Brocade Communications Systems 3800 manual S I L K W O R M S W I T C H Fa M I L Y

Figure 1.

ISL Trunking groups multiple ISLs to enable high-speed data traffic

8 Gbit/sec

S I L K W O R M S W I T C H FA M I L Y

SEAMLESS UPGRADES,

COST-EFFECTIVE MIGRATION,

AND INVESTMENT PROTECTION

To help protect existing investments, the SilkWorm 3800 provides a seamless upgrade path along with backward and forward compatibility with SilkWorm entry, midrange, and core fabric switch offerings.

The SilkWorm 3800 integrates with heterogeneous environments that include multiple operating systems such as Windows 2000 and NT, UNIX, Linux, HPUX, Solaris, AIX, and others. As a result, organizations have the flexibility to build cost-effi- cient, and easy-to-manage enterprise SAN fabrics.These capabilities make the SilkWorm 3800 ideal for applications such as LAN-free backup, server and storage consolidation, remote mirror- ing, and data replication.

A NEW LEVEL OF SAN SECURITY

Brocade Advanced Zoning logically groups a SAN fabric into an unlimited number of secure private SANs (zones) to ensure that devices can access only their authorized storage resources. Zoning is enabled by the wire-speed Frame Filtering feature of the third-generation Brocade ASIC,

which filters and analyzes frames based on the content of fields in the first

64 bytes of the header. Organizations can specify hardware-enforced zones by WWNs on the SilkWorm 3800, simplifying administration while providing the highest level of security to control data access.

SUPERIOR RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, AND SERVICEABILITY

Advanced SilkWorm 3800 reliability features include the following:

•Highly reliable components and continuous monitoring of environmental conditions help reduce service costs.

•Power-On Self-Test (POST) and online diagnostics enable administrators to monitor and test ports while the switch is operating.

•Per-port statistics help administrators diagnose and isolate problem ports without disrupting switch operations.

INTELLIGENT SAN MONITORING

To simplify SAN monitoring and maintenance, the SilkWorm 3800 provides the following functions:

•Fabric OS enables value-added Brocade SAN monitoring and management applications.

•Industry-standard Management Information Base (MIB) support enables Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)- based interfaces to access switch information.

•Administrators can manage switch configurations by using a command line interface, a Web-based Java application, or a centralized, multifabric management application.

•Self-learning features enable the fabric to automatically discover and register host server and storage devices.

MAXIMIZING SAN INVESTMENTS

Brocade and its partners offer complete SAN solutions to meet a wide range of technology and business requirements.These solutions include education and training, support, service, and professional services to help optimize SAN investments.

For more information, contact an authorized Brocade sales partner or visit www.brocade.com.