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BROCADE SAN PRODUCTS

OVERVIEW

Grigory Nikonov

SAN Systems Engineer

[email protected]

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Brocade ASIC Evolution

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1Gb: Loom 4-port ASIC

Virtual Channels

Non-blocking line-rate

Low latency cut-through switching ~2us

2Gb: Bloom/Bloom2 8-port ASIC

Frame-based trunking – 4 ports

Increased virtual channels to 8

Hardware reinforced WWN zoning

End-to-end performance monitoring

4Gb: Condor 32-port ASIC

Exchange-based routing (DPS)

Masterless ISL trunking: 8 ports

Increased virtual channels to 16

Reduced latency: 800ns

8Gb: Condor2 40-port ASIC

Adaptive networking, with QoS

Partitioning for Virtual Fabrics

Integrated FC routing

Copper inter-chassis links (ICLs)

Reduced Latency: 700ns

16Gb: Condor3 48-port ASIC

Inflight encryption and compression

Diagnostic ports

Error Correction

Optical inter-chassis links (ICLs)

1Gb

2Gb

4Gb

8Gb

16Gb

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Brocade 8G SAN Switches and Directors


Brocade SAN Fabric Solutions Best-in-class solutions

Brocade 5100

8, 16, 24 ports

Brocade 300

Brocade

Bladed Server

Switch Modules

24, 32, 40 ports

48, 64, 80 ports

Brocade 5300

SAN Extension

Solutions

Brocade Network Advisor

Management

Brocade

HBAs and CNAs Brocade DCX

Backbones

8 Gbps

Brocade 8000

FCoE Server I/O

Consolidation Solutions

SAN Encryption

Solutions

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Brocade 16G SAN Platform


Most Advanced Switching ASIC

• Unmatched performance

• 16/10/8/4/2 Gbps speed

• EX/E/F/M/―D‖ on any port

• 420 million frames switched per second

• 768 Gbps of bandwidth

• In-flight compression and encryption

• Industry-leading efficiency

• Less than 1 watt/Gbps

• More scalable across distance

• 8000 buffers (four times existing)

• Up to 5,000 km distance at 2 Gbps

• Unmatched investment protection

• Compatible with 30 million existing SAN ports

Seventh-Generation Condor3


Brocade 6510

16 Gbps Fibre Channel Switch

• 48×16 Gbps Fibre Channel front-end ports that support 2, 4, 8, 10, and 16 Gbps

speeds

• 24-port base switch with 12 Ports On Demand (POD) license

• 1U with reversible airflow option SKUs—front-to-back and back-to-front

• Less than 18 inches (443 mm) in depth—accommodates compact cabinet

enclosures

• Dual-power supplies with integrated fans

• Ethernet, console, and USB management ports

• Standard Fibre Channel features: trunking, NPIV, E/F/EX port types, Virtual Fabrics

• Support for in-flight encryption and compression on all ports

• Support for optic/media diagnostic features and real-time power monitoring

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4100 EOSL 31-OCT-2012

Brocade 4100/5100 → Brocade 6510

• Optimized for virtual environments

• Simple and easy to deploy and use

• Performance ToR switch for the

small to medium SAN – 320 Gbps of

aggregate bandwidth

• Breakthrough features: Adaptive

Networking, Integrated Routing,

Virtual Fabrics, Access Gateway

mode

• Pioneer in power efficiency - .28

Watts/Gbps

Superior enhancement to support private cloud environments

• Enhanced for cloud environments

• Superior ease of use and flexibility—

EZSwitch Setup, airflow options, Ports on

Demand, smaller footprint (<18 in. deep)

• Highest performance in 1U form factor—

768 Gbps of aggregate bandwidth

• Enhancements in breakthrough features:

in-flight encryption/compression,

integrated 10 Gbps Fibre Channel

connectivity, D_Port functionality, ―Flex

Connect‖

• Ultimate power efficiency—.14 Watts/Gbps


Brocade 6505 Entry-level Fibre Channel

Switch

• 24×16 Gbps Fibre Channel front-end ports that support 2, 4, 8 and 16 Gbps speeds

• 12-port base switch with 12 Ports On Demand (POD) license

• 1U with back to front airflow

• Single power supply with integrated fans, optional redundant power supply

• Less than 18 inches (443 mm) in depth—accommodates compact cabinet enclosures

• Ethernet, console, and USB management ports

• Standard Fibre Channel features: comparable to Brocade 300

• Support for optic/media diagnostic features and real-time power monitoring

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Brocade 200 and Brocade 300 6505

16Gb FC Switch

• Optimized for virtual environments

• Simple and easy to deploy and use

• Performance ToR switch for the

small

to medium SAN

• 320 Gbps of aggregate bandwidth

• Breakthrough features

• Adaptive Networking, Integrated

Routing,

Virtual Fabrics, Access Gateway mode

• Pioneer in power efficiency

• 28 Watts/Gbps

Planning for the future

• Enhanced for cloud environments

• Superior ease of use and flexibility

• Highest performance in 1U form

factor

• Enhancements in breakthrough

features

• D_Port functionality

• Ultimate power efficiency

• 14 Watts/Gbps

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Brocade DCX 8510 Backbone Family

Two backbone models

Proven scalability, performance, and reliability

Brocade DCX 8510-8

• Up to 384 × 16 Gbps Fibre Channel ports or

up to 512 × 8 Gbps Fibre Channel ports

• Large enterprise fabric core

Brocade DCX 8510-4

• Up to 192 × 16 Gbps Fibre Channel ports or

up to 256 × 8 Gbps Fibre Channel ports

• Midsize enterprise fabric core

• Large enterprise edge or application engine


Brocade DCX 8510-8

• Up to 384 ports at full 16 Gbps speed

• Up to 32 optical Inter-Chassis Link (ICL) ports

• 8.2 Tbps total chassis bandwidth

• 6.1 Tbps universal ports

• 2.1 Tbps ICL bandwidth

• 512 Gbps bandwidth per slot

• 12-slot vertical card cage

• Two control processor (CP8) blades

• Two core routing (CR16-8) blades

• Eight slots for port and specialty blades

Large enterprises

2 CP Blades 2 CR Blades

32 ICL ports

5 to 7.5X

Performance

Advantage

8 slots


14U

9U

Brocade DCX 8510-4

• Up to 192 at full 16 Gbps speed

• Up to 16 optical Inter-Chassis Link (ICL) ports

• 4.1 Tbps total chassis bandwidth

• 3.1 Tbps universal ports

• 1.0 Tbps ICL bandwidth

• 512 Gbps bandwidth per slot

• 8-slot horizontal card cage

• Two control processor (CP8) blades

• Two core routing (CR16-4) blades

• Four slots for port and specialty blades

Midsize enterprises

9U height includes 8U

chassis height plus 1U

bottom exhaust shelf

6 to 14X

Performance

Advantage

2 CP Blades 2 CR Blades

16 ICL ports

4 slots


Brocade DCX 8510 Backbones

• ―Cut-through‖ frame routing

• Entire frame does not need to reside

in ASIC before being switched—

minimizing latency

• Frame latency

• 2.1 µsec between ports if crossing

backplane

• 700 ns between locally switched ports

• Local switching

• Data traffic within same port group

does not cross backplane

• 32-, 48-port blades: two port groups

• 64-port blade: eight port groups

• Doesn’t consume slot bandwidth

Switching architecture


Core Blade* Core Blade*

Passive Backplane

(no active components)

4.1 Tbps (DCX 8510-8)

2.0 Tbps (DCX 8510-4)

512 Gbps

16 Gbps Port Blade 16 Gbps Port Blade

512 Gbps

ICLs

2.1 Tbps (DCX 8510-8)

1.0 Tbps (DCX 8510-4)

ASIC ASIC ASIC ASIC ASIC ASIC ASIC ASIC

ASIC ASIC ASIC ASIC

Local Switching (Traffic in same port group doesn’t

consume slot bandwidth) * CR16-8 blade (DCX 8510-8): four ASICs

CR16-4 blade (DCX 8510-4): two ASICs

Blade Support Matrix


Blade Brocade

DCX 8510-8

Brocade

DCX 8510-4

Brocade

DCX

FC16-32

FC16-48

FC8-16

FC8-32 FC8-32E blade FC8-32E blade

FC8-48 FC8-48E blade FC8-48E blade

FC8-64

FC10-6

FR4-18i

FCOE10-24

FS8-18

FX8-24

DCX Control Processor

CR16-8 Core Switching

CR16-4 Core Switching

Scale-Out Optical ICLs

• Maximizes performance and scalability of SAN fabrics

• Connect up to six chassis (core-edge)

• Each ICL port delivers 64 Gbps (4×16 Gbps) bandwidth

• 32 × ICL ports per Brocade DCX 8510-8 chassis

• 16 × ICL ports per Brocade DCX 8510-4 chassis

• Up to 2 Tbps ICL bandwidth (four times existing)

• Up to 50 m multimode ribbon fiber cables

• Minimizes latency between chassis

• Lowest-latency switching through the backplane vs. ISLs

• Does not count as a hop for FICON environments

• Maximizes load balancing and availability

• Frame-based trunking is automatically enabled between four ICLs

• DPS distributes exchanges across all frame trunks

• If an ICL fails, traffic automatically flows over the remaining ICLs

Backbone scalability, performance, and reliability


New core routing

blades with optical ICL

ports

New ICL optics

QSFP (4×16 Gbps)

8510-8 Core 8510-4 Core

OPTICS


• 16G – SFP+ • SWL and LWL (Blue Pull Tab) • Pull Tab – Feature • Supports E-wrap and O-wrap • Power on Hours/Time • Have built in CDR for 16G speed • Brocade Branded

• 16G – QSFP • 4 16G ports in one module • Brocade Branded

• 10G FC – SFP+ • SWL and LWL – Operates at 10G – FC speed • Brocade Branded

16G – QSFP and Cable 16G – SFP+ SWL

Integrated 10G Ethernet Compatible SAN

extension for Metro WAN Applications

• Low-cost, highly reliable SAN extension for the Branch Data Center

• FC frames transmitted at 10 Gbps using Ethernet modulation

• Suitable for less than 100KM, low latency (5ms) application

• 10GFC SWL SFP+ & 10GFC LWL 10km SFP+ qualified

• Support for Brocade branded optics only !

• Optional 10GFC license needed

FOS v7.0 & 16G Condor3 ASIC

MAN

16 Gbps

16 Gbps

DWDM w/

10GE

DWDM

w/10GE

We’re working on various DWDM vendors to test the interoperability

ADVA and Ciena DWDMs are tested with Condor3 10G speed

10G FC solution


ISL In-flight Compression

• In-flight Compression to drive up link utilization (& reduce per Gb cost)

• 2:1 Ratio; Algorithm McLZO

• 128Gbps of in-flight compression BW on E-Ports in 16Gb blade

• Can be distributed over optics of various speed

• It is recommended to double the number of buffers

• 4 ports per ASIC (64Gbps), 8 ports per 16G port blade

• Disk or tape traffic gets compressed on ISL and gets uncompressed at the

receiving switch

• Requires no license and can be used in conjunction with in-flight encryption

C3 based Link

(16G/10Gb)

On-Premise

Cloud

Off-Premise

Cloud

Compressed ISL


ISL In-flight Encryption

• In-flight Encryption of disk & tape data during replication

• Algorithm AES-GCM ECB mode using 256 bit encryption key

• 64Gbps of in-flight encryption BW on E-Ports in 16Gb blade

• Switch-to-switch encryption, not device encryption

• Keys don’t expire as long as the link stays active

• New set of keys enabled upon port disable/enable

• Port level authentication must be enabled before enabling encryption

• Both are offered as part of base 16Gb blade offering without any license

C3 based Link

(16G/10Gb)

On-Premise

Cloud

Off-Premise

Cloud

In-flight Encryption


Diagnostic port D_Port: Advanced Diagnostics for Brocade 16G SFP+


• Provides the following capabilities:

• Performs electrical loopback

• Performs optical loopback

• Measures link distance

• Performs link saturation test

• D_Port is meant to diagnose optics and cables

• D_Port is a new port type, configured by the

user to run diagnostics

• Does not carry any FC control or data traffic

• Supported only on ISL ports (E_Ports) configured

as D_Ports (ICL support in future release)

Electrical Loopback

Optical Loopback

Link distance/saturation

RX

TX TX

RX TX

RX TX

RX

RX

TX

RX

TX

C3 ASIC 16G SFP+ 16G SFP+ C3 ASIC

Introduction to D-Port

• Use the CLI portdporttest --show <port>

switch_100:FID100:root> portdporttest --show 42

D-Port Information:

===================

Port: 42

Remote WWNN: 10:00:00:05:33:13:2f:b4

Remote port: 26

Mode: Automatic

Start time: Wed Feb 2 01:41:35 2011

End time: Wed Feb 2 01:43:23 2011

Status: PASS

================================================================================

Test Start time Result EST(secs) Comments

================================================================================

Electrical loopback 01:42:12 PASS -- ----------

Optical loopback 01:43:10 PASS -- ----------

Link traffic test 01:43:17 PASS -- ----------

================================================================================

Roundtrip link latency: 1108 nano-seconds

Estimated cable distance: 20 meters

How to view D-Port test results?


The Brocade Advantage


Performance Advantage Brocade DCX 8510 Backbones vs. Cisco MDS

DCX 8510-4 9509 DCX 8510-8 9513

4.1 Tbps

0.6 Tbps

8.2 Tbps

1.1 Tbps

Bandwidth Bandwidth

Brocade DCX 8510

Backbones deliver

7X more bandwidth


Energy-Efficiency Advantage Brocade DCX Backbones vs. Cisco MDS

0.3

3.1

0.3

4.8

watts/Gbps

DCX 8510-8 9513

watts/Gbps

DCX 8510-4 9509

Lower is better

Brocade DCX

Backbones are

10 to 16X more

energy efficient


Energy Efficiency: Going Green

Brocade DCX 8510-8 (384p×16 Gbps)

Brocade

DCX 8510-4 (192p×16 Gbps)

Brocade DCX (384p×8 Gbps)

Cisco* MDS 9513 (384p×8 Gbps)

Cisco* MDS 9506 (192p×8 Gbps)

Watts 2117 1154 1265 3521 1551

Cooling (BTU/hr)

7227

3940 4317 12,017 5293

Watts/Wire Speed

Port

5.5

6 4.9 40 48.5

Watts/Gbps 0.3 .3 .3 3.1 4.8

CO2 Emissions/yr metric tons

7.8 4.3 4.7 12.95 5.7

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Brocade DCX 8510-8 Improvements and advantages across the board


Brocade

DCX 8510-8

Brocade

DCX

Cisco

9513

Brocade Advantage

Total Bandwidth

Including ICLs

8.2 Tbps 4.6 Tbps 1.1 Tbps 7.5X more bandwidth

Total Line-Rate

Ports with Local

Switching

384 (16 Gbps ports)

512 (8 Gbps ports)

0 (16 Gbps ports)

512 (8 Gbps ports)

0 (16 Gbps ports)

88 (8 Gbps ports)

Brocade drives the

highest density line-rate

performance at any

speed

Max. Port Speed 16 Gbps 8 Gbps 8 Gbps Leads the industry

Slot Bandwidth 512 Gbps 256 Gbps 102 Gbps 5X more bandwidth

Maximum

Oversubscription

2:1,

no oversubscription

with local switching

2:1,

no oversubscription


~4:1 for port

group and slot-to-

slot

Lowest oversubscription

and the only provider of

local switching

ICL Bandwidth 2 Tbps 512 Gbps N/A, consumes

8 Gbps ports for

ISLs

75% fewer ISL cables;

preserves 33% of ports

for servers and storage

Energy Efficiency 0.3 watts/Gbps 0.3 watts/Gbps 3.1 watts/Gbps 10X more efficient

Brocade DCX 8510-4 Improvements and advantages across the board


Brocade

DCX 8510-4

Brocade

DCX-4S

Cisco

9506

Brocade Advantage

Total Bandwidth

Including ICLs

4.1 Tbps 2.3 Tbps .3 Tbps 14X more bandwidth

Total Line-Rate

Ports with Local

Switching

192 (16 Gbps ports)

256 (8 Gbps ports)

0 (16 Gbps ports)

256 (8 Gbps ports)

0 (16 Gbps ports)

32 (8 Gbps ports)

Brocade drives the

highest density line-rate

performance at any

speed

Max. Port Speed 16 Gbps 8 Gbps 8 Gbps Leads the industry

Slot Bandwidth 512 Gbps 256 Gbps 80 Gbps 6X more bandwidth

Maximum

Oversubscription

2:1,

no oversubscription


2:1,

no oversubscription


~4:1 for port

group and ~5:1

slot-to-slot

Lowest oversubscription

and the only provider of

local switching

ICL Bandwidth 1 Tbps 256 Gbps N/A, consumes

8 Gbps ports for

ISLs

75% fewer ISL cables;

preserves 33% of ports

for servers and storage

Energy Efficiency 0.3 watts/Gbps 0.4 watts/Gbps 4.8 watts/Gbps 16X more efficient

Server Connectivity Update


Adapters & Protocol Usage

Cloud Computing & Traditional Data Centers

FCOE Storage

Arrays LAN

FCoE

SAN

FC SAN

FC Storage

Arrays

Tape

Libraries FC ISL

FC Storage

Arrays

September 2010

FC HBA Ethernet NIC

FCoE CNA

iSCSI Adapter


Next Generation Adapters for the Cloud


Next Generation Brocade Adapter Coming mid-2011


Brocade 1860

16Gb Fibre Channel, 10Gb Ethernet NIC, FCoE,

and iSCSI DCB simultaneously in one adapter

Brocade 1860 Highlights

• True multipurpose I/O adapter

• 16/8/4 Gbps Fibre Channel, 10/1 GbE DCB with Wake on LAN

• Dual Mode: Field configurable FC or Ethernet per port on demand

• Multiprotocol convergence

• FC/FCoE hardware offload, iSCSI DCB, Enterprise NIC offload

• Application aware network services

• SR-IOV with 16 Physical Functions and 256 Virtual Functions

• SAN: N-port Trunking, In-flight encryption hardware engine, SAO VM QoS, per VM FC-SP

• LAN: VALink, VCS IOV, VCS MCT

• Fully integrated virtual switching

• VEB/VEPA L2 Hardware Offload

• Integrated management of virtual and physical switching


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Brocade 300


Front Back

Rear Exhaust Power Fibre Channel

Ports

USB

Port

Serial

Port

Ethernet

Port

Pull-out

ID Card

Single, fixed power supply

Frame-based ISL Trunking

Access Gateway Mode

Adaptive Networking

EZSwitchSetup Wizard & DCFM

Professional Included

Microsoft Simple SAN Certified

USB Port for Upgrades and Diagnostic

Download

Entry-level switch for SMBs

Top-of-rack server connectivity

8, 16, or 24 Fibre Channel Ports

Ports-on-Demand expansion

8 and 4 Gb/s SFPs

192 Gb/s switch bandwidth

0.30 Watts per Gb of Bandwidth

972 km max. extended fabric distance

(484 unreserved BB credits)

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Brocade 5100


Front Back

Dual Hot-swappable Power

and Fan Units Power

Fibre Channel

Ports

USB

Port

Serial

Port

Ethernet

Port

Pull-out

ID Card

Power

Switch

Dual, hot-swap integrated power

supply/fan units


Access Gateway mode

Adaptive Networking, Virtual Fabrics,

Integrated Fibre Channel Routing

FICON Support




Download

Industry leading 1U switch

Designed for mission-critical

environments



8 and 4 Gb/s SFPs





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Brocade 5300


Front Back

Hot-swappable

Power Supplies Power

Fibre Channel

Ports

USB

Port

Serial

Port

Ethernet

Port

Pull-out

ID Card

Power

Switch

Hot-swappable

Fans

Dual, hot-swap power supplies

Three hot-swap fan units


Adaptive Networking, Virtual Fabrics

Integrated Fibre Channel Routing

FICON Support



Microsoft Simple SAN Certified


Download

Highest density switch

Designed for consolidation



8 and 4 Gb/s SFPs





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The Brocade DCX Backbone Family

• Brocade DCX

• Up to 512 FC/FICON ports

• Large enterprise core

• Brocade DCX-4S

• Up to 256 FC/FICON ports

• Midsize enterprise core

• Large enterprise edge or

application engine

Class leading network infrastructure for the Data Center Fabric


Brocade DCX Model

• 12-slot vertical card cage

• Two Active/Passive Control Processor (CP)

Blades

• Two Active/Active Core Switching (CR) Blades

• DCX can operate with one CR blade at ½ slot

bandwidth

• Each CR blade has two special ICL ports

• Up to 512 ports at full 8Gb speed

• 3.072 Tbit/sec* Chassis Bandwidth

• 256 Gbit/sec bandwidth per slot

• 1.5:1 oversubscribed; 1:1 w/ local switching


(2) CP Blades

(2) CR Blades

14U

Eight slots for Port &

Specialty Blades

(4) ICL ports

*Based on data rate

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DCX Backbones

– ―Cut-through‖ frame routing

• Entire frame does not need to reside

in ASIC before being switched—

minimizing latency

– Local switching

• Data traffic within same port group

does not cross backplane

16-port blade: 1 port group

32-, 48-port blades: 2 port groups

• Doesn’t consume slot bandwidth

• Unique to B-series

– Frame latency

• 2.1 µsec between ports if crossing

backplane

• 700 ns between locally switched ports

Switching architecture

Core Blade* Core Blade*

Passive Backplane

(no active components)

2048 (DCX) or

1024 (DCX-4S)

Gbit/sec

256 Gbit/sec

8Gb Port Blade 8Gb Port Blade

256 Gbit/sec

ICLs

512 (DCX) or 256 (DCX-4S)

Gbit/sec

ASIC ASIC ASIC ASIC ASIC ASIC ASIC ASIC

ASIC ASIC ASIC ASIC

Local Switching (traffic in same port group doesn’t

consume slot bandwidth)

* CR8 blade (DCX): four ASICs

CR4S-8 blade (DC-4S): two ASICs


ASIC ASIC ASIC ASIC ASIC ASIC

Brocade DCX-4S Model

• 8-slot horizontal card cage

• Two Active/Passive Control Processor

(CP) Blades (same as DCX Model)

• Two Active/Active Core Switching

(CR) Blades

• DCX can operate with one CR blade at

½ slot bandwidth

• Each CR blade has two ICL ports

• Up to 256 ports at full 8Gb speed

• 1.536 Tbit/sec* chassis bandwidth

• 256 Gbit/sec per slot plus local switching

• 1.5:1 oversubscribed; 1:1 w/ local switching


CP Blades CR Blades

Four Slots for

Port & Specialty

Blades

9U

9U height includes 8U

chassis height plus 1U

bottom exhaust shelf

ICL ports

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Inter-Chassis Links (ICLs)

• High-performance ports for

connecting up to three Brocade DCX

Backbones

• Four copper ICL ports per chassis

• Preserves E_Ports for server,

storage, or switch connections

• Brocade DCX: up to 64 8 Gbps E_Ports

per chassis

• Brocade DCX-4S: up to 32 8 Gbps

E_Ports per chassis

Scalability at the core


ICL ports

2-meter ICL cable

Brocade DCX

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ICLs – Scalability at Core

• DCX model

– 1024 universal FC ports; 2 domains

– 6.144 Tbit/sec of aggregate bandwidth

– ICLs preserve up to 64 8Gb E_ports per chassis

for server/storage/switch connections

Dual-chassis configuration


512

ports

ICL Mockup

1024

ports

DCX-4S model

– 512 universal FC ports; 2 domains

– 3.072 Tbit/sec of aggregate bandwidth

– Preserve up to 32 8Gb E_ports/chassis

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Backbone Topologies with ICLs Multichassis configurations

Three backbones connected through ICLs (Fabric OS 6.3.x +, open systems)

Two backbones connected through ICLs (Fabric OS 6.0.x +)

Refer to Hardware Guide for

Specific Connection Points


768 ports 512 ports

1024 ports

1024 ports

1280 ports

768 ports

1536 ports

Energy Efficiency - Going Green


Brocade

DCX (384p x 8Gb)

Brocade

DCX-4S

(192p x 8Gb)

Brocade

48000 (384p x 4Gb)

Cisco*

MDS 9509 (192p x 8Gb)

Cisco*

MDS 9513 (384p x 8Gb)

Watts 1,337 753 1,030 2,998 4,499

Cooling (BTU/hr)

4,563

2,570 3,515 10,232 15,355

Watts/Port

3.5

3.9 2.7 15.6 11.7

Watts/Gbit/sec 0.44 0.49 0.67 5.04 4.00

CO2 Emissions/yr metric tons

4.6

2.8 3.8 11.0 16.5

* Cisco MDS 9513 examples use 5 x 48p and 6 x 24p blades; MDS 8Gb blade #s preliminary

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Brocade FX8-24 and Brocade 7800

• Best-in-class Fibre Channel and FCIP port density, bandwidth, and

throughput for today’s dynamic workload requirements and

tomorrow’s next-generation data centers

• Brocade FX8-24 Extension Blade for Brocade DCX Backbones

• Twelve 8 Gbps Fibre Channel ports, ten 1 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports, and two optional 10 GbE ports

• The industry’s first and only 10 GbE FCIP SAN extension solution

• The highest bandwidth FCIP extension blade at 20 Gbps

• 10x FCIP bandwidth (20 Gbps) vs. legacy products (2 Gbps)

• 10x FCIP tunnel bandwidth (10 Gbps) vs. the competition (1 Gbps)

• Brocade 7800 Extension Switch

• Brocade 7800 16/6: sixteen 8 Gbps Fibre Channel and six 1 GbE ports

• Brocade 7800 4/2: four 8 Gbps Fibre Channel and two 1 GbE ports

• The highest bandwidth FCIP extension switch at 6 Gbps

• 3x FCIP bandwidth (6 Gbps) vs. legacy products (2 Gbps)

• 4x FCIP tunnel bandwidth (4 Gbps) vs. the competition (1 Gbps)

Next-generation extension platforms


Brocade FX8-24

Extension Blade for

Brocade DCX

Brocade 7800 Extension

Switch

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