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The Intellignece for Network Storage

Brocade - The Intellignece for Network Storage

Packaged with every Brocade switch, Brocade software unlocks the intelligence in Brocade Storage Area Networks. Powerful features and functionality help transform the network into an intelligent SAN fabric—a more robust form of interconnectivity solution that integrates data transport with application services.

The Brocade Fabric OS features, in conjunction with optional Brocade software products, are designed to meet business requirements in the areas of:

  • Enhanced Performance
  • Fabric Management
  • Health and Performance Monitoring
  • High Availability
  • Security/Access Control

These software offerings form a comprehensive solution for optimizing SAN deployment and management, increasing operational efficiencies, and quickly provide a high return on investment.

Optional Brocade software Products

Enhanced Performance

Brocade provides key software designed to significantly reduce traffic congestion for increased switch-to-switch performance and enhanced fabric utilization.

Product Benefits

ISL Trunking

Combining multiple links between switches to form a single logical ISL with a total bandwidth of up to 32 Gbit/sec, ISL Trunking enhances performance, simplifies management, and improves overall SAN reliability.

Advanced Performance Monitoring

Providing complete resource utilization analysis on a fabric-wide basis, Advanced Performance Monitoring is essential for optimizing fabric performance, maximizing resource utilization, and measuring end-to-end service levels in large SANs.

Fabric Management

To ensure open fabric management, Brocade Fabric OS provides standard management interfaces, a full range of Brocade management tools, and an API that enables the development of third-party SAN management applications. The following tools greatly simplify SAN fabric management by centralizing control and increase efficiencies by enabling automation of repetitive administrative tasks.

Product Benefits

Fabric Manager

 

Using Fabric Manager, administrators can simplify Brocade SAN management and reduce operating costs by configuring, monitoring, and dynamically provisioning multiple Brocade switches and SAN fabrics from a single console. Moreover, administrators can automate common switch and fabric management tasks to further simplify SAN maintenance.

WEB TOOLS

A browser-based application, Web Tools simplifies management by enabling administrators to configure, monitor, and manage individual switches and small SANs from a single access point.

Health and Performance Monitoring

Brocade has developed a full suite of performance and health monitoring tools to help organizations gain better control over their SAN environments. These tools help reduce total cost of ownership and over-provisioning by providing capabilities such as SAN performance tuning, service level agreement reporting, and a wide range of administrator productivity aids.

Product Benefits

Advanced Performance Monitoring

Providing complete resource utilization analysis on a fabric-wide basis, It is essential for optimizing fabric performance, maximizing resource utilization, and measuring end-to-end service levels in large SANs.

Fabric Watch

A robust fabric-monitoring tool for mission-critical SANs, Fabric Watch proactively monitors the health and performance of switches and the SAN fabric from a central point. Proactive monitoring and notification improves SAN availability, and an easy-to-use interface simplifies management.

SAN Health

This free, easy-to-use SAN analysis utility inventories fabric components, captures historical performance data, and automatically generates detailed reports and Visio diagrams for an entire SAN environment.

High Availability

Brocade provides the key software and features required to deploy highly available enterprise SAN infrastructures. These SAN infrastructures utilize redundant components, multiple connections, mirroring and clustering techniques, and multiple connections to help organizations achieve maximum business continuance and minimize the risk of costly outages.

Products Benefits

Extended Fabrics

Enabling Fibre Channel SAN connectivity at distances as long as 120 km, Extended Fabrics supports long-distance applications to improve disaster recovery operations and help ensure business continuance.

Fabric Manager

Fabric Manager helps reduce planned and unplanned downtime, accelerates deployment and provisioning, and is essential for managing redundant fabric configurations in mission-critical environments.

ISL Trunking

Combining multiple links between switches to form a single logical ISL with a total bandwidth of up to 32 Gbit/sec, ISL Trunking enhances performance, simplifies management, and improves overall SAN reliability.

Security/Access Control

Because a storage environment is only as secure as its underlying networking foundation, Brocade offers a fabric-based security framework that is impervious to intentional security breaches or inadvertent human error. As a result, organizations can implement security policies at all levels- from basic SAN access to specifying which particular devices are authorized to connect to the SAN.

Product Benefits

Advanced Zoning

Providing secure access control over fabric resources, Advanced Zoning prevents unauthorized data access, simplifies heterogeneous storage management, segregates storage traffic, maximizes storage capacity, and reduces provisioning time.

Secure Fabric OS

A comprehensive security solution for Brocade SAN fabrics, Secure Fabric OS provides flexible security and policy administration that protects data from unauthorized access and corruption and helps organizations customize SAN security to meet specific policies and requirements.

 

 

 

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