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Silkworm 24000
The Brocade SilkWorm 24000 Director, is a highly reliable and intelligent solution for deploying enterprise-class SANs in mission-critical environments. It supports key applications such as data backup, remote mirroring, and high-availability clustering as well as high-volume transaction processing applications such as ERP and data warehousing.
With state-of-the-art performance and enhanced scalability for enterprise SAN environments, the SilkWorm 24000 provides unique capabilities to meet a variety of mission-critical requirements. By supporting 128 concurrently active 2 Gbit/sec full-duplex ports in a single domain, the SilkWorm 24000 offers improved performance, reduced management costs through a higher port/domain ratio, lower total cost of ownership, and the ability to upgrade to higher-speed connectivity options.
2 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel Director for Large-Scale Enterprises
Ultra-High Availability
- No single points of failure
- Dual-redundant control processors with stateful failover
- Redundant, hot-swappable components and redundant power and cooling subsystems
- Non-disruptive software upgrades (hot code load and activation)
- Continuous monitoring of environmental components
- Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF) traffic rerouting
- Error detection and fault isolation facilities
Simplified Manageability
- Centralized management
- Heterogeneous device connectivity
- Automatic data routing and rerouting
- Self-healing ISL Trunking capabilities
- Call-home capabilities to provide remote notification of system events
FICON Support
- Supports 1 and 2 Gbit/sec IBM zSeries server environments
- Supports intermix mode and cascaded configurations
- Control Unit Port (CUP) support for seamless IBM zSeries server application-based director management
Advanced Security
- Hardware-enforced zoning by World Wide Name (WWN)
- Secure Telnet access through SSH (Secure Shell)
- Utilizes Brocade Web Tools utilization over a secure browser using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol
Interoperability
- Full backward and forward compatibility with the entire family of SilkWorm switches and directors
- Supports non-disruptive addition of 4Gbit/sec blades
Extensible, Modular, Bladed Architecture
- High port density with up to 384 ports per 42U rack
- Core backbone switch capabilities to allow SAN scaling well over 4,000 ports, providing investment protection and a clear growth plan
- Designed for blades that support IP protocols
Advanced Fabric Services
- Advanced Zoning
- Advanced Performance Monitoring
- Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking
- Fabric Watch
- Extended Fabrics
- Secure Fabric OS
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