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Brocade DCX Backbones
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| The Brocade DCX Backbone family includes highly robust 8 Gbps network switching platforms that combine breakthrough performance, scalability, and energy efficiency with long-term investment protection. Supporting open systems and System z environments, Brocade DCX Backbones are designed to address the data growth and application demands of evolving enterprise data centers; enable server, SAN, and data center consolidation; and reduce infrastructure and administrative costs. |
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- Eight-slot Brocade DCX Backbone for the core of large enterprise networks
- Four-slot Brocade DCX-4S Backbone for the core of midsize networks, or the edge of large networks
Industry-leading Performance
- Four times the performance of competitive offerings
- All ports can operate simultaneously at full 8 Gbps or 4 Gbps speed
- 256 Gbps bandwidth per slot plus local switching
- Brocade DCX: 4.6 Tbps chassis bandwidth, including ICLs (13.8 Tbps for three-chassis configuration)
- Brocade DCX-4S: 2.3 Tbps chassis bandwidth with ICLs (6.9 Tbps for three-chassis configuration)
Scalability
- High-density, bladed architecture
- Brocade DCX: Up to 512 8 Gbps Fibre Channel ports in a single chassis; up to 1024 8 Gbps Fibre Channel ports in a dual-chassis configuration; up to 1536 8 Gbps Fibre Channel ports in a three-chassis configuration; 512 Gbps of aggregate ICL bandwidth
- Brocade DCX-4S: Up to 256 8 Gbps Fibre Channel ports in a single chassis; up to 512 8 Gbps Fibre Channel ports in a dual-chassis configuration; up to 768 8 Gbps Fibre Channel ports in a three-chassis configuration; 256 Gbps of aggregate ICL bandwidth
Energy Efficiency
- Five times more energy efficient than competitive offerings
- Less than one watt per Gbps
Ultra-High Availability
- Designed to support 99.999 percent uptime
- Passive backplane, separate and redundant control processor and core switching blades
- Hot-pluggable components, including redundant power supplies, fans, WWN cards, blades, and optics
Fabric-Based Applications
- Plug-in fabric-based 256-bit AES encryption of data at rest
- Continuous data protection and replication through third-party integration
Flexible Multiprotocol Architecture and Fabric Interoperability
- Support for Fibre Channel, FICON, FCIP, and IPFC
- Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE) and Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) support for end-of-row server connectivity
- Native connectivity in Brocade B-Series and M-Series fabrics, including backward and forward compatibility
- Optional Fibre Channel Integrated Routing
- Virtual Fabrics enabling partitioning of physical SANs into logical fabrics
- Specialty blades for 10 Gbps connectivity over dark fiber and FCIP SAN extension
Intelligent Management and Monitoring (subject to model type and licensing)
- Powerful Brocade Fabric OS embedded operating system
- Brocade Fabric Watch
- Bottleneck Detection identifies and alerts administrators to ISL or device congestion as well as device latency conditions in the fabric
- Top Talkers real-time traffic measurement (part of Advanced Performance Monitoring)
- Adaptive Networking to include Ingress Rate Limiting, Traffic Isolation, and Quality of Service (QoS)
- Flexibility to utilize Brocade DCFM Enterprise, Brocade EFCM, Brocade DCFM Professional and Professional Plus, Brocade Fabric Manager, or the command line interface
- Integration with third-party management tools
DCX Backbone Resources
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Best Practice Guides
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Data Sheets
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Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring (622.8 KB)
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Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) (1.6 MB)
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Brocade DCX Backbone Family (1.1 MB)
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Brocade Extended Fabrics (570.7 KB)
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Brocade Fabric Watch (773.4 KB)
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Brocade Performance Management Solutions (155.5 KB)
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Brocade Web Tools (2.3 MB)
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Inter Switch-Link Trunking (536.5 KB)
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Documentation
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Brocade DCX-4S Backbone Hardware Reference Manual (9.8 MB)
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Brocade DCX-4S Backbone QuickStart Guide (1.5 MB)
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Brocade DCX Backbone Hardware Reference Manual (4.3 MB)
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Brocade DCX Backbone QuickStart Guide (501.6 KB)
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Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator's Guide, 7.0.1 (1.1 MB)
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Converged Enhanced Ethernet Command Reference, 7.0.1 (907.7 KB)
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Fabric OS Administrator's Guide, 7.0.1 (7.1 MB)
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Fabric OS Command Reference, 7.0.1 (4.6 MB)
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Fabric OS Documentation Updates, 7.0.x (841.6 KB)
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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator's Guide, 7.0.1 (2.6 MB)
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Fabric OS Message Reference, 7.0.1 (2.7 MB)
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Fabric OS MIB Reference, 7.0.0 (1.8 MB)
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Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide, 7.0.0 (1.8 MB)
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Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide, 7.0.x (743 KB)
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FICON Administrator's Guide, 7.0.1 (937.1 KB)
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Web Tools Administrator's Guide, 7.0.0 (2.5 MB)
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Success Stories
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Bank of China: Investing for Rapid Business Growth (1040.4 KB)
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Beiersdorf Future-Proofs IT Infrastructure with Brocade (424.3 KB)
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BGC Partners: Brokering a Deal for a Highly Reliable Network (415.9 KB)
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Syracuse University: Virtualized Applications Receive Top Score (416.5 KB)
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University of Utah Health Care: Cures Storage Pains From Data-Intensive Electronic Images, Records (1.1 MB)
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Technical Briefs
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Brocade DCX Integration for Brocade 48000 Customers (175.3 KB)
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Brocade DCX Integration for M-Series Customers (1031.1 KB)
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Brocade – High-Density Cable Management Solutions (754.7 KB)
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Brocade Local Switching with Multi-Stage Backbone and Director Platforms (167.4 KB)
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Integrating a Brocade DCX Backbone at the Core of an M-EOS Fabric (3.1 MB)
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Integrating a Brocade DCX Backbone at the Core of an M-EOS Fabric and Repurposing an Mi10K to the Edge (2.7 MB)
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Leveraging Brocade DCX for Server Virtualization (187.4 KB)
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Optimizing Data Center Consolidation with Server Virtualization (269.6 KB)
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Scale-Out Architectures with Brocade DCX 8510 Inter-Chassis Links (1.7 MB)
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The Brocade Data Center Fabric Reference Architecture of VMware vSphere 4 (208.4 KB)
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Using the Brocade DCX Backbone to Transform a Brocade SAN into a Data Center Fabric (541.4 KB)
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Videos
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White Papers
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Brocade® Advanced Performance Monitoring—based on Brocade Frame Filtering technology and a unique performance counter engine—is a comprehensive tool for monitoring the performance of networked storage resources. This ASIC-based monitoring tool helps reduce the total cost of ownership and over-provisioning while enabling Storage Area Network (SAN) performance tuning, reporting of Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and greater administrator productivity.
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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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Brocade enables a regional medical center to deliver quality patient care while meeting growing data storage needs and compliance requirements
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Discusses the integration of the Brocade DCX Backbone into existing Brocade Fabric OS SAN infrastructures.
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Describes recommended cabling solutions for high-density port solutions based on the Brocade FC8-64 FC port blade.
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Describes procedures for replacing a Brocade Mi10K Director at the core of a Brocade M-EOS fabric with a Brocade DCX Backbone in Interopmode 2 or 3.
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Describes procedures for replacing a Brocade Mi10K Director at the core of a Brocade M-Enterprise (M-EOS) fabric with a Brocade DCX of DCX-4S in Interopmode 2 or 3 and moving the Brocade Mi10K to the edge.
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The Brocade® DCX® 8510 Backbone family offers second-generation, optical Inter-Chassis Link (ICL) connectivity, enabling massive fabric scalability while simplifying network topologies. This paper provides guidelines for the proper configuration and implementation of Brocade QSFP-based optical ICLs.
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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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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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Describes the internal architecture of the Brocade DCX Backbone and explains how best to leverage its industry-leading performance and blade flexibility to meet business requirements.
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The Brocade DCX Backbone provides industry-leading performance, scalability, and investment protection, unleashing the full capabilities of IBM System z, especially IBM zEnterprise 196 (z196) solutions
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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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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.