#Brocade switches upgrade#
#Brocade switches full#

#Brocade switches full#

Performance: Fibre Channel 2.125 Gb/s line speed, full duplex 4.25 Gb/s line speed, full duplex 8.5 Gb/s line speed, full duplex 10.53 Gb/s line speed, full duplex 14.025 Gb/s line speed, full duplex auto-sensing of 2, 4, 8, and 16 Gb/s port speeds 10 Gb/s optionally programmable to fixed port speed.Fibre Channel ports: Switch mode (default): 24-, 36-, and 48-port configurations (12-port increments through Ports on Demand licenses) E, F, M, D, EX ports.Brocade 6510 Switches support real-time power measurement. According to Brocade, the 6510 requires just 0.14WВ per Gb/s and 2.3W per port, meaning a maximum power consumption of 110.4W with all 48 ports in use. The Brocade 6510 Switch utilizes Condor3, a seventh-generation switching ASIC that enables 16 Gbps Fibre Channel connectivity and the 6510вЂ™s 768 Gbps bandwidth as well as supporting 420 million frames switched per second, ClearLink Diagnostic Ports (D_ports), in-flight encryption and compression, and Forward Error Correction, and higher energy efficiency.

#Brocade switches upgrade#

The add-on licensing model puts additional responsibility on the customer to analyze their requirements and potential upgrade paths, but the tradeoff is switch technology like the 6150 can be tailored to match the needs of the SAN fabric and can be enhanced with add-ons over time to add new functionality as needs change.

Our review unit is configured with 24 ports active as part of the Brocade 6150вЂ™s base configuration, while additional ports can be activated via licensing. The Brocade 6510 represents best-of-class Fibre Channel SAN switching, which is an important asset to the StorageReview Enterprise Storage Lab in order to ensure that network components do not bottleneck storage devices during SAN benchmarks. With an aggregate 768Gb/s throughput and an 18-inch deep 1U footprint, the 6510 supports 2, 4, 8, 10, or 16 Gb/s Fibre Channel across 24, 36, or 48 ports of connectivity and with a feature set that can be extended via add-on licenses for a wide variety of usage scenarios. The Brocade 6510 switch features up to 48 ports of Gen 5 Fibre Channel technology with specifications suitable for hyper-scale, private cloud, virtualized, and other high-bandwidth Fibre Channel environments.