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The Brocade SilkWorm 24000 Director provides
a highly reliable and intelligent solution for
enterprise-class Storage Area Networks (SANs)
in mission-critical environments.
SILKWORM 24000 DIRECTOR
Highlights
A High-Port-Density, Multiprotocol
• Delivers up to 128 ports in a single
Director for Enterprise SANs
domain and a 14U enclosure with up
to 384 ports in a single rack, facilitat-
ing more easily managed SAN fab-
With state-of-the-art performance supporting thousands of hosts and
rics wi
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SILKWORM 24000 DIRECTOR Data Storage Figure 1. A SilkWorm 24000 HP-UX core fabric surrounded by SilkWorm edge switches enables cost-effective, highly scalable Data Storage Linux enterprise SANs. Data High-end Storage Storage Solaris z/OS SilkWorm 24000 SilkWorm Edge Directors Fabric Switches OS/400 i5/OS Four 2 Gbit/sec links form a single 8 Gbit/sec trunk group Entry-level Storage AIX Midrange Storage Windows Server High-end Storage ULTRA-HIGH AVAILABILITY THROUGHOUT A NEW LEVEL OF SAN SE
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In addition, exchange-based Dynamic Organizations can also use Brocade and control processors, and can intermix Path Selection (DPS) optimizes fabric- Advanced Performance Monitoring to SilkWorm 12000 and SilkWorm 24000 blades in supported configurations. wide performance and load balancing improve SAN performance tuning, by automatically routing data to the resource optimization, and administrator In addition, the SilkWorm 24000 is most efficient available path in the productivity. Moreover, th
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SILKWORM 24000 DIRECTOR SILKWORM 24000 DIRECTOR SPECIFICATIONS (CONTINUED) Systems Architecture (continued) Mechanical Specifications Aggregate bandwidth 512 Gbit/sec end to end Enclosure Rear panel-to-door airflow Switch latency <2.1 µsec any port to any port at 2 Gbit/sec, Width 43.74 cm (17.22 in) cut-through routing Height 61.24 cm (24.11 in) for 14U Maximum frame size 2112-byte payload Depth 70.90 cm (27.90 in) without door 74.20 cm (29.20 in) with door Frame buffers 2 Gbit/sec blades: 108
