Brocade Communications Systems SilkWorm 3800 - Manual (Page 3)

SEAMLESS UPGRADES,
COST-EFFECTIVE MIGRATION,
AND INVESTMENT PROTECTION
To help protect existing investments,
the SilkWorm 3800 provides a seamless
upgrade path along with backward
and forward compatibility with
SilkWorm entry, midrange, and core
fabric switch offerings.
The SilkWorm 3800 integrates with
heterogeneous environments that
include multiple operating systems
such as Windows 2000 and NT,
UNIX, Linux, HPUX, Solaris, AIX,
and others. As a result, organizations
have the flexibility to build cost-effi-
cient, and easy-to-manage enterprise
SAN fabrics.These capabilities make the
SilkWorm 3800 ideal for applications
such as LAN-free backup, server and
storage consolidation, remote mirror-
ing, and data replication.
A NEW LEVEL OF SAN SECURITY
Brocade Advanced Zoning logically
groups a SAN fabric into an unlimited
number of secure private SANs
(zones) to ensure that devices can
access only their authorized storage
resources. Zoning is enabled by the
wire-speed Frame Filtering feature of
the third-generation Brocade ASIC,
which filters and analyzes frames based
on the content of fields in the first
64 bytes of the header. Organizations
can specify hardware-enforced zones
by WWNs on the SilkWorm 3800,
simplifying administration while
providing the highest level of security
to control data access.
SUPERIOR RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY,
AND SERVICEABILITY
Advanced SilkWorm 3800 reliability
features include the following:
• Highly reliable components
and continuous monitoring of
environmental conditions help
reduce service costs.
• Power-On Self-Test (POST)
and online diagnostics enable
administrators to monitor and test
ports while the switch is operating.
• Per-port statistics help administrators
diagnose and isolate problem ports
without disrupting switch operations.
INTELLIGENT SAN MONITORING
To simplify SAN monitoring and
maintenance, the SilkWorm 3800
provides the following functions:
• Fabric OS enables value-added
Brocade SAN monitoring and
management applications.
• Industry-standard Management
Information Base (MIB) support
enables Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP)-
based interfaces to access switch
information.
• Administrators can manage switch
configurations by using a command
line interface, a Web-based Java
application, or a centralized,
multifabric management application.
• Self-learning features enable the
fabric to automatically discover
and register host server and
storage devices.
MAXIMIZING SAN INVESTMENTS
Brocade and its partners offer
complete SAN solutions to meet a
wide range of technology and business
requirements.These solutions include
education and training, support,
service, and professional services to
help optimize SAN investments.
For more information, contact an
authorized Brocade sales partner or
visit www.brocade.com.
SILKWORM SWITCH
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Figure 1.
ISL Trunking groups multiple ISLs to enable
high-speed data traffic
8 Gbit/sec