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Robust Network Analytics dashboards that display an overall SAN BROCADE FABRIC VISION
Brocade Fabric Vision™ technology health view, along with details on out-of- TECHNOLOGY
provides a breakthrough hardware and range conditions, to help administrators Brocade Fabric Vision technology,
software solution that helps simplify easily identify trends and quickly an extension of Gen 5 Fibre Channel,
monitoring, maximize network availability, pinpoint issues occurring on a provides unprecedented insight and
and dramatically reduce costs. Featuring switch or in a fabric. visibility across the storage network with
innovative monitoring, management,
and diagnostic capabilities, Fabric Vision
••Configuration and Operational powerful built-in monitoring, management,
and diagnostic tools that enable
Monitoring Policy Automation
technology enables administrators to organizations to:
Services Suite (COMPASS): Simplifies
avoid problems before they impact deployment, safeguards consistency, ••Simplify monitoring:
operations, helping their organizations and increases operational efficiencies –– Deploy more than 15 years of SAN
meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs). of larger environments with automated best practices in one click to simplify
Fabric Vision technology includes: the deployment of monitoring with
switch and fabric configuration services.
pre-defined, threshold-based rules,
••Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite Administrators can configure a template
actions, and policies
(MAPS): Provides an easy-to-use or adopt an existing configuration as
–– Gain comprehensive visibility into
solution for pre-built, policy-based a template and seamlessly deploy
network health, performance, latency
threshold monitoring and alerting. the configuration across the fabric. In
and congestion issues in the fabric
MAPS proactively monitors the addition, they can ensure that settings
using browser-accessible dashboards
health and performance of the SAN do not drift over time with COMPASS with drill-down and point-in-time
infrastructure to ensure application configuration and policy violation playback capabilities
monitoring within Brocade Network
uptime and availability. By leveraging
pre-built, rule-/policy-based templates, Advisor dashboards.
••Increase availability:
–– Avoid 50 percent of common network
MAPS simplifies fabric-wide threshold
configuration, monitoring, and alerting.
••Brocade ClearLink Diagnostics: problems with proactive monitoring
Ensures optical and signal integrity for and advanced diagnostic tools that
Administrators can configure the entire Gen 5 Fibre Channel optics and cables, address problems before they impact
fabric (or multiple fabrics) at one time simplifying deployment and support of operations
using common rules and policies, or high-performance fabrics. ClearLink –– Identify hot spots and automatically
customize policies for specific ports or Diagnostic Port (D_Port) is an advanced mitigate network problems—before
switch elements. capability of Gen 5 Fibre Channel they impact application performance—
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targets/LUNs, from multiple hosts Brocade Network Advisor Brocade Global Services
to a specific target/LUN, or across Brocade Network Advisor simplifies Gen Brocade Global Services has the
a specific ISL. Additionally, they 5 Fibre Channel management and helps expertise to help organizations build
can perform LUN-level monitoring users proactively diagnose and resolve scalable, efficient cloud infrastructures.
of specific frame types to identify issues to maximize uptime, increase Leveraging 15 years of expertise in
resource contention or congestion that operational efficiency, and reduce costs. storage, networking, and virtualization,
is impacting application performance. The wizard-driven interface dramatically Brocade Global Services delivers world-
-- Flow Generator: Provides a built- reduces deployment and configuration class professional services, technical
in traffic generator for pre-testing times by allowing fabrics, switches, support, network monitoring services,
and validating the data center and ports to be managed as groups. and education, enabling organizations
infrastructure—including route Customizable dashboards graphically to maximize their Brocade investments,
verification and integrity of optics, display performance and health accelerate new technology deployments,
cables, ports, back-end connections, indicators out of the box, including all data and optimize the performance of
and ISLs—for robustness before captured using Brocade Fabric Vision networking infrastructures.
deploying applications. technology. To accelerate troubleshooting,
administrators can use dashboard Maximizing Investments
•• Forward Error Correction (FEC): playback to quickly review past events To help optimize technology investments,
Enables recovery from bit errors in and identify problems in the fabric. In Brocade and its partners offer complete
ISLs, enhancing transmission reliability addition, dashboards and reports can be solutions that include professional
and performance. configured to show only the most relevant services, technical support, and education.
••Credit Loss Recovery: Helps overcome data, enabling administrators to more For more information, contact a Brocade
sales partner or visit www.brocade.com.
performance degradation and efficiently prioritize their actions
congestion due to buffer credit loss. and maintain network performance.
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BROCADE 6505 SPECIFICATIONS
System Architecture
Fibre Channel ports Switch mode (default): 12- and 24-port Port types D_Port (ClearLink Diagnostic Port), E_Port,
configurations (12-port increment through F_Port, M_Port (Mirror Port); optional port
Ports on Demand [PoD] license); E, F, M, D type control
ports Brocade Access Gateway mode: F_Port
Brocade Access Gateway default port and NPIV-enabled N_Port
mapping: 16 F_Ports, 8 N_Ports
Data traffic types Fabric switches supporting unicast
Scalability Full-fabric architecture with a maximum of
239 switches Media types 16 Gbps: Brocade 6505 requires Brocade
hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 16 Gbps
Certified maximum 6,000 active nodes; 56 switches, 19 hops SWL, LWL, ELWL
in Brocade Fabric OS® fabrics; larger fabrics 8 Gbps: Brocade 6505 requires Brocade
certified as required hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 8 Gbps
SWL, LWL, ELWL
Performance Fibre Channel: 2.125 Gbps line speed, full
duplex; 4.25 Gbps line speed, full duplex; Fibre Channel distance subject to fiber-
8.5 Gbps line speed, full duplex; 14.025 optic cable and port speed
Gbps line speed, full duplex; auto-sensing
of 2, 4, 8, and 16 Gbps port speeds USB One USB port for system log file
downloads or firmware upgrades
ISL trunking Frame-based Trunking with up to
eight 16 Gbps ports per ISL trunk; up Fabric services Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite
to 128 Gbps per ISL trunk. Exchange- (MAPS); Flow Vision; Top Talkers for E_
based load balancing across ISLs with Note: Some fabric services Ports, F_Ports, and Fabric mode; Brocade
do not apply or are unavailable in Adaptive Networking (Ingress Rate Limiting,
DPS included in Brocade Fabric OS. Brocade Access Gateway mode.
Traffic Isolation, QoS); Bottleneck Detection;
Aggregate bandwidth 384 Gbps end-to-end full duplex Brocade Advanced Zoning (default zoning,
port/WWN zoning, broadcast zoning,
Maximum fabric latency Latency for locally switched ports is 700 ns; peer zoning); Dynamic Fabric Provisioning
Forward Error Correction (FEC) adds 400 (DFP); Dynamic Path Selection (DPS);
ns between E_Ports (enabled by default). Brocade Extended Fabrics; Enhanced BB
credit recovery; FDMI; Frame Redirection;
Maximum frame size 2,112-byte payload Frame-based Trunking; FSPF; IPoFC;
Brocade ISL Trunking; Management Server;
Frame buffers 8,192 dynamically allocated
NPIV; NTP v3; Port Fencing; Registered
Classes of service Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch State Change Notification (RSCN); Reliable
frames) Commit Service (RCS); Server Application
Optimization (SAO); Simple Name Server
(SNS)
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BROCADE 6505 SPECIFICATIONS (Continued)
Management System weight 7.82 kg (17.25 lb) with one power supply,
without transceivers
Supported management HTTP, SNMP v1/v3 (FE MIB, FC
software Management MIB), SSH; Auditing, Syslog; 9.16 kg (20.19 lb) with two power supply
Brocade Advanced Web Tools; Brocade FRUs, without transceivers
Network Advisor SAN Enterprise or Brocade
Environment
Network Advisor SAN Professional/
Professional Plus; Command Line Interface Operating environment Temperature: 0°C to 40°C/32°F to 104°F
(CLI); SMI-S compliant; Administrative
Domains; trial licenses for add-on capabilities Humidity: 10% to 85% (non-condensing)
Security DH-CHAP (between switches and end Non-operating Temperature: –25°C to 70°C/–13°F to 158°F
devices), FCAP switch authentication; environment Humidity: 10% to 90% (non-condensing)
HTTPS, IPsec, IP filtering, LDAP with
IPv6, OpenLDAP, Port Binding, RADIUS, Operating altitude Up to 3,000 m (9,843 ft)
TACACS+, User-defined Role-Based Access
Control (RBAC), Secure Copy (SCP), Secure Storage altitude Up to 12 km (39,370 ft)
RPC, SFTP, SSH v2, SSL, Switch Binding,
Shock Operating: Up to 20 G, 6 ms half-sine
Trusted Switch
Non-operating: Half-sine, 33 G 11 ms,
Management access 10/100 Mbps Ethernet (RJ-45), in-band over 3/eg axis
Fibre Channel, serial port (RJ-45), and one
USB port Vibration Operating: 0.5 g sine, 0.4 grms random,
5 Hz to 500 Hz
Diagnostics ClearLink optics and cable diagnostics,
Non-operating: 2.0 g sine, 1.1 grms random,
including electrical/optical loopback, link
5 Hz to 500 Hz
traffic/latency/distance; flow mirroring; built-in
flow generator; POST and embedded online/ Heat dissipation 24 ports at 338 BTU/hr
offline diagnostics, including environmental
monitoring, FCping and Pathinfo (FC Power
traceroute), frame viewer, non-disruptive
daemon restart, port mirroring, optics health Power supply Base switch includes a single, hot-swappable
monitoring, power monitoring, RAStrace power supply with integrated system cooling
logging, and Rolling Reboot Detection (RRD) fans. Optional dual redundant hot-swappable
power supply.
Mechanical
AC input 85 V to 264 V ~5 A to 2.5 A
Enclosure Back-to-front airflow (port-side exhaust);
power from back, 1U Input line frequency 47 Hz to 63 Hz
Size Width: 437.64 mm (17.23 in.) Power consumption 80 W with all 24 ports populated with
16 Gbps SWL optics
Height: 43.18 mm (1.7 in.)
60 W for empty chassis with no optics
Depth: 443.23 mm (17.45 in.)
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