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Achieving Enterprise SAN Performance With the Brocade 48000 Director

Overview The Brocade 48000 Director is the industry's highest-performing platform for supporting enterprise-class Storage Area Network (SAN) operations. With its intelligent fifth-generation ASICs and new hardware and software capabilities, the Brocade 48000 provides a reliable foundation for fully connected multiprotocol SAN fabrics, FICON solutions, and Meta SANs capable of supporting thousands of servers and storage devices. This paper describes how IT organizations can leverage the benefits of this SAN director to maximize performance, flexibility, and data availability in mission-critical environments. In addition to summarizing the architectural advantages of the Brocade 48000, this paper explains how the various blades used in the platform can help optimize performance to address specific requirements.

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Publisher: Brocade Communications Systems
File Format: PDF
Date Published: Sep 10, 2008
Format: White Papers
Topics: SANs, Storage Management

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