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January 28, 2008
Brocade Adaptive Networking to Simplify Virtualization
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 22 -- Brocade, the leading provider of datacenter networking solutions that help
enterprises connect and manage their information, today introduced new
Brocade Adaptive Networking services, addressing evolving requirements
to dynamically manage virtualization in the datacenter. These
innovative network services are available as features on the new
Brocade DCX Backbone, which was also introduced today.
"As IT organizations deploy greater numbers of virtual servers with
networked storage to consolidate resources and improve utilization,
they must be able to efficiently adapt to the dynamic management and
provisioning needs of the 'virtualized' datacenter," said Enterprise
Strategy Group analyst Bob Laliberte. "The replacement of static,
dedicated connections between physical servers and storage with dynamic
connections between virtual resources creates new management
requirements and greater potential for congestion. Brocade Adaptive
Networking services combined with the Brocade DCX Backbone offer
innovative solutions to help simplify and accelerate effective
management of virtualized datacenters."
To address new virtualization challenges, the datacenter network
must be able to rapidly and intelligently adapt in order to assign the
appropriate resources, workloads, and service levels to corporate
applications as they move and operate in a virtualized environment-a
concept known as adaptive networking.
Brocade's policy-based approach provides a wire-once architecture
that optimizes resources and helps to eliminate human error. Brocade
Adaptive Networking services enable the fabric to dynamically allocate
shared resources as changes occur in the requirements of virtualized
elements in the datacenter, such as servers, networks, and storage. If
congestion occurs (or is predicted), the fabric can automatically
adjust bandwidth and other resources according to defined service
levels-helping to ensure that higher-priority workloads dynamically
receive the resources they need.
Brocade highlighted four key Adaptive Networking services for the increasingly virtualized datacenter. All are available on the Brocade DCX Backbone announced today:
- Adaptive Fabric Quality of Service (QoS): This feature enables a detailed allocation of datacenter fabric resources to applications based on the relative importance of the application as defined by its QoS assignment. Brocade virtual channel technology allows each QoS priority to follow its assigned application as the application moves between physical and/or virtualized server and network connections, dynamically adjusting resources to avoid congestion.
- Adaptive Traffic Management services: This set of innovative Brocade technologies provides data flow and congestion management to support application service levels. Advanced queuing algorithms remove congestion potential and dedicate bandwidth to specific applications as needed.
- Dynamic Fabric Profiling services: With these services, Brocade uniquely provides end-to-end analysis of individual application data flows and resource usage, supplying in-depth information about the impact on overall fabric performance. These services identify possible points of congestion, and monitor and report on numerous statistics for physical resource utilization.
- Adaptive Policy Management services: This capability detects under- utilized shared physical resources, reclaiming or reallocating them to optimize application flow according to defined policies-further ensuring that virtualized resources receive the appropriate amount of physical performance. Adaptive Networking services from Brocade are available as part of the new Brocade Fabric OS 6.0 software release, included with the new Brocade DCX Backbone. Many of the services also are available as an upgrade to the company's large installed base of Brocade 48000 Directors.
To learn more about the Brocade datacenter Fabric (DCF) architecture and Adaptive Networking services, visit www.brocade.com/san/pdf/whitepapers/DCX Adaptive Networking_WP_00.pdf.
About Brocade
Brocade is a leading provider of datacenter networking solutions that help organizations connect, share, and manage their information in the most efficient manner. Organizations that use Brocade products and services are better able to optimize their IT infrastructures and ensure compliant data management. For more information, visit the Brocade Web site at www.brocade.com/.
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Source: Brocade
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