VCS fabric innovations

With the industry’s largest Ethernet fabric install base of more than 1,400 customers worldwide and 400,000 Brocade® VDX® switch ports shipped to date, Brocade has announced a number of significant advancements to its VCS® Fabric technology and Brocade VDX switch portfolio, including new VCS fabric capabilities that provide native multitenancy, storage-aware networking and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) performance for the most demanding data center environments. Brocade has also unveiled the industry’s most complete, end-to-end blueprint for delivering scalable data center multitenancy, from the server to the WAN.

Thursday, 19th September 2013 Posted 11 years ago in by Phil Alsop

What’s New:
· Multitenancy Blueprint: A Guide for Simplified Deployment
o The most complete end-to-end blueprint for delivering multitenancy at scale from server to WAN.
· VCS Virtual Fabric: A Simple, Network-based Approach to Multitenant Scale
o Provides an alternative to overlay networks for multitenancy at scale; VCS Virtual Fabric uses proven, standards-based network segmentation techniques—making it easier to incorporate this new capability into the network with zero learning curve.
o Offers a highly evolutionary approach to multitenancy that minimizes disruption to current operational and organizational models.
o Is hypervisor-agnostic.
o Supports cloud orchestration frameworks through open APIs.
· VCS AutoQoS: Extending VCS Fabric Intelligence to Storage
o A new VCS fabric capability that automatically recognizes and prioritizes storage traffic, greatly reducing capital and operational costs.
· New top-of-rack switches: Brocade VDX 6740 family of 10/40 GbE switches
o VCS Virtual Fabric support in the new Brocade VDX switch ASIC.
o 40 GbE to 160 GbE trunks offering the industry’s highest uplink capacity in a leaf switch.
o 32 Flex Ports (Fibre Channel/Ethernet/FCoE) providing flexibility and investment protection.
o 24 MB deep buffers with Dynamic Buffering.
o ASIC support for OpenFlow 1.3.
o Support for 10 GbE and 10GBASE-T.
o In addition, Brocade announced a new 100 GbE line card for the flagship Brocade VDX 8770 modular chassis.