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••Optimize and manage the use of Increased Security: All data leaving
WAN bandwidth the confines of a data center should
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Prioritization of IP Extension Flows: Deployment Use Case to the remote site. Customers benefit
Prioritization of flows across the WAN A number of high-return use cases from data replication to a secondary site
using Quality of Service (QoS) can be apply when deploying the Brocade without having to own and operate that
achieved in various ways. The first 7840 Extension Switch for Data disaster recovery facility. Moreover, VMs
and simplest method is to configure Center Interconnect (DCI) of IP storage can be spun-up at the adjacent cloud
priorities on the Brocade 7840 and applications, including the following. provider that accesses their private cloud
feed the prioritized flows into the IP storage. These VMs can then be used
High-Performance Extension: Similar
network. When there is no contention for to add interim capacity or for business
to FCIP extension across the WAN, IP
bandwidth, all available bandwidth can continuance in the event of a disaster.
extension provides high performance,
be utilized by a flow. The Brocade 7840
high availability, strong encryption, and Summary
manages bandwidth when sending data
operational excellence to IP-based Enterprises continue to demand
to the WAN.
storage flows. This is essentially the same innovation in disaster recovery solutions
Bandwidth Management and Pooling: performance that is expected locally, just to address their growing and dynamic
Bandwidth management and bandwidth over distance. data protection needs. Accelerated
pooling form a feature set that provides
Tape Replacement: IP extension opens performance, increased security,
aggregate bandwidth from multiple
up opportunities to replace tape libraries maximized availability, and simplified
WAN connections (which could be from
and their associated offsite storage costs management are all essential to
multiple service providers), including
with NAS storage solutions that leverage addressing the challenges of IP storage
high availability, and management of
practical and efficient replication across traffic between data centers.
that bandwidth. Bandwidth management
data centers, using the Brocade 7840 Brocade addresses IP storage disaster
and pooling use the exclusive Extension
Extension Switch. High performance recovery challenges with an extension
Trunking technology on the Brocade
of NAS replication, data security, and solution that, when a disaster occurs,
7840 switch. Bandwidth is managed
high availability across distance with the helps you be prepared to achieve always-
in such a way that if a data center LAN
Brocade 7840 enables this use case. on business operations.
switch goes offline or encounters any
disruption along the path, the bandwidth Private Cloud Storage (PCS): PCS is
an architecture in which customers have
About Brocade
of the remaining paths adjusts to
Brocade networking solutions help
compensate for the offline path. With arrays in data centers adjacent to leading
organizations achieve their critical
the proper design, bandwidth can be cloud providers like Rackspace, Amazon,
business initiatives as they transition
maintained during outages of various and Azure. Replication is performed
to a world where applications and
devices in the pathway. (See Figure 2.) from the customer’s primary data center
information reside anywhere. Today,
Brocade is extending its proven data
Visibility
Storage vMotion center expertise across the entire network
VMware Replication
with open, virtual, and efficient solutions
Database Replication
built for consolidation, virtualization,
NAS Replication
Tape
and cloud computing. Learn more at
www.brocade.com.
IP
Host-Based Replication
Storage Clusters
Array Replication
Manageability
Brocade
Mainframe
Managed Tunnel
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