Brocade Communications Systems 3200 Manual De Usuario

To support high-speed data traffic, optional

ISL Trunking combines up to four ISLs

between a pair of switches into a single,

logical high-speed trunk running at up 

to 8 Gbit/sec. In addition, Frame Filtering

improves both SAN security and managea-

bility.This intelligent design enables new

capabilities such as hardware-enforced zon-

ing based on World-Wide Name (WWN)

and advanced performance monitoring to

optimize storage resource utilization.

The full-fabric version of the SilkWorm 3200

is designed to provide high-availability

switching in redundant dual-fabric SANs

for small-to-medium-sized deployments.

Combining the proven reliability of 

the SilkWorm family with a wide 

range of advanced fabric services, the

SilkWorm 3200 line provides a SAN 

fabric capable of delivering overall system

availability greater than 99.999 percent—

the “five nines” of availability.

With the Brocade Extended Fabrics feature

and Dense Wave Division Multiplexing

(DWDM) technology, storage networks 

can span up to 100 km (1 Gbit/sec) or 

50 km (2 Gbit/sec) over Metropolitan Area

Networks (MANs)—helping to ensure the

highest levels of business continuance.

The SilkWorm 3200 line provides excellent

price/performance value with all ports

capable of operating at 1 and 2 Gbit/sec

(full-duplex) to enable 32 Gbit/sec of

uncongested switch throughput. Auto-

sensing and speed-matching of 1 and 

2 Gbit/sec traffic ensures interoperability

between current 1 Gbit/sec devices and

next-generation 2 Gbit/sec devices.

To help protect existing investments,

the SilkWorm 3200 line offers full backward

and forward compatibility with other

SilkWorm switches—providing a seamless

migration path to 2 Gbit/sec connectivity

and intelligent fabric services.

Because the new switch supports multivendor

SAN environments—such as those built on

Windows NT/2000, UNIX, Linux, Solaris,

and AIX platforms—organizations migrating

from DAS environments have much

greater flexibility in building low-cost,

easy-to-manage SANs. As a result, these

organizations can quickly deploy business

continuance applications such as remote,

LAN-free, and serverless backup; storage

consolidation; remote mirroring;

clustering; and data replication.

SILKWORM 3200

While DAS environments do not
allow storage resource sharing,
SANs provide an easy and cost-
effective way to share storage—
even in multivendor environments.