HP Brocade User Manual
QuickSpecs
Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class
Overview
The Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class delivers an easy to manage embedded Fibre Channel switch with 8 Gbps
performance. The Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch hot-plugs into the back of the HP BladeSystem c-Class Enclosure. The integrated design
frees up rack space, enables shared power and cooling, and reduces cabling and small form-factor pluggables. Enhanced trunking
support with external switches provides higher bandwidth to enable demanding applications such as server virtualization. New
features in the Power Pack+ option enable you to manage data flow to maintain optimized application performance. The 12 or 24 autosensing ports support lower bandwidth components for investment protection and an upgrade license enables you to 'pay as you
grow'. The Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch saves space and cost, significantly simplifies the SAN environment, enables easier deployment and
management, and delivers the performance required for emerging higher throughput applications.
Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch
Integrated SAN
connectivity
8 Gbps storage
networking
Non-blocking architecture
ISL Trunking performance
enhancements
Adaptive Networking
Services
Access Gateway mode
Enables data center consolidation with HP BladeSystem c-Class through a state-of-the-art zerofootprint design while lowering cost through shared power and cooling, fewer cables and SFPs, and
a reduction in space.
Enables support of virtualized environments and other emerging technologies through high-speed
technology that doubles the performance of the storage network. Both internal and external facing
ports auto-sense lower bandwidth components for flexibility and investment protection (2, 4, or 8
Gb).
Includes connection speed support for all ports to provide a high-performance system with
aggregate bandwidth of up to 384 Gbps (24 ports x 8 Gbps x 2 for full duplex).
Now providing support for up to a single trunk made up of all eight SAN ports for a total of up to 64
Gbps balanced throughput. Trunking of the SAN-facing ports with external Brocade or HP B-series
switches provides a high-bandwidth solution while lowering costs through fewer SFPs and cables. FPort Trunking supported in Access Gateway mode.
Enables organizations to better manage data flows and meet service level agreements while
maintaining optimized application performance in virtual environments with new Adaptive
Networking services, including Adaptive Fabric Quality of Service, Traffic Isolation, and Ingress Rate
Limiting.
Employs N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV), an ANSI T11 standard, to enable interoperability with other
SAN fabrics and eliminate domain considerations while improving SAN scalability.
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Overview
Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class
Broad range of
management tools and
SMI-s conformance
Available in three models
with a scalable licensing
option
Integrates with HP Onboard Administrator for BladeSystem, HP Systems Insight Manager, and HP
Storage Essentials and leverages HP B-series management and monitoring tools. An SMI-s API
enables the use of industry standard interfaces to integrate management with other applications.
Available in 12-port, 24-port and 24-port Power Pack+ Full Fabric models. Choose the features and
management options that make sense for your needs. In addition, enables 'pay as you grow'
scalability for easy, scalable growth in dynamic business environments with a non-disruptive 12port upgrade for the 12-port model.
What's New
New RoHS compliant HP SAN switches
NOTE:
Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive or RoHS is a directive adopted by the European Union that restricts the use of
certain hazardous materials in the manufacture of various types of electronic and electrical equipment. The RoHS compliant products
with new part numbers listed in this document are functionally equivalent to the corresponding products with old part numbers and are
fully interchangeable.
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Product Highlights
Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class
Advanced Fabric Services
Manageability
Hardware Enforced Zoning (included)
Dynamic Path Selection (included)
WebTools (included)
Enhanced Group Management (EGM)
Power Pack+ fabric services software bundle (optional)
Adaptive Networking
ISL Trunking
Fabric Watch
Extended Fabrics
Server Application Optimization (SAO)
Advanced Performance Monitoring
Secure Fabric OS (included in base FOS)
SAN Network Advisor (optional))
* Not supported in Brocade Access Gateway mode.
** Brocade 804 8Gb FC HBA for HP c-Class BladeSystem required.
WebTools (included)
Enhanced Group Management (EGM)
Advanced Performance Monitoring (optional Power Pack+ upgrade)
HP OnBoard Administrator (included with HP BladeSystem)
HP Systems Insight Manager (included with HP BladeSystem)
HP Storage Essentials (optional)
API
SNMP
SMI
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Interoperability
Brocade Access Gateway enables Brocade embedded SAN switches to interoperate with other SAN fabrics
running supported firmware. While in Brocade Access Gateway mode, the device must also be connected to
an NPIV-enabled edge switch or director. Supported edge environments are listed in the Brocade Fabric
OS® release notes.
Software Components, Standard
Access Gateway
Frame Filtering
*
Brocade Access Gateway Mode enables seamless connectivity for Brocade embedded SAN switches to
other supported SAN fabrics, enhances scalability, and simplifies manageability. Utilizing N_Port ID
Virtualization (NPIV) standards, Brocade Access Gateway eliminates switch/domain considerations.
* Brocade Access Gateway mode does not support many switch-related features, including most features
in the Power Pack+ bundle. Please refer to the Fabric OS Release Notes and Access Gateway
Administrator's Guide for details.
A special B-Series ASIC-based capability that enables new applications and features. The switch has the
ability to "view" the first 64-bytes of the Fibre Channel frame. At this time, Frame Filtering enables
advanced capabilities such as Advanced Zoning and Advanced Performance Monitoring (optional).
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Product Highlights
Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class
Advanced Zoning
WebTools
Brocade Fabric OS
EGM
Dynamic Path Selection
- included in
Zoning (Port and Worldwide Name), as well as Access Control, are enforced by hardware within the ASIC
that provides the same simple administration previously enforced only with software. Hardware
enforcement enables the highest level of zoning enforcement without any impact to performance.
Administrators can organize a physical fabric into logical groups and prevent unauthorized access by
devices outside the Zone.
Enables organizations to monitor and manage single Fibre Channel switches and monitor small SAN
fabrics. Tasks can be performed through a Java-capable Web browser from a standard laptop, desktop PC
or workstation from any location within the enterprise.
Enhanced Group Management (EGM) is a FOS license that is included with all B-Series switches and enables
multi-switch operations. It helps automate operations across multiple switches to save time and
streamline repetitive operations, which are typically prone to error. EGM drives consistency across fabrics,
while minimizing the risk associated with potential downtime due to configuration mismatches. EGM
provides streamlined troubleshooting for more effective fabric monitoring and diagnosis.
SAN Network Advisor Professional, Professional Plus and Enterprise enable EGM functionality. Customers
have EGM functionality enabled within the hardware product and need only to make the decision around
which SAN Network Advisor application is right for them.
Improves performance by dynamically routing data traffic across multiple links and trunk groups.
Secure Fabric OS
in Brocade Fabric OS
- included
Secure Fabric OS features have been fully integrated into the base Fabric OS since v5.3.0. These
comprehensive security features for SAN fabrics provide policy-based security protection for more
predictable change management, assured configuration integrity and reduced risk of downtime. Security
methods supported include digital certificates and digital signatures, multiple levels of password
protection, strong password encryption and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)-based authentication, and 128bit encryption of the switch's private key used for digital signatures. These features enable organizations
to customize SAN security to meet specific policy requirements and work in conjunction with Advanced
Zoning to further secure access to the SAN, simplify storage management, and reduce provisioning time.
Software Components, Optional
Power Pack+ Software
Bundle
The Power Pack+ Software Bundle includes:
Adaptive Networking
ISL Trunking
Advanced Performance Monitoring
Server Application Optimization (SAO)
Extended Fabrics
Fabric Watch
* Not supported in Access Gateway mode
** Brocade 804 8Gb FC HBA for HP c-Class BladeSystem required.
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Product Highlights
Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class
Adaptive Networking
Services
ISL Trunking
Fabric Watch
Advanced Performance
Monitoring
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 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.
Extended Fabrics
Server Application
Optimization
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.
Server Application Optimization (SAO) license improves overall application performance for physical
servers and virtual machines. SAO, when deployed with Brocade Fibre Channel HBAs, extends Brocade
Adaptive Networking from the Brocade SAN fabric to the server infrastructure. This delivers applicationlevel, fine-grain Quality of Service (QoS) management to the HBAs and related server applications.
Solution Requirements:
SAO license must be installed on the edge (server connected) switch
Adaptive Networking (AN) license must be installed on the edge (server connected) switch
SAO requires Brocade <> HBA installed in the server
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Product Highlights
Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class
SAN Network Advisor
Professional
SAN Network Advisor
Enterprise and
Professional+
HP SAN Network Advisor Professional is a management application available at no-charge and comes with
B-series SAN Switches and:
Allows management of a single Fabric OS (FOS) fabric (up to a 1,000 switch ports) at a time
Performs group switch management beyond the scope of Web Tools
Does not offer management of the SN8000B 8-Slot or DC SAN Backbone Directors
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 SAN Network Advisor Professional and have a small SAN
environment may over time feel the need for an enterprise-class product (SAN Network Advisor Enterprise)
as their environments start to grow in size and complexity, and as they start to uptake more enterpriseclass functionality (such as Fibre Channel Routing, FCIP, etc.). A non-disruptive upgrade path is available
from SAN Network Advisor Professional to SAN Network Advisor Enterprise.
HP SAN Network Advisor Enterprise and Professional+ are the enterprise-class products that support FOS
products as well as FOS and M-EOS products together. SAN Network Advisor Enterprise provides complete
SN8000B 8-Slot Director and DC SAN Backbone Director management including enterprise-class
features/environments such as FICON, Fibre Channel Routing, FCIP, adaptive networking, etc while HP SAN
Network Advisor Professional+ provides the same feature set except for support for the SN8000B 8-Slot
Director, DC SAN Backbone Director, and FICON.
HP SAN Network Advisor Enterprise delivers unprecedented scalability, up to 24 fabrics and 9,000 switch
ports, while HP SAN Network Advisor Professional+ scales to 4 SAN Fabrics and 2560 switch ports. To
accommodate growth, there is an upgrade available to SAN Network Advisor Enterprise from SAN Network
Advisor Professional Plus.
Both offerings provide brand-new features including Adaptive Networking features for quality of service,
ingress rate limiting and traffic isolation zones.
BladeSystem compatibility
The Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class must be deployed within the HP BladeSystem c-Class infrastructure and is
compatible only with HP BladeSystem c-Class Enclosures.
HP ProLiant Servers
HP Integrity Servers
HP FC HBA Mezzanines
HP BladeSystem c-Class
Enclosures
ProLiant BLc server blades (All Proliant BLc server blades with support for Fibre Channel Mezzanine cards)
Integrity BLc server blades
All HP Fibre Channel Mezzanine cards for Bladesystem c-Class are supported
Please refer to HP FC HBA Mezzanine Product QuickSpecs for server support details. 8Gb FC HBA
Mezzanie support with the Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch requires HP FOS v6.2.Od or later. Brocade 804
8Gb FC HBA requires FOS v6.3.1c or 6.4.0b or later.
HP BladeSystem c7000 and c3000 Enclosures
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