1. Brocade VDX Switches for Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Solutions
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3. Brocade Investment in Hitachi UCP
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Brocade Investment in Hitachi UCP
4/12/2017
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2M+ of Brocade Fabric switches in HDS UCP labs
Hitachi embeds Brocade FC and Ethernet Fabric modules in Compute Blade 500/2000
UCP Director provisions and manages all Brocade FC and Ethernet fabric switches
25+ UCP Solutions w/ Brocade Fabrics
VMware, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, Microsoft Private Cloud/Exchange/SQL, Healthcare, Media Workflow
Hitachi supports all Brocade switches in UCP solutions 3
Ethernet
Brocade 67XX
Fibre Channel
Brocade 6510
Hitachi VSP or HUS130/150 Storage
Hitachi UCP Select
Hitachi Compute CB2000, CB500 w/ Brocade VDX & 5460
FCX/ICX (mgmt)
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4. Hitachi ucp w/ Brocade networking
Brocade Analyst and Technology Day 2012
Hitachi ucp w/ Brocade networking
4/12/2017
UCP ORCHESTRATION
APPLICATION
COMPUTE
Hitachi CB 500
Hitachi CB 2000
NETWORK
Brocade VDX 67XX
Brocade VDX EF Module
for CB500/CB2000
Brocade’s Data Center Fabrics are an integral part of the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform solutions. This portfolio of integrated and reference solutions:
accelerates application deployment on virtualized infrastructure and simplifies adoption of cloud
feature a choice of Hitachi storage and server options, and Brocade networking switches to support major hypervisor, database and application environments including Citrix, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and VMware.
The Brocade products that are offered through Hitachi UCP solutions are:
Brocade VDX® 6720 Switch for Ethernet fabrics
Brocade 6510 Switch for Fibre Channel SAN fabrics; and
Brocade 5460 and Brocade VDX 6746 Embedded Switches for Hitachi Compute Blade 500 and 2000
SAN
Brocade 6510 Switch
Brocade 5460 FC
Module for CB500/CB2000
STORAGE
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5. solutions With Brocade Fabrics
UCP PRO SOLUTION SETS
UCP Pro for VMware vSphere
UCP Director
UCP SELECT SOLUTION SETS
UCP Select for VMware vSphere
UCP Select for VMware Horizon View
UCP Select for Citrix XENDesktop
UCP Select for SAP HANA Scale-out
UCP Select for Microsoft® Exchange 2010
UCP Select for Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008
UCP Select for Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012
UCP Select for Microsoft® Private Cloud
UCP Select for Oracle Databases
UCP Select for Media
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware vSphere is a tightly integrated solution available today and comes pre-configured with the industry’s premier enterprise storage product, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP), and Brocade Fibre Channel and Ethernet fabric switches, Hitachi Compute Blade 500 server, VMware vSphere and UCP Director software. This software reduces complexity and lowers cost by providing VMware vCenter Server integration for comprehensive and simplified infrastructure management. UCP Pro for VMware vSphere also provides worry-free scaling to thousands of virtual machines.
Hitachi UCP Select: Best-of-Breed Reference Solutions Designed to Offer IT Organizations the Ultimate in Flexibility and Choice
The portfolio of UCP Select reference solutions that are based on Hitachi storage and servers and Brocade Fibre Channel and Ethernet fabric switches support major enabling software technologies such as hypervisors, databases, analytics and application environments including Citrix, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and VMware. IT professionals can simply select the infrastructure options that meet their needs, with the assurance of built-in flexibility and interoperability to scale the architecture as business needs evolve. Also provided are comprehensive reference architectures and deployment guides.
Unified
Compute
Platform

6. Ethernet Fabrics and brocade Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS) Overview

7. What Is an Ethernet Fabric?
UNDERSTANDING THE FUNDAMENTALS
Ethernet functions as a reliable high-speed interconnect like Fibre Channel
Switches manage state of fabric and choose optimal paths for forwarding traffic
Routing or Tunneling (VxLAN) are services that run on top of the Fabric
Service Oriented Fabric
Layer 3 Core

8. Ethernet Fabrics VS. Legacy networks
Rigid architecture, north-south optimized
Inefficient link utilization
Individually managed switches
VM-ignorant
No network virtualization
Flat topology, east-west optimized
All links active, L1/2/3 multipathing
Fabric managed as one logical switch
VM-aware
Native and overlay network virtualization

9. Why Ethernet Fabric for Hitachi UCP?
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Brocade VCS Fabric DIFFERENTIATION
Cloud-Optimized
Automated
Efficient
Zero-touch provisioning
Zero-touch VM discovery, configuration, and mobility
Self-forming trunks
Manage many switches as single logical device
All links fully active; none on standby
Multipathing at all layers: L1/L2/L3
IP storage-aware
Multi-tenancy at scale with VCS Virtual Fabrics and VMware NSX
Scale out non- disruptively
OpenFlow-ready
Orchestration through OpenStack
2x greater network utilization
Faster time to application deployment
50% lower OPEX
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10. VCS Virtual Fabric NATIVE FABRIC-BASED MULTITENANCY AT SCALE
Allocates logical fabric(s) for each tenant within a shared physical fabric
Based on TRILL Fine-Grained Labels (IETF draft standard)
Provides support for overlapping VLANs, VLAN scale and transport VLAN services
Supports up to 8k VCS Virtual Fabrics per physical fabric
VLAN Virtual Fabric 5000
Customer A
Customer A
One of the most important innovations in the modern network is network virtualization. The ability to carve up a single physical network into thousands of virtual or logical networks addresses many concerns with traditional networks, including long provisioning times and limited flexibility.
Brocade supports two options for deploying virtualization within the fabric: (1) native VCS vFabrics and (2) support for overlays, such as VMware NSX.
Our VCS Virtual Fabric feature is native to the fabric itself, with no interdependencies on hypervisors or vswitches.
Leveraging standards-track extensions to TRILL, we allow the customer to carve up a single physical fabric into as many as 8k virtual fabrics.
This simple, native fabric capability allows a cloud service provider or enterprise to accommodate many tenants, with overlapping VLANs, to be supported in the fabric.
And we have implemented the Virtual Fabric feature using VLAN syntax and semantics to minimize any learning curve for the customer. VLANs have been the primary form of multi-tenancy in networks for the last 15 years, and we have simply extended that construct by eliminating the 4k boundary of VLANs.
Customer B
Customer B
VLAN Virtual Fabric 5001

11. Network Virtualization with Brocade VCS & VMware NSX
vCloud
Brocade VCS Fabric: Automated, resilient physical foundation
VMware NSX: Network virtualization overlay and controller
Brocade VCS Gateway for VMware NSX: Bridges virtual and physical infrastructure 1 2
VMware NSX Controller 2 1 3
The second technique for virtualizing the network is through the use of overlays. VMware’s NSX technology and Microsoft’s Hyper-V network virtualization are good examples of overlays, providing virtual network capability built with tunnels between vSwitch endpoints.
In this solution, there are three key components. The first is the VCS Fabric, known as the underlay. Despite the advantages of a virtual network, the physical underlay still needs to be provisioned, monitored, tuned for performance, upgraded and scaled over time. It needs to be automated, resilient, efficient and highly available. The key question is, which physical network technology can best deliver on these values?
Brocade VCS Fabric technology delivers best-in-class automation with features such as zero-touch switch and link provisioning, self-forming trunks and the ability to manage an entire fabric of many physical switches as a single device.
To optimize the efficiency of the data plane, VCS Fabric technology makes use of all links in the network all of the time, with multi-pathing and traffic load balancing at layers 1/2/3 in the network, delivering two times the network utilization than is possible with legacy LAN technology or even competing fabric offerings.
The VCS fabric also scales out non-disruptively. Switching capacity is added to the fabric without the need to forklift upgrade any of the existing switches or revisit the topology.
Another key question arises with overlays: where is the networking team going to find the extra cycles to provision, manage and monitor their virtual networks? Brocade VCS Fabric automation reduces the day-to-day operational overhead of the physical network by up to 50%, freeing network administrators to now have time to learn and manage the virtual networks in their environment.
The second component is the overlay technology itself, including its controller. This is the component that instantiates the logical networks through the use of tunnels between virtualized endpoints.
Every data center will continue to have some physical (non-virtualized) assets. In order to communicate with these physical assets, the virtual network must include a third component, a gateway capability that translates between tunnel protocols and VLANs. This gateway function will be critical to ensuring end-to-end connectivity between all assets. For customers adopting VMware NSX, in particular, the Brocade VCS Gateway for VMware NSX provides the industry’s highest performing and most resilient solution for bridging between virtual networks and the physical, non-virtualized assets in the data center.
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Physical VM VM VM
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12. Brocade VCS Multi-pathing at Multiple Layers
DRAMATIC INCREASES IN NETWORK UTILIZATION AND RELIABILITY
Layer 3 Core
FEATURE
BENEFIT
33%
Near-perfect load balancing across all links in a trunk group
L1: Trunking with frame striping
All links utilized with flow-based load balancing
L2: Equal Cost Multi-Pathing (ECMP)
One of the primary value propositions of our VCS Fabric technology is network efficiency and utilization.
Let’s take a closer look at how we do this.
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First, at L1, we load balance every frame across all of the links within a trunk group using our patented frame striping technology. This is technology we leveraged from our fibre channel portfolio and with it we achieve near-perfect load balancing across up to 8 Ethernet links within a trunk group.
Next, we utilize TRILL to achieve Equal Cost Multi-Pathing at L2 within the fabric. This allows us to use all available network bandwidth and, unlike spanning tree, is a far more efficient means of ensuring loop-free redundancy within the network by allowing all links to be fully active and utilized.
Finally, at L3, the fabric automatically load balances all flows among a number of L3 instances that collectively act as a single L3 gateway. Today we support load balancing across up to 4 L3 gateways – 2x what the leading competitor can do – and our design allows us to scale to an unlimited number of gateways in the future.
This combination of multi-pathing at L1, L2 and L3 provide unprecedented network utilization, efficiency and availability. And in keeping with our focus on automation and simplicity, these features are enabled automatically within the fabric, without any complex or lengthy configuration by a network administrator.
Brocade VCS Fabric
L3: Fabric load balancing across multiple L3 gateways
Improved scalability and resiliency

13. Brocade VDX Fixed Switch Family
VCS FABRIC-ENABLED SWITCHES
Brocade VDX 6710 Switch
Brocade VDX 6720 Switches
Brocade VDX 6730 Switches
Brocade VDX 6740T-1G Switches
Brocade VDX 6740/6740T Switches
1RU form factor
48 1Base-T + 6 X 10Gbe SFP+
Low latency—600ns to 1.8us (All packet sizes)
Industry’s lowest entry- level cost for Ethernet fabrics
1RU & 2RU form factor
Up to 60 1/10GbE SFP+ ports
Low latency—600ns to 1.8us (All packet sizes)
Ports on Demand
1RU & 2RU form factor
Up to 60 1/10GbE SFP+ ports
Native Fibre Channel for SAN integration. Up to 16 native FC ports
Low latency—600ns to 1.8us (All packet sizes)
Ports on Demand
1RU form factor & Single ASIC design/ISSU capable
Low latency— 3us (All packet sizes)
Industry’s 1st 1Gbe to 10Gbe S/W upgradable switch
SDN Ready (Open Flow support)
VXLAN & VTEP support
VCS Virtual Fabric Support
Ports on Demand
1RU form factor & Single ASIC design/ISSU capable
48 1/10Gbe SFP+ OR /10Gbase-T and X 40Gbe QSFP+
32 Flexports (FC/Ethernet)
SDN-ready (Open Flow support)
VXLAN & VTEP support
VCS Virtual Fabric Support
Low latency—Fiber (850ns) / Copper (3us)
Ports on Demand
This is the VDX fixed configuration switch family, and it is designed from the ground-up to deliver Ethernet fabric functionality with our VCS Fabric technology.
The first three VDX switches show here are the 1st Generation VDX switch i.e VDX 6710, VDX 6720, VDX 6730
VDX 6710 is lowest entry level switch for Ethernet fabric technology in market. It comes in 1RU form factor and has 48 ports of 1Gbase-T and Gbe SFP+ ports for uplink. Its port to port latency ranges from 600ns to 1.8us.
The VDX 6720 was the 1st VDX Ethernet Fabric switch to be launched back in Q It comes in 2 form factors 1RU and 2RU . 1RU form factor has up to 24X 10Gbe SFP+ ports and 2RU has up to 60 Gbe SFP+ ports. It is one of the lowest latency Ethernet Fabric Switch with latency ranging from 600ns to 1.8us.
The VDX 6730 Switch is exactly similar in architecture and capability to the VDX 6720 , except it comes with up to 16 native FC ports. These FC ports can be used for integration with one or more SAN network. The VDX also comes with Access Gateway Functionality.
The 2nd generation switch is the VDX 6740 family, and it comes in two flavors, fiber and copper. The fiber version is the VDX 6740 and the copper version is the VDX 6740T. Both Switches are exactly the same from a feature and performance standpoint; the only difference is type of ports.
The VDX 6740 is a 1RU switch which comes with 48 ports of 1/10Gbe SFP+ ports and 4 40Gbe QSFP+ ports. Each 40Gbe QSFP+ ports can be broken down in to 4 10Gbe SFP+ ports , providing a total of 64 ports of 10Gbe SFP+ ports in 1RU form factor. The only difference for VDX 6740T switch is that it comes with 48 ports of 10Gbase-T with 4 40Gbe QSFP+ ports.
All the ports in the 1RU form factor are packed in to Single ASIC design . Because of single ASIC design , overall performance increases giving 850ns any port to port latency for VDX 6740 and 3us any port to port latency for VDX 6740T.
The VDX 6740T-1G is similar in terms of features and functionality , but with one unique differentiator. VDX 6740T-1G comes with 48 ports of 1Gbe and 2 X 40Gbe ports in base versions. All of the 48X1Gbase-T ports can be upgraded to 10Gbase-T ports with a simple s/w license. This is very unique capability for upgrading a switch from 1Gbe to 10Gbe with out rip and replacing a switch or re-architecting the network .
All VDX switches are SDN-ready. Their h/w supports technologies like Openflow. It also supports overlay technologies like VXLAN and can also act as VXLAN tunnel end point. Keeping multi-tenancy requirements in mind, the VDX 6740 switches also support Brocade Virtual fabric technology based on Fine Grained Label technology.
One another unique feature for VDX 6740 is Flex ports. VDX 6740 supports up to 32 FLEX ports ,and all these ports can act as Fiber Channel (FC) ports or Ethernet ports.
Finally, recognizing that customers prefer to pay for infrastructure only as they need it, all the fixed VDX switches support Ports-on-Demand licensing. With this capability, customers pay for only the ports they need now, and can easily enable additional ports on the switch through a simple license key and no hardware upgrade.

14. The Brocade VDX 8770 Modular Switch Family
SCALING VCS FABRICS
Brocade VDX 8770 Switch
KEY DIFFERENTIATION
Brocade VCS Fabric-enabled
Deepest buffers to absorb traffic microburst
3.6 microseconds any-to-any port latency
Scales to 1K-10K-100K server ports and 384,000 virtual machines per chassis
Extensive portfolio of 10/40/100GbE blades
Future-proofed:
100G Ports-on-Demand (PoD) license
SDN-ready with hardware assist for overlay network virtualization, such as VXLAN
4- and 8-slot chassis
576 ports of 10GbE
216 ports of 40GbE
48 ports of 100GbE
This is the VDX 8770 modular switch and, like the fixed VDX switches, it’s purpose built for Ethernet fabrics in the data center.
There are two models, an 8-slot chassis and a 4-slot-chassis.
The 8-slot chassis supports up to 384 ports of line rate, non-blocking 10GE or up to 96 ports of line rate, non-blocking 40GE or up to 32 ports of 100GE, also at full line rate. There is also a 1GE line card as well.
Let me focus your attention on the key differentiators of this product, the true innovations that set this new product apart from all its competitors.
Most important is our VCS Fabric functionality. All of the automation, efficiency and agility I explained earlier is built into this switch, but at a scale well beyond what competing Ethernet fabric products can offer today.
Specifically, using this new chassis, customers can now build a fabric with up to 8000 switch ports and with up to 384k VMs attached to a single fabric. This level of scalability will give customers confidence that Brocade technology can scale as they grow, supporting even the most dense VM environments.
Because fabric performance is so critical to ensuring real-time applications meet end user expectations, we’re also delivering the industry’s lowest port- to-port latency at 3.58usec.
To ensure maximum usage of all fabric bandwidth and maximum uptime through redundancy, we perform multi-pathing at all layers of the fabric.
And, finally, recognizing that data center innovation will continue at a very rapid pace, we’ve designed the new 8770 to be ready for emerging data center technologies. We’ve included an industry-leading 4Tb per slot backplane to ensure the platform’s bandwidth will grow with your needs.
We’ve also built into the ASICs on this platform the flexibility to perform line- rate switching, deep packet inspection and control for network virtualization protocols such as VXLAN.
This combination of innovations is absolutely unique in the market and clearly extends our technology leadership of the Ethernet Fabric category.

15. Brocade VDX 8770 — Performance Leadership
VM Scalability (Higher is better)
BUFFERS (Higher is better - to absorb microbursts)
LATENCY (Lower is better)
In 1000s
In GB
In usec
One of the key tenants in our approach to VDX hardware design is the use of our own ASIC technology. With our own ASICS, we are able to optimize for the network requirements and performance needs that are unique to the virtualized, on-demand data center. This is where merchant silicon, with its many masters to serve and a broad variety of use cases to address, wouldn’t allow us to differentiate and fully optimize for data center applications.
For example, you can see from this chart that we have optimized for deep buffer, latency and scalability on the VDX 8770, three variables that often compete and require tradeoffs to be made.
In this case, we have optimized our ASICs to support 33% more VMs than the closest competitor, while at the same time delivering the lowest port-to- port latency and deepest buffer per port of those same competitor chassis products.
The platforms being compared: Brocacde VDX 8770, Cisco Nexus 7700 with F3 Linecards, Juniper EX9200 and Arista 7500E.
Source: Public data sheets, Latency Test Parameters: 64-byte packet, Layer 3, any port to any port within chassis. Per Port Buffer comparison: based on buffer per 10G port
Compared Switches: Brocade VDX8770, Cisco Nexus 7700 F3 Modules, Juniper EX8200 and Arista 7500E
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16. Brocade VCS Fabric Strategic Directions
Network Virtualization
Scale
Programmatic Control
New Hybrid Platforms
Extending virtual networks between DCs
Increasing scale in single and multi-fabric deployments
Programmatic control with native REST APIs and OpenFlow 1.3
New hybrid fixed/modular leaf and spine switches
Let me highlight some of the strategic directions we are pursuing with VCS Fabric technology.
Because we believe network virtualization is one of the most important applications of SDN technologies in the data center, we will continue to enhance our Network Virtualization support within VCS, both natively and in support of overlay models. Extending virtual networks over the WAN and increasing VXLAN gateway resiliency are two such roadmap items.
Our focus on Scale includes enhancing the number of switches that can participate in a single fabric as well as enabling multi-fabric architectures with features such as Logical Chassis and virtual fabrics extending across multiple physical fabrics.
Enabling Programmatic Control with fabric-level APIs based on REST and adding OpenFlow 1.3 support are important developments for customers and partners who want greater programmatic control over the fabric.
And we will continue to evolve our VDX hardware platform family with the addition of hybrid fixed/modular switches for leaf and spine use cases, lowering switch costs and increasing flexibility at the same time.

17. Ethernet Fabric
ESSENTIAL FOR CONTINUOS CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
Optimized for server virtualization and cloud architectures
More efficient, resilient, higher throughput, lower latency
Scale-out vs. scale-up to increase flexibility and reduce cost
Dramatic automation to simplify administration

18. Brocade VDX 6746 module for hitachi blade servers

19. VDX 6746: New 10GE DCB switch MODUle
Industry’s 1st Ethernet fabric-enabled embedded 10Gb DCB switch module
Flexible connectivity options for cloud architectures
Enhance hierarchical network architectures
Deploy flatter scale-out fabrics or converge networks
Brocade VDX 6746 supports
24 x 10GE ports (16 internal, 8 external)
Non-blocking, cut-through architecture, wire speed
Dual-speed (1GE/10GE) external ports
1 Gb RJ-45 connectors and 10 Gb twinax copper or optical connectors
Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS)
DCB and multi-hop FCoE
Automatic Migration of Port Profiles (AMPP)
Rich set of Layer 2 features
Hitachi chassis management support
Brocade VDX 6746
The Brocade VDX 6746 Switch is a state-of-the-art 10 Gigabit Ethernet embedded switch for the Hitachi CB500 blade server platform. It enables Hitachi CB500 to support flexible connectivity options for cloud architectures, including lossless Ethernet fabrics. VDX 6746 provides CB500 customers the choice to enhance their hierarchical network architectures, deploy flatter scale-out fabrics or converge networks when deploying virtualization and cloud IT infrastructures. It is designed to increase scalability and enhance VM mobility, further simplifying management and significantly reducing operational costs
Designed for Hitachi CB500, VDX 6746 is a 10 Gigabit Ethernet embedded switch with 16 internal ports and 8 external ports.
Embedded design dramatically reduces cabling, power and cooling requirements compared to external stand-alone switches.
Wire-speed switch with non-blocking cut through architecture provides industry-leading performance and ultra-low latency
Dual speed (1Gbps/10Gbps) capable external ports are well suited for datacenters migrating to next generation 10Gbps high performance architectures
Provides flexible connectivity options including 1 Gbps RJ-45 connectors and 10 Gbps twinax copper or optical connectors
Simplifies network architectures and enables cloud computing by delivering Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS) technology and enabling Ethernet fabrics
VCS technology deploys scale-out fabrics instead of a hierarchical network to flatten the network design, and manages the entire fabric as a single Logical Chassis to reduce complexity
Compared to classic Ethernet architectures, Ethernet fabrics allow all paths to be active, increasing network performance, utilization, and resiliency
Datacenter Bridging and multi-hop FCoE capabilities enable lossless unified storage connectivity, and storage and LAN traffic convergence to reduce connectivity cost
Automatic Migration of Port Profiles (AMPP) feature simplifies virtualized server management by enabling seamless Virtual Machine (VM) mobility
Offers a rich set of Layer 2 features and can be deployed into classic 1Gb and 10Gb architectures, preserving existing network designs and cabling
Integrates with Hitachi Chassis Management software enabling end-to-end management of CB500

20. Benefits of VDX 6746
Embedded design dramatically reduces cabling, power and cooling
Industry-leading performance and ultra-low latency
Simplifies network architectures and enables cloud computing by delivering Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching technology and enabling Ethernet fabrics
VCS technology deploys scale-out fabrics instead of a hierarchical network
Compared to classic Ethernet architectures, Ethernet fabrics allow all paths to be active, increasing network performance, utilization, and resiliency
Supports lossless unified storage connectivity, and storage and LAN traffic convergence to reduce connectivity cost
Simplifies virtualized server management by enabling seamless virtual machine mobility
Can be deployed into classic 1Gb and 10Gb architectures, preserving existing network designs and cabling
Enables end-to-end management of CB 500
Eliminate spanning tree
- to flatten the network design, and manages the entire fabric as a single Logical Chassis to reduce complexity

21. Summary
Hitachi Data Systems and Brocade combine to offer best in class compute, storage, and network solutions
UCP Pro for single SKU pre-configured solution with orchestration
UCP Select reference architectures for hypervisors, databases, analytics and application environments including Citrix, Microsoft®, Oracle, SAP and VMware
Brocade Ethernet fabric and SAN switches power Hitachi UCP solutions, including
Industry’s first embedded Ethernet fabric switch in CB 500 and CB 2000
Brocade VDX 6710, VDX 6720, VDX 6730 and VDX 6740 Switches

22. Thank you

23. Brocade VDX switch family

24. Brocade VDX product family
The Flexible Choice for the Evolving Data Center
1/10GE Top-of-Rack switches with Brocade VCS Fabric technology
Ultra-low latency for unmatched performance
Superior size and power efficiency, critical for today’s data center
Flexible storage connectivity for FCoE, iSCSI, and NAS
Brocade VDX 6710 Switch
Brocade VDX 6720 Switch*
Brocade VDX 6730 Switch
Brocade VDX 6740 Switch
*Last Customer Ship Date for Brocade VDX 6720: September 3, 2014
Brocade VDX 6740 is the replacement to Brocade VDX 6720.

25. Brocade VDX 6740 Switches Product details
Simplicity and Automation
Leading Scalability and Performance
Brocade VCS Fabric technology
Automatic Migration of Port Profiles (AMPP)
VCS Logical Chassis
Auto Fabric Provisioning
Fixed 48 1/10GbE SFP+ (6740) / 48 1/10G Base-T ports (6740-T) and 4 40GbE QSFP+ GbE; Option up to 64 ports 10GbE
Fixed 48 1 GbE with 10 GbE software upgrade option
4 X 40GE QSFP+ ports; Each 40G can optionally be configured as 4X10GE in Breakout Mode
High performance L2/L3 Switching
Industry high deep buffers with dynamic buffering
Increases MAC, VLANS, port profiles delivers increased scalability
Single ASIC, Non-blocking with cut through architecture
Up to 160GbE Brocade Trunk improves switch capacity
Efficient multilayer, multipathing for reliability and elasticity
Full IP storage support with DCB capabilities
Auto QoS prioritizes storage traffic
Virtual Fabric feature supports multi-tenancy
VCS Gateway for NSX unifies virtual & physical networks
SDN Capable (Openflow support)
IPv6 Hardware ready
Advanced Capabilities
Key highlights: System designed for upto 4 Tbps/slot (bi directional) giving a 16 slot chassis a 64Tbps fabric capacity. Truly designed for support of multiple (4+) 100G ports per module. Today the CFP is a large module and we can support a max 2 connections per full slot module. CFP2 which is a much smaller connector will allow us to get better port density. This is still evolving and we expect to support this as technology improves. What does this mean for the customer is that a DC system that is ready to support B/W and features for tomorrow will be available on VDX8770. It also means investment protection for the future. No need to fork lift a system whne you need more 10/40/100G ports.
Highlight the power efficiency at 6.5W/10G port but at the same time remind them that scale and performance is a big factor. As the table sizes increase we need more power so this isnt an apples to apples comparison.
768Tbps = 4Tbps per slot * 8 slots * 24 nodes per fabric
Brocade VDX 6740

26. Brocade VDX 6730 Switches Product details Key Points
Simplicity and Automation
Leading Performance and Density
Brocade VCS Fabric technology
Automatic Migration of Port Profiles (AMPP)
Brocade Fabric Watch provides proactive monitoring and notification of critical switch component failure
Non-blocking 32- and 76-port models with Ports on Demand (PoD)
Brocade VDX
Compact 1U form factor; twenty-four 1/10 Gbps Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP)+ ports; eight 2, 4, and 8 Gbps Fibre Channel ports
Brocade VDX
2U form factor; sixty 1/10 Gbps SFP+ ports; sixteen 2, 4, and 8 Gbps Fibre Channel ports
600 ns port-to-port latency; 1.8 μs across port groups
Unified LAN and Storage Connectivity
Ethernet storage connectivity for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), iSCSI, and Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Multihop FCoE and iSCSI DCB support
10 Gbps and 1 Gbps support on every LAN port; 2, 4, and 8 Gbps on SAN port
Key Points
In the release of the NOS software with FC ports support in December 2011, VDX 6730 can only connect to FC SAN.
VDX 6730 will not support direct connectivity to FC storage and FC HBA or supports Access Gateway mode.
These are road map items.
Brocade VDX
Brocade VDX 26

27. Brocade VDX 6710 Switch Product details Key Points 27
Simplicity and Automation
Leading Performance and Density
Brocade VCS Fabric technology
AMPP
Brocade Fabric Watch provides proactive monitoring and notification of critical switch component failure
Brocade VDX
Compact 1U form factor; six 1/10 Gbps SFP+ ports; forty-eight 1 Gbps RJ45 copper ports
Non-blocking, cut-through architecture, wire-speed
600 ns port-to-port latency; 1.8 μs across port groups
Switch depth less than 17 inches; reversible front-to- back airflow
Two internal, redundant, field-replaceable, load-sharing AC power supplies
Lower-Cost Entry Point for Fabrics
Extends benefits of VCS Fabric technology to 1 GbE servers
Key Points
Highlight of the VDX 6710 switches.
Cost Effective 1 GbE server connectivity: Brocade VDX 6710 allows customers to extend the benefits of an Ethernet fabric to existing 1 GbE servers. It is a high-performance 1 GbE fixed port switch that provides a reliable, scalable, and flexible foundation to support demanding applications. The VDX switch has 48 1GbE Copper Interfaces and 6 10GbE SFP+ interfaces.
Provide a reliable, scalable, and flexible foundation for Ethernet fabrics: Brocade VDX 6710 supports a build as you grow model. Form an Ethernet fabric initially with two switches and scale to larger clusters for cost-effective connectivity to 1 GbE servers.
Build a resilient, fast network optimized for performance-demanding environments:
Local switching delivers high performance for intra-rack traffic in virtualized environment providing ultra-low latency of 600 ns for same ASIC and 1.8 ns across ASICs on the same switch. This helps in designing a network with no over-subscription for deterministic network performance and improved application response time
VDX6710 will support multiple deployment models.
Classic 1 GbE access. Delivers classic 1 GbE ToR access deployments with a broad set of Layer 2 features.
Scale-out fabrics for virtualized data centers. Enables dynamic, large-scale, server virtualization deployments in private (IT customers within an organization) and public (external customers of managed service provider) clouds with proven fabric capabilities and Layer 2 Equal Cost Multipath Protocol (ECMP).
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28. Brocade VDX 6720 Ethernet Fabric Switches
Product details
Built for the virtual data center
Uses Brocade fabric switching ASICs
First switches to run new Brocade Network Operating System
Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS) fabric technology
Automatic migration of port profiles (AMPP)
Best-in-class performance and density
24- and 60-port models
Non-blocking, cut-through architecture, wire-speed
600 ns port-to-port latency; 1.8 μs across port groups
Environmental flexibility
10 GbE and 1 GbE supported on every port
Twinax, direct-attached optical, and SFP optical connectivity options
Less than 17-iinch switch depth and reversible front-to- back airflow
Enables network convergence
Complete FCoE support, multi-hop
iSCSI DCB support
Highly resilient and efficient design
Hot code load and activation
Remote “lights out” management
Simple design, optimal power efficiency

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VDX 6740 vs. VDX 6720
4/12/2017
Feature
6720 ,6710, 6730
VDX 6740 /VDX 6740T
Virtual Fabrics 
VXLAN / VTEP integration with VMware NSX
32 Flex port
 [ VDX 6740]
Open flow ready
Openstack Integration ( REST API)
ISSU
VRF Lite
PVLANs
PBR
PIM in VCS Mode
STP in VCS Mode
RSPAN
ACL based QOS/Rate Limit/Sflow
Logical Chassis Management
Direct Attached Storage (F-Port)
 [VDX 6730 Only]
Supported by Flex port
128K MAC
64K ARP
1024 Port Profiles
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