Brocade Communications Systems 4016 manual Optional Brocade Features, Other Industry Resources

For additional Brocade documentation, visit the Brocade SAN Info Center and click the Resource Library location:

http://www.brocade.com

Release notes are available on the Brocade Connect Web site and are also bundled with the Fabric OS firmware.

Optional Brocade Features

Optional Brocade features include:

Advanced Performance Monitoring

Enables more effective end-to-end SAN performance analysis to enhance performance tuning, increase productivity, optimize resource utilization, and reduce costs.

Extended Fabrics	Supports the reliable, high-speed connectivity of SilkWorm switches over dark
	fiber or Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) equipment at distances up
	to 500 kilometers to enhance business continuance operations.
Fabric Watch	Continuously monitors SAN fabrics for potential faults based on thresholds set
	for a variety of SAN fabric elements and events—automatically alerting
	administrators to potential problems before they become costly failures.
ISL Trunking	Optimizes the performance and availability of SAN fabrics while simplifying
	ISL management. Two 4 Gbit/sec SilkWorm switches can automatically group up
	to eight ISLs into a single logical “trunk” with a total throughput of up to
	32 Gbit/sec.
Advanced Zoning	Automatically groups SAN fabric-connected devices into logical zones that
	restrict access to “member” devices in the zone. Advanced Zoning uses hardware
	enforcement at both the port and WWN level to provide more robust data
	protection.
Secure Fabric OS	Provides a comprehensive security solution to help protect mission-critical data.
	Key features include centralized policy-based security management,
	management data encryption, and authentication to create a fabric-wide trusted
	environment with control over all levels of fabric access and communication.

Other Industry Resources

For additional resource information, visit the Technical Committee T11 Web site. This Web site provides interface standards for high-performance and mass storage applications for Fibre Channel, storage management, as well as other applications:

http://www.t11.org

For information about the Fibre Channel industry, visit the Fibre Channel Industry Association Web site:

http://www.fibrechannel.org

viii SilkWorm 4016 Hardware Reference Manual

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