Brocade VCS Fabric technology features • Automatic Fabric Formation
• Distributed Fabric Services
• Transparent LAN Services
• Virtual Link Aggregation Group (vLAG) spanning
multiple physical switches
• Switch Beaconing
• Distributed Conguration Management
• Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links
(TRILL)
• Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP)
• Automatic Migration of Port Proles (AMPP)
• VM-Aware Network Automation
DCB features • Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) 802.1Qbb
• Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS)
802.1Qaz
• Data Center Bridging eXchange (DCBX)
• DCBX Application Type-Length-Value (TLV) for
FCoE and iSCSI
FCoE features • Multihop Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE);
requires Brocade VCS Fabric technology
• FC-BB5 compliant Fibre Channel Forwarder (FCF)
• Native FCoE forwarding
• End-to-end FCoE (initiator to target)
• FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) v1 support for
FCoE device login and initialization
• Name Server-based zoning
• Supports connectivity to FIP Snooping Bridge
(FSB) device
Quality of Service (QoS) • Eight priority levels for QoS
• Class of Service (CoS) IEEE 802.1p
• DSCP Trust
• DSCP to Trafc Class Mutation
• Random Early Discard
• Per-port QoS conguration
• Scheduling: Strict Priority (SP), Shaped Decit
Weighted Round-Robin (SDWRR)
- DSCP to CoS Mutation
- DSCP to DSCP Mutation
Switch health monitoring • Fabric Watch monitoring and notication
Management
Management and control • IPv4/IPv6 management
• Industry-standard Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Remote lights out management (future update)
• In-band management (standalone mode)
• Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) IEEE
802.1AB
• Logical chassis management
• MIB II RFC 1213 MIB
• Switch Beaconing
• Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN)
• Telnet
• SNMP v1, v2C, v3
• sFlow RFC 3176
• Out-of-band management
• RMON-1, RMON-2
• NTP
• Management Access Control Lists (ACLs)
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Security • Port-based Network Access Control 802.1X
• RADIUS
• TACACS+
• Secure Shell (SSHv2)
• BPDU Drop
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
• Secure Control Protocol
Mechanical
Enclosure Front-to-rear, rear-to-front airow; 1U, 19-inch EIA-compliant; power from non-port side
Environmental
Temperature 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% non-condensing
Non-operating and storage: 10% to 90% non-condensing
Altitude Operating: Up to 3000 meters (9842 feet)
Non-operating and storage: Up to 12 kilometers (39,370 feet)
Shock Operating: 20 g, 6 ms half-sine
Non-operating and storage: Half-sine, 33 g 11 ms, 3/eg Axis
Vibration Operating: 0.5 g sine, 0.4 grms random, 5 to 500 Hz
Non-operating and storage: 2.0 g sine, 1.1 grms random, 5 to 500 Hz
Airow Brocade VDX 6720-24
Maximum: 53 CFM
Nominal: 35 CFM
Brocade VDX 6720-60
Maximum: 115 CFM
Nominal: 76 CFM
Heat dissipation 450 BTU/hr (24-port switch); 1126 BTU/hr (60-port switch)
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