Date: 27-Nov-2009   URL: www.sun.com/storage/storage_networking/software.jsp

Sun StorageTek Networking Solutions

Optional Brocade Software Licenses

Buying additional software licenses for your Brocade products is easy. Just choose the Brocade software license that best fits your needs and contact us.


Optional Brocade Software Products
 
Description
Brocade DCFM Enterprise
  • More scalable, best-in-class management platform
  • Integrates FOS and M-EOS device management
  • Path to more advanced management capabilities for the evolving datacenter
  • Protects investments in EFCM and Fabric Manager through upgrade path
  • Enables McData customers to take advantage of new Brocade technologies

Brocade DCFM Upgrade
  • Provides upgrade path for EFCM and Fabric Manager users
  • Enables McData customers to access new Brocade capabilities and technologies

Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring
  • Comprehensive tool for monitoring the performance of networked storage resources
  • Increases end-to-end visibility into the fabric for more effective design and planning
  • Improves performance tuning and resource optimization
  • Shortens troubleshooting time
Brocade Advanced Zoning
  • Increases SAN fabric security through hardware enforcement
  • Optimizes IT resources by grouping them into specific zones
  • Simplifies management of heterogeneous fabrics with logical symbolic names
Brocade Extended Fabrics
  • Provides switched fabric connectivity over longer distances up to 500 kilometers
  • Extends all of the scalability, reliability, and performance benefits of Fibre Channel SANs beyond traditional distance limitations
  • Enables an innovative disaster recovery approach for reliable, fast data transfer to remote backup facilities
Brocade Fabric Watch
  • Increase availability and avoid costly failures by monitoring numerous fabric and switch elements
  • Receive automatic event notifications when switch and fabric elements exceed thresholds
  • Quickly identify and isolate faults
Brocade ISL Trunking
  • Combines up to eight ISLs into a single logical trunk that provides up to 32 Gb/sec data transfers (with 4 Gb/sec switches)
  • Optimizes link usage by distributing heavy SAN frame traffic across all ISLs
  • Maintains in-order delivery to ensure data reliability
 
 
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