Brocade 5300 Switch

Enables Consolidation

Increase efficiency

Supporting up to 80 ports, the Brocade 5300 enables scalable consolidation of servers, storage, and your networking infrastructure, driving efficiencies and reducing costs.

Its 8 Gb/sec line rate performance on all ports streamlines connectivity and reduces management complexity. Plus, SAN consolidation is enabled by allowing you to replace smaller fabric switches with a single high-port density low-profile chassis, reducing your SAN footprint and management requirements.

Shrink your footprint

With the Brocade 5300, its 80-port capability takes less than half the number of domains when compared to the traditional 32- or 40-port edge switch.

When deployed as a core SAN fabric switch, the 80-port Brocade 5300 provides a single-switch footprint that is an ideal solution for future-proofing your SAN for 8 Gb/sec support requirements.

The single-domain solution provided by the Brocade 5300 allows you to migrate from a current deployment that uses multiple smaller switches, reducing the number of domains and inter-switch-links to manage in the fabric.

Full 1:1 subscription on every port

The Brocade 5300 provides full 8 Gb/sec bandwidth simultaneously on every port, simplifying management and helping to ensure high Quality Of Service levels.

Enterprise Performance and Scalability

Supports server and storage virtualization

Using technologies like NPIV, virtualization will require faster data rates to keep virtual servers busy. With up to 80 ports of full line rate 8 Gb/sec performance, the Brocade 5300 supports new server and storage virtualization solutions and helps you optimize the performance of your business applications.

Enhanced ISL Trunking

Enhanced Inter-Switch-Link Trunking delivers up to 68 Gb/sec in a single trunk, reducing the number of ports, optics, and cables required and simplifying management. Integrated Routing provides an easy-to-implement solution for interconnecting SAN islands with both Brocade and Brocade M-series products and no standalone Fibre Channel router is required.

8 Gb/sec performance

With 8 Gb/sec non-blocking, full-duplex performance on every port and the highest port density of all enterprise switches, the Brocade 5300 enables greater scalability using a single domain, simplifying management. Plus, it delivers the performance you need to support mission-critical applications and virtual environments.

Ports-on-Demand enables greater scalability

The Brocade 5300's Ports-on-Demand capability lets you scale from 48 to 64 to 80 ports, enabling pay-as-you-grow scalability and a total bandwidth capability of 1360 Gb/sec.

Meets Quality of Service objectives

Adaptive Networking features include traffic prioritization, defining data paths, and ingress rate limiting. These capabilities optimize application performance in a virtualized server and storage environment.

Superior ROI and Investment Protection

Lower capital and operating expenses

The Brocade 5300 supports E_Port connectivity with McDATA Fabric Mode and Open Fabric Mode connectivity with Brocade M-EOS SANs to protect your existing investments in SAN infrastructure while enabling growth and scalability.

You can manage the Brocade 5300 from either Brocade Fabric Manager or Brocade EFCM, enabling your administrators to use the tools they’re familiar with and reducing training and management costs.

Energy-efficient design cuts power consumption

Continuing a Brocade tradition of providing industry-leading energy efficiency, the Brocade 5300 provides a 40 percent improvement in power consumption (Watts/GB/sec), enabling you to reduce energy costs and support green initiatives.

Backward and forward compatibility

A single code stream supports the entire Brocade product line, providing full compatibility among Brocade switches. And the Brocade 5300's backward and forward compatibility provides long-term investment protection, and also helps you meet your long-term business needs.

Works with 1, 2, and 4 Gb/sec switches

The Brocade 5300'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 switches.

Future-proofs your investment

If you're not ready to move to 8 Gb/sec devices, you can reduce cost by populating the Brocade 5300 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.

FICON-ready

The Brocade 5300 is FICON, FICON cascading, and FICON CUP-ready, enabling you to use it in both mainframe and open systems environments.

Fabric services improve utilization

This switch also leverages advanced fabric services to improve utilization of existing storage and server assets, increase administrator efficiency, and lower the cost of storage management.

Rack-mountable

The Brocade 5300 is rack-mountable in a 19-inch EIA rack.

High Availability

Two hot-swappable, redundant, auto-ranging power supplies provide continuous service and three hot-swappable fans in a N+1 configuration give hardware-redundant cooling.

Easy to use

Point and click and you’re ready to go. Using a single GUI, which configures, deploys, and zones switches, the Brocade 5300 offers you unmatched ease of use. The Brocade EZSwitchSetup Wizard lets you deploy and manage with just three simple point-and-click steps.

Little to no management is required in small fabric configurations, and the Brocade Web Tools provides an intuitive, graphic management.

What's more, the Brocade 5300 is compatible with the Microsoft Simple SAN initiative, and a USB port streamlines firmware upgrades and downloads of system log files.