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BROCADE VDX 6746 SWITCH MODULEFOR HITACHI CB500PRESENTER NAMEDATE

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BROCADE VDX 6746 SWITCH

State-of-the-art 10 Gigabit Ethernet embedded switch for the Hitachi CB500 blade server platform

Enables Hitachi CB500 to support flexible connectivity options for cloud architectures, including lossless Ethernet fabrics 

Provides CB500 customers the choice to enhance their hierarchical network architectures, deploy flatter scale-out fabrics or converge networks when deploying virtualization and cloud IT infrastructures. 

Designed to increase scalability and enhance VM mobility, further simplifying management and significantly reducing operational overhead of virtualized blade server environments

WHAT IS IT?

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VDX 6746: NEW 10GE DCB SWITCH MODULE

Industry’s 1st Ethernet Fabric enabled embedded 10Gb DCB switch module

‒ flexible connectivity options for cloud architectures‒ enhance hierarchical network

architectures‒ deploy flatter scale-out fabrics; or ‒ converge networks

Brocade VDX 6746 supports

‒ 24 x 10GE ports (16 internal, 8 external)‒ Non-blocking, cut through architecture, wire

speed‒ Dual speed (1GE/10GE) external ports ‒ 1 Gb RJ-45 connectors and 10 Gb twinax

copper or optical connectors‒ Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS)‒ DCB and multi hop FCoE ‒ Automatic Migration of Port Profiles (AMPP)‒ Rich set of Layer 2 features‒ Hitachi Chassis Management Support

Brocade VDX 6746

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BENEFITS OF VDX 6746

Embedded design dramatically reduces cabling, power and cooling Industry-leading performance and ultra-low latency Simplifies network architectures and enables cloud computing by delivering

Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS) technology and enabling Ethernet fabrics ‒ VCS technology deploys scale-out fabrics instead of a hierarchical

network to flatten the network design, and manages the entire fabric as a single Logical Chassis to reduce complexity

‒ Compared to classic Ethernet architectures, Ethernet fabrics allow all paths to be active, increasing network performance, utilization, and resiliency

Supports lossless unified storage connectivity, and storage and LAN traffic convergence to reduce connectivity cost

Simplifies virtualized server management by enabling seamless Virtual Machine (VM) mobility

Can be deployed into classic 1Gb and 10Gb architectures, preserving existing network designs and cabling

Enables end-to-end management of CB500

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VIRTUAL CLUSTER SWITCHING (VCS)

ETHERNETFABRIC

LOGICALCHASSIS

DISTRIBUTEDINTELLIGENCE

Scale-out, multi-path, highly resilient layer 2 Ethernet Fabric

Self-forming and masterless through Distributed Intelligence

Manage fabric as a single Logical Chassis

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VCS Cluster

LogicalChassis

FCoE storage(Single Hop)

iSCSI DCB

FCoE storage(Multi hop)

FC storage *

CB500

Server Blade

VDX 6746 Embedded

Switch

Creation of a VCS fabric between 2 embedded

switches is free

VDX 6720Top of Rack

Switch

NAS

vLAG

VCS license allows creation of a Ethernet Fabric that scales past two switches

FCoE license enables single and

multi hop FCoE

VCS AND FCOE

* Future use case

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VIRTUAL MACHINE MOBILITY

CHALLENGES TODAY

Limited sphere of mobilitySTP limits flexibility to a minimized, defined tree of switches

L3 limits mobility to a single rack

VM migration can break network/application access

Port setting information must be identical at destination

Map services (VLANs, QoS, security, etc.) to all physical ports

Eases mobility, but undermines network and security best practices

Distributed Virtual SwitchAddresses configuration needs

Consumes server resources and still restricted by physical limits

Limited insight into where VMs are running

VMs exist anywhere in the cluster

L2STP

L3 toAgg. Layer

! ! ! !Distributed

vSwitch

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MAC ID MAC ID

MAC ID

MAC ID MAC ID MAC ID MAC ID MAC ID

MAC ID

VDX 6746

VDX 6746

VM MOBILITY WITH VDX 6746 & VCS

AUTOMATIC MIGRATION OF PORT PROFILES (AMPP)

Distributed intelligence of VM location throughout VCS fabric

Granular VLAN, ACL, and QoS policies assigned per VM

Zero network re-configuration required when a VM is moved across the VCS fabric

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FC SAN (A)

FC SAN (B)

LAN

NAS/iSCSI/FCoE

Top of Rack

VDX 6720s

Brocade VDX 6746 - 10Gb Ethernet Fabric Switch Module

Brocade 5460 – 8Gb FC Switch Module

SINGLE LOGICAL CHASSIS OF 12 VDX SWITCHES

FLEXIBLE I/O ARCHITECTURE= FC FABRIC + ETHERNET FABRIC + CONVERGED NETWORK

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