Brocade 340 manuals

Brocade 340 Specifications (84 pages)

Brand: Brocade | Category: Network switches | Size: 3.12 MB |

English

Table of contents

DATA CENTER

1

CONTENTS

2

INTRODUCTION

6

ARCHITECTING A SAN

7

Operational Considerations

8

Be the Pilot

8

SAN DESIGN BASICS

9

Redundancy and Resiliency

10

Switch Interconnections

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Mesh Topology

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Device Placement

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DATA CENTER BEST PRACTICES

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DATA FLOW CONSIDERATIONS

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Mitigating Congestion

21

Monitoring

21

Health Monitoring

22

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Available Paths

24

Latencies

25

Misbehaving Devices

25

DESIGN GUIDELINES

26

ROUTED TOPOLOGIES—METASANS

27

Backbone Considerations

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Avoiding Congestion

31

VIRTUAL FABRICS TOPOLOGIES

32

INTELLIGENT SERVICES

33

DISTANCE EXTENSION TOPOLOGIES

34

FC over IP (FCIP)

35

Not Recommended

37

Poor Practice

37

FCIP with FCR

38

Using EX_Ports and VEX_Ports

39

FCIP with FICON Environments

40

Advanced FCIP Conguration

41

Compression

41

Adaptive Rate Limiting (ARL)

42

PerPriority-TCP-QoS

43

FCIP Design Best Practices

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Gaussian or

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“normal”

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FCIP Trunking

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Protocol Optimization

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Virtual Fabrics

48

Ethernet Interface Sharing

49

What is Not Supported?

50

WORKLOADS

51

Unix Virtualization

52

Design Guidelines

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SCALABILITY AND PERFORMANCE

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SUPPORTABILITY

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Constraints

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BACKUP AND RESTORE

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Host Tier

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Storage Tier Tape Tier

60

Storage Virtualization

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SECURITY

63

Access Control Lists (ACLs)

64

Policy Database Distribution

65

CAPACITY PLANNING

66

SAN Administrator: General

67

Facilities

68

TOOLS FOR GATHERING DATA

69

Backup Trafﬁc Patterns

70

Tape Library

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Backup Media Server

70

Brocade Network Advisor

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APPENDIX A: IMPORTANT TABLES

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APPENDIX B: MATRICES

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Consolidated SAN Snapshot

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Application-Speciﬁc Details

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SAN Admin Radar Map

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Facilities Radar Map

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APPENDIX C: PORT GROUPS

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Gen 5 Fibre Channel Platforms

80

Brocade 6520 Trunk Groups

81

Brocade 6510 Trunk Groups

81

Brocade 6505 Trunk Groups

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APPENDIX D: TERMINOLOGY

82

APPENDIX E: REFERENCES

83

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