Brocade announced the launch of industry’s first Gen 6 Fibre Channel switch for storage networking, BROCADE G620. The new purpose-built and high-density SAN switch delivers breakthrough performance and scalability designed to support data growth and demanding workloads from mission-critical applications.
Gen 6 is the next generation Fibre Channel technology that will enable organizations to address performance, reliability and scalability requirements for hyper scale virtualization, new data center architectures and next-generation storage technologies.
“Fibre Channel has been an integral part of every wave of storage innovation in the data center,” said Jack Rondoni, vice president of storage networking at Brocade. “Brocade continues to drive Fibre Channel innovation to help customers deliver more value from their applications and infrastructure. Together with our partner ecosystem, we are now delivering Gen 6 Fibre Channel products that will redefine availability, performance and scalability for enterprise storage.”
Gen 6 Fibre Channel is especially significant for new technology such as flash-based storage, which is accelerating the transformation of the data center. Brocade G620 delivers increased performance across 32 and 128 Gbps links and shatters application performance barriers with up to 100 million IOPS. It includes four Q-Flex ports the can support 128 Gbps or be split out into four 32 Gbps links. Delivering the industry’s highest port density in a one rack unit (1RU) chassis, the switch offers 24 to 64 ports for “pay-as-you-grow” flexibility and scalability.
The Brocade G620 includes IO Insight to help organizations achieve greater visibility into performance monitoring ensuring critical SLAs can be met by monitoring IO statistics to provide intelligence for early detection of storage performance degradations. IO Insight extends and complements automated monitoring, diagnostic and management capabilities enabled by Brocade Fabric Vision technology to further simplify storage networking environments.
