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Brocade 1860 Fabric Adapter

The Brocade 1860 Fabric Adapter with Gen 5 Fibre Channel that meets all the connectivity needs of cloud-enabled data centers while providing unmatched 16 Gbps 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 Journey to the Private Cloud, Simplified
To keep pace with dynamic and growing business demands, many organizations are transitioning their data centers to private cloud architectures in order to leverage the many benefits of virtualization. This approach enables them to consolidate, scale, simplify, and automate their IT resources to increase business agility while reducing capital and operational expenditures.

Server virtualization continues to be a key technology for enabling private cloud architectures. Organizations worldwide are taking virtualization to the next level, increasing Virtual Machine (VM) densities and virtualizing mission-critical workloads. This trend is increasing demand for shared storage and flatter, more scalable Ethernet networks—as well as higher bandwidth and I/O capacity for client/server and storage networks.

To help address that demand, the Brocade 1860 Fabric Adapter 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 VMs and applications in highly demanding virtualized environments.

Brocade 1860 Fabric Adapter
The Brocade 1860 Fabric Adapter extends Fibre Channel and Ethernet fabric services to VMs and applications.

Designed to simplify the transition to a cloud-based architecture, the Brocade 1860 offers several key benefits:

  • Provides a new class of adapters that meets all Fibre Channel and Ethernet connectivity needs in cloud-enabled data centers
  • Simplifies and optimizes server I/O in highly virtualized environments
  • Supports Gen 5 Fibre Channel and 10 GbE DCB connectivity for TCP/IP, iSCSI, and FCoE with Brocade AnyIO technology
  • Extends Fibre Channel and Ethernet fabric services to the server and applications
  • Consolidates I/O devices by partitioning physical adapters into virtual adapters through Brocade vFLink technology
  • Simplifies the transition to a private cloud by supporting current and emerging virtualization workloads and technologies, including Windows Server 2012 Virtual Fibre Channel and network QoS (bandwidth management) features
  • Simplifies and unifies the management of adapter, SAN, and LAN resources with Brocade Network Advisor

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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 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.

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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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Leading cloud services provider meets growing demand for increased network performance and capacity with Brocade Ethernet fabrics.

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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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Brocade switches with Gen 5 Fibre Channel unleash the full potential of high-density server virtualization, cloud architectures, and next-generation storage, doubling the data throughput of 8 Gbps links, enabling organizations to fully leverage existing and new IT investments.

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Virtual Fibre Channel for Hyper-V, a new technology available in Microsoft Windows Server 2012, allows direct access to Fibre Channel (FC) shared storage by multiple guest virtual machine (VM) partitions.