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Brocade 6510 Switch

Flexible, Easy-to-Use Enterprise-Class SAN Switch for

Private Cloud Storage
To keep pace with growing business demands, data centers are
transitioning to highly virtualized, private cloud storage environments.
HIGHLIGHTS This approach enables organizations to consolidate and simplify their
Provides exceptional price/performance IT resources, resulting in increased business agility and lower capital
value, combining flexibility, simplicity, and operating expenses. But virtualization is not without its challenges.
and enterprise-class functionality in a
Data centers must keep up with the explosive data growth and dynamic
48-port switch
changes driven by virtualized workloads. Selecting the right network is key
Enables fast, easy, and cost-effective to realizing the full benefits of these cloud-based architectures.
scaling from 24 to 48 ports

Leverages Brocade Fabric Vision The Brocade 6510 Switch meets the Exceptional Price/Performance
technologys powerful monitoring,
management, and diagnostic tools to
demands of hyper-scale, private cloud for Growing SAN Workloads
simplify administration, increase uptime, storage environments by delivering The Brocade 6510 with Gen 5 Fibre
and reduce costs market-leading Gen 5 Fibre Channel Channel delivers exceptional price/
technology and capabilities that support
Helps pinpoint problems faster and highly virtualized environments. Designed
performance for growing SAN workloads
through a combination of market-leading
simplify SAN configuration and
management with Brocade to enable maximum flexibility and throughput and an affordable switch form
Network Advisor reliability, the Brocade 6510 is a high- factor. The 48 ports produce an aggregate

Simplifies deployment with the Brocade performance, enterprise-class switch

configurable in 24, 36, or 48 ports. It
768 Gbps full-duplex throughput; any
eight ports can be trunked for 128 Gbps
EZSwitchSetup wizard and supports
high-performance fabrics by using supports 2, 4, 8, 10, or 16 Gbps speeds in Inter-Switch Links (ISLs). Exchange-based
Brocade ClearLink D_Ports to identify an efficiently designed 1U package. Dynamic Path Selection (DPS) optimizes
optic and cable issues fabric-wide performance and load
A simplified deployment process and a
Maximizes availability with redundant, point-and-click user interface make the balancing by automatically routing data
hot-pluggable components and non-
Brocade 6510 both powerful and easy to to the most efficient available path in the
disruptive software upgrades fabric (see Figure 1). It augments Brocade
use. The Brocade 6510 offers low-cost
access to industry-leading Storage Area ISL Trunking to provide more effective
Network (SAN) technology while providing load balancing in certain configurations.
pay-as-you-grow scalability to meet the
needs of an evolving storage environment.
GEN 5 FIBRE CHANNEL Moreover, a 24-port base configuration, A Building Block for Virtualized,
Gen 5 Fibre Channel is the purpose- easy administration, 1U footprint, and Private Cloud Storage
built, data center-proven network low-energy consumption0.14 watts The Brocade 6510 provides a critical
infrastructure for storage, delivering per Gbps and 2.3 watts per portprovide building block for todays highly
unmatched reliability, simplicity, and a low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). virtualized, private cloud storage
16 Gbps performance. The Brocade Enterprise-class capabilities combined environments. It simplifies server
6510 with Gen 5 Fibre Channel and with a low TCO yield 40 percent higher virtualization and Virtual Desktop
Brocade Fabric Vision technology
performance compared to 10 Gigabit Infrastructure (VDI) management while
unleashes the full potential of high-
Ethernet (GbE) alternatives at a similar meeting the high-throughput demands
density server virtualization, cloud
cost. of Solid State Disks (SSDs). The Brocade
architectures, and next-generation
storage. 6510 also supports multitenancy in cloud
Industry-Leading Technology environments through Virtual Fabrics,
That Is Flexible, Simple, and Quality of Service (QoS), and fabric-
Easy to Use based zoning features.
The Brocade 6510 delivers industry-
leading SAN technology within a flexible, The Brocade 6510 enables secure metro
simple, and easy-to-use solution. The extension to virtual private or hybrid
base configuration includes 24 ports, clouds with 10 Gbps Dense Wavelength
with up to 48 ports on demand. In Division Multiplexing (DWDM) link
addition to providing best-in-class support, as well as in-flight encryption
scalability, the Brocade 6510 is easy to and data compression over ISLs.
deploy with the Brocade EZSwitchSetup Organizations can have up to four ports
wizard and ClearLink Diagnostic Ports at 8 Gbps and up to two at 16 Gbps of
(D_Ports) feature, which simplifies setup. in-flight encryption and data compression
For maximum flexibility, the switch also per Brocade 6510 Switch. The switch
features a 1U case less than 18 inches also features on-board data security
deep and dual-direction airflow options and acceleration, minimizing the need
to support the latest hot aisle/cold aisle for separate acceleration appliances to
configurations. support distance extension. Internal fault-
tolerant and enterprise-class RAS features
help minimize downtime to support
mission-critical cloud environments.

Frame-based Trunking 8.5 Gbps Up to Dynamic Path Selection (DPS)

ASIC Preserves In-order Delivery 6 Gbps 128 Gbps Balancing data flow between
2 Gbps multiple trunk groups
10.5 Gbps
4.5 Gbps Trunk group
9 Gbps
...n Gbps

Trunk group DPS

Trunk group
8.5 Gbps
6 Gbps
2 Gbps
10.5 Gbps
Up to 4.5 Gbps
128 Gbps 9 Gbps ...n Gbps Trunk group

Figure 1: Dynamic Path Selection (DPS) augments Brocade ISL Trunking

to route data efficiently between multiple trunk groups.

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Brocade Access Gateway Mode Fabric Vision technology includes: BROCADE FABRIC VISION
The Brocade 6510 can be deployed
as a full-fabric switch or as a Brocade
Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite TECHNOLOGY
(MAPS): Provides an easy-to-use Brocade Fabric Vision technology,
Access Gateway, which simplifies fabric solution for pre-built, policy-based an extension of Gen 5 Fibre Channel,
topologies and heterogeneous fabric threshold monitoring and alerting. provides unprecedented insight and
connectivity (the default mode setting is a MAPS proactively monitors the visibility across the storage network with
switch). Brocade Access Gateway mode powerful built-in monitoring, management,
health and performance of the SAN
utilizes N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) and diagnostic tools that enable
infrastructure to ensure application
switch standards to present physical and organizations to:
uptime and availability. By leveraging
virtual servers directly to the core of SAN pre-built, rule-/policy-based templates, Simplify monitoring:
fabrics. This makes it transparent to the MAPS simplifies fabric-wide threshold Deploy more than 15 years of SAN
SAN fabric, greatly reducing management configuration, monitoring, and alerting. best practices in one click to simplify
of the network edge. The Brocade 6510 the deployment of monitoring with
Administrators can configure the entire
in Brocade Access Gateway mode* pre-defined, threshold-based rules,
fabric (or multiple fabrics) at one time
can connect servers to NPIV-enabled actions, and policies
using common rules and policies, or
Brocade B-Series, Brocade M-Series, or Gain comprehensive visibility into
customize policies for specific ports or
other SAN fabrics. network health, performance, latency
switch elements.
and congestion issues in the fabric
Organizations can easily enable Brocade
Access Gateway mode via Brocade
Fabric Performance Impact (FPI) using browser-accessible dashboards
Monitoring: Leverages pre-defined with drill-down and point-in-time
Network Advisor or a CLI. Key benefits of MAPS policies to automatically detect playback capabilities
Brocade Access Gateway mode include: and alert administrators to different Increase availability:
Improved scalability for large or rapidly latency severity levels, and identifies Avoid 50 percent of common network
growing server and virtual server slow drain devices that could impact problems with proactive monitoring
environments network performance. This feature uses and advanced diagnostic tools that
advanced monitoring capabilities and address problems before they impact
Reduced management of the network intuitive MAPS dashboard reporting operations
edge, since Brocade Access Gateway
to indicate various latency severity Identify hot spots and automatically
does not have a domain identity and
levels, pinpointing exactly which devices mitigate network problemsbefore
appears transparent to the core fabric
are causing or are impacted by a they impact application performance
Support for heterogeneous SAN bottlenecked port. through intuitive reporting, trend
analysis, and integrated actions
configurations without reduced
functionality for server connectivity Dashboards: Provides integrated Dramatically reduce costs:
dashboards that display an overall SAN
Eliminate nearly 50 percent of
Simplified Management and health view, along with details on out-of-
maintenance costs through automated
Robust Network Analytics range conditions, to help administrators
testing and diagnostic tools that
Brocade Fabric Vision technology easily identify trends and quickly
validate the health, reliability, and
provides a breakthrough hardware and pinpoint issues occurring on a switch performance of the network prior
software solution that helps simplify or in a fabric. to deployment
monitoring, maximize network availability,
and dramatically reduce costs. Featuring
Configuration and Operational Save up to millions of dollars on
Monitoring Policy Automation CapEx costs by eliminating the need
innovative monitoring, management, Services Suite (COMPASS): Simplifies for expensive third-party tools through
and diagnostic capabilities, Fabric Vision deployment, safeguards consistency, built-in monitoring and diagnostics
technology enables administrators to and increases operational efficiencies
avoid problems before they impact of larger environments with automated
operations, helping their organizations switch and fabric configuration services.
meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Administrators can configure a template
or adopt an existing configuration as
a template and seamlessly deploy

* Note: Brocade Access Gateway mode for the Brocade 6510 is supported only in 48-port configurations.

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 the configuration across the fabric. In -- Flow Generator: Provides a built- past events and identify problems in the
addition, they can ensure that settings in traffic generator for pre-testing fabric. In addition, dashboards and reports
do not drift over time with COMPASS and validating the data center can be configured to show only the most
configuration and policy violation infrastructureincluding route relevant data, enabling administrators to
monitoring within Brocade Network verification and integrity of optics, more efficiently prioritize their actions and
Advisor dashboards. cables, ports, back-end connections, maintain network performance.
and ISLsfor robustness before
Brocade ClearLink Diagnostics: deploying applications. Brocade Global Services
Ensures optical and signal integrity for
Brocade Global Services has the
Gen 5 Fibre Channel optics and cables, Forward Error Correction (FEC): expertise to help organizations build
simplifying deployment and support of Enables recovery from bit errors in ISLs,
scalable, efficient cloud infrastructures.
high-performance fabrics. ClearLink enhancing transmission reliability and
Leveraging 15 years of expertise in
Diagnostic Port (D_Port) is an advanced performance.
storage, networking, and virtualization,
capability of Gen 5 Fibre Channel
platforms.
Credit Loss Recovery: Helps overcome Brocade Global Services delivers world-
performance degradation and class professional services, technical
Flow Vision: Enables administrators to congestion due to buffer credit loss. support, network monitoring services,
identify, monitor, and analyze specific and education, enabling organizations
application flows in order to simplify Brocade Network Advisor to maximize their Brocade investments,
troubleshooting, maximize performance, Brocade Network Advisor simplifies accelerate new technology deployments,
avoid congestion, and optimize Gen 5 Fibre Channel management and optimize the performance of
resources. Flow Vision includes: and helps users proactively diagnose networking infrastructures.
and resolve issues to maximize uptime,
-- Flow Monitor: Provides Maximizing Investments
increase operational efficiency, and
comprehensive visibility into flows To help optimize technology investments,
reduce costs. The wizard-driven interface
within the fabric, including the ability to Brocade and its partners offer complete
dramatically reduces deployment and
automatically learn flows and non- solutions that include professional
configuration times by allowing fabrics,
disruptively monitor flow performance. services, technical support, and education.
switches, and ports to be managed
Administrators can monitor all flows For more information, contact a Brocade
as groups. Customizable dashboards
from a specific host to multiple sales partner or visit www.brocade.com.
graphically display performance and
targets/LUNs, from multiple hosts
health indicators out of the box, including
to a specific target/LUN, or across
all data captured using Brocade Fabric
a specific ISL. Additionally, they
Vision technology. To accelerate
can perform LUN-level monitoring
troubleshooting, administrators can use
of specific frame types to identify
dashboard playback to quickly review
resource contention or congestion that
is impacting application performance.

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BROCADE 6510 SPECIFICATIONS
Systems Architecture

Fibre Channel ports Switch mode (default): 24-, 36-, and 48- Media types 16 Gbps: Brocade 6510 requires Brocade
port configurations (12-port increments hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 16 Gbps
through Ports on Demand [PoD] licenses); SWL, LWL, ELWL
E, F, M, D, EX ports 10 Gbps: Brocade 6510 requires Brocade
Brocade Access Gateway default port hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 10
mapping: 40 F_Ports, 8 N_Ports Gbps SWL, LWL
8 Gbps: Brocade 6510 requires Brocade
Scalability Full fabric architecture with a maximum of
hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 8 Gbps
239 switches
SWL, LWL, ELWL
Certified maximum 6,000 active nodes; 56 switches, 19 hops Fibre Channel distance subject to fiber-
in Brocade Fabric OS fabrics; larger fabrics optic cable and port speed
certified as required
USB One USB port for system log file
Performance Fibre Channel: 2.125 Gbps line speed, full downloads or firmware upgrades
duplex; 4.25 Gbps line speed, full duplex;
8.5 Gbps line speed, full duplex; 10.53 Fabric services Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS);
Gbps line speed, full duplex; 14.025 Gbps Flow Vision; Top Talkers for E_Ports, F_
line speed, full duplex; auto-sensing of 2, Note: Some fabric Ports, and Fabric mode; Brocade Adaptive
4, 8, and 16 Gbps port speeds; 10 Gbps services do not apply Networking (Ingress Rate Limiting, Traffic
optionally programmable to fixed or are unavailable Isolation, QoS); Bottleneck Detection; Brocade
port speed in Brocade Access Advanced Zoning (default zoning, port/
Gateway mode. WWN zoning, broadcast zoning, peer zoning);
ISL trunking Frame-based Trunking with up to eight Dynamic Fabric Provisioning (DFP); Dynamic
16 Gbps ports per ISL trunk; up to 128 Gbps Path Selection (DPS); Brocade Extended
per ISL trunk. Exchange-based load Fabrics; Enhanced BB credit recovery; FDMI;
balancing across ISLs with DPS included in Frame Redirection; Frame-based Trunking;
Brocade Fabric OS. FSPF; Integrated Routing; IPoFC; Brocade
ISL Trunking; Management Server; NPIV; NTP
Aggregate bandwidth 768 Gbps end-to-end full duplex
v3; Port Fencing; Registered State Change
Maximum fabric latency Latency for locally switched ports is Notification (RSCN); Reliable Commit Service
700 ns; encryption/compression is (RCS); Server Application Optimization (SAO);
5.5 sec per node; Forward Error Simple Name Server (SNS); Virtual Fabrics
Correction (FEC) adds 400 ns (Logical Switch, Logical Fabric)
between E_Ports (enabled by default).
Extension Fibre Channel, in-flight compression (Brocade
Maximum frame size 2,112-byte payload LZO) and encryption (AES-GCM-256);
integrated optional 10 Gbps Fibre Channel for
Frame buffers 8,192 dynamically allocated DWDM MAN connectivity

Classes of service Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch Management

frames)
Supported HTTP, SNMP v1/v3 (FE MIB, FC Management
Port types D_Port (ClearLink Diagnostic Port), E_Port, management software MIB), SSH; Auditing, Syslog; Brocade
EX_Port, F_Port, M_Port (Mirror Port); Advanced Web Tools; Brocade Network
optional port type control Advisor SAN Enterprise or Brocade Network
Advisor SAN Professional/Professional
Brocade Access Gateway mode: F_Port
Plus; Command Line Interface (CLI); SMI-S
and NPIV-enabled N_Port
compliant; Administrative Domains; trial
Data traffic types Fabric switches supporting unicast licenses for add-on capabilities

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BROCADE 6510 SPECIFICATIONS (Continued)
Management (Continued) Environment

Security AES-GCM-256 encryption on ISLs; DH- Operating environment Temperature: 0 to 40C/32F to 104F
CHAP (between switches and end devices), Humidity: 10% to 85% (non-condensing)
FCAP switch authentication; FIPS 140-2 L2-
Non-operating Temperature: 25 to 70C/13F to 158F
compliant, HTTPS, IPsec, IP filtering, LDAP
environment
with IPv6, OpenLDAP, Port Binding, RADIUS, Humidity: 10% to 90% (non-condensing)
TACACS+, User-defined Role-Based Access Operating altitude Up to 3,000 m (9,842 ft)
Control (RBAC), Secure Copy (SCP), Secure
Storage altitude Up to 12 km (39,370 ft)
RPC, SFTP, SSH v2, SSL, Switch Binding,
Trusted Switch Shock Operating: Up to 20 G, 6 ms half-sine
Non-operating: Half sine, 33 G 11 ms, 3/eg axis
Management access 10/100 Mbps Ethernet (RJ-45), in-band over
Fibre Channel, serial port (RJ-45), and one Vibration Operating: 0.5 g sine, 0.4 grms random,
USB port 5 to 500 Hz
Non-operating: 2.0 g sine, 1.1 grms random,
Diagnostics ClearLink optics and cable diagnostics, 5 to 500 Hz
including electrical/optical loopback, link
traffic/latency/distance; flow mirroring; built-in Heat dissipation 48 ports at 375 BTU/hr
flow generator; POST and embedded online/ Power
offline diagnostics, including environmental
monitoring, FCping and Pathinfo (FC Power supply Dual, hot-swappable redundant power supplies
traceroute), frame viewer, non-disruptive with integrated system cooling fans
daemon restart, port mirroring, optics health AC input 85 V to 264 V ~5 A to 2.5 A
monitoring, power monitoring, RAStrace
AC input line 47 Hz to 63 Hz
logging, and Rolling Reboot Detection (RRD)
frequency
Mechanical AC power 110 W with all 48 ports populated with
consumption 16 Gbps SWL optics
Enclosure Front-to-back airflow; power from back, 1U
72 W for empty chassis with no optics
Back-to-front airflow; power from back, 1U
DC input 40 V to 60 V max current 4.5 A
Size Width: 437.64 mm (17.23 in.)
DC power 112 W with all 48 ports populated with
Height: 43.18 mm (1.7 in.)
consumption 16 Gbps SWL optics
Depth: 443.23 mm (17.45 in.)
53 W for empty chassis with no optics
System weight 9.16 kg (20.20 lb) with two power supply FRUs,
without transceivers
For information about supported SAN standards,
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For information about switch and device interoperability,
visit www.brocade.com/interoperability.
For information about hardware regulatory compliance,
visit www.brocade.com/regulatorycompliance.

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