Brocade Communications Systems SilkWorm 3800 User Manual
SILKWORM 3800
The Brocade SilkWorm 3800 Enterprise Fibre
Channel Fabric Switch provides both 1 and
2 Gbit/sec interfaces and includes a wide range
of enhanced features to improve SAN security,
availability, performance, and manageability.
SILKWORM SWITCH FAMILY
Highlights
• Provides 16 ports in a single
1U enclosure with auto-sensing
1 Gbit/sec and 2 Gbit/sec interfaces
for seamless integration with
existing fabrics
• Includes Brocade Advanced
Fabric Services that increase
security through hardware-enforced
WWN zoning
• Meets high-availability requirements
with redundant, hot-pluggable
components, automatic path
rerouting, and extensive diagnostics
• Employs Brocade Inter-Switch Link
(ISL) Trunking to create an 8 Gbit/sec
data path between switches for
higher performance
• Protects investments through
backward and forward compatibility
with Brocade SilkWorm Fibre
Channel switches
Improved Security, Availability,
Performance, and Manageability
The Brocade®SilkWorm®3800
16-port, auto-sensing Fibre Channel
switch significantly increases
performance and functionality for
Storage Area Networks (SANs).
Based on third-generation Brocade
ASIC technology, the SilkWorm
3800 combines 1 Gbit/sec and
2 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel throughput with new features that greatly
enhance switch operation.As a
result, organizations can enjoy the
advantages of higher security,
availability, and performance, as well
as centralized data management.
Designed for enterprise environments,
the SilkWorm 3800 integrates a
variety of high-availability hardware
and software features. The SilkWorm
3800 is especially useful for organizations that want to upgrade their
existing environment with minimal
disruption.The switch is fully interoperable with existing SilkWorm
1000 and 2000 series switches—
enabling a core-to-edge architecture
that facilitates expansion, higher
performance, and higher availability.
When added to existing fabrics,
the SilkWorm 3800 automatically
assigns individual switch addresses,
establishes frame routes, and configures
the internal name server.
HIGH AVAILABILITY THROUGHOUT
THE FABRIC
The SilkWorm 3800 is designed to
provide high-availability switching at
the core of small-to-medium-sized
storage networks.The core-to-edge
SAN model features high availability
for the entire fabric through redundant
network paths. Combining the
proven reliability of the SilkWorm
family with a wide range of Advanced
Fabric Services, the SilkWorm 3800
provides a SAN fabric capable of
delivering overall system availability
greater than 99.999 percent—the
“five nines” of availability.
In addition, Brocade Fabric Shortest
Path First (FSPF) enables the fabric
to automatically isolate problems
and reroute traffic around failed
links onto alternate paths—ensuring
availability for mission-critical
enterprise applications.
SILKWORM 3800
INCREASES
PERFORMANCE
INDUSTRY-LEADING PERFORMANCE
The SilkWorm 3800 provides high performance with all ports capable of operating at
1 and 2 Gbit/sec (full-duplex) to enable
32 Gbit/sec of uncongested switch throughput.Auto-sensing and speed matching of
1 and 2 Gbit/sec traffic ensures interoperability between current 1 Gbit/sec devices
and next-generation 2 Gbit/sec devices.
With the Brocade Extended Fabrics feature
and Dense Wave Division Multiplexing
(DWDM) technology, storage networks
can span up to 100 km over Metropolitan
Area Networks (MANs) at full bandwidth—
significantly increasing the level of disaster
protection to help ensure the highest level
of business continuance.
To provide even higher performance—
as well as simplified management—Brocade
ISL Trunking combines up to four ISLs
between a pair of switches into a single,
logical high-speed trunk running at up to
8 Gbit/sec (see Figure 1).
INTELLIGENCE WITHIN THE SWITCH
To improve security and manageability,
a wire-speed Frame Filtering engine is
built directly into the SilkWorm 3800
third-generation ASIC technology.
This design enables new capabilities such
as fabric zoning based on World Wide
Name (WWN) to be enforced through
hardware for greater security. Organizations
can improve end-to-end performance
analysis by measuring resource utilization
on a fabric-wide basis.They can track
data all the way from the source device to
the destination device to quickly identify
bottlenecks, optimize fabric configurations,
and plan for when additional capacity will
be required.
OPEN SAN MANAGEMENT
The SilkWorm 3800 simplifies management
by networking core and edge switches
with Brocade Fabric OS, an embedded
real-time operating system.This approach
enables heterogeneous device connectivity,
automatic discovery, data routing, and
scalable connectivity. In addition, the
Brocade Fabric Access API provides critical
functions for integrating applications
within the SAN environment. The API
layer is currently used by more than 50
independent software vendors to develop
feature-rich management applications that
leverage the distributed intelligence in
Brocade SANs.
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