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FAQ
BROCADE SERVERIRON
ADX 1000, 4000, & 10000 SERIES
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Overview
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Brocade ServerIron intelligent application delivery and traffic management solutions have
led the industry for over a decade, helping to mitigate costs and prevent losses by optimizing
business-critical enterprise and service provider applications with high availability, security,
multisite redundancy, acceleration, and scalability—in more than 3000 of the world’s most
demanding organizat
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The ServerIron ADX product family includes: • Brocade ServerIron ADX 1000: This 1U ADC can be ordered in numerous configurations ranging from the entry-level ADX 1008-1 with eight 10/100/1000 BASE–T ports, one application processor, and one AC or DC power supply, all the way up to the ADX 1216-4, with 16 10/100/1000 BASE–T ports, two 10 GbE XFP ports, four application processors, as well as SSL acceleration hardware, and GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing), Layer 3 and IPv6 software.
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the leading technology partners and enterprise business applications and significantly extending the range of solutions this powerful platform can provide. Q What is Application Resource Broker? A Working in tandem with ServerIron ADX, Brocade Application Resource Broker (ARB), is an infrastructure software component used by IT operations staff who seek simplified, on-demand application resource provisioning and de-provisioning within their data centers. ARB assures adherence to applic
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Q When do these products become generally available? A The ADX series became generally available on July 1, 2009 through Brocade Distributors and Resellers. The ADX release 12.2, the ADX 1008-1, ADX capacity-on-demand upgrade activation, and the Application Resource Broker will be generally available at the beginning of the second half of 2010. Marketplace Q Why is Brocade in the application delivery controller market and how does ADX fit into the overall Brocade strategy? A For
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• Key elements of this vision are to simplify data networks and provide a foundation for critical solutions—such as server virtualization, data mobility, and data protection— running seamlessly without costly manual intervention or performance bottlenecks. • Intelligent application delivery plays a crucial role in the success of this end-to-end vision, and will help Brocade provide high-performance hardware and software products with proven interoperability. Technologies Q What is un
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Q What are the key performance advantages of ServerIron ADX switches? A The ServerIron ADX architecture provides more application switching performance than any previous application switch. Performance highlights include: • Industry-leading performance with up to 14 million Domain Name System (DNS) queries per second, 1.6 million Layer 4 connections per second, 16 million Layer 4 transactions per second, and up to 230,000 SSL TPS (transactions per second) Up to 70 Gbps of Layer 4 and
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Q How do ServerIron ADX switches improve ROI? A The ServerIron ADX switches simplify server farm management and application upgrades by enabling organizations to easily add resources and remove them into the pool— helping to minimize TCO. The switches uniquely provide a single platform that can reduce network load and extend server farm design and scalability. They accomplish this by combining a high-performance Layer 4-7 packet processing architecture with the highest available th
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while increasing availability, security, scalability, and resource utilization. Key benefits include: • Improved infrastructure utilization: ServerIron ADX switches perform highly customizable real-time health checks, dynamically monitoring the ability of servers to optimize performance and transparently reacting to server farm congestion by distributing client traffic loads to the most available servers. Intelligent content switching maximizes server utilization and performance by elimi
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• Management Module: ServerIron ADX Management Modules have a dual-core processor, one console port, and one USB port, as well as space for an optional Application Expansion Module. • SSL Application Expansion Module: This SSL hardware offload upgrade fits any Management Module in either the 4U ADX 4000 or the 10U ADX 10000, enabling two SSL AEMs to be populated in an ADX 10000 when two Management Modules are installed • Application Switch Module: Each ServerIron ASM8 module is equippe
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• SYN-Guard: Protects server farms against multiple forms of DoS attacks, such as TCPSYN and ACK attacks, by monitoring and tracking session flows. Only valid connection requests are actually sent to servers. ServerIron ADX switches are capable of defeating DoS attacks at the industry’s highest rate of up to 120 million SYN/sec. • High-availability application switching: Utilizes active-standby mode, whereby the standby ServerIron ADX switch assumes control and preserves the state of exi
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Q How many SSL keys and certificates can be used with ServerIron ADX solution? The ServerIron ADX SSL supports up to 4096 SSL certificates and 4096 SSL keys, assuming the length of each to be 1024 bytes. These SSL certificates and keys can be managed through the element manager (web GUI), Brocade IronView Network Manager (INM) and the command line interface (CLI),. The graphical interface available through either the web GUI or INM is generally preferred; as it offers a simplified and
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A ServerIron ADX permits the definition of up to 256 contexts, roles or soft partitions. ADX administrators in any one domain are isolated from the others and have no visibility into the objects or services running within those other contexts. Q Can I configure a single-port LACP trunk on ServerIron? A Yes. ServerIron ADX allows the creation of a single-port LACP trunk, a popular diagnostic technique for unidirectional link failure detection. Q Can I configure a multi-slot trunk st
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ServerIron ADX GSLB is one of the best solutions available to ensure business continuity across multiple data centers. Q Can I run IPv6 and GSLB with Layer 2 switch code? A Yes, IPv6 and GSLB controller functions can be executed on Layer 2 switch code. However these features must be activated through the Premium software license upgrade. Running Layer 3 router code for IPv6 and GSLB functionality is not mandatory. Q Can I enable HA (high availability) for IPv6 traffic? A Yes, y
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A Brocade has a well-established track record in providing impressive ADC performance and superior ROI to the largest service providers. In addition, Brocade is leveraging its strategic relationships with OEM, technology, and channel partners that all value a single qualification or certification process that saves time and money. A Application Resource Broker goes beyond adding simple support for server virtualization. In fact, it is a given that ServerIron provides equal optimizatio
