Brocade Network Management Software

Most IT organizations are facing tighter budgets, ever-increasing network traffic, and greater management complexity. Managing Service Level Agreements in today's dynamic network environment requires seamless coordination across a wide range of elements. Brocade's network management solutions help organizations simplify management and enable non-stop networking while improving efficiencies, bridging administrative silos and reducing costs.

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Improve SLAs, OpEx, and Security

As IT organizations virtualize and consolidate their environments, and begin to operate more as cloud service providers to their customers, they must deploy service-oriented infrastructures and management processes. At the same time, they need to manage increased network complexity due to exponential traffic growth in video, voice, data, and mobile broadband usage—along with rising demand for uninterrupted services.

These requirements have increased the pressure on IT organizations to provide higher-quality services while reducing costs.

To meet these objectives, organizations need an easy-to-use, automated, and unified network management solutions. Better integration between management tools is necessary to bridge the operational silos and provide a unified management experience for data and storage networking administrators through a single pane of glass.

Through industry-standard integration interfaces—such as SNMPand, SMI-S, Brocade network management software provides greater visibility into the underlying network infrastructure, a critical component of the global IT infrastructure. In addition, Brocade continues to expand its partner ecosystem to enable best-in-class network management solutions based on leading-edge orchestration frameworks.

These solutions offer unmatched simplicity and are designed to help organizations improve operating efficiency while reducing costs and protecting investments.

• Data Sheets

  • Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) (1.6 MB)

  • Brocade EFCM - Basic Edition (193.4 KB)

  • Brocade EFCM - Enterprise and Standard Edition (361.5 KB)

  • Brocade Host Connectivity Manager (1.1 MB)

  • Brocade IronView Network Manager (2.4 MB)

  • Brocade Network Advisor (1.2 MB)

  • Brocade SAN Management Packs for Microsoft System Center (803.4 KB)

  • Brocade Web Tools (2.3 MB)

• FAQs

  • Brocade DCFM FAQ (161.3 KB)

  • Brocade Management Pack for Microsoft System Center FAQs (45.5 KB)

  • Brocade SAN Health Utility FAQ (1074.7 KB)

• Solution Briefs

  • Brocade and IBM Systems Director Solutions (655.8 KB)

  • Brocade and IBM Tivoli Solutions (573.8 KB)

• Technical Briefs

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

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

  • Migration to Integrated Brocade DCFM SMI Agent (204.8 KB)

  • Security Features in Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) (299.2 KB)

• White Papers

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

  • Configuring Performance Monitoring and Thresholds in Brocade DCFM (551.3 KB)