Integrated Fabric Management

As IT organizations consolidate, evolve, and operate more as service providers to their customers, they must deploy Service-Oriented Infrastructures (SOI) and management processes. Combined with the expansion of data center virtualization, this trend has increased pressure to provide greater levels of service while reducing costs. Meeting this challenge in complex, growing environments requires a management solution that is easy to use and helps automate management operations.

Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) is a comprehensive network management solution that unifies management of data center environments. Managing data and securing the flow of data across multiple fabrics empowers organizations to achieve their goals related to Service Level Agreements (SLAs), security, and compliance while containing or even reducing their operating expenses. To account for the enormous growth in data moving within and across data centers, management solutions must provide unprecedented scalability and performance to make data available to users immediately and all the time. Administration tools that streamline or automate repetitive tasks must also be intuitive and easy-to-use.

Brocade DCFM integrates with leading third-party data center automation solutions through frameworks such as the Storage Management Initiative-Specification (SMI-S). Brocade DCFM provides the following key capabilities:

• Superior scalability and performance
• Unified data center fabric management to extend the scope of management from individual switches and directors to pools of physical and virtualized servers and storage
• Simplified management of physical and virtual data center infrastructure, to expose policy-based advanced fabric services
• Open standards interfaces to simplify integration with Brocade server, storage, and infrastructure management partner frameworks
• Unified management for both Brocade Fabric OS (FOS) and Brocade M-Enterprise OS (M-EOS)

Cable Management

As the industry's leading data center networking solutions provider, Brocade offers standards-based, structured Brocade Cable Management solutions--enabling data center fabrics to scale up to tens of thousands of ports. Optimized for Brocade 8 Gbps backbone, director, and switch products, Brocade Cable Management solutions help IT organizations implement their next-generation data centers.

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• Data Sheets

  • Data Center Fabric Services (649 KB)

  • File Data Infrastructure Management Services (162.7 KB)

• Success Stories

  • SAP Americas: Boosting SAN Capacity for Booming Managed Services Business (171.7 KB)

• Technical Briefs

  • How to Configure NPIV in a Microsoft Hyper-V Environment (302.9 KB)

  • Migrating from Brocade EFCM to Brocade DCFM (606.6 KB)

  • Migrating from Brocade Fabric Manager to Brocade DCFM (562.1 KB)

• White Papers

  • Brocade DCFM: Unified Fabric Management in the Evolving Data Center (2.3 MB)