DELL Brocade M5424 8Gb 12-port Datasheet

DATA SHEET

BROCADE M5424

8 GBIT/SEC FIBRE

CHANNEL SWITCH

FOR M1000E-SERIES

BLADE ENCLOSURES storage area network simplifying san storage for

Dell Poweredge Blade solutions

HIGHLIGHTS

• Simplifies SAN connectivity and leverages next-generation 8 Gbit/sec technology to reduce costs, improve reliability and increase flexibility

• Easily integrates Dell PowerEdge M1000e blade enclosures into any SAN fabric

• Reduces up to 80% of the SAN components and more than 40% of the costs of a pass-through solution

• Eliminates the space, power and cooling requirements of an external switch

• Leverages industry-proven switch tech - nology to maximize reliability and resiliency

• Expands from 12 to 24 ports with flexible

“pay-as-you-grow” port licensing

• Integrates next-generation Brocade Data

Center Fabric technology for end-to-end performance, Quality of Service (QOS), and availability management

Enterprises are deploying high density blade servers and leveraging virtualization technology in order to maximize the benefits of consolidation: reduce capital and operational costs, simplify management complexity, lower power, cooling and space requirements and eliminate cable sprawl. As more applications and servers are virtualized and consolidated on fewer physical servers, IT organizations must deploy computing resources capable of keeping up with workload demands without impacting performance or service levels.

The Dell PowerEdge M1000e-Series

Blade Enclosure and Brocade M5424

8 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel Switch combine next-generation blade server and Fibre

Channel switch technology to simplify

IT complexity and eliminate data center sprawl. The Brocade M5424 simplifies

SAN connectivity and delivers substantial cost-savings, improved reliability and better flexibility to address evolving storage requirements for enterprise data centers.

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Figure 1.

Brocade 5424 reduces the complexity of deploying a Dell PowerEdge M1000e to a SAN Fabric

Networked Storage with

Pass-Through Module

Dell M1000e

Networked Storage with

Brocade M5424 & Dell IT Simplification

M1000e

Dell M1000e

External Switches

Storage

Storage

Fabric Components

• 16 Embedded Dual Port Mezz Cards

• 2 Pass-Through Modules

• 36 FC Cables

• 36 SFPs

• 2 External 32-port Switches

Fabric Components

• 16 Embedded Dual Port Mezz Cards

• 2 Brocade M5424 Fibre Channel Switches

• 4 FC Cables

San connecTIVITy SIMPLIFIed

Cable aggregation is a significant benefit of blade systems. Servers have traditionally connected to a SAN one physical box at a time, resulting in higher costs and increasing complexity as more switches, cables and optics are added to the fabric.

Blade systems using Fibre Channel passthrough modules simply continue this legacy approach with the same results.

The Brocade M5424 is an integrated

Fibre Channel switch for the Dell M1000e chassis and the only solution providing

Fibre Channel port and cable aggregation.

The integrated design eliminates the space, cooling and power requirements of an external switch. In addition, it consolidates

I/O from all of the blade servers in up to eight shared switch ports. This eliminates up to 80% of the port, optical and cabling components and more than 40% of the costs of a pass-through solution (See figure 1).

FuTure-ready TecHnoLoGy

Next-generation 8 Gbit/sec technology powers the Brocade M5424 to handle the dynamic I/O requirements for blade servers and virtualized environments. At twice the speed of legacy 4 Gbit/sec networks, half of the number of ports and Inter-Switch

Links (ISLs) are required to support current workloads with plenty of headroom for growth and expansion.

In addition to individual port performance, the Brocade M5424 supports Inter-Switch

Link (ISL) Trunking, an optional feature, to optimize performance, bandwidth utilization and availability. ISL Trunking consolidates up to eight external ports into a single, logical ISL with full-duplex throughput of

128 Gbit/sec.

daTa cenTer-ProVen reLIaBILITy

In a consolidated infrastructure, any disruptions or failures will impact more applications and users. With fewer SAN components and no additional fans or power supplies, the Brocade M5424 reduces complexity and potential points of failure. In addition, it leverages data center- proven switch technology to proactively overcome network congestion or hardware failure. Advanced SAN management, hot-pluggable design and redundant I/O paths ensure the highest availability and resiliency for Dell M1000e enclosures.

SerVer VIrTuaLIZaTIon SIMPLIFIed

Blade servers and Fibre Channel SANs are an ideal infrastructure for server virtualization combining high compute density and scalable networked storage. However, consolidating Virtual Machines (VMs) on blades intensifies I/O require ments for storage resources.

The Brocade M5424 delivers nextgeneration performance and simplified management to address dynamic and growing server vir t ualization deployments.

This enhances server virtualization with opportunities for more aggressive consolidation and cost savings.

With 8 Gbit/sec bandwidth, each blade can host more virtual machines without degrading performance or availability. This maximizes the number of physical and virtual servers that can connect to a SAN fabric utilizing fewer ports.

The Brocade M5424 and Dell FlexAddress virtualize storage I/O to simplify storage management and improve agility for vir t ualized environments. A persistent storage identity is created to provision, upgrade or replace blades without disrupting the SAN fabric.

FLeXIBLe dePLoyMenT

The Brocade M5424 combines costeffective deployment with highly scalable

Ports on Demand capabilities for up to 24

8 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel ports. It has a minimum of 12 ports enabled and is easily expandable to 24 through software license upgrade. The Brocade M5424 provides a modular “pay-as-you-grow” approach for dynamic and expanding environments.

adVanced FaBrIc SerVIceS

For enTerPrISeS

The Enterprise Performance Pack is optional software that adds robust SAN fabric services and value for 8 Gbit/sec Brocade fabrics. It is available bundled with the Brocade M5424 or as a standalone option. The software package includes:

• ISL Trunking: Combines up to eight ISLs into a single, logical 64 Gbit/sec trunk to optimize performance, bandwidth and availability

• Adaptive Networking: Specify traffic flow control between individual hosts and targets using QoS priorities to improve overall SAN performance

• Advanced Performance Monitoring:

End-to-end performance visibility into the fabric for more effective design, planning, tuning and optimization

• Fabric Watch: Health Monitoring and proactive notification of changes in fabric simplifies failure and disruption detection

Brocade acceSS GaTeWay,

InnoVaTIVe FLeXIBILITy

The Brocade M5424 can be configured as a full-fabric switch or Access Gateway mode.

Brocade Access Gateway is an innovative solution for blade systems to overcome heterogeneous network and fabric complexity challenges. Brocade Access Gateway leverages N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) switch standards to virtualize physical and logical devices connected to the SAN fabric.

Interoperability Simplified

Brocade Access Gateway eliminates traditional heterogeneous switch-to-switch interoperability challenges. It utilizes NPIV to present server Fibre Channel connections as logical devices directly to SAN fabrics.

This enables Brocade Access Gateway to connect Dell blades to heterogeneous

NPIV-enabled switches and directors for seamless interoperability with Brocade,

McDATA, Cisco and other SAN fabrics.

Fabric Complexity Simplified

Each Dell M1000e blade enclosure connected to a SAN in full-fabric switch mode adds two switch domains to the fabric.

In large fabrics, additional switch domains can create complexity and disrupt fabric operations during the deployment process.

To address this challenge, Brocade Access

Gateway simplifies server-to-SAN connec tivity by presenting Fibre Channel connections

(rather than switch domains) to the SAN fabric. In this mode, the Brocade M5424 is managed as a logical device, elimi nating switch configuration and fabric changes.

By increasing the number of logical device ports that can be connected to a single fabric port, the Brocade Access Gateway enables a much larger fabric with a greater number of blade servers and enclosures.

Unlike Fibre Channel pass-through solutions, it can do so without substantially increasing the number of switches.

ProducT oPTIonS

Active Ports

Included Optics

Adaptive Networking

ISL Trunking

Advance Performance

Monitoring

Fabric Watch

Brocade M5424 Product Configurations

Enterprise 24-Port Mid-Level 24-Port

24 24

Eight 8 Gbit/sec SFP+ Four 8 Gbit/sec SFP+

Included

Included

Optional

Optional

Included Optional

Included Optional

Entry-Level 12-Port

12 (12-port upgrade)

Two 8 Gbit/sec SFP+

Optional

Optional

Optional

Optional

DATA SHEET

BROCADE M5424 FOR M1000E-SERIES BLADE ENCLOSURES SPECIFICATIONS

System Architecture

Fibre Channel ports

Scalability

Certified Maximum

Interoperability

Performance

Aggregate bandwidth

Fabric latency

Maximum frame size

Classes of service

Port types

Data traffic types

Media types

Fabric services

Note: Some fabric services do not apply or are unavailable in Brocade

Access Gateway mode

Options

24 ports available in twelve port increments through Ports on Demand

Full fabric architecture with 239 switches max.

Single Brocade FOS fabric: 56 domains, 19 hops

Single Brocade M-EOS fabric: 31 domains, 3 hops

Larger fabrics certified as required; consult

Brocade or OEM SAN design documents for configuration details

Brocade 2XXX, 3XXX, 4XXX, 5XXX and Director family switches

AG Mode supports Brocade, McDATA and Cisco fabrics

8.5 Gbit/sec line speed, full duplex;

4.25 Gbit/sec line speed, full duplex;

2.125 Gbit/sec line speed, full duplex

1.063 Gbit/sec line speed, full duplex; auto-sensing of 8, 4, 2, and 1 Gbit/sec port speeds; optionally programmable to fixed port speed; speed matching between 8, 4, 2, and

1 Gbit/sec ports

128 Gbit/sec end to end, full-duplex

700 ns with no contention, cut-through routing at 8 Gbit/sec

2112-byte payload

Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames)

FL_Port, F_Port, M_Port (Mirror Port), and

E_Port; self-discovery based on switch type

(U_Port); optional port type control in Brocade

Access Gateway mode: F_Port and

NPIV-enabled N_Port

Fabric switches supporting unicast and broadcast

8 Gbit/sec: Requires Brocade hot-pluggable

SFP+, LC connector; 8 Gbit/sec Short-Wavelength

Laser (SWL); 8 Gbit/sec Long-Wavelength

Laser (LWL); distance depends on fiber-optic cable and port speed

4 Gbit/sec: Requires Brocade hot-pluggable

Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP), LC connector; 4 Gbit/sec Short-Wavelength Laser

(SWL); 4 Gbit/sec Long-Wavelength Laser

(LWL); 4 Gbit/sec Extended Long-Wavelength

Laser (ELWL); distance depends on fiber-optic cable and port speed

Simple Name Server (SNS); Registered

State Change Notification (RSCN), NTP v3,

Reliable Commit Service (RCS), Dynamic Path

Selection (DPS), Brocade Advanced Zoning

(default zoning, port/WWN zoning, broadcast zoning), NPIV, FDMI,

SFP media, Ports on Demand (12-port upgrade)

Enterprise Performance Pack: ISL Trunking,

Adaptive Networking, Advanced Performance

Monitoring, and Fabric Watch

Management

Supported Mgmt Software Telnet, HTTP, SNMP v1/v3 (FE MIB, FC

Management MIB); Auditing, Syslog, Change

Management tracking; EZSwitchSetup wizard;

Brocade Advanced Web Tools; Brocade DCFM

Professional/Enterprise; SMI-S compliant,

SMI-S scripting toolkit, Administrative

Domains

Security

Management access

Diagnostics

SSL, SSH v2, HTTPS, LDAP, RADIUS, Role-Based

Access Control (RBAC), DH-CHAP (between switches and end devices), Port Binding, Switch

Binding, Secure RPC, Secure Copy (SCP), Trusted

Switch, IPSec, IP Filtering

In-band over Fibre Channel; serial port (RJ-45); call-home integration enabled through Brocade

DCFM

POST and embedded online/offline diagnostics, including RAStrace logging, environmental monitoring, non-disruptive daemon restart,

FCping and Pathinfo (FC traceroute), port mirroring (SPAN port)

Mechanicals

Size Width: 272.75 mm

Height: 32.48 mm

Depth: 307.24 mm

4.65 Pounds – without media System Weight environment

Temperature

Humidity

Operating altitude

Storage altitude

Operating Shock

Non-operating Shock

Vibration

Operating: 0°C to 40°C(32°F to 104°F)

Non-operating: -20°C to 70°C(-4°F to 158°F)

Operating: 10% to 90%, non-condensing at

29°C

Non-operating: 5% to 95%, non-condensing at 38°C

Up to 3,048 m (10,000 ft)

Up to 10.668km (35,000ft)

20G for 6ms

50G with a velocity change of 4216 mm/sec squared

Operating: 0.4G at 5 Hz to 500 Hz for 60 minutes

Non-operating: 0.5G at 2 Hz to 200 Hz for 15 minutes; 1.04 grms random for 15 minutes

Power

DC Input

Power consumption

12V and 3.3V from chassis

About 32 Watts normally, 39 Watts maximum measured

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