48-Port Fibre Channel

The Brocade 6510 is a 48-port, high-performance, enterprise-class switch that meets the demands of highly virtualized and private cloud storage environments by delivering market-leading Gen 5 Fibre Channel technology. The Brocade 6510 Switch provides maximum flexibility, simplicity, and reliability in an efficiently designed 1U package.

To keep pace with growing business demands, data centers are transitioning to highly virtualized, private cloud storage environments. This approach enables organizations to consolidate and simplify their IT resources, resulting in increased business agility and lower capital and operating expenses. But virtualization is not without its challenges. Data centers must keep up with the explosive data growth and dynamic changes driven by virtualized workloads. Selecting the right network is key to realizing the full benefits of these cloud-based architectures.

The Brocade 6510 Switch meets the demands of hyper-scale, private cloud storage environments by delivering market-leading Gen 5 Fibre Channel technology and capabilities that support highly virtualized environments. Designed to enable maximum flexibility and reliability, the Brocade 6510 is configurable in 24, 36, or 48 ports and supports 2, 4, 8, 10, or 16 Gbps speeds in an efficiently designed 1U package.

Brocade 6510 Switch Specifications:

• Fibre Channel ports: Switch mode (default): 24-, 36-, and 48-port configurations (12-port increments through Ports on Demand [PoD] licenses); E, F, M, D, EX ports
• Performance: Fibre Channel 2.125 Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 4.25 Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 8.5 Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 10.53 Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 14.025 Gb/s line speed, full duplex; auto-sensing of 2, 4, 8, and 16 Gb/s port speeds; 10 Gb/s optionally programmable to fixed port speed
• Media types: 16 Gbps SWL, LWL, ELWL; 10 Gbps SWL, LWL; 8 Gbps SWL, LWL, ELWL
• Aggregate bandwidth: 768 Gb/s end-to-end full duplex
• Scalability: Full fabric architecture with a maximum of 239 switches
• Certified maximum: 6000 active nodes; 56 switches, 19 hops in Brocade Fabric OS fabrics; larger fabrics certified as required
• ISL trunking: Frame-based Trunking with up to eight 16 Gbps ports per ISL trunk; up to 128 Gbps per ISL trunk. Exchange-based load balancing across ISLs with DPS included in Brocade Fabric OS.
• Management access: 10/100 Mbps Ethernet (RJ-45), in-band over Fibre Channel, serial port (RJ-45), and one USB port
• Power supply: Dual, hot-swappable redundant power supplies with integrated system cooling fans
• Power consumption: 110 W with all 48 ports populated with 16 Gb/s SWL optics, 72 W for empty chassis with no optics
• Dimensions (WxHxD): 437.64 x 43.18 x 443.23 mm (17.23 x 1.7 x 17.45")
• Weight: 9.16 kg (20.2 lbs) with two power supply FRUs, without transceivers
• Supported management software: HTTP, SNMP v1/v3 (FE MIB, FC Management MIB), SSH; Auditing, Syslog; Brocade Advanced Web Tools, APM, Brocade Fabric Watch; Brocade Network Advisor SAN Enterprise or Brocade Network Advisor SAN Professional/Professional Plus; Command Line Interface (CLI); SMI-S compliant; Administrative Domains; trial licenses for add-on capabilities
• Optional value-add licenses:

   

  • Integrated Routing
  • 10 Gbps Fibre Channel extension
  • Ports on Demand (PoD)
  • Adaptive Networking
  • Advanced Performance Monitoring
  • Extended Fabrics
  • Fabric Watch
  • Server Application Optimization (SAO)
  • ISL Trunking

The Brocade 5100 Switch is designed for rapidly growing storage environments—combining 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gbps Fiber Channel technology in configurations of 24, 32, or 40 ports in an efficient 1U form factor. Designed for a broad range of SAN architectures, the Brocade 5100 consumes less than 2.5 watts of power per port for exceptional power and cooling effifibreciency. It also features consolidated power and fan assemblies to improve environmental performance and reduce overall ownership costs.

Maximum-performance, highest-density 1U building block for enterprise, department, and workgroup SANs. Delivers up to 40 ports of 8 Gbps performance for midrange enterprise SAN switches along with redundant, hot-pluggable components and non-disruptive software upgrades.

Brocade 5100 Features:

• Delivers full 8 Gbps 1:1 performance for up to 40 ports in an energy-efficient, optimized 1U form factor
• Offers best-in-class port density and scalability for midrange enterprise SAN switches along with redundant, hotpluggable components and non-disruptive software upgrades
• Features Ports on Demand capabilities for fast, easy, and cost-effective scalability from 24 to 40 ports in 8-port increments
• Provides Adaptive Networking services, such as Quality of Service (QoS), to help optimize application performance in consolidated, virtual environments
• Supports Fiber Channel Integrated Routing for selective device sharing while maintaining remote fabric isolation for higher levels of scalability and fault isolation
• Enables logical partitioning of switches and fabrics into virtual data and management domains through Virtual Fabrics
• Offers dual functionality as either a full-fabric SAN switch or as an NPIV-enabled Brocade Access Gateway that simplifies server connectivity in heterogeneous enterprise fabrics
• Utilizes the Brocade EZSwitchSetup wizard to simplify deployment, and is Microsoft Simple SAN-compatible (Brocade DCFM Professional is included for fabric-wide SAN monitoring and management)

The Brocade 5300 switch is designed to consolidate connectivity in rapidly growing mission-critical environments — combining 1, 2, 4 and 8 Gb/s technology in configurations of 48, 64 or 80 ports in an efficiently designed 2U package. 

The combination of density, performance and 'pay-as-you-grow' scalability can increase server and storage utilization while reducing complexity for virtualized servers and storage. The evolutionary design makes the Brocade 5300 very efficient in power, cooling and rack density to help enable medium- and large-scale server and storage consolidation. 

The Brocade 5300 also includes Adaptive Networking capabilities, which are designed to manage resources more efficiently in highly consolidated environments while providing high service levels to data-center applications. 

Brocade 5300 Specifications:

Fibre Channel ports

• 48-, 64-, and 80-port configurations (16-port increments via Ports on Demand [PoD] licenses); (E_, F_, M_, EX_, and FL_) ports

Scalability

• Full–fabric architecture with 239 switches maximum

Certified maximum

• Single Brocade FOS fabric: 56 domains, 19 hops
• Single Brocade M-Enterprise OS (M-EOS) fabric: 31 domains, 3 hops
• Larger fabrics certified as required; consult Brocade or OEM SAN design documents for configuration details

Performance

• 1.063 Gbps line speed (full duplex); 2.125 Gbps line speed (full duplex); 4.25 Gbps line speed (full duplex); 8.5 Gbps line speed (full duplex); auto-sensing of 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gbps port speeds; optionally programmable to fixed port speed; speed matching between 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gbps ports

ISL Trunking

• Brocade Frame-based Trunking with up to eight 8 Gbps ports per ISL trunk with optional license; up to 64 Gbps per ISL trunk (8 ports × 8 Gbps [data rate])
• Exchange-based load balancing across ISLs with DPS included in Brocade Fabric OS

Aggregate bandwidth

• 640 Gbps: 80 ports × 8 Gbps (data rate)

Fabric latency

• Locally switched ports 700 ns, latency between port groups less than 2.1 μsec with no contention, cut-through routing at 8 Gbps between locally switched groups

Maximum frame size

• 2112-byte payload

Frame buffers

• 1460 dynamically allocated, 268 maximum per port

Classes of service

• Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames)

Port types

• FL_Port, F_Port, M_Port (Mirror Port), E_Port, EX_Port (Fibre Channel Integrated Routing); optional port type control

Data traffic types

• Fabric switches supporting unicast, multicast (255 groups), and broadcast

USB

• 1 USB port for firmware download, support save, and configuration upload/download

Media types

• 8 Gbps: Brocade 5300 requires Brocade hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 8 Gbps SWL, LWL, ELWL

• 4 Gbps: Brocade 5300 requires Brocade hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 4 Gbps SWL, LWL, ELWL

The Brocade VDX 6730 Switch is a 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) fixed configuration switch with LAN and native Fibre Channel ports. It supports multiple connectivity options, Ethernet storage connectivity for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), iSCSI, NAS, and bridges to Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SANs).

Brocade VDX 6730 Models:

• Brocade VDX 6730-32 76 ports, 1U chassis (24 10GBe LAN ports and 8 8Gbps Fibre Channel Ports)
• Brocade VDX 6730-76 76 ports, 2U chassis (60 10GBe LAN ports and 16 8Gbps Fibre Channel Ports)

Brocade VDX 6730 Features:

• Comprehensive Layer 2 LAN capabilities: Supports protocols such as Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) and 802.1Q. The Brocade VDX 6730 is also ready for IPv4/IPv6 Layer 3 routing capabilities, which can be implemented in a future Brocade Network OS release.
• High-bandwidth efficiency across trunks: Maximizes performance with hardware-based ISL trunking and wire-speed ports with ultra-low port-to-port latency. 
• Lowest power consumption: Features superior size and the industry’s lowest power consumption—imperative in today’s data centers. 
• Scale-out solution for virtualized data centers: Enables dynamic, large-scale server virtualization deployments in private (IT customers within an enterprise) and public (external customers of managed service providers) clouds with proven scalability capabilities and Layer 2 Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP).
• Local switching: Delivers high performance for intra-rack traffic in virtualized environments, providing ultra-low latency of 600 nanoseconds for the same ASIC on the switch. This helps organizations design a network with no oversubscription for deterministic network performance and improved application response times, making the Brocade VDX 6730 ideal for performance-demanding environments.

The Cisco Nexus N3K-C3048TP-1GE Switch is a line-rate Gigabit Ethernet ToR switch part of the Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches. The Cisco Nexus 3048, with its compact 1RU form factor and integrated Layer 2 and 3 switching, complements the existing Cisco Nexus family of switches. The Cisco Nexus 3N3K-C3048TP-1GE is ideal for big data customers that require a Gigabit Ethernet ToR switch with local switching that connects transparently to upstream Cisco Nexus switches, providing an end-to-end Cisco Nexus fabric in their data centers. This switch supports both forward and reversed airflow schemes with AC and DC power inputs.

Cisco N3K-C3048TP-1GE Features:

• Wire-rate Layer 2 and 3 switching
• Layer 2 and 3 switching of up to 176 Gigabit per second (Gbps) and more than 132 million packets per second (mpps) in a compact 1RU form-factor switch
• Robust and purpose-built Cisco NX-OS operating system for end-to-end Cisco Nexus fabric
• Transparent integration with the Cisco Nexus family of switches to provide a consistent end-to-end Cisco Nexus fabric
• Modular operating system built for resiliency
• Integration with Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) and XML management tools
• Comprehensive feature set and innovations for next-generation data centers
• Virtual PortChannel (vPC) provides Layer 2 multipathing through the elimination of Spanning Tree Protocol and enables fully utilized bisectional bandwidth and simplified Layer 2 logical topologies without the need to change the existing management and deployment models.
• Power On Auto Provisioning (POAP) enables touchless bootup and configuration of the switch, drastically reducing provisioning time.
• Cisco Embedded Event Manager (EEM) and Python scripting enable automation and remote operations in the data center.
• Advanced buffer monitoring reports real-time buffer utilization per port and per queue, which allows organizations to monitor traffic bursts and application traffic patterns.
• The 64-way equal-cost multipath (ECMP) routing enables Layer 3 fat tree designs and allows organizations to prevent network bottlenecks, increase resiliency, and add capacity with little network disruption.
• EtherAnalyzer is a built-in packet analyzer for monitoring and troubleshooting control-plane traffic and is based on the popular Wireshark open source network protocol analyzer.
• Precision Time Protocol (PTP; IEEE 1588) provides accurate clock synchronization and improved data correlation with network captures and system events.
• Full Layer 3 unicast and multicast routing protocol suites are supported, including Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Routing Information Protocol Version 2 (RIPv2), Protocol Independent Multicast sparse mode (PIM-SM), Source-Specific Multicast (SSM), and Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP).

Typical Cisco N3K-C3048TP-1GE Configuration:

• 48 fixed 10/100/1000-Mbps Ethernet ports
• 4 fixed Enhanced Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP+) ports
• Locator LED
• Dual redundant power supplies
• Fan tray with redundant fans
• Two 10/100/1000-Mbps management ports
• One RS-232 serial console port
• One USB port
• Locator LED and button