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Brocade EFCM Enterprise centralizes management of large, multi-fabric, or multi-site storage networks through a single pane of glass. With enterprise-class reliability and scalability, and advanced features like proactive monitoring and alert notification, EFCM Enterprise helps optimize storage resources, maximize performance, and ensure the security of storage network infrastructures.
Brocade EFCM Enterprise Advanced Module
Add the Advanced Module to EFCM Enterprise to further streamline SAN management tasks. Capabilities like automated event management, security policy management, historical analysis and trending, and group event logging make it even easier to control performance, administrative costs, and risks in the SAN. EFCM Enterprise:
- Identifies bottlenecks and under-utilized links by measuring against user-defined thresholds
- Reduces administration time by automating routine tasks
- Increases SAN security with security policy management, reporting, logging, and management
- Reduces downtime with rules-based corrective action
- Minimizes time spent on repetitive tasks with group-based actions and policies
Brocade EFCM Enterprise software provides:
- Manager-of-managers architecture for centralized management of multiple Brocade Fabric OS and M-EOS SAN fabrics through a single pane of glass
- End-to-end visualization of the extended SAN, providing a holistic view and facilitating configuration and asset tracking
- Unmatched scalability to manage growing fabrics with fewer licenses, reducing capital and operating costs
- Capable of displaying, configuring, and zoning Brocade HBAs, switches, directors, and the Brocade DCX Backbone
- Industry-leading support for FICON mainframe environments, including FICON CUP, FICON CUP zoning, and N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV)
- Support for the latest features across Brocade DCX Backbone, director, and switch products
- Trunking to optimize data flows and reduce ISLs, virtual SANs and partitioning for superior network segmentation and security
- Integrated support for management of routed, extended or iSCSI networks, simplifying and automating configuration and zoning
- Advanced call home support, alerting the specified call home service on a per-device basis, and ensuring that only relevant events trigger a call home.
- Optional module delivers proactive performance monitoring and event management to reduce administration time
- Advanced diagnostics to quickly troubleshoot and isolate problems, protecting against outages and network threats
- Integration with third-party management applications and SRM tools for storage-wide management
- Display multiple geographically dispersed SANs through a local Brocade EFCM instance
BROCADE EFCM SERVICES
Brocade offers services to help organizations implement and fully utilize the benefits of EFCM, including expert assistance and best-practice guidance to ensure a properly configured and optimized management environment. As part of this service, Brocade will install EFCM, perform a SAN discovery, set up users, groups, zones and access controls, provide EFCM installation reference documentation detailing the implementation as well as provide knowledge transfer for staff personnel.
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