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Optional brocade features
Optional Brocade features include:
Advanced Performance Monitoring
Enables more effective end-to-end SAN performance analysis to enhance performance tuning,
increase productivity, optimize resource utilization, and reduce costs.
Extended Fabrics
Supports the reliable, high-speed connectivity of Brocade switches over dark fiber or Dense
Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) equipment at distances up to 500 kilometers to enhance
business continuance operations.
Fabric Watch
Continuously monitors SAN fabrics for potential faults based on thresholds set for a variety of
SAN fabric elements and events—automatically alerting administrators to potential problems
before they become costly failures.
ISL Trunking
Optimizes the performance and availability of SAN fabrics while simplifying ISL management.
Two 4 Gbit/sec Brocade switches can automatically group up to eight ISLs into a single logical
“trunk,” with a total throughput of up to 32 Gbit/sec.
Other industry resources
For additional resource information, visit the Technical Committee T11 Web site. This Web site
provides interface standards for high-performance and mass storage applications for Fibre
Channel, storage management, as well as other applications:
http://www.t11.org
For information about the Fibre Channel industry, visit the Fibre Channel Industry Association Web
site:
http://www.fibrechannel.org
Getting technical help
Contact your SAN I/O Module support supplier for hardware, firmware, and software support,
including product repairs and part ordering. To expedite your call, have the following information
available:
1. General Information
• Technical Support contract number, if applicable
• SAN I/O Module model
• SAN I/O Module operating system version
• Error numbers and messages received
• supportSave command output
• Detailed description of the problem and specific questions