Brocade Communications Systems 24000 manual Continuous monitoring of environmental components

SILKWORM 24000 DIRECTOR

Figure 1. A SilkWorm 24000 core fabric surrounded by SilkWorm edge switches enables cost-effective, highly scalable enterprise SANs.

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Four 2 Gbit/sec links form a single 8 Gbit/sec trunk group

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ULTRA-HIGH AVAILABILITY THROUGHOUT THE FABRIC

The core-to-edge SAN model features redundancy within the director as well as a high-availability network approach for the entire fabric.The ultra-high-availability features of Brocade Fabric OS® help provide a SAN infrastructure capable of delivering continuous overall system availability with features that include:

•Non-disruptive software upgrades and hot code activation

•Dual-redundant control processors with stateful failover

•Redundant, hot-swappable components and redundant power and cooling subsystems

•Continuous monitoring of environmental components

•Power-On Self-Test (POST), online/offline diagnostics, and per-port statistics

•Error detection and fault isolation facilities

•Call-home capabilities to provide remote notification of system events

A NEW LEVEL OF SAN SECURITY

To help protect valuable information, the SilkWorm 24000 supports Brocade Secure Fabric OS®, the most comprehensive fabric- based security platform available. Based on the latest networking security technology, Secure Fabric OS addresses a wide variety of vulnerabilities within the SAN fabric and helps prevent downtime due to human error.

INDUSTRY-LEADING PERFORMANCE

With a fully non-blocked architecture supporting 128 ports concurrently active at 2 Gbit/sec full-duplex, the SilkWorm 24000 supports the most demanding SAN applications at the core of large SANs. It employs a multistage shared memory architecture that reduces latency in port-to- port transfers to 2.1 microseconds or less.

To provide even higher performance, Brocade ISL Trunking with 2 Gbit/sec blades combines up to four ISLs between a pair of switches into a single, logical high-speed trunk running at up to

8Gbit/sec.With 4 Gbit/sec blades, an ISL trunk can include up to eight ports for as much as 32 Gbit/sec of data throughput.