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BROCADE SERVERIRON
ADX 1000, 4000, & 10000 SERIES

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Overview
Brocade
ServerIron
intelligent application delivery and traffic management solutions have
®
®
led the industry for over a decade, helping to mitigate costs and prevent losses by optimizing
business-critical enterprise and service provider applications with high availability, security,
multisite redundancy, acceleration, and scalability—in more than 3000 of the world's most
demanding organizations.
The latest generation of ServerIron Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) was designed to
meet growing demand for application connectivity, virtualization, and operating efficiency.
These new solutions include:
• ServerIron ADX 1000 Series Switches
• ServerIron ADX 4000 Series Switches
• ServerIron ADX 10000 Series Switches
General Questions and Answers
Q What are the Brocade ServerIron ADX 1000, 4000, and 10000 products?
Q A flagship platform for application-enabled networking, the ServerIron ADX 1000, 4000,
and 10000 represent a new class of data center-hardened Layer 4-7 Application Delivery
Controller for application performance monitoring, acceleration, and optimization in both
physical and virtual server environments. These products improve the user application
experience and offload servers to ensure higher availability and security at extreme data
rates, while lowering Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). They provide breakthrough
performance, a highly robust services platform, built-in extensibility, and seamless
interoperability across fabrics and networking protocols, stanchly supporting the most
mission-critical business applications.
The ServerIron ADX brings capacity on demand with both modular and fixed-
configuration platforms and enables growth in performance, interface density and
feature flexibility with growth in the business. With over 70 Gbps of Layer 4 and Layer 7
throughput, ADX leads the way in overall performance and price-performance, defending
application servers against up to 120 million Denial of Service attacks per second and
combating transaction revenue losses and security breaches with SSL performance
approaching 230,000 transactions per second. The ServerIron ADX ensures the greatest
application fluency and optimization with validated designs, completely customizable
application handling, backed up with an online community to engender collaborative
application delivery solutions.

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  • Page 1: Frequently Asked Questions

    BROCADE SERVERIRON ADX 1000, 4000, & 10000 SERIES FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Overview Brocade ServerIron intelligent application delivery and traffic management solutions have ® ® led the industry for over a decade, helping to mitigate costs and prevent losses by optimizing business-critical enterprise and service provider applications with high availability, security, multisite redundancy, acceleration, and scalability—in more than 3000 of the world’s most demanding organizations.
  • Page 2 The ServerIron ADX product family includes: • Brocade ServerIron ADX 1000: This 1U ADC can be ordered in numerous configurations ranging from the entry-level ADX 1008-1 with eight 10/100/1000 BASE–T ports, one application processor, and one AC or DC power supply, all the way up to the ADX 1216-4, with 16 10/100/1000 BASE–T ports, two 10 GbE XFP ports, four application processors, as well as SSL acceleration hardware, and GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing), Layer 3 and IPv6 software.
  • Page 3 the leading technology partners and enterprise business applications and significantly extending the range of solutions this powerful platform can provide. Q What is Application Resource Broker? A Working in tandem with ServerIron ADX, Brocade Application Resource Broker (ARB), is an infrastructure software component used by IT operations staff who seek simplified, on-demand application resource provisioning and de-provisioning within their data centers.
  • Page 4 Q When do these products become generally available? A The ADX series became generally available on July 1, 2009 through Brocade Distributors and Resellers. The ADX release 12.2, the ADX 1008-1, ADX capacity-on-demand upgrade activation, and the Application Resource Broker will be generally available at the beginning of the second half of 2010.
  • Page 5 • Key elements of this vision are to simplify data networks and provide a foundation for critical solutions—such as server virtualization, data mobility, and data protection— running seamlessly without costly manual intervention or performance bottlenecks. • Intelligent application delivery plays a crucial role in the success of this end-to-end vision, and will help Brocade provide high-performance hardware and software products with proven interoperability.
  • Page 6 Q What are the key performance advantages of ServerIron ADX switches? A The ServerIron ADX architecture provides more application switching performance than any previous application switch. Performance highlights include: • Industry-leading performance with up to 14 million Domain Name System (DNS) queries per second, 1.6 million Layer 4 connections per second, 16 million Layer 4 transactions per second, and up to 230,000 SSL TPS (transactions per second) •...
  • Page 7 Q How do ServerIron ADX switches improve ROI? A The ServerIron ADX switches simplify server farm management and application upgrades by enabling organizations to easily add resources and remove them into the pool— helping to minimize TCO. The switches uniquely provide a single platform that can reduce network load and extend server farm design and scalability.
  • Page 8 while increasing availability, security, scalability, and resource utilization. Key benefits include: • Improved infrastructure utilization: ServerIron ADX switches perform highly customizable real-time health checks, dynamically monitoring the ability of servers to optimize performance and transparently reacting to server farm congestion by distributing client traffic loads to the most available servers.
  • Page 9 • Management Module: ServerIron ADX Management Modules have a dual-core processor, one console port, and one USB port, as well as space for an optional Application Expansion Module. • SSL Application Expansion Module: This SSL hardware offload upgrade fits any Management Module in either the 4U ADX 4000 or the 10U ADX 10000, enabling two SSL AEMs to be populated in an ADX 10000 when two Management Modules are installed...
  • Page 10 • SYN-Guard: Protects server farms against multiple forms of DoS attacks, such as TCPSYN and ACK attacks, by monitoring and tracking session flows. Only valid connection requests are actually sent to servers. ServerIron ADX switches are capable of defeating DoS attacks at the industry’s highest rate of up to 120 million SYN/sec.
  • Page 11 Q How many SSL keys and certificates can be used with ServerIron ADX solution? The ServerIron ADX SSL supports up to 4096 SSL certificates and 4096 SSL keys, assuming the length of each to be 1024 bytes. These SSL certificates and keys can be managed through the element manager (web GUI), Brocade IronView Network Manager (INM) and the command line interface (CLI),.
  • Page 12 A ServerIron ADX permits the definition of up to 256 contexts, roles or soft partitions. ADX administrators in any one domain are isolated from the others and have no visibility into the objects or services running within those other contexts. Q Can I configure a single-port LACP trunk on ServerIron? A Yes.
  • Page 13 ServerIron ADX GSLB is one of the best solutions available to ensure business continuity across multiple data centers. Q Can I run IPv6 and GSLB with Layer 2 switch code? A Yes, IPv6 and GSLB controller functions can be executed on Layer 2 switch code. However these features must be activated through the Premium software license upgrade.
  • Page 14 IronView, IronWare, JetCore, NetIron, SecureIron, ServerIron, StorageX, and TurboIron are registered trademarks, and DCFM, Extraordinary Networks, and SAN Health are trademarks of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., in the United States and/or in other countries. All other brands, products, or service names are or may be trademarks or service marks of, and are used to identify, products or services of their respective owners.

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