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Brocade Infrastructure Solutions for System z Environments

Most IT organizations understand the technical and business benefits of FICON technology, such as enhanced performance, higher scalability, and reduced capital and operational costs. For organizations that have already made the move to FICON, Brocade can help design and deploy expansions and upgrades, as well as perform storage health checks, to make sure that FICON infrastructures remain optimized over time.

Brocade can also help determine the value of migrating to FICON, develop a sound strategy for deployment, and assist in the migration. Brocade leverages more than 25 years of experience in mainframe environments to deliver industry-leading FICON switching platforms, unique FICON extension and protocol conversion hardware, FICON management software, and end-to-end FICON professional and support services.

Brocade FICON infrastructure solutions include:

  • FICON strategy, design, and implementation
  • ROI analysis for justifying FICON migrations
  • ESCON-to-FICON data migration
  • FICON infrastructure upgrades
  • FICON cascading and distance extension
  • FICON CUP management

Connectivity Resources

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Adaptive Rate Limiting on the Brocade® 7800 Extension Switch and Brocade FX8-24 Extension Blade for the Brocade DCX® 8510 and DCX Backbones enables efficient and cost-effective sharing of WAN bandwidth for FCIP storage and non-storage applications. This paper details the operation and advantages of Brocade Adaptive Rate Limiting in shared WAN bandwidth environments.

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The pipelining and optimization technologies on the Brocade extension platforms improve throughput and mitigate the negative effects of latency when transporting storage traffic over distance. This paper details the operation and advantages of these technologies in extended RDR and tape applications.

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FCIP Trunking is one of the advanced features of the Brocade extension platforms, enabling bandwidth aggregation and lossless failover for increased resiliency over IP WANs. This paper details the operation and advantages of this technology in extended storage applications.

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Brocade solutions provide the flexibility, reliability, and ease of use for lower-cost Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) Storage Area Networks (SANs). This whitepaper provides an overview of an iSCSI SAN, the challenges with iSCSI SANs, and the Brocade solutions that address those challenges.

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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.