With the industry’s largest Ethernet fabric install base of more than 1,400 customers worldwide and 400,000 Brocade is furthering its leadership by announcing a number of significant advancements to its VCS Fabric technology and Brocade VDX switch portfolio, including new VCS fabric capabilities that provide native multitenancy, storage-aware networking and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) performance for the most demanding data center environments. Brocade has also unveiled the industry’s most complete, end-to-end blue print for delivering scalable data center multitenancy, from the server to the WAN.
Company has announced a Multitenancy blueprint for simplified end to end deployment from server to WAN. Using the VCS Virtual Fabric, Brocade offers an alternative to overlay networks for multitenancy at scale with proven, standards-based network segmentation techniques—making it easier to incorporate this new capability into the network with zero learning curve.
“As cloud computing matures and is increasingly adopted in production environments, new requirements are emerging and deficiencies in legacy architectures are becoming more pronounced. Our continued innovation in Brocade VCS Fabric technology addresses the most challenging data center requirements, including network multitenancy, network intelligence for exploding storage growth and the emerging adoption of 100GbE for ever-increasing bandwidth consumption,” said Jason Nolet, vice President, Data Center Switching and Routing, Brocade.
It claimed to offer a highly evolutionary approach to multitenancy that minimizes disruption to current operational and organizational models as it is hypervisor-agnostic, supports cloud orchestration frameworks through open APIs.
Besides, Brocade VCS AutoQoS extends VCS Fabric intelligence to storage that automatically recognizes and prioritizes storage traffic, greatly reducing capital and operational costs. It has introduced a new top-of-rack switches – Brocade VDX 6740 family of 10/40 GbE switches. It has several features such as support from 40GbE to 160GbE trunks, which is industry’s highest uplink capacity in a leaf switch.
It has 32 Flex Ports(FibreChannel/Ethernet/FCoE) providing flexibility and investment protection and comes with 24MB deep buffers with dynamic buffering. It is ASIC supported for OpenFlow 1.3, 10GbE and 10GBASE-T. In addition, Brocade announced a new 100 GbE line card for the flagship Brocade VDX 8770 modular chassis.
The Brocade VDX 6740 and VDX 6740-T are available for order now. U.S. list price starts at $15,995 ($833/10GbE port). The Brocade VDX 8770 100GbE blade is planned for availability in the first half of 2014. Brocade networking solutions are available direct, through Brocade channel partners and via Brocade Network Subscription.
“The ability to securely isolate tenants in a shared infrastructure environment is paramount to today’s cloud-service providers and to enterprises adopting private cloud. Traditional approaches to network segmentation have been around for years, and virtualization and cloud computing have exposed their inherent limitations, especially in relation to flexibility and scalability. Technologies such as Brocade’s VCS Virtual Fabric promise to address this challenge by delivering multitenancy at scale, enabling enterprises to maximize the number of tenants they can support by leveraging segmentation constructs with which network administrators are familiar, thus minimizing both the learning curve and operational overhead,” said Brad Casemore, Research Director, Datacenter Networks, IDC.
