Brocade Gen 7 Overview

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The Industry’s Most Advanced Switching ASIC
Fibre Channel platforms built on Condor 5 ASIC

• 50% lower latency for NVMe workloads

(460ns latency)
• Ability to learn, measure and monitor fabric
wide latency of flows
• 50% more buffers per ASIC to support
distance, burst workloads and congestion
management
• 4*, 8, 10, 16, 32, 64Gb/s Fibre Channel
• Double encryption and compression capacity

* FC32-X7-48 port blade support

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 Build a Foundation for the Autonomous SAN with the Brocade X7 Director
Modular design provides scale on-demand

Brocade X7-8 (IBM SAN512B-7)

• 14U, eight vertical blade slots
• Scale up to 384 x 64Gb/s ports or 512 x 32Gb/s ports
• 32 additional Gen 7 UltraScale ICL ports
• Up to 31Tb/s of aggregate chassis bandwidth

Two Director Models

Brocade X7-4 (IBM SAN256B-7)
Purpose-built to power • 9U with exhaust shelf, four horizontal blade slots
large-scale storage
environments • Scale up to 192 x 64Gb/s ports or 256 x 32Gb/s ports
• 16 additional Gen 7 UltraScale ICL ports
• Up to 15.5Tb/s aggregate chassis bandwidth

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Brocade X7 Provides Flexibility
Mix and match Gen 6 and Gen 7 blades in a single chassis

• 48-port Gen 7 Brocade FC64-48 port blade

with 64Gb/s line rate performance
– Support for 8, 10, 16, 32, 64Gb/s Fibre Channel FC64-48 port blade

• 48-port Gen 6 Brocade FC32-X7-48 port blade

with 32Gb/s line rate performance
– Support for 4*, 8, 10, 16, 32Gb/s Fibre Channel
– Added value over FC32-48 (reduced latency and Traffic FC32-X7-48 port blade
Optimizer)
– Non-upgradeable to 64Gb/s speeds

• Existing Gen 6 blades

– Brocade FC32-64 high-density port blade (increase
scalability and maximize space utilization)
– Brocade SX6 Extension blade (support disaster FC32-64 port blade SX6 Extension blade
recovery solutions over long distances)
* 4G Initiator / Target only, no ISL support

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Investment Protection: X6 Director Simple Upgrade to Gen 7

• Leverage existing chassis and components

• Software upgrade to FOS v9.0 or later,

including an FPGA firmware upgrade on
the core processor blade

• Replace both core routing blades with new

Gen 7 core routing blades

• Simply add Gen 7 port blades within the

chassis or continue to use existing Gen 6
blades*
* Existing FC32-48, FC32-64. SX6 port blade are support
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Scale Out the Autonomous SAN with the Brocade G720 Switch
Built to maximize performance and simplify daily tasks
• Efficient 1U switch that delivers high port density and
space utilization
• Scales from 24 to 56 x 64Gb/s ports
– 8 port increments on demand (POD incl. 32G SWL SFP+ optics)
• All optional software licenses included
– Fabric Vision, ISL Trunking, Integrated Routing, FICON CUP,
Extended Fabrics
Brocade G720 Switch • Simplifies deployment, configuration and management
(IBM SAN64B-7) of SAN resources with a collection of easy-to-use tools
– Reduces the number of steps to deploy and configure a switch
Fixed-port building block,
with EZSwitchSetup
designed to scale-out
storage environments – Easier to manage with Brocade Web Tools simplified user
interface

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Brocade Gen 6 and Gen 7 Fibre Channel Switch Family

Brocade G720 Switch

(IBM SAN64B-7)
Brocade G630 Switch • 1U, 24 to 56 64Gb/s ports
Brocade G620 Switch (IBM SAN128B-6) • 2x performance
(IBM SAN64B-6) • 2U, 48 to 128 32Gb/s ports • 50% lower latency
Brocade G610 Switch • 1U, 24 to 64 32Gb/s ports • Enterprise bundle or • All optional software
individual features licensed licenses included
(IBM SAN24B-6) • Enterprise bundle or
• 1U, 8 to 24 32Gb/s ports individual features licensed separately
• Enterprise bundle or separately
individual features Version 2 switches (F65/N65 and F97/N97) are
licensed separately FEATURE & FUNCTION IDENTICAL
to the Version 1 switches (F64/N64 and F96/N96)

Performance and Functionality

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Traffic Optimizer
• Guarantee application performance by prioritizing and grouping traffic
– Automatic traffic classification to Performance Group by destination port speed
– Eliminate common oversubscription and congestion issues caused by mismatched speed
– Enabled by default on all Gen 7 platforms and FC32-X7-48 blade
– Backward compatible with Gen 6 platforms in a mixed environment

16Gb/s
Grouped by Brocade Virtual Channels
like traffic
Performance Groups:

32Gb/s

64Gb/s ISL

QoS
Management

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Fabric Notification
Congestion signals and notifications enables automatic mitigation and recovery
Over-utilized server
• Brocade continuously monitors your SAN health
and performance
• Switch hardware and FOS detects SAN
congestion and triggers notifications
• Fabric sends notifications to both end devices of
the congested flow so they can take action
• Devices receiving notification may adopt one of
the actions:
• Pinpoint congestion point
• Slow down requests
• Reset to recover
• Failover to alternate path
• Fully supported on Gen 7 platforms and partially
supported on Gen 6 platforms
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Multipathing Improvements
Ensure Data Delivery and Failover Faster with Fabric Notification
Servers
Brocade Gen 6 and Gen 7 platforms MPIO driver
stops using MPIO driver
path with selects path that
impairment – doesn’t have
Continuously Automatically until resolved impairment
monitors fabric failover to avoid
paths impaired path with
MPIO
Brocade SAN
instantly sends
SAN A SAN B
notifications of
impairment

“Hey,
= = this link
is not
healthy!”

Storage
Require MPIO driver support
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