Brocade ADX 4000 SI-4000-ASM8-P-B-2 Data Sheet

Product codes
SI-4000-ASM8-P-B-2
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OpenScript can provide protection from key 
application vulnerabilities while permanent 
application patches are installed.
ALWAYS-ON APPLICATION AVAILABILITY
Brocade ADX application delivery switches 
maximize availability and provide non-stop 
delivery of business-critical applications 
through a range of capabilities.
High Availability
The Brocade ADX Series provides multiple 
high-availability options to suit varying 
infrastructure and business needs for overall 
enhanced application resiliency. Real-time 
synchronization of sessions between two 
peer Brocade ADX units operating in 
high-availability mode provides protection 
against system outages. If one device shuts 
down, then the second device transparently 
resumes control of client traffic, with no loss 
to existing sessions or connectivity. 
Business Continuity and Site Redundancy
Organizations deploying multiple, 
geographically disparate data centers can 
benefit from Global Server Load Balancing 
(GSLB). This capability allows Brocade ADX 
Series switches to distribute client traffic to 
servers based on site availability, site load, 
proximity, and other advanced metrics in 
order to provide the optimal user experience. 
Similarly, the Brocade ADX Series provides a 
site redundancy solution for non-DNS-based 
infrastructures by injecting network routes 
for healthy VIPs from multiple data center 
locations. These network routes are 
propagated through routing protocols such 
as BGP, IS-IS, and OSPF, enabling clients to 
connect to the closest available site.
SIMPLIFIED MANAGEMENT AND 
AUTOMATED PROVISIONING
The Brocade ADX Series provides a rich 
collection of tools to deploy, manage, and 
monitor Brocade ADX devices, providing 
greater administrative control over  
the network. 
Figure 3. 
The Brocade ADX Series Web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI).
Intuitive GUI
The Brocade ADX Series features a dynamic 
Web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) 
that leverages the XML API to provide an 
intuitive system dashboard for detailed 
traffic and system statistics, simplified 
navigation, configuration management, and 
real-time system monitoring of Brocade ADX 
switch deployments. The Brocade ADX GUI 
helps simplify management by providing 
organizations with maximum visibility into 
the overall health of their Brocade ADX 
systems (see Figure 3). 
Industry-Standard CLI
The Brocade ADX Series includes a 
powerful Command Line Interface (CLI) 
that simplifies device management and 
reduces the administrative learning curve 
by incorporating an industry (de facto) 
standard look and feel, tab completion,  
and in-line help.
Role-based Management
The Brocade ADX Series allows organizations 
to create multiple administrative domains 
and assign access privileges to users inside 
these domains, enabling custom views for 
different types of administration.
Comprehensive SOAP/XML API
The Brocade ADX Series leverages a 
standards-based SOAP/XML API that 
integrates control of Brocade ADX 
switches with both custom and third-
party orchestration and automation tools. 
Application professionals can leverage the 
rich XML API extensions—from basic load 
balancing and system management to 
advanced services—to increase operational 
efficiency and improve the performance and 
reliability of their applications.
Application Resource Broker 
Brocade Application Resource Broker is an 
infrastructure software component that 
simplifies the management of application 
resources and helps ensure optimal 
application performance by dynamically 
adding and removing application resources 
as workload conditions demand. Brocade 
Application Resource Broker—which works 
in tandem with the Brocade ADX Series—
provides these capabilities through real-time 
monitoring of application responsiveness, 
traffic load, and infrastructure capacity. 
Brocade Application Resource Broker builds 
on the strengths of its on-demand resource 
provisioning function to enable core cloud 
use cases, such as cloud bursting as a 
hybrid cloud service and business continuity 
(disaster avoidance) within globally 
distributed data centers (see Figure 4).
To accommodate the changing cloud 
environment, Brocade Application Resource 
Broker seamlessly integrates with custom 
and third-party virtual management 
suites and orchestration frameworks via a 
combination of RESTful APIs and standard 
messaging protocols, including Advanced 
Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP).