Enterprises around the world have discovered the high scalability and performance of the 256-port Brocade Mi10K Director. Now, the Brocade Mi10K is raising the bar for enterprise storage area networking. It is a robust enterprise director for both open systems and System z environments.

Winner of numerous awards, including the 2006 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award, the Brocade Mi10K securely consolidates large, diverse, and distributed infrastructures and delivers high availability, scalability, and performance. Key features include:

1. Utilizes SAN LPAR and Open VSAN technology
2. Provides new, advanced security features
3. Non-disruptively inserts into networks
4. Meets fluctuating bandwidth needs with dynamic port allocation
5. Supports link distances greater than 190km at 10 Gbit/sec

Brocade M-EOS fabrics including the Brocade Mi10k support native interoperability with Brocade Fabric OS-based Brocade 48000 directors.

The Brocade Mi10k innovative SAN LPARs support up to four partitions with one of them having the option to support FICON. Only SAN LPARs provide the complete isolation and security required by users needing maximum separation between traffic flows.

4 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel/FICON Director for Large-Scale Enterprise
Ultra-High Availability	99.999% Hot-plug, redundant power supplies, fans, processors, switch cards Hot-plug optics, port modules Online diagnostics HotCAT technology for online, non-disruptive firmware load and activation
Performance	Port speed: 2 Gbit/sec, 4 Gbit/sec and 10 Gbit/sec at full duplex Buffer credits: Up to 1373 per 16 ports, user-configurable
Intelligent SAN Management	EFCM SMI-S Interface SNMP Command Line Interface N_Port Virtualization (NPIV) improves management of open systems addresses
FICON Support	FICON Management Server and CUP IBM System z and open systems environments Intermix mode Cascaded FICON fabrics at 1, 2, and 4 Gbit/sec FICON speeds N_Port Virtualization (NPIV) supports multiple Logical Partitions (LPARs) of zLinux
Investment Protection and Interoperability	Fibre Channel protocols: FC-PH, FC-PH-2, FC-PH-3, FC-GS-2, FC-GS-3, FC-FG, FC-MI, FC-SW, FC-SW-2, 10GFC, FC-FS, FC-PI, FC-SB-2, FC-SB-3 Fibre Channel Element MIB: FE-MIB TCP/IP MIB-II Groups: System, Interface, Address Translation, IP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, SNMP Classes of Service: Class 2, Class 3, Class F IPv6 addressing

Get 4 Gbit/sec performance without replacing existing Brocade Mi10K Directors. The Brocade Mi10K 4 Gbit/sec blade is a cost-effective and non-disruptive way to increase link speeds between select Brocade directors. The blade:

• Shortens backup times to meets bandwidth needs of data-intensive applications
• Simplifies networks by reducing the number of ISLs
• Intermixes with 2 Gbit/sec and 10 Gbit/sec blades
• Protects investments, with support for all Brocade Mi10K releases