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Addendum to the Brocade FastIron SuperX Family Data Sheet: additional RFC Support

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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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This matrics includes Brocade M-Class directors, switches, and routers as well as legacy McDATA SAN products.

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This document details the metrics required to establish whether or not Brocade supports a particular fabric and/or metaSAN configuration. It provides scalability guidelines that can be used to design and deploy extremely stable Fibre Channel SANs.

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Archive: This document represents the last version of the Brocade Compatibility Matrix that included 2 Gbps devices and is provided here for your convenience.

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This matric includes Brocade M-Class directors, switches, and routers as well as legacy McDATA SAN products.

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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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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 Solution Brief describes and illustrates scenarios that demonstrate how Brocade fabrics can be connected to remote data centers through Ciena optical networking systems.

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Silver Peak NX appliances complement the Brocade 7500 by overcoming common WAN challenges that can adversely impact distance strategies in the data center.

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Discusses the integration of the Brocade DCX Backbone into existing Brocade Fabric OS SAN infrastructures.

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Using the intelligent PoE/PoE+ capabilities of the Brocade FastIron family can ensure last-minute power to critical devices while saving operating costs.

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Providing server connectivity products is the next step in fulfilling Brocade’s mission to deliver enterprise-class, end-to-end storage networking solutions. With Brocade server connectivity solutions, Brocade is now extending fabric-based services to data center server platforms for dependable and high-performance storage access.

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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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Details the Brocade NetApp key management solution for encrypting data-at-rest using the NetApp LKM Appliance with Brocade encryption devices

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Details the Brocade-RSA key management solution for encrypting data-at-rest using RKM for the Datacenter with Brocade encryption devices

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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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This paper explores the architectural advantages of the Brocade 48000 and ways that IT organizations can leverage its performance capabilities, modular flexibility, and “five-nines” reliability.

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This paper delves into the experiences of 30 IT managers who relocated their data centers, analyzing the primary drivers, issues, strategies, and lessons learned.

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Describes the robust system architecture, versatile feature set, and form factors of the Brocade BigIron RX Series, the industry's most powerful Layer 2-3 Ethernet switches.

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This paper describes the basics of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and how Brocade FCoE solutions provide greater choice in modern data centers.

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This paper provides a comprehensive set of best practices to guide data center SAN architecture and design.

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Highlights the value of highly available and scalable application switching and details the specialized capabilities required in the application switches for deployment in a SIP service infrastructure for maximum benefit.

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This paper explains the concept of Buffer-to-Buffer credits and provides an easy method to calculate the optimal number of credits required for maximum FICON performance.

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In order to truly align the enterprise infrastructure strategy with business requirements, organizations must be free to choose the solutions that best meet their unique needs and based upon open standards, not proprietary, closed systems.

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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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Following on the success of Wireless LANs (WLANs) in higher education, an increasing number of K-12 schools are also integrating wireless and mobile technologies to better meet instructional demands and provide more users with online resources.

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This paper examines how FICON channel architecture greatly expands the distance, throughput, and scale of implementation for IBM mainframe environments.

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Today, Brocade is designing highly efficient data infrastructure solutions and participating in key industry initiatives such as The Green Grid consortium and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Green Storage initiative.

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Many services, such as mobile Internet and mobile TV, require high bandwidth, and current backhaul infrastructures are not optimized to handle this traffic. Advanced routers and switches from Brocade enable highly scalable designs for the eventual convergence of voice and data infrastructure that can deliver new multimedia services.

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Many services, such as mobile Internet and mobile TV, require high bandwidth, and current backhaul infrastructures are not optimized to handle this traffic. Advanced routers and switches from Brocade enable highly scalable designs for the eventual convergence of voice and data infrastructure that can deliver new multimedia services.

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This paper describes how Brocade Adaptive Networking Services help simplify fabric management by dynamically adjusting bandwidth and fabric resources to meet application service levels.

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New features in Brocade Fabric OS 7.0 help increase SAN security in enterprise environments to better protect sensitive data.

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The ability to transport Ethernet over different transport technologies raises the exciting proposition of Ethernet services not only in campus or metro networks but also at a global level.

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This paper explores both the technical and business reasons for implementing a switched FICON architecture instead of a direct-attached storage FICON architecture.