Silkworm 3850 16-Port Fabric Switch Enables Small and Medium-Sized Organizations to Deploy Affordable Sans That Improve the Efficiency of Their Business Operations
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The 2 Gbit/sec Brocade SilkWorm 3850 16-port fabric switch enables small and medium-sized organizations to deploy affordable SANs that improve the efficiency of their business operations. SILKWORM SWITCH FAMILY SILKWORM 3850 Highlights Increased Efficiency to Manage Business Growth • Improves business operations by increasing efficiency through higher resource utilization As the value and volume of business Fibre Channel throughput with new • Increases productivity through data continue to rise, organizations features that greatly enhance switch ease of use and simplified are constantly challenged to “do more operation.As a result, organizations storage management with less.”These organizations need can enjoy the advantages of low-cost • Enables “pay-as-you-grow” technology solutions that are easy to device connectivity and powerful scalability from entry 2-switch fabrics implement and manage, that can grow capabilities that make SAN technology to full-fabric enterprise capabilities and change with minimal disruption, highly accessible and affordable. • Protects investments with seamless and that offer dramatic operational upgrades to new functions and future PAY-AS-YOU GROW SCALABILITY ® switch capabilities efficiencies.Today, Brocade Storage Designed for small and medium- Area Network (SAN) solutions can • Meets high-availability requirements sized organizations, the SilkWorm with hot code activation, automatic help organizations simplify their 3850 integrates innovative hardware path rerouting, extensive diagnostics, IT management infrastructures, and dual-redundant power supplies and software features that make it shrink data backup windows, easy to deploy, manage, and integrate • Includes 1 and 2 Gbit/sec interfaces improve system performance, into a wide range of IT environments. for backward compatibility with and reduce overall storage costs. existing Brocade SAN fabrics With these powerful yet flexible ® • Provides flexibility as a reliable The Brocade SilkWorm 3850 capabilities, the SilkWorm 3850 foundation for entry-level SANs and 16-port Fibre Channel switch enables organizations to start small as an edge switch in core-to-edge significantly increases performance and grow their storage networks in a SAN environments and functionality for SANs at an scalable, non-disruptive, and efficient entry-level price. Based on third- manner.This is especially beneficial generation Brocade technology, for organizations that need to upgrade the SilkWorm 3850 provides auto- their existing SAN environment sensing 1 Gbit/sec and 2 Gbit/sec with minimal disruption. SILKWORM 3850 GREATER EFFICIENCY HIGH AVAILABILITY THROUGHOUT THE FABRIC to more sophisticated core-to-edge network The SilkWorm 3850 is designed to provide architectures as business needs dictate. high-availability switching at the core of As a result, these capabilities make it ideal small-to-medium-sized storage networks. for key SAN solutions such as LAN-free The core-to-edge SAN model features backup and server and storage consolidation. high availability for the entire fabric through redundant network paths. A BETTER WAY TO IMPROVE Combining the proven reliability of the BUSINESS OPERATIONS SilkWorm family with a wide range of One of the primary benefits of a SAN optional Advanced Fabric Services, these environment is the consolidation of switches provide a SAN fabric capable of hardware resources in an easy-to-manage delivering overall system availability greater infrastructure.This centralized approach than 99.999 percent. In addition, Brocade helps increase operational efficiency and Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF) enables staff productivity, two critical requirements the fabric to automatically isolate problems for small and medium-sized businesses. and reroute traffic around failed links onto With fewer physical resources to manage, alternate paths—increasing availability for staff members can handle additional mission-critical enterprise applications. business growth or focus on other Reliability is further enhanced with dual strategic initiatives. power supplies. The high-performance 2 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel capabilities of the SilkWorm 3850 BACKWARD AND FORWARD COMPATIBILITY switch speed data transfer to help keep The SilkWorm 3850 is fully interoperable data flowing and applications running. with existing SilkWorm 1000 and 2000 As a result, organizations can significantly series switches—supporting entry fabrics improve storage utilization in distributed that serve a variety of purposes, such as e-mail environments, for example. easing e-mail storage growth and Consolidating e-mail applications on a streamlining data backup. In addition, SAN can increase data availability by the SilkWorm 3850 is compatible with greatly reducing backup and restore newer Brocade SAN switches and directors, windows—in some cases by as much as providing the ability to seamlessly expand 90 percent. Figure 1. A Brocade SAN-based data backup solution can significantly improve data availability and resource utilization compared to traditional BEFORE SAN AFTER SAN direct-attached storage environments. LAN LAN Microsoft Microsoft UNIX Linux Windows NT UNIX Linux Windows NT Tape Brocade SAN Fabric Disk SILKWORM SWITCH FAMILY 90% Disk Tape Disk Tape Disk utilization Disk 25% 25% 25% 90% utilization utilization utilization utilization Tape In addition, a SAN-based architecture WEB TOOLS Java application, or the SEAMLESS UPGRADES TO enables LAN-free backup and more Brocade Fabric Manager multifabric PROTECT INVESTMENTS efficient storage resource management— management application. In addition, To help protect existing investments, increasing overall system performance Brocade offers the following advanced the SilkWorm 3850 provides a seamless and productivity (see Figure 1). software solutions to further enhance upgrade path with SilkWorm entry, business operations: midrange, and director-class offerings. SUPERIOR NETWORK PERFORMANCE The switch is designed to integrate • Brocade Advanced Zoning permits The SilkWorm 3850 provides high with heterogeneous environments that only authorized devices and performance with all ports capable include multiple operating systems applications to access data, thereby of operating at 1 and 2 Gbit/sec such as Windows 2000 and NT, increasing security and control. (full-duplex) to enable up to 64 UNIX, Linux, HPUX, Solaris,AIX, • Brocade Advanced Performance Gbit/sec of uncongested throughput. and others.As a result, organizations Monitoring enables end-to-end Auto-sensing and speed matching of have the flexibility to build cost-efficient, performance monitoring of the data traffic ensures interoperability easy-to-manage SAN fabrics. entire SAN fabric. between 1 Gbit/sec and 2 Gbit/sec • Brocade Fabric Watch enables devices.To provide even higher MAXIMIZING SAN INVESTMENTS organizations to proactively monitor performance, optional Brocade Brocade and its partners offer complete, the health of the network with Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking cost-effective SAN solutions to meet comprehensive thresholds and alerts combines up to four ISLs between a a wide range of technology and that help prevent outages. pair of switches into a single, logical business requirements.These solutions • Brocade Secure Fabric OS® high-speed trunk running at up to include education and training, support, 8 Gbit/sec. helps ensure that all of these service, and professional services to management capabilities are help optimize SAN investments. SIMPLIFIED MANAGEMENT available in a secure environment. For more information, contact an All SilkWorm switches are based on the • The Brocade Fabric Access API authorized Brocade sales partner or intelligent Brocade Fabric OS, which enables the integration of a broad visit www.brocade.com. provides the integrated building blocks range of powerful Brocade SilkWorm for highly reliable and scalable SAN switch functions into popular third- environments.To manage their switch party management tools, enabling configurations, organizations can use a organizations to continue using their command line interface, the Brocade storage management tools of choice. SILKWORM 3850 FIBRE CHANNEL STANDARDS AND REVISIONS FC-AL Rev 4.5 FC-AL-2 Rev. 7.0 FC-FLA Rev 2.7 FC-GS-2 Rev. 5.3 FC-FG Rev. 3.5 FC-FS Rev 1.7 FC-PH Rev. 4.3 FC-PH-2 Rev. 7.4 FC-PH-3 Rev. 9.4 FC-PLDA Rev. 2.1 FC-SW Rev 3.3 FC-VI Rev 1.5 IPFC RFC 2625 Systems Architecture Management Fibre Channel ports 16 universal ports Management software Telnet; SNMP (FE MIB, FC Management MIB); Brocade WEB TOOLS; Brocade Fabric Manager Scalability 2-switch fabric, 4-switch fabric, up to a full-fabric (optional) architecture with 239 switches maximum Management access 10/100 Ethernet port (RJ-45); Serial port (RS-232); Certified maximum 32 switches, 7 hops with optional full-fabric in-band through Management Server license; larger fabrics certified as required Diagnostics POST and embedded online/offline diagnostics Interoperability SilkWorm II, SilkWorm Express, or any SilkWorm 2000 family switch Mechanical Specifications Performance 2.125 Gbit/sec line speed, full duplex Enclosure Non-port to port side airflow. 1U, 19-in EIA compliant Aggregate bandwidth 64 Gbit/sec end-to-end Size Depth: 30.7 cm (12.1 in) Fabric latency <2.1 µ sec. with no contention, cut-through routing Width: 42.9 cm (16.9 in) at 2 Gbit/sec Height: 4.3 cm (1.7 in) Dual power supplies, no media Maximum frame size 2112-byte payload Weight: 4.2 kg (9.4 lb) Classes of service Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames) Environment