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QuickSpecs
Product Highlights
Adaptive Networking Adaptive Networking Adaptive Networking Adaptive Networking
Services Services Services Services
ISL Trunking ISL Trunking ISL Trunking ISL Trunking
Fabric Watch Fabric Watch Fabric Watch Fabric Watch
Advanced Performance Advanced Performance Advanced Performance Advanced Performance
Monitoring Monitoring Monitoring Monitoring
Extended Fabrics Extended Fabrics Extended Fabrics Extended Fabrics
Data Center Fabric Data Center Fabric Data Center Fabric Data Center Fabric
Manager Professional Manager Professional Manager Professional Manager Professional
This suite of tools optimizes fabric behavior and ensures ample bandwidth for mission-critical
applications. The tools currently include Quality of Service (QoS), Ingress Rate Limiting, Traffic Isolation,
and Top Talkers. By assigning zones a high, medium, or low priority, QoS allocates bandwidth in the
event of congestion to expedite high-priority traffic and keep all traffic flowing. Ingress Rate Limiting
restricts data flow from less-critical hosts at preset bandwidths. Traffic Isolation assigns high-bandwidth
data flows to specific ISLs. And Top Talkers measures the top bandwidth-consuming traffic in real time for
a specific physical or virtual device, or end to end across the fabric.
For high performance and seamless failover, this optional license logically groups up to eight E-ports
(switch mode) or F-ports (Access Gateway mode) to provide a high bandwidth trunk between two
Brocade or HP StorageWorks B-Series switches. Each switch needs its own license. The fabric operating
system views the trunk as a single, high bandwidth ISL resource (up to 64 Gbps when routing connections
between 8 Gbps capable switches). Connections are load-balanced across the individual links, which
comprise the logical trunk group.
Fabric Watch enables each switch to monitor the health of the SAN for potential faults-and automatically
alert network managers to problems before they become failures. Fabric Watch tracks a variety of SAN
fabric elements, events, and counters. Monitoring fabric-wide events, ports, SFPs, and environmental
parameters permits early fault detection and isolation as well as performance measurement. Each switch
in the SAN needs its own Fabric Watch license.
This enabling technology helps administrators monitor application data traffic from a SID (Source ID) to a
DID (Destination ID), so they can fine-tune and scale the fabric more efficiently. Plus, Advanced
Performance Monitoring includes the ability for early warning detection of hot spots within the fabric, a
powerful tool for maximizing SAN performance.
Extends the native Fibre-Channel traffic up to 590 km. Extended Fabrics increases the scalability,
reliability, and performance benefits of Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SANs) beyond the native
10 km distance specified by the Fibre Channel standard.
HP StorageWorks Data Center Fabric Manager Professional is a server based management application
available at no-charge and comes with B-series SAN Switches and includes the following features:
Allows management of a single Fabric OS (FOS) fabric (up to a 1,000 B-Series switch ports) at a
time
Performs group switch management beyond the scope of Web Tools
Does not offer management of the DC SAN Backbone Director
It is targeted for SMB customers that use FOS based SAN fabrics and require a management solution for
smaller SANs based on a single fabric.
SMB customers that initially start off with Data Center Fabric Manager Professional and have a small
SAN environment may over time feel the need for an enterprise-class product (Data Center Fabric
Manager Enterprise) as their environments start to grow in size and complexity, and as they start to
uptake more enterprise-class functionality (such as Fibre Channel Routing, FCIP, etc.). A non-disruptive
upgrade path is available from Data Center Fabric Manager Professional to Data Center Fabric
Manager Enterprise.
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