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Brocade Performance Management Solution

By combining mainframe and data center expertise with the power of IntelliMagic tools, Brocade Services delivers solutions that help organizations align their mainframe infrastructure with strategic corporate objectives - now and in the future.

MEETING STORAGE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT GOALS

Manage and optimize mainframe storage performance, while gaining insight into disk subsystem health and performance issues

  • Predict the performance impact of changes to the storage environment
  • Optimize current and future disk subsystem investments
  • Gain the ability to evaluate the benefits of FICON migration and other technology investments
  • Receive best-practice recommendations for improving the performance of mainframe storage infrastructures and SANs
  • Simplify the complexity of accessing, protecting, migrating, and storing data on mainframe systems
BROCADE SERVICES FOR INTELLIMAGIC

Using the IntelliMagic suite of software tools, Brocade Services can provide the data and insight that organizations need to more effectively manage mainframe storage performance, as well as optimize disk subsystem investments and fine-tune z/OS tape workloads.

Each IntelliMagic product offers innovative functionality designed to solve specific performance management challenges:

  • RMF Magic: For greater visibility into z/OS environments, including storage, replication, and FICON performance
  • Disk Magic: For disk subsystem performance analysis and for evaluating upgrade scenarios
  • Batch Magic: For tape and batch window tuning and capacity planning

Brocade Services helps organizations get the most from IntelliMagic products and meet their storage performance management goals. As part of the Brocade Performance Management Solutions, Brocade provides the following services:

  • Brocade Mainframe Storage I/O HealthCheck Services
  • Brocade Assessment Services
  • Brocade Implementation and Management Services

Connectivity Resources

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Abstract:

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.

Abstract:

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.

Abstract:

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.