Brocade 1860 Fabric Adapter0 pages

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BROCADE
1860 t
FABRIC t
ADAPTER
DATA CENTER
HIGHLIGHTS
•tProvide a new class of adapters that
meets all Fibre Channel and Ethernet
connectivity needs in cloud-enabled t
data centers
•tSimplifies and optimizes server I/O in t
highly virtualized environments
•t Supports native 16 Gbps Fibre Channel and
10 GbE DCB connectivity for TCP/IP, iSCSI,
and FCoE with Brocade AnyIO technology
•tExtends Fibre Channel and Ethernet fabric
services to the server and applications
•tConsolidates I/O devices and optimizes
network Quality of Service (QoS) with
Brocade vFLink technology
•tSimplifies the transition to a private cloud
by supporting current and emerging
virtualization workloads and technologies,
including Windows Server 2012 Virtual
Fibre Channel and network QoS
(bandwidth management) features
•tSimplifies and unifies the management t
of adapter, SAN, and LAN resources with
Brocade Network Advisor
The Brocade One® strategy helps
simplify networking infrastructures
through innovative technologies and
solutions. The Brocade 1860 Fabric
Adapter supports this strategy by
simplifying and optimizing server
connectivity to Fibre Channel and
Ethernet fabrics in highly virtualized
data centers.
The Journey to the
Private Cloud, Simplified
To keep pace with dynamic and growing
business demands, many organizations are
transitioning their data centers to private
cloud architectures in order to leverage the
many benefits of virtualization. This approach
enables them to consolidate, scale, simplify,
and automate their IT resources to increase
business agility while reducing capital and
operational expenditures.
Today, server virtualization is a key technology
for enabling private cloud architectures.
Organizations worldwide are taking
virtualization to the next level, increasing
Virtual Machine (VM) densities and virtualizing
mission-critical workloads. This trend is
increasing demand for shared storage and
flatter, more scalable Ethernet networks—as
well as higher bandwidth and I/O capacity
for client/server and storage networks.
To help address that demand, the t
Brocade® 1860 Fabric Adapter meets all t
the connectivity needs of cloud-enabled t
data centers while providing unmatched
performance, application-aware services,
unified management, and reduced cost and
complexity. It is the simplest, most flexible,
and most powerful server connectivity
adapter designed to extend fabric services
to VMs and applications in highly demanding
virtualized environments (Figure 1).
A SINGLE ADAPTER FOR ALL
CONNECTIVITY NEEDS
Available in single- and dual-port models,
the Brocade 1860 features Brocade AnyIO™
technology, making it the industry’s first
multiprotocol server connectivity product
designed for highly virtualized, cloudenabled data centers. The Brocade 1860 t