Product Highlights - HP Brocade 8Gb SAN Quickspecs

QuickSpecs

Product Highlights

Advanced Fabric
Services
Manageability
Interoperability
Software Components, Standard
Access Gateway*
Frame Filtering
Advanced Zoning
•
Hardware Enforced Zoning (included)*
• Dynamic Path Selection (included)*
• WebTools (included)
•
Enhanced Group Management (EGM)
•
Power Pack+ fabric services software bundle (optional)
- Fabric Vision
ISL Trunking
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- Fabric Watch**
Extended Fabrics*
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- Advanced Performance Monitoring**
• Secure Fabric OS (included in base FOS)*
• SAN Network Advisor (optional)
* Not supported in Brocade Access Gateway mode.
**Partial support in Access Gateway mode (see the Access Gateway Administrator's guide for full
details)
•
WebTools (included)
• Enhanced Group Management (EGM)
• Advanced Performance Monitoring (optional Power Pack+ upgrade)
• HPE OnBoard Administrator (included with HPE BladeSystem)
• HPE Systems Insight Manager (included with HPE BladeSystem)
•
HPE Storage Essentials (optional)
• API
• SNMP
• SMI
Brocade Access Gateway enables Brocade embedded SAN switches to interoperate with other SAN
fabrics running supported firmware. While in Brocade Access Gateway mode, the device must also be
connected to an NPIV-enabled edge switch or director. Supported edge environments are listed in the
Brocade Fabric OS® release notes.
Brocade Access Gateway Mode enables seamless connectivity for Brocade embedded SAN switches to
other supported SAN fabrics, enhances scalability, and simplifies manageability. Utilizing N_Port ID
Virtualization (NPIV) standards, Brocade Access Gateway eliminates switch/domain considerations.
* Brocade Access Gateway mode does not support many switch-related features, including most
features in the Power Pack+ bundle. Please refer to the Fabric OS Release Notes and Access
Gateway Administrator's Guide for details.
A special B-Series ASIC-based capability that enables new applications and features. The switch has the
ability to "view" the first 64-bytes of the Fibre Channel frame. At this time, Frame Filtering enables
advanced capabilities such as Advanced Zoning and Advanced Performance Monitoring (optional).
Zoning (Port and Worldwide Name), as well as Access Control, are enforced by hardware within the
ASIC that provides the same simple administration previously enforced only with software. Hardware
Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch for HPE BladeSystem c-Class
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