Enterprises have always required a high degree of reliability and scalability in their storage networking solutions. But as today's SAN designs grow increasingly complex, simplicity and security become even more important for improving uptime and protecting corporate information.
Brocade Storage Network Services in Enterprise Operating System (E/OS) 8.0 can help enterprises achieve this advanced level of efficiency while protecting the data that is essential to their enterprise. E/OS delivers comprehensive device intelligence - it can help you diagnose and troubleshoot potential problems and control access to the SAN. Value-added services are also available to further secure and optimize the performance of your storage network.
Highlights
- Deliver industry-leading diagnostic and security features
- Help you maintain stable, secure and scalable storage networks
- Provide intelligence for improved storage network management
- Utilize industry-standard methodology
Value-Added Services
Value-added services are available as licensable features of Brocade Storage Network Services, including enhanced security and performance optimization features.
Security Software: To help secure your storage network and address federal and state compliance requirements, authentication and binding add additional layers of security to ports, devices and fabrics.
Open Trunking: Optimize the performance of your SAN by loadbalancing traffic across all available ISLs. Open Trunking increases useable ports by optimizing current ISL utilization and freeing up more ports for device connections. Through Open Trunking, your organization can lower your total cost of ownership.
FICON Management Server: Allows management of the switch via the in-band accessed Control Unit Port, or CUP. This capability is used in mainframe environments where multiple FICON-capable devices are managed by a centralized application.
FICON Control Unit Port (CUP) Partitioning: FICON CUP Partitioning provides even greater management control and security in FICON SANs by isolating access to ports to only those hosts that are zoned with the device. This allows access to resources to be partitioned out to multiple hosts in a flexible manner that is consistent with the zoning configuration regulating device connectivity.
Full Volatility: Ensures that your company's confidential information is not stored on the switch or director. This optional feature is designed to support high security environments where no data may be retained in a power off state. The switch or director is configured so that no frame data is stored after power off.
Node Port Identifier Virtualization (NPIV): Allows a single device port to support many virtual devices, enabling you to run multiple processes on your host. Up to 256 virtual addresses per N_port, can be allocated without impacting the existing hardware implementation. This feature is particularly beneficial in mainframe environments where hundreds of Linux partitions can share a physical channel.
Brocade Enterprise OS supports the following Brocade devices:
