are looking for ways to improve server and storage utilization, reduce ongoing operational costs, and increase their flexibility and responsiveness.
Two major industry trends aimed at reducing cost and complexity—server consolidation and virtualization—have quickly become the highest priorities for server administrators. Most data centers were designed to meet basic connectivity needs for physical servers, switches, and storage. However, consolidation and virtualization drive new connectivity requirements that legacy solutions are no longer able to meet, such as streamlined manageability, increased performance, and virtualization awareness. Performance of the applications under load and manageability are often critical concerns for organizations deploying server virtualization.
While legacy HBA providers focus on simple connectivity, the Brocade 4 Gbps and 8 Gbps HBAs leverage five generations of Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design. The current ASIC is an evolution of the industry-leading Brocade Fibre Channel switching ASIC. It leverages the same technology and features that make Brocade the market leader in storage networking, including frame-based trunking1 for additional performance and availability, and Virtual Channels for Quality of Service (QoS) and isolation. This enables organizations to extend essential Brocade Advanced Fabric Services into the server.
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415, 425, 815 and 825 Fibre Channel HBAs Resources
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Interoperability
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Brocade FC HBAs and CEE CNAs Interoperability Matrix (77.2 KB)
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Brocade FC HBAs and DCB CNAs Cross Reference Matrix (45.4 KB)
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Dell Fibre Channel HBAs Interoperability Matrix (45.6 KB)
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EMC FC HBAs and CEE CNAs Interoperability Matrix (49.1 KB)
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HDS FC HBAs and CEE CNAs Interoperability Matrix (63.3 KB)
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HP Fibre Channel HBAs Interoperability Matrix (51.5 KB)
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IBM FC HBAs and CEE CNAs Interoperability Matrix (48.8 KB)
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NetApp FC HBAs and CEE CNAs Interoperability Matrix (44.1 KB)
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Adaptive Networking - Advanced Data Center Fabric Technology (399.8 KB)
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Brocade Management Pack for Microsoft System Center (955.5 KB)
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Extending Fabric Services to the Server with Brocade HBAs (216 KB)
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Fabric-Based Boot LUN Discovery Automates Diskless Server Deployment (790.1 KB)
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Fibre Channel HBAs to Enable the Virtualized Data Center (799 KB)
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HBA Virtual Channels Ensure End-to-End Quality of Service (767.1 KB)
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Leveraging 8Gb Fibre Channel End to End in the Data Center (253 KB)
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Leveraging Brocade Host Bus Adapters with IBM DB2 (753 KB)
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Leveraging Brocade Host Bus Adapters with Microsoft Exchange (730.8 KB)
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Leveraging Brocade Host Bus Adapters with Microsoft SQL Server (770.6 KB)
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Leveraging Brocade Host Bus Adapters with Oracle RAC (724.6 KB)
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Leveraging Brocade Host Bus Adapters with SAP (730.9 KB)
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Managing Connectivity to the Storage Fabric (701.2 KB)
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Server Application Optimization Brings True Quality of Service for Reliable Server Virtualization (804.6 KB)
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Twice the Performance for Next-Generation Data Centers (1012.4 KB)
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VMware ESXi Server 4.0 Support for Brocade FC HBAs and FCoE CNAs (106 KB)
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Brocade Server Application Optimization (SAO) works in conjunction with Brocade adapters to enhance overall application performance and Virtual Machine (VM) scalability by extending Brocade data center fabric technologies, such as Quality of Service, to the application level.
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Compares Brocade HBA test results with QLogic and Emulex HBA test results.
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Compares Brocade HBA test results with QLogic and Emulex HBA test results.
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Compares Brocade HBA test results with QLogic and Emulex HBA test results.
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This Support Matrix or Cross Reference may include tested compatible operating systems, servers, storage, tape devices, switches and third-party software, as well as partner certified applications for Brocade or Brocade's OEM-branded HBAs, as well as Emulex and QLogic HBAs, with native and OEM part number cross references.
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This Support Matrix or Cross Reference may include tested compatible operating systems, servers, storage, tape devices, switches and third-party software, as well as partner certified applications for Brocade or Brocade's OEM-branded HBAs, as well as Emulex and QLogic HBAs, with native and OEM part number cross references.
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This Support Matrix or Cross Reference may include tested compatible operating systems, servers, storage, tape devices, switches and third-party software, as well as partner certified applications for Brocade or Brocade's OEM-branded HBAs, as well as Emulex and QLogic HBAs, with native and OEM part number cross references.
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This Support Matrix or Cross Reference may include tested compatible operating systems, servers, storage, tape devices, switches and third-party software, as well as partner certified applications for Brocade or Brocade's OEM-branded HBAs, as well as Emulex and QLogic HBAs, with native and OEM part number cross references.
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This Support Matrix or Cross Reference may include tested compatible operating systems, servers, storage, tape devices, switches and third-party software, as well as partner certified applications for Brocade or Brocade's OEM-branded HBAs, as well as Emulex and QLogic HBAs, with native and OEM part number cross references.
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This Support Matrix or Cross Reference may include tested compatible operating systems, servers, storage, tape devices, switches and third-party software, as well as partner certified applications for Brocade or Brocade's OEM-branded HBAs, as well as Emulex and QLogic HBAs, with native and OEM part number cross references.
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Beiersdorf boosts server performance with Brocade SAN and server connectivity solutions while simplifying data center management with Brocade DCFM
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A critical advanced technology integrated into the data center fabric is Brocade Adaptive Networking services. As application consolidation accelerates, service level management gains in importance, Adaptive Networking provides QoS to ensure fabric support for critical application service levels.
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The Brocade Management Pack for Microsoft System Center is a workload-aware resource optimization product that is extensible through Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007. Leveraging Brocade Advanced Fabric Services via embedded HBA technologies, this HBA integration solution helps IT organizations deploy and manage true end-to-end Storage Area Network (SAN) services across next-generation virtualized data centers.
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Providing server connectivity products is the next step in fulfilling Brocade’s mission to deliver enterprise-class, end-to-end storage networking solutions. With Brocade server connectivity solutions, Brocade is now extending fabric-based services to data center server platforms for dependable and high-performance storage access.
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A key component of the Brocade Data Center Fabric (DC F) architecture, Fabric-Based Boot LUNLUN Discovery delivers reliable diskless server deployment for the virtualized data center. Deploying diskless servers versus servers with locally attached storage reduces power consumption, improves server reliability, and speeds up server provisioning.
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The Brocade family of 4 and 8 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel (FC) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) support a unique combination of enabling technologies that remove barriers to virtualizing the most demanding business applications.
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Leveraging the extension of Advanced Fabric Services to virtual workloads via embedded Host Bus Adapter (HBA) technologies, Brocade has built Virtual Channel technology into its switches and HBAs, to facilitate end-to-end QoS. This HBA integration solution is designed to help IT organizations deploy and manage true end-to-end Storage Area Network (SAN) services across next-generation virtualized data centers.
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IBM offers a broad Information Management Software line. DB2 is one of IBM’s Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) software products—with industry-leading performance on distributed systems, offering unparalleled efficiencies for staffing and storage.
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Microsoft Exchange is the most widely used messaging platform in the world. Many organizations rely on Exchange and it is one of their most critical business applications. This paper examines the requirements for running Microsoft Exchange and how Brocade® can ensure that those requirements are met.
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As customers require access to their data not only in the enterprise space but also from cloud services and mobile devices, new demands are being placed on database performance. This paper examines the server I/O requirements to support Microsoft SQL Server deployments effectively.
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Today’s SAP applications consist of multiple individual instances, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Business Information Warehouse (BW), Customer Relationship Management (CRM, or SCM), and Process Integration (PI). They are implemented in the well-known three-stage approach (production, quality assurance, and development). SAP is a good example to demonstrate Brocade optimization solutions from the storage and networking perspective.
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The Brocade Host Connectivity Manager (HCM) is uniquely tailored to address the needs of server administrators, while Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) maximizes the productivity of the SAN administrator. Together, these tools offer an integrated end-to-end SAN management suite for the enterprise data center.
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With Brocade Server Application Optimization (SAO), Brocade HBAs deliver much more than leading SAN connectivity performance. When used with Brocade storage fabrics with SAO, only Brocade HBAs enable advanced Adaptive Networking features, such as QoS, designed to ensure Service Level Agreements (SLAs) in dynamic or unpredictable enterprise-class virtual server environments with mixed-SLA workloads.
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Recent benchmarking of the Brocade 815 Fibre Channel HBA clearly demonstrates 2x performance leadership in the 8 Gbit/sec HBA category. The level of I/O performance confirmed by Medusa Labs Testing Service is unique to Brocade or Brocade’s OEM solutions. In the virtualized data center with consolidation of physical servers, only Brocade FC HBAs can ensure that your data center fabric provides the scalability needed to meet virtualization requirements.
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Outlines VMware ESXi Server 4.0 support and deployment guidelines for Brocade Fibre Channel (FC) Host Bus Adapter (HBA) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Converged Network Adapter (CNA) drivers; also discusses several management paradigms for the VMware ESXi environment.