40-port 8Gb Fibre Channel Switch

The Brocade^® 5100 Switch is designed for rapidly growing storage requirements in mission-critical environments—combining 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel technology in configurations of 24, 32, or 40 ports in an efficiently designed 1U package. As a result, it provides low-cost access to industry-leading SAN technology as well as “pay-as-you-grow” scalability for consolidating storage and maximizing the value of virtual server deployments. The evolutionary design consumes less than 2.5 watts of power per port for exceptional power and cooling efficiency, and features consolidated power and fan assemblies to help improve environmental performance and reduce ownership costs. These capabilities help make the Brocade 5100 a cost-effective building block for standalone networks or the edge of enterprise core-to-edge fabrics.

Fast, Reliable 8 Gbit/sec Performance

• Non-blocking and non-oversubscribed platform with a total bandwidth of 680 Gbit/sec in 1U.
• Designed to increase network performance with enhanced Brocade Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking, which allows up to eight ports (at 2, 4, or 8 Gbit/sec speeds) between a pair of switches to be combined to form a single, logical ISL with a speed up to 64 Gbit/sec.
• Offers Adaptive Networking services, including Adaptive Fabric Quality of Service, Traffic Isolation, and Ingress Rate Limiting, enabling organizations to maintain optimized application performance in virtual environments.
• Extended distance support enables native Fibre Channel extension up to 3600 km.

Affordable Scalability

• Combines up to 40 ports of industry-leading 8 Gbit/sec technology with Ports on Demand scaling from 24 to32 to 40 ports, allowing “pay-as-you-grow” scalability.
• Provides integrated, per-port routing for excellent scalability, interoperability, and fault isolation.
• Designed to protect existing investments by providing 8 Gbit/sec technology with auto-sensing capabilities to also recognize 1, 2, and 4 Gbit/sec devices.
• Helps future-proofs investments by allowing organizations to use 4 Gbit/sec SFPs today and upgrade to 8 Gbit/sec SFPs when required.

Simple Deployment and Management

• Utilizes the Brocade EZSwitchSetup wizard, making SAN configuration a simple 3-step point-and-click task.
• Includes a USB port that can increase serviceability and error logging by facilitating firmware upgrades and downloads of system log files.
• Meets high-availability requirements with redundant, hot-pluggable components, non-disruptive software upgrades and hot code activation for a wide range of SAN configurations.
• Employs familiar Brocade software and management interfaces, including Brocade EFCM and Brocade Fabric Manager, simplifying management and reduce training costs.

Excellent Value for a Variety of SAN Environments

• Designed to provide a greater than 40 percent power efficiency improvement (Watts/Gbit) over the previous generation of Brocade switches. further helping to reduce power consumption and the overall cooling burden in a data center.
• A USB port provides excellent serviceability and error logging functionality by facilitating easy firmware upgrades and downloads of system log files.
• Top Talkers monitors resources and can assist in finding hot spots to increase resource utilization.
• Utilizing ISL Trunking and Dynamic Path Selection, traffic can be distributed across ISLs in the SAN, helping to increase utilization of the SAN and reduce costs.

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