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| The Brocade DCX Backbone family includes highly robust 8 Gbps network switching platforms that deliver performance, scalability, and energy efficiency. Supporting open system 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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Build a Foundation for Mission-Critical Applications
Fibre Channel is the traditional and transformational networking solution for mission-critical applications and data. It is the foundation for the virtualized data center with years of deployment and customer success. Brocade DCX Backbones are a family of 8 Gbps Fibre Channel modular network switching platforms that deliver performance, scalability, and reliability for enterprise storage. Brocade DCX Backbones are designed to address the data growth and application demands; enable server, SAN, and data center consolidation; and reduce infrastructure and administrative costs.
Additional highlights include:
- Provides a highly robust 8 Gbps platform in two modular form factors for enterprise data centers supporting open system and System z environments
- Maximizes chassis bandwidth, performance, and port density with the industry's first and only 64-port Fibre Channel blade
- Delivers over four times the performance of competitive offerings to meet data growth and access demands, expand virtualization, and consolidate resources
- Delivers five times the energy efficiency of competitive offerings, enabling data centers to support more server and storage equipment
- Provides a high-density, multiprotocol platform for consolidating server connectivity using emerging DCB and FCoE networking technology
- Secures and protects data against threats and disasters with plug-in blades for data encryption and SAN extension
- Enables logical partitioning of platforms and fabrics into virtual data and management domains without sacrificing performance, scalability, security, or reliability
Success Stories
Bank of China: Investing for Rapid Business Growth (PDF, 1040.4 KB)
Beiersdorf Future-Proofs IT Infrastructure with Brocade (PDF, 424.3 KB)
BGC Partners: Brokering a Deal for a Highly Reliable Network (PDF, 415.9 KB)
Syracuse University: Virtualized Applications Receive Top Score (PDF, 416.5 KB)
University of Utah Health Care: Cures Storage Pains From Data-Intensive Electronic Images, Records (PDF, 1.1 MB)
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Brocade DCX Backbone Family (PDF, 976.5 KB)
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Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring (622.8 KB)
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Brocade DCX Backbone Family (976.5 KB)
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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 Network Advisor (1.1 MB)
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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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14U Rack Mount Kit Installation Procedure (1.8 MB)
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27-31 Inch Rail Rack Mount (Backbone) Kit Installation Procedure (1.4 MB)
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Brocade DCX-4S Backbone Hardware Reference Manual (414 Bytes)
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Brocade DCX-4S Backbone QuickStart Guide (414 Bytes)
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Brocade DCX Backbone Hardware Reference Manual (412 Bytes)
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Brocade DCX Backbone QuickStart Guide (412 Bytes)
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Fabric OS Administrator's Guide, 7.1.0 (415 Bytes)
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Fabric OS Command Reference, 7.1.0 (419 Bytes)
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Fabric OS FCIP Administrator's Guide, 7.1.0 (420 Bytes)
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Fabric OS Message Reference, 7.1.0 (419 Bytes)
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Fabric OS MIB Reference, 7.1.0 (419 Bytes)
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Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide, 7.1.0 (422 Bytes)
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Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide, 7.1.0 (414 Bytes)
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FICON Administrator's Guide, 7.1.0 (421 Bytes)
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Mid-Mount Rack Kit (Backbone) Installation Procedure (3.1 MB)
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Web Tools Administrator's Guide, 7.1.0 (414 Bytes)
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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 Local Switching with Multi-Stage Backbone and Director Platforms (167.4 KB)
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CTI Quantum Cabling Solution For Brocade Dcx And Dcx 4s Chassis (670 KB)
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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 (920.4 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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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 recommended cabling solutions for high-density port solutions based on the Brocade FC8-64 FC port blade.
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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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This document summarizes equipment known to be compatible with the Brocade® product family. Products named in the compatibility tables reflect equipment tested at Brocade or tested externally.
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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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Beiersdorf boosts server performance with Brocade SAN and server connectivity solutions while simplifying data center management with Brocade DCFM
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Discusses the integration of the Brocade DCX Backbone into existing Brocade Fabric OS SAN infrastructures.
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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 with Gen 5 Fibre Channel offers unique optical ICL connectivity, enabling massive fabric scalability while simplifying network topologies.
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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.