The Brocade 300 Switch offers enterprise-class functionality to small and medium-sized businesses. With 8 Gb/sec throughput, its performance will allow you to reach new levels of productivity.
Key Benefits
Scales to meet the demands of growing virtual server environments
Meeting the demands of growing virtual server environments
Struggling to keep up with the rapid growth rate of digital data in your datacenter? The Brocade 300 scales from 8 to 24 ports, helping entry and SMB environments to build highly scalable, efficient, and flexible datacenter architectures that can accelerate business growth.
Streamline your IT operations
The Brocade 300's 8 Gb/sc performance matches the demands of growing virtual server environments, enabling you to streamline your IT operations and avoid I/O bottlenecks.
The switch seamlessly connects to a greater number of virtualized servers, improving fabric scalability and simplifying deployment and management of blade server environments.
Flexible and interoperable
When it comes to interoperability, the Brocade 300 works with any SAN fabric. Brocade Access Gateway seamlessly connects servers directly to Brocade FOS, M-EOS, or any other vendor fabric, protecting your investments while enabling growth and scalability.
Protects Your Investments
Backward and forward compatibility
The Brocade 300's backward and forward compatibility provides long-term investment protection, and also helps you meet your long-term business needs. A single code stream supports the entire Brocade product line, providing full compatibility among Brocade switches.
Works with 1, 2, and 4 Gb/sec switches
The switch's auto-sensing ports support backward compatibility with 1, 2, and 4 Gb/sec switches, reducing cost and complexity while ensuring compatibility with your installed devices.
Future-proofs your investment
If you're not ready to move to 8 Gb/sec interfaces, you can reduce cost by populating the Brocade 300 with 4 Gb/sec optics today while preserving your ability to upgrade to 8 Gb/sec optics in the future. This future-proofs your current investment while also protecting existing investments.
In addition, the Brocade 300 can be configured as a full-fabric Fibre Channel switch or as a Brocade Access Gateway. It provides native connectivity to the large installed base of Brocade FOS and Brocade M-EOS devices, and can be managed by familiar software and tools, including Brocade EFCM or Brocade Fabric Manager.
Proven interoperability
With the largest installed base and the most widely tested interoperability, Brocade offers a safe choice for small and medium-sized organizations, accelerating deployment and reducing risk.
Easy to Use
Point and click and you're ready to go
From ordering and setup to integration and administration, the Brocade 300 offers you unmatched ease of use.
Plus, the Brocade EZSwitchSetup Wizard lets you deploy and manage with just three simple point-and-click steps.
A single GUI does it all
With the Brocade 300, a single GUI configures, deploys, and zones switches, simplifying administration. Little or no management is required in small fabric configurations, and Brocade Web Tools provides an intuitive, graphic management.
What's more, the switch is compatible with the Microsoft Simple SAN initiative, and a USB port streamlines firmware upgrades and downloads of system log files.
Lower TCO
Enterprise SAN performance at an entry-level price point
In addition to industry-leading scalability, investment protection, and ease of use, the Brocade 300 also helps you reduce costs through lower capital and operating expenses and improved manageability. The switch delivers the productivity and performance advantages of enterprise SAN solutions at an entry-level price point.
Best price/performance for 8- to 24-port switches
The Brocade 300 offers the best price/performance for 8- to 24-port SAN switches and the best-in-class value for 4 or 8 Gb/sec performance. Its low incremental cost makes it easy to scale or upgrade without growing your budget.
Enhanced ISL Trunking with Dynamic Path Selection delivers switch-to-switch bandwidth of up to 68 Gb/sec in a single trunk using eight load-balanced inter-switch-links, further reducing expenses.
The Brocade 300 also helps you lower costs through improved utilization of existing storage and server assets, increased administrator efficiency, and lower cost of management.
Energy-efficient design reduces power consumption
Continuing a Brocade tradition of industry-leading energy efficiency, the Brocade 300 provides a 40 percent improvement in power consumption (Watts/Gb/sec), enabling you to reduce energy costs and support green initiatives.
