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BROCADE
6510
SWITCH

DATA CENTER Flexible, Easy-to-Use

Enterprise-Class SAN Switch
for Private Cloud Storage
HIGHLIGHTS To keep pace with growing business market-leading Gen 5 Fibre Channel
• Provides exceptional price/performance demands, data centers are transitioning technology and capabilities that support
value, combining flexibility, simplicity, to highly virtualized, private cloud storage highly virtualized environments. Designed
and enterprise-class functionality in environments. This approach enables to enable maximum flexibility and reliability,
a 48-port switch organizations to consolidate and simplify the Brocade 6510 is a high-performance,
their IT resources, resulting in increased enterprise-class switch configurable in 24,
• Enables fast, easy, and cost-effective
business agility and lower capital and 36, or 48 ports. It supports 2, 4, 8, 10, or
scaling from 24 to 48 ports using Ports
operating expenses. But virtualization is 16 Gbps speeds in an efficiently designed
on Demand (PoD) capabilities
not without its challenges. Data centers 1U package.
• Simplifies management through Brocade must keep up with the explosive data growth
Fabric Vision technology, reducing A simplified deployment process and a
and dynamic changes driven by virtualized
operational costs and optimizing point-and-click user interface make the
workloads. Selecting the right network is
application performance Brocade 6510 both powerful and easy to
key to realizing the full benefits of these
use. The Brocade 6510 offers low-cost
• Simplifies deployment and supports cloud-based architectures.
access to industry-leading Storage Area
high-performance fabrics by using The Brocade® 6510 Switch meets the Network (SAN) technology while providing
Brocade ClearLink Diagnostic Ports demands of hyper-scale, private cloud “pay-as-you-grow” scalability to meet the
(D_Ports) to identify optic and cable issues storage environments by delivering needs of an evolving storage environment.
• Simplifies and accelerates deployment
with the Brocade EZSwitchSetup wizard
and Dynamic Fabric Provisioning (DFP)
• Maximizes availability with redundant,
hot-pluggable components and non-
disruptive software upgrades
• Simplifies server connectivity by
deploying as a full-fabric switch or
a Brocade Access Gateway

Gen 5 Fibre Channel is the purpose-

built, data center-proven network
infrastructure for storage, delivering
unmatched reliability, simplicity, and 16
Gbps performance. The Brocade 6510
with Gen 5 Fibre Channel unleashes
the full potential of high-density server
virtualization, cloud architectures, and
next-generation storage.
 EXCEPTIONAL PRICE/PERFORMANCE A BUILDING BLOCK FOR VIRTUALIZED,
Brocade Fabric Vision Technology FOR GROWING SAN WORKLOADS PRIVATE CLOUD STORAGE
Brocade Fabric Vision technology, an The Brocade 6510 with Gen 5 Fibre Channel The Brocade 6510 provides a critical building
extension of Gen 5 Fibre Channel, delivers exceptional price/performance for block for today’s highly virtualized, private cloud
delivers breakthrough technologies that growing SAN workloads through a storage environments. It simplifies server
dramatically simplify SAN deployment combination of market-leading throughput virtualization and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
and management, drive down costs, and an affordable switch form factor. The (VDI) management while meeting the
and offer unprecedented visibility and 48 ports produce an aggregate 768 Gbps high-throughput demands of Solid State Disks
insight across the storage network. full-duplex throughput; any eight ports can (SSDs). The Brocade 6510 also supports
Key advantages include: be trunked for 128 Gbps Inter-Switch Links multitenancy in cloud environments through
(ISLs). Exchange-based Dynamic Path Virtual Fabrics, Quality of Service (QoS), and
Dramatically reduced costs: Selection (DPS) optimizes fabric-wide fabric-based zoning features.
• Automates the deployment of performance and load balancing by
The Brocade 6510 enables secure metro
threshold-based rules and policies automatically routing data to the most
extension to virtual private or hybrid clouds
for proactive monitoring and efficient available path in the fabric (see
with 10 Gbps Dense Wavelength Division
management, reducing operational Figure 1). It augments Brocade ISL Trunking
Multiplexing (DWDM) link support, as well
costs to provide more effective load balancing in
as in-flight encryption and data compression
certain configurations.
• Pre-tests and validates the SAN over ISLs. Organizations can have up to four
infrastructure to accelerate Moreover, a 24-port base configuration, ports at 8 Gbps and up to two at 16 Gbps of
deployments and simplify ongoing easy administration, 1U footprint, and in-flight encryption and data compression
support low-energy consumption—0.14 watts per per Brocade 6510 Switch. The switch also
• Eliminates the need for expensive Gbps and 2.3 watts per port—provide a low features on-board data security and
third-party monitoring, diagnostics, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Enterprise- acceleration, minimizing the need for
and test equipment through built-in class capabilities combined with a low TCO separate acceleration appliances to support
flow monitoring, flow mirroring, and yield 40 percent higher performance distance extension. Internal fault-tolerant
traffic generator tools compared to 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and enterprise-class RAS features help
alternatives at a similar cost. minimize downtime to support mission-
critical cloud environments.
Maximum infrastructure uptime:
INDUSTRY-LEADING TECHNOLOGY
• Provides a customizable dashboard
THAT IS FLEXIBLE, SIMPLE, AND BROCADE ACCESS GATEWAY MODE
that displays the overall health of the
EASY TO USE The Brocade 6510 can be deployed as a
SAN, helping to pinpoint problems
The Brocade 6510 delivers industry-leading full-fabric switch or as a Brocade Access
faster and enabling trend analysis
SAN technology within a flexible, simple, and Gateway, which simplifies fabric topologies
• Features critical diagnostic and easy-to-use solution. The base configuration and heterogeneous fabric connectivity (the
monitoring capabilities, helping to includes 24 ports, with up to 48 ports on default mode setting is a switch). Brocade
ensure early problem detection and demand. In addition to providing best-in- Access Gateway mode utilizes N_Port ID
recovery class scalability, the Brocade 6510 is easy Virtualization (NPIV) switch standards to
• Validates the health, reliability, and to deploy with the Brocade EZSwitchSetup present physical and virtual servers directly
performance of the network prior to wizard and ClearLink Diagnostic Ports to the core of SAN fabrics. This makes it
deployment and for ongoing support, (D_Ports) feature, which simplifies setup. transparent to the SAN fabric, greatly
reducing downtime risk For maximum flexibility, the switch also reducing management of the network edge.
features a 1U case less than 18 inches The Brocade 6510 in Brocade Access
Optimized application performance: deep and dual-direction airflow options Gateway mode* can connect servers to
to support the latest hot aisle/cold NPIV-enabled Brocade B-Series, Brocade
• Provides comprehensive visibility
aisle configurations. M-Series, or other SAN fabrics.
into flows in the fabric, including
the ability to automatically learn
(discover) flows and non-disruptively
monitor flow performance
• Instantly identifies congestion or
abnormal levels of latency in the
fabric, and identifies exactly which
devices and hosts are impacted by
the bottleneck
• Provides a customizable
performance dashboard with all
critical information in one screen to
easily identify hot spots and potential
network congestion * Note: Brocade Access Gateway mode for the Brocade
6510 is supported only in 48-port configurations.
Organizations can easily enable Brocade to maximize performance, avoid is a simple, two-step process for applying
Access Gateway mode via Brocade Network congestion, and optimize resources. thresholds and alerts to ports and
Advisor or a CLI. Key benefits of Brocade Flow Vision includes: switches. Organizations can configure the
Access Gateway mode include: –– Flow Monitor: Provides comprehensive entire fabric (or multiple fabrics) at one
visibility into flows in the fabric, time using common rules and policies,
• Improved scalability for large or or customize policies for specific ports
including the ability to automatically
rapidly growing server and virtual or switch elements—all through a single
learn (discover) flows and non-
server environments dialog. The integrated dashboard displays
disruptively monitor flow performance.
• Reduced management of the network Organizations can monitor all flows an overall switch health report, along with
edge, since Brocade Access Gateway from a specific host to multiple details on out-of-policy conditions, to help
does not have a domain identity and targets/LUNs, from multiple hosts administrators quickly pinpoint potential
appears transparent to the core fabric to a specific target/LUN, or across a issues and easily identify trends and
specific ISL. They also can perform other behaviors occurring on a switch
• Support for heterogeneous SAN
LUN-level monitoring of specific frame or fabric.
configurations without reduced
functionality for server connectivity types to identify resource contention • Brocade ClearLink Diagnostics: Ensures
or congestion that is impacting optical and signal integrity for Gen 5
application performance. Fibre Channel optics and cables,
SIMPLIFIED MANAGEMENT AND
–– Flow Mirror: Provides the ability to simplifying deployment and support
ROBUST NETWORK ANALYTICS
non-disruptively create copies of of high-performance fabrics. It
Brocade Fabric Vision technology, an
specific application and data flows or leverages ClearLink Diagnostic Port
extension of Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel,
frame types that can be captured for (D_Port) capabilities of Gen 5 Fibre
introduces a breakthrough hardware and
deeper analysis. Channel platforms.
software solution that maximizes uptime,
simplifies SAN management, and provides –– Flow Generator: Provides a built-in • Bottleneck Detection: Identifies and
unprecedented visibility and insight across test traffic generator for pre-testing alerts administrators to device or ISL
the storage network. Offering innovative and validating the SAN infrastructure— congestion as well as abnormal levels of
diagnostic, monitoring, and management including verification of routes and latency in the fabric. This feature works
capabilities, the Brocade 6510 with Fabric integrity of optics, cables, ports, in conjunction with Brocade Network
Vision technology helps administrators and ISLs—for robustness before Advisor to automatically monitor and
avoid problems, maximize application deploying applications. detect network congestion and latency
performance, and reduce operational costs. in the fabric, providing visualization of
• Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite bottlenecks in a connectivity map and
Brocade Fabric Vision technology includes:
(MAPS): Simplifies fabric-wide threshold product tree, and identifying exactly
• Flow Vision: Enables administrators to configuration and monitoring. MAPS which devices and hosts are impacted
identify, monitor, and analyze specific allows organizations to leverage pre-built by a bottlenecked port.
application and data flows in order rule/policy-based templates. The result

Figure 1.
Dynamic Path Selection (DPS) augments Brocade ISL Trunking to
route data efficiently between multiple trunk groups.

Frame-based Trunking 8.5 Gbps Up to Dynamic Path Selection (DPS)

ASIC Preserves In-order Delivery 6 Gbps 128 Gbps Balancing data flow between
2 Gbps multiple trunk groups
10.5 Gbps
4.5 Gbps Trunk group
9 Gbps
...n Gbps

Trunk group DPS

Trunk group
8.5 Gbps
6 Gbps
2 Gbps
10.5 Gbps
Up to 4.5 Gbps
128 Gbps 9 Gbps ...n Gbps Trunk group
• Integration into Brocade Network • Forward Error Correction (FEC): of expertise in storage, networking, and
Advisor: Provides customizable health Enables recovery from bit errors in virtualization, Brocade Global Services
and performance dashboard views to ISLs, enhancing transmission reliability delivers world-class professional services,
pinpoint problems faster, simplify SAN and performance. technical support, network monitoring
configuration and management, and • Credit Loss Recovery: Helps overcome services, and education, enabling
reduce operational costs. performance degradation and congestion organizations to maximize their Brocade
• Critical diagnostic and monitoring due to buffer credit loss. investments, accelerate new technology
capabilities: Help ensure early problem deployments, and optimize the performance
• Real-time bandwidth consumption of networking infrastructures.
detection and recovery. by hosts/applications on ISLs: Helps
• Non-intrusive and non-disruptive easily identify hot spots and potential
MAXIMIZING INVESTMENTS
monitoring on every port: Provides an network congestion.
To help optimize technology investments,
end-to-end view of the entire fabric using
Brocade and its partners offer complete
capabilities integrated into the hardware. BROCADE GLOBAL SERVICES solutions that include professional services,
This allows sophisticated monitoring Brocade Global Services has the expertise technical support, and education. For more
without imposing an additional burden to help organizations build scalable, efficient information, contact a Brocade sales
on switches with frequent polling activity. cloud infrastructures. Leveraging 15 years partner or visit www.brocade.com.
BROCADE 6510 SPECIFICATIONS
Systems Architecture Maximum fabric latency Latency for locally switched ports is 700 ns;
Fibre Channel ports Switch mode (default): 24-, 36-, and 48-port encryption/compression is 5.5 µsec per node;
configurations (12-port increments Forward Error Correction (FEC) adds 400 ns
through Ports on Demand [PoD] licenses); between E_Ports (enabled by default).
E, F, M, D, EX ports Maximum frame size 2112 byte payload
Brocade Access Gateway default port Frame buffers 8192 dynamically allocated
mapping: 40 F_Ports, 8 N_Ports Classes of service Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames)
Scalability Full fabric architecture with a maximum of Port types D_Port (ClearLink Diagnostic Port), E_Port,
239 switches EX_Port, F_Port, M_Port (Mirror Port); optional
Certified maximum 6000 active nodes; 56 switches, 19 hops port type control
in Brocade Fabric OS® fabrics; larger fabrics Brocade Access Gateway mode: F_Port and
certified as required NPIV-enabled N_Port
Performance Fibre Channel: 2.125 Gbps line speed, full duplex; Data traffic types Fabric switches supporting unicast
4.25 Gbps line speed, full duplex; 8.5 Gbps line
speed, full duplex; 10.53 Gbps line speed, full Media types 16 Gbps: Brocade 6510 requires Brocade
duplex; 14.025 Gbps line speed, full duplex; hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 16 Gbps
auto-sensing of 2, 4, 8, and 16 Gbps port speeds; SWL, LWL, ELWL
10 Gbps optionally programmable to fixed 10 Gbps: Brocade 6510 requires Brocade
port speed hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 10 Gbps
ISL trunking Frame-based Trunking with up to eight SWL, LWL
16 Gbps ports per ISL trunk; up to 128 Gbps 8 Gbps: Brocade 6510 requires Brocade
per ISL trunk. Exchange-based load balancing hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 8 Gbps
across ISLs with DPS included in Brocade SWL, LWL, ELWL
Fabric OS. Fibre Channel distance subject to fiber-optic
Aggregate bandwidth 768 Gbps end-to-end full duplex cable and port speed
USB One USB port for system log file downloads or
firmware upgrades
BROCADE 6510 SPECIFICATIONS (CONTINUED)
Fabric services Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS); Mechanical
Flow Vision; Brocade Advanced Performance
Monitoring (APM) (including Top Talkers for Enclosure Front-to-back airflow; power from back, 1U
Note: Some fabric services
do not apply or are E_Ports, F_Ports, and Fabric mode); Brocade Back-to-front airflow; power from back, 1U
Adaptive Networking (Ingress Rate Limiting, Size Width: 437.64 mm (17.23 in.)
unavailable in Brocade
Traffic Isolation, QoS); Bottleneck Detection;
Access Gateway mode.
Brocade Advanced Zoning (default zoning, port/ Height: 43.18 mm (1.7 in.)
WWN zoning, broadcast zoning); Dynamic Fabric Depth: 443.23 mm (17.45 in.)
Provisioning (DFP); Dynamic Path Selection System weight 9.16 kg (20.20 lb) with two power supply FRUs,
(DPS); Brocade Extended Fabrics; Enhanced BB without transceivers
credit recovery; Brocade Fabric Watch; FDMI;
Frame Redirection; Frame-based Trunking; Environment
FSPF; Integrated Routing; IPoFC; Brocade ISL Operating environment Temperature: 0° to 40°C/32°F to 104°F
Trunking; Management Server; NPIV; NTP
v3; Port Fencing; Registered State Change Humidity: 10% to 85% (non-condensing)
Notification (RSCN); Reliable Commit Service Non-operating Temperature: −25° to 70°C/−13°F to 158°F
(RCS); Server Application Optimization (SAO); environment Humidity: 10% to 90% (non-condensing)
Simple Name Server (SNS); Virtual Fabrics
(Logical Switch, Logical Fabric) Operating altitude Up to 3000 m (9842 ft)
Extension Fibre Channel, in-flight compression (Brocade Storage altitude Up to 12 km (39,370 ft)
LZO) and encryption (AES-GCM-256); integrated Shock Operating: Up to 20 G, 6 ms half-sine
optional 10 Gbps Fibre Channel Non-operating: Half sine, 33 G 11 ms, 3/eg axis
for DWDM MAN connectivity
Vibration Operating: 0.5 g sine, 0.4 grms random, 5 to 500 Hz
Management Non-operating: 2.0 g sine, 1.1 grms random,
Supported management HTTP, SNMP v1/v3 (FE MIB, FC Management MIB), 5 to 500 Hz
software SSH; Auditing, Syslog; Brocade Advanced Web Heat dissipation 48 ports at 375 BTU/hr
Tools, APM, Brocade Fabric Watch; Brocade
Network Advisor SAN Enterprise or Brocade Power
Network Advisor SAN Professional/Professional Power supply Dual, hot-swappable redundant power supplies
Plus; Command Line Interface (CLI); SMI-S with integrated system cooling fans
compliant; Administrative Domains; trial
licenses for add-on capabilities AC input 85 V to 264 V ~5 A to 2.5 A
Security AES-GCM-256 encryption on ISLs; DH-CHAP AC input line frequency 47 Hz to 63 Hz
(between switches and end devices), FCAP AC power consumption 110 W with all 48 ports populated with
switch authentication; FIPS 140-2 L2-compliant, 16 Gbps SWL optics
HTTPS, IPsec, IP filtering, LDAP with IPv6,
72 W for empty chassis with no optics
OpenLDAP, Port Binding, RADIUS, TACACS+,
User-defined Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), DC input 40 V to 60 V max current 4.5 A
Secure Copy (SCP), Secure RPC, SFTP, SSH v2,
SSL, Switch Binding, Trusted Switch DC power consumption 112 W with all 48 ports populated with 16 Gbps
SWL optics
Management access 10/100 Mbps Ethernet (RJ-45), in-band over Fibre
Channel, serial port (RJ-45), and one USB port 53 W for empty chassis with no optics
Diagnostics ClearLink optics and cable diagnostics,
including electrical/optical loopback, link For information about supported SAN standards,
traffic/latency/distance; flow mirroring; built-in visit www.brocade.com/sanstandards.
flow generator; POST and embedded online/ For information about switch and device interoperability,
offline diagnostics, including environmental visit www.brocade.com/interoperability.
monitoring, FCping and Pathinfo (FC traceroute),
frame viewer, non-disruptive daemon restart, For information about hardware regulatory compliance,
port mirroring, optics health monitoring, power visit www.brocade.com/regulatorycompliance.
monitoring, RAStrace logging, and Rolling
Reboot Detection (RRD)
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