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Delivering more than twice the performance of competing HBAs, Brocade FC HBAs also offer advanced features supporting enterprise-class, end-to-end storage networking solutions.

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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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Brocade has extended its ISL Trunking technology, which consolidates and aggregates multiple ISLs between switches into a single logical connection, into the host using Brocade FC HBAs. Two ports can be trunked on a dual-port HBA into one logical port, providing double the bandwidth of a single port and guaranteeing maximum utilization of the total bandwidth.

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The highest levels of performance and Brocade Adaptive Networking features, which have previously been available only in Storage Area Network (SAN) Fibre Channel (FC) switches, combined with industryleading availability and management make Brocade Fibre Channel (FC) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) the best choice for use with Microsoft Exchange.

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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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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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In today’s enterprise-class data centers, administrators do not have the luxury of time. Keeping track of driver and firmware versions creates a management nightmare. Brocade believes that this complexity is an unnecessary burden on administrators, which is why we developed a unified driver approach in which firmware is embedded into the driver package.

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The Brocade 1860 Fabric Adapter is a new class of adapter that meets all the connectivity needs of cloud-enabled data centers while providing unmatched performance, application-aware services, unified management, and reduced cost and complexity. It is the simplest, most flexible, and most powerful server connectivity adapter designed to extend fabric services to Virtual Machines (VMs) and applications in highly demanding virtualized environments.

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The Brocade 804 8 Gbps Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) for HP BladeSystem c-Class is a new class of Fibre Channel mezzanine card designed to help IT organizations deploy and manage end-to-end Storage Area Network (SAN) services across next-generation data centers.

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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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The Brocade 1860 Fabric Adapter is a new class of adapter that combines a Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA), a Converged Network Adapter (CNA), and a Network Interface Card (NIC) into a single product that can meet all server connectivity needs in next-generation, cloud-enabled data centers, while delivering unmatched performance, application-aware services, unified management, and reduced cost and complexity.

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Brocade Server Adapters Cross Reference Matrix

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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.

Abstract:

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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Deploying Brocade 8 Gbps with VMware Virtual Infrastructure

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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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With a Brocade network in place, SIPCOM can offer high-capacity, scalable hosted UC services to its growing user base.

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According to analysts, the key challenges faced by customers in virtualized data centers are application performance under load and manageability. This technical brief discusses how Brocade CNAs along with Brocade Network Advisor provide unique benefits in virtualized IT environments. Brocade CNAs address scalability and performance for virtualized workloads with Virtual Machine Optimized Ports (VMOPs).

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Describes a recommended setup and configuration for Fabric-Based Boot LUN Discovery in a Brocade storage network using Brocade Host Bus Adapters (HBAs).

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To keep pace with dynamic business requirements, organizations are transitioning their data centers to private cloud architectures to enable them to consolidate, scale, simplify, and automate their IT resources to increase business agility while reducing capital and operational expenditures. To help address the new demands derived from server virtualization, the Brocade 1860 Fabric Adapter simplifies and optimizes I/O in virtualized environments.

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By leveraging the Condor3 ASIC features in the Gen 5 Fibre Channel platforms, customers can save on both the OpEx and CapEx of maintaining SANs.

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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.