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Enterprises have always required a high degree of reliability and scalability in their storage networking solutions. But as today's SAN designs grow increasingly complex, simplicity and security become even more important for improving uptime and protecting corporate information.
Brocade Storage Network Services in Enterprise Operating System (E/OS) 8.0 can help enterprises achieve this advanced level of efficiency while protecting the data that is essential to their enterprise. E/OS delivers comprehensive device intelligence - it can help you diagnose and troubleshoot potential problems and control access to the SAN. Value-added services are also available to further secure and optimize the performance of your storage network.

Highlights

  • Deliver industry-leading diagnostic and security features
  • Help you maintain stable, secure and scalable storage networks
  • Provide intelligence for improved storage network management
  • Utilize industry-standard methodology

VALUE-ADDED SERVICES

Value-added services are available as licensable features of Brocade Storage Network Services, including enhanced security and performance optimization features.

Security Software: To help secure your storage network and address federal and state compliance requirements, authentication and binding add additional layers of security to ports, devices and fabrics.

Open Trunking: Optimize the performance of your SAN by Load balancing traffic across all available ISLs. Open Trunking increases useable ports by optimizing current ISL utilization and freeing up more ports for device connections. Through Open Trunking, your organization can lower your total cost of ownership.

FICON Management Server: Allows management of the switch via the in-band accessed Control Unit Port, or CUP. This capability is used in mainframe environments where multiple FICON-capable devices are managed by a centralized application.

FICON Control Unit Port (CUP) Partitioning: FICON CUP Partitioning provides even greater management control and security in FICON SANs by isolating access to ports to only those hosts that are zoned with the device. This allows access to resources to be partitioned out to multiple hosts in a flexible manner that is consistent with the zoning configuration regulating device connectivity.

Full Volatility: Ensures that your company's confidential information is not stored on the switch or director. This optional feature is designed to support high security environments where no data may be retained in a power off state. The switch or director is configured so that no frame data is stored after power off.

Node Port Identifier Virtualization (NPIV): Allows a single device port to support many virtual devices, enabling you to run multiple processes on your host. Up to 256 virtual addresses per N_port, can be allocated without impacting the existing hardware implementation. This feature is particularly beneficial in mainframe environments where hundreds of Linux partitions can share a physical channel.

Brocade Enterprise OS supports the following Brocade devices:

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Summarizes equipment known to be compatible with the Brocade product family(SAN and LAN). Products names in the compatibility tables reflect equipment tested at Brocade or tested externally.

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This matrics includes Brocade M-Class directors, switches, and routers as well as legacy McDATA SAN products.

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This document details the metrics required to establish whether or not Brocade supports a particular fabric and/or metaSAN configuration. It provides scalability guidelines that can be used to design and deploy extremely stable Fibre Channel SANs.

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Archive: This document represents the last version of the Brocade Compatibility Matrix that included 2 Gbps devices and is provided here for your convenience.

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This matric includes Brocade M-Class directors, switches, and routers as well as legacy McDATA SAN products.

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This paper examines how Brocade StorageX global namespace technology simplifies file server consolidation and optimizes storage resource utilization.

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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 evolving data center fabric exploits developing virtualization technologies for a data- and application-driven solution that reduces complexity and enables end-to-end management on a common framework.

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Describes how to migrate from Brocade EFCM to Brocade DCFM including planning, installation and deployment, and post-deployment configuration.

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The guiding principles driving a new architecture for the data center include consolidation, virtualization, service-level resource allocation, and policy-based data management. These principles simplify how business exploits its data for competitive advantage in a cost-effective manner.

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The evolving data center requires innovative technology in the fabric networks that connect servers to servers, servers to storage, and storage to storage.

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Describes and illustrates scenarios that demonstrate how the Brocade DCX Backbone platform can be added non-disruptively into the core of existing SANs and new data center fabrics.

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This paper delves into the experiences of 30 IT managers who relocated their data centers, analyzing the primary drivers, issues, strategies, and lessons learned.

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The results of a benchmarking study performed in Brocade test labs demonstrate that SQL Server can be deployed on VMware ESX Server 3.5 for Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) applications in very favorable server consolidation ratios to meet corporate IT business requirements.

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This guide describes best practices for incorporating cabling in a typical data center, plus tips for selecting cabling components and information on data transmission media.

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This paper explores how key capabilities within Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) help simplify infrastructure management.

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This paper describes the basics of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and how Brocade FCoE solutions provide greater choice in modern data centers.

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This paper describes how System z users can leverage the Brocade DCX Backbone to address their most pressing business challenges while preparing for future technologies.

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This paper examines how FICON channel architecture greatly expands the distance, throughput, and scale of implementation for IBM mainframe environments.

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This paper explores the challenges of block-level data migrations and how Brocade Data Migration Manager increases data migration efficiency while reducing risk and operational costs.

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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.

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Brocade Data Migration Manager (DMM) is designed to provide a fast, reliable, and cost-effective way to simplify data movement.

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This paper outlines key aspects of SAN security and ways that new features in Brocade Fabric OS 6.0 help increase SAN security in enterprise environments.

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This paper examines how Brocade Storage Application Services enable EMC RecoverPoint to support heterogeneous fabric-based data replication for all open-system server solutions across any distance.

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Describes a FOS 6.2 capability: Virtual Fabrics (VFs). Using VFs, customers can partition a physical switch into multiple Logical Switches, each of which belongs to a Logical Fabric, which has independent data paths, fabric configuration (zoning, Quality of Service, fabric mode) ,and management.

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This paper examines the fundamentals and benefits of the Brocade Access Gateway, the latest evolution in Fibre Channel SAN connectivity built on blade server technology.