Brocade Communications Systems BR-VDX6730-40-F Datasheet download pdf

DATA SHEET

www.brocade.com

DATA CENTER

BROCADE

VDX 6730

SWITCH

HIGHLIGHTS

•Offers high-performance 10 GbE data

center LAN ports and native Fibre Channel

portsinaxedcongurationswitch

•Simpliesnetworkarchitecturesand

enablescloudcomputingbydelivering

BrocadeVCSFabrictechnology

•Providesindustry-leadingperformance

andultra-lowlatencythroughwire-speed

portswith600nanosecondport-to-port

latencyandautomatedhardware-based

Inter-SwitchLink(ISL)trunking

•Providesefcientlyload-balanced

multipathingatLayers1,2,and3,

withmultipleLayer3gateways

•Simpliesvirtualizedservermanagement

byprovidingVMmobilitywithdynamic

serverprolecongurationandmigration

•ProvidesEthernetstorageconnectivityfor

FibreChanneloverEthernet(FCoE),iSCSI,

and NAS

•Protectsexistinginvestmentsbybridging

Fibre Channel SANs and Ethernet fabrics

Revolutionizing the Way

Data Center Networks Are Built

Seekingbetterwaystobuildcloudsand

virtualizeddatacenters,today’sIT

organizationsareturningtohigh-

performancenetworkingsolutionsthat

increaseexibilitythroughleading-edge

technologies. The Brocade

VDX

6730

Switchisahigh-performance10Gigabit

Ethernet(GbE)xedcongurationswitch

withLANandnativeFibreChannelports

thatsupportsthemostdemandingbusiness

applications.Itisspecicallydesignedto

improvenetworkutilization,maximize

applicationavailability,increasescalability,

anddramaticallysimplifynetwork

architectureinvirtualizeddatacenters.The

BrocadeVDX6730withBrocadeVCS

Fabrictechnologyisanidealplatformfor

Top-of-Rack(ToR)fabricdeployments

requiringnativeFibreChannelconnectivity

(seeFigure1).

The Brocade VDX 6730 connects to Fibre

ChannelStorageAreaNetworks(SANs)in

addition to Fibre Channel over Ethernet

(FCoE),iSCSI,andNASstorage,providing

uniedEthernetstorageconnectivity

options.Itisavailableintwomodels—the

2UBrocadeVDX6730-76with6010GbE

LAN ports and 16 8 Gbps native Fibre

Channelports,andthe1UBrocadeVDX

6730-32with2410GbELANportsand

eight 8 Gbps native Fibre Channel ports.

AN INTELLIGENT FOUNDATION

FOR CLOUD COMPUTING

BrocadeVCSFabrictechnologyisan

innovativetechnologythatenables

organizationstobuildhigh-performance,

cloud-optimizeddatacenterswhile

preservingexistingnetworkdesignsand

cabling,andgainingactive-activeserver

connections.Forscale-outfabric

architectures,BrocadeVCSFabric

technologyallowsorganizationstoatten

networkdesigns,provideVirtualMachine

(VM)mobilitywithoutnetwork

reconguration,andmanagetheentire

fabricmoreefciently.Learnmoreabout

BrocadeVCSFabrictechnologyat

www.brocade.com/vcs.

The Brocade One

strategyhelps

simplifynetworkinginfrastructures

throughinnovativetechnologiesand

solutions.BrocadeVDX6730

Switchessupportthisstrategyby

simplifyingnetworkarchitecture

whileincreasingnetwork

performanceandresiliency

withEthernetfabrics.

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Summary of Contents

Page 1 - VDX 6730

DATA SHEETwww.brocade.comDATA CENTERBROCADE VDX 6730 SWITCH HIGHLIGHTS•Offers high-performance 10 GbE data center LAN ports and native Fibre Channel

Page 2

Unique VCS Fabric Features for High-Performance Data CentersTheBrocadeVDX6730withBrocadeVCSFabrictechnologyprovidesthefollowinguniquefea

Page 3 - WHAT IS AN ETHERNET FABRIC?

WHAT IS AN ETHERNET FABRIC?Compared to classic hierarchical Ethernet architectures,Ethernetfabricsprovidehigherlevelsofperformance,utilization

Page 4 - Scalability Information

Brocade VDX 6730-32 Brocade VDX 6730-76SwitchingLANbandwidth(datarate,fullduplex) 480GbpsforEthernetports 1200GbpsforEthernetportsFibre

Page 5 - Mechanical

Layer2switchingfeatures • MACLearningandAging• StaticMACConguration• LinkAggregationControlProtocol(LACP) IEEE802.3ad/802.1AX• Virt

Page 6

EnvironmentalTemperature Operating:0°Cto40°C(32°Fto104°F)Non-operatingandstorage:−25°Cto70°C(−13°Fto158°F)Humidity Operating:10%to85%

Page 7 - RFC Support

ThefollowingdraftversionsoftheDataCenterBridging(DCB)andFibreChanneloverEthernet(FCoE)standards arealsosupportedontheBrocadeVDX

Page 8 - DATA SHEET

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