Brocade Communications Systems 3800 Manuel D’Utilisation

To help protect existing investments,
the SilkWorm 3800 provides a seamless
upgrade path along with backward 
and forward compatibility with
SilkWorm entry, midrange, and core
fabric switch offerings.

The SilkWorm 3800 integrates with
heterogeneous environments that
include multiple operating systems
such as Windows 2000 and NT,
UNIX, Linux, HPUX, Solaris, AIX,
and others. As a result, organizations
have the flexibility to build cost-effi-
cient, and easy-to-manage enterprise
SAN fabrics.These capabilities make the
SilkWorm 3800 ideal for applications
such as LAN-free backup, server and
storage consolidation, remote mirror-
ing, and data replication.

Brocade Advanced Zoning logically
groups a SAN fabric into an unlimited
number of secure private SANs
(zones) to ensure that devices can
access only their authorized storage
resources. Zoning is enabled by the
wire-speed Frame Filtering feature of
the third-generation Brocade ASIC,

which filters and analyzes frames based
on the content of fields in the first 
64 bytes of the header. Organizations
can specify hardware-enforced zones
by WWNs on the SilkWorm 3800,
simplifying administration while 
providing the highest level of security
to control data access.

Advanced SilkWorm 3800 reliability
features include the following:
• Highly reliable components 

and continuous monitoring of 
environmental conditions help
reduce service costs.

• Power-On Self-Test (POST) 

and online diagnostics enable
administrators to monitor and test
ports while the switch is operating.

• Per-port statistics help administrators

diagnose and isolate problem ports
without disrupting switch operations.

To simplify SAN monitoring and
maintenance, the SilkWorm 3800 
provides the following functions:
• Fabric OS enables value-added

Brocade SAN monitoring and 
management applications.

• Industry-standard Management

Information Base (MIB) support
enables Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP)-
based interfaces to access switch
information.

• Administrators can manage switch

configurations by using a command
line interface, a Web-based Java
application, or a centralized,
multifabric management application.

• Self-learning features enable the 

fabric to automatically discover 
and register host server and 
storage devices.

Brocade and its partners offer 
complete SAN solutions to meet a
wide range of technology and business
requirements.These solutions include
education and training, support,
service, and professional services to
help optimize SAN investments.
For more information, contact an
authorized Brocade sales partner or
visit www.brocade.com.

ISL Trunking groups multiple ISLs to enable 
high-speed data traffic