… Resells Brocade VDX6730-32 and VDX6730-76 Switches

IBM Corp.‘s System Networking resells the Brocade VDX6730 Converged switches.

They are designed to simplify networking infrastructures through technologies and solutions.

Specifically, they are designed to:

• Simplify network architectures and enables cloud computing by delivering Brocade virtual cluster switching (VCS) fabric technology
• Offer 10GbE data center LAN ports and native FC ports in a fixed port switch configuration
• Provide performance and low latency through wire-speed ports with 600 nanosecond port-to-port latency and hardware-based Inter-Switch Link (ISL) trunking
• Provide Ethernet storage connectivity for FCoE, iSCSI, and NAS
• Helping to protect existing investments by bridging FC SANs and Ethernet fabrics
• Create scale-out Ethernet fabrics for virtualized data centers
• Simplify management by maintaining network policies as VMs move throughout the data center with Automatic Migration of Port Profiles (AMPP)
• Provide dynamic configuration and support secure communication to VMware vCenter via Brocade VM-aware network automation

Key prerequisites
The Brocade VDX6730 converged switches support FC, Ethernet, and FCoE connectivity for servers and storage. It supports all features and functions as indicated in this announcement and requires Network OS level 2.1.1, and later.

Planned availability date
June 15, 2012