Brocades G620
Brocades G620
Brocades G620
Brocade G620 ports are available statistics from any storage port,
for device port or ISL port then feeds them to a monitoring
connectivity. As such, Q-Flex ports policy that sets thresholds and
Brocade Fabric Vision can be used as ISLs to provide generates alerts. VM Insight applies
Technology (cont.) simple build-out of fabrics, with IO Insight visibility for each VM.
more switching bandwidth. In Integrated VM and storage-level
• Increase operational stability: I/O latency and IOPS monitoring
addition, flexible, high-speed 32G
− Avoid 50% of common network and 16G optics allow organizations enables administrators to set
problems with proactive to deploy bandwidth on demand baseline application performance
monitoring. to meet evolving data center and identify the VM or physical
− Identify hot spots and needs. Brocade G620 Q-Flex ports layer responsible for the degraded
automatically mitigate network currently support both 4×32G and performance. Integrated network
problems—before they impact 4×16G QSFPs for ISL connectivity. sensors provide I/O performance
application performance. The 4×32G and 4×16G QSFPs management that is designed to
− Monitor and set baselines on I/O feature breakout cable support for avoid dependence on invasive and
performance for each VM, and additional flexibility. disruptive physical taps. Additional
identify performance anomalies features include:
to facilitate fault isolation and Along with providing best-in-class
troubleshooting. scalability, the Brocade G620 • Provides proactive, nonintrusive,
• Dramatically reduce costs: simplifies end-to-end network real-time monitoring and alerting
− Eliminate nearly 50% of management by automating with visibility into storage I/O
maintenance costs through monitoring and diagnostics through health and performance for each
automated testing and diagnostic Brocade Fabric Vision® technology. VM.
tools. The switch provides validation prior • Monitors individual VM, host, or
− Save up to millions of dollars to deployment with the Brocade storage devices to gain deeper
on CapEx costs by eliminating ClearLink® Diagnostic Ports insight into the performance of
the need for expensive third- (D_Ports) feature. For maximum the network in order to maintain
party tools through integrated flexibility, the switch also features SLA compliance.
network sensors, monitoring, and dual airflow direction options to
diagnostics. support the latest hot aisle/cold • Obtains I/O latency and IOPS
aisle configurations. metrics for individual storage
− Tune device configurations with
devices used with each VM in
integrated I/O metrics to optimize
order to diagnose I/O operational
storage performance and increase
Gain Control and Insight issues.
ROI.
to Quickly Identify • Enables organizations to
Problems and Meet provision and plan storage
Critical SLAs networks based on application/
VM requirements.
The Brocade G620 with Gen 6
Fibre Channel technology and Forward Error Correction (FEC)
integrated network sensors helps capabilities further increase
organizations achieve greater resiliency by automatically
control and insight to quickly detecting and recovering network
identify the root cause of problems transmission errors. To ensure
at the storage or VM tier. This predictable performance prior to
reduces time to resolution so deployment, organizations can
critical Service Level Agreements validate infrastructure with Brocade
(SLAs) can be met. The IO ClearLink Diagnostics and Flow
Insight capability nondisruptively Generator features, and set baseline
and nonintrusively gathers I/O storage performance using IO
Insight.
Brocade Access Gateway Key benefits of Brocade Access technical support, implementation,
Gateway mode include: and migration services to enable
Mode organizations to maximize
The Brocade G620 can be deployed • Improved scalability for large or their hardware and software
as a full-fabric switch or as a rapidly growing server and virtual investments, accelerate new
Brocade Access Gateway, which server environments. technology deployments, and
simplifies fabric topologies and • Reduced management of the optimize the performance of their
heterogeneous fabric connectivity network edge, since Brocade overall network.
(the default mode setting is Access Gateway does not have
a switch). Brocade Access a domain identity and appears Maximizing Investments
Gateway mode utilizes N_Port transparent to the core fabric. To help optimize technology
ID Virtualization (NPIV) switch investments, Brocade, a Broadcom
• Support for heterogeneous company, and its partners offer
standards to present physical
SAN configurations without complete solutions that include
and virtual servers directly to the
reduced functionality for server professional services, technical
core of SAN fabrics. This makes
connectivity. support, and education.
it transparent to the SAN fabric,
greatly reducing management of
the network edge. The Brocade Brocade Global Support For more information, contact a
Brocade sales partner or visit:
G620 in Brocade Access Gateway Global Support has the expertise
www.broadcom.com/brocade
mode can connect servers to NPIV- to help organizations build resilient,
enabled Brocade B-Series, or other efficient SAN infrastructures. For information about supported
SAN fabrics. Leveraging 20+ years of expertise SAN standards, visit:
in storage networking, Global www.broadcom.com/sanstandards
Support delivers world-class
Power
Power Supply Dual, hot-swappable redundant power supplies with integrated system cooling fans, voltage range of
90V to 264V AC. Optional DC power supply with voltage range of 36V to 72V DC.
AC Input 90V to 264V, maximum input current: 3.5A.
AC Input Line Frequency 47 Hz to 63 Hz.
AC Power Consumption (System) Maximum 205W with all 64 ports populated with 48×32G SFP+ SWL optics and 4× (4×32G) QSFP SWL
optics.
85W for empty chassis with no optics.
DC Input 36–72V, maximum input current: 7.1A (applies to the DC power SKU only).