Brocade’s focus on rapid problem identification with IO Insight and Fabric Vision can reduce the time taken to identify problems from days or even hours to minutes. The 2015 ZK Research (I am an employee of ZK Research) Network Purchase Intention Survey found that 90% of the time taken to fix a network issue is the time taken to identify the problem. + MORE ON BROCADE: Why SDN all-stars are heading to Brocade + The combination of IO Insight and Fabric Vision can quickly identify misconfiguration and misbehaving components to rapidly identify the source of performance problems. The data generated by IO Insight can be viewed by Brocade’s Fabric Vision suite. IO insight is a feature built into Brocade’s ASICs that monitors IO statistics of the devices connected to the Brocade fabric including latency and other IOPS metrics. The Brocade G620 also includes something called “IO Insight” to help businesses have greater visibility into performance monitoring. Faster access means greater data throughput, which ultimately leads to faster business decisions being made. As an example, flash based database queries will be completed 75% faster than on 8 Gig Fibre Channel. In a flash based world, the 32 Gig speed is significant, as the network needs to provide maximum speed and throughput. Initially the 128 ports will be used for inter-switch links (ISL) to connect Brocade switches to each other but the company did tell me it was aggressively working with the host bus adapter (HBA) vendors to enable 128 Gig Fibre Channel server connections in the near future. Each 128 Gig port can be a single 128 link or be broken out in 4x32 Gig giving the product a maximum capacity of 64 32 Gig ports. The product has 48x32 Gig SFP+ ports and 4x128 Gig Q-Flex ports. Brocade’s G620 Fibre Channel switch is first multi-speed SAN switch.
Brocade g620 upgrade#
This week Brocade announced “Gen 6” Fibre Channel and like Gen 5, this upgrade is about more than speed. With Gen 5 though, Brocade introduced a number of features to improve the manageability of the products and visibility of the network. Prior to this version of Fibre Channel, the only real difference between versions was speed as it evolved from 1 to 2 to 4 to 8. When the technology went though the last major upgrade (16 Gig), Brocade introduced the products as “Gen 5”. + ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD Brocade CEO says they've built an easy button for IP networks, are benefiting from SDN/NFV + As noted earlier, the demise of Fibre Channel never occurred and now Brocade is reaping the rewards of those investments. One of the reasons that the company has been able to maintain it’s dominant position is because the company continues to innovate Fibre Channel even in the face of predictions that the technology was going to quickly become irrelevant. The value proposition of flash is speed so it makes sense to deploy a storage network that is as fast as possible.īrocade (Brocade is a ZK Research client) has been the market leader in Fibre Channel for years and currently holds about 70% share.
Brocade g620 driver#
The big driver for the continued investment has been the rise of flash-based storage. It’s certainly not the high growth market it once was but the market has maintained about a $2 billion run rate over the past few years. However, Fibre Channel is still alive and kicking. It seems that for years, the death of Fibre Channel has been speculated, as Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) or even IP networks would be the death knell for the more traditional storage protocol. In the tech industry, Fibre Channel could make the same statement. Mainframe Enterprise Bundle (EB): contains TRK (Trunking), EF (Extended Fabrics), FV (Fabric Vision) and FICON CUP.In 1897 the great American author, Mark Twain was rumored to have stated, “the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”. Enterprise Bundle (EB): adds TRK (Trunking), EF (Extended Fabrics), FV (Fabric Vision). The Brocade G620 can be upgraded with the following licenses: The operating system FOS 8.1 (or later) has the following features: no power cables included, please configure 2 pieces from the System Architect selection. 24 licensed ports populated with 16 Gbit short wave SFP+ air flow: PSAF (Port Side Exhaust Air Flow) aka NPI (Non Portside Intake) aka ''Back to front'' 1 chassis with 2 of 2 power supplies for 1+1 redundancy Please have a look at the QuadSFP+ descriptions. There are different QuadSFP+ models, some allow ISL-connections or host attachement. The switch also has 4 QuadSFP-ports for 4*32 Gbit QuadSFP+. Both short wave and long wave media is supported. The first 48 ports can be populated with 16 or 32 Gbit SFP+. Product Related Support -> Support Packs - EMEAīrocade G620 fibrechannel switch with up to 48+4*4 FC ports. Product Related Support -> SP Prolongation national Product Related Support -> Support Packs - national
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