Brocade 6510 BR-6510-24-8G-R Data Sheet

Product codes

BR-6510-24-8G-R

DPS

Dynamic Path Selection (DPS)
Balancing data flow between

multiple trunk groups

Up to

128 Gbps

Up to

128 Gbps

Trunk group

Frame-based Trunking
ASIC Preserves In-order Delivery

8.5 Gbps

4.5 Gbps

9 Gbps

6 Gbps

2 Gbps

10.5 Gbps

...n Gbps

8.5 Gbps

4.5 Gbps

9 Gbps

6 Gbps

2 Gbps

10.5 Gbps

Figure 1.
Dynamic Path Selection (DPS) augments Brocade ISL Trunking to
route data efficiently between multiple trunk groups.

Organizations can easily enable Brocade
Access Gateway mode via Brocade Network
Advisor or a CLI. Key benefits of Brocade
Access Gateway mode include:

• Improved scalability for large or

rapidly growing server and virtual
server environments

• Reduced management of the network

edge, since Brocade Access Gateway
does not have a domain identity and
appears transparent to the core fabric

• Support for heterogeneous SAN

configurations without reduced
functionality for server connectivity

SIMPLIFIED MANAGEMENT AND

ROBUST NETWORK ANALYTICS

Brocade Fabric Vision technology provides
a breakthrough hardware and software
solution that helps simplify monitoring,
maximize network availability, and
dramatically reduce costs. Featuring
innovative monitoring, management,
and diagnostic capabilities, Fabric Vision
technology enables administrators to avoid
problems before they impact operations,
helping their organizations meet Service
Level Agreements (SLAs). Fabric Vision
technology includes:

• Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite

(MAPS):

Provides a pre-built, policy-

based threshold monitoring and alerting
tool that simplifies fabric-wide threshold

configuration and actions. Administrators
can configure multiple fabrics at one
time using pre-defined or customized
rules and policies for specific ports or
switch elements.

• Fabric Performance Impact (FPI)

Monitoring:

Uses pre-defined thresholds

and alerts in conjunction with MAPS
to automatically detect and alert
administrators to severe levels of latency
and identifies slow drain devices that
might impact the network. This feature
uses advanced monitoring capabilities
and intuitive MAPS dashboard reporting
to indicate various latency severity
levels, pinpointing exactly which
devices are causing or impacted by
a bottlenecked port.

• Dashboards: Provides integrated

dashboards that display an overall SAN
health view, along with details on out-of-
range conditions, to help administrators
easily identify trends and quickly pinpoint
issues occurring on a switch or in a fabric.

• Brocade ClearLink Diagnostics:

Ensures optical and signal integrity
for Gen 5 Fibre Channel optics and
cables, simplifying deployment and
support of high-performance fabrics.
ClearLink Diagnostic Port (D_Port) is
an advanced capability of Gen 5 Fibre
Channel platforms.

• Flow Vision: Enables administrators to

identify, monitor, and analyze specific
application flows in order to simplify

troubleshooting, maximize performance,
avoid congestion, and optimize resources.
Flow Vision includes:

– Flow Monitor: Provides comprehensive

visibility into flows within the fabric,
including the ability to automatically
learn flows and non-disruptively
monitor flow performance.
Administrators can monitor all
flows from a specific host to multiple
targets/LUNs, from multiple hosts
to a specific target/LUN, or across
a specific ISL. Additionally, they
can perform LUN-level monitoring
of specific frame types to identify
resource contention or congestion that
is impacting application performance.

– Flow Generator: Provides a built-

in traffic generator for pre-testing
and validating the data center
infrastructure—including route
verification and integrity of optics,
cables, ports, back-end connections,
and ISLs—for robustness before
deploying applications.

• Forward Error Correction (FEC):

Enables recovery from bit errors in ISLs,
enhancing transmission reliability
and performance.

• Credit Loss Recovery: Helps overcome

performance degradation and congestion
due to buffer credit loss.