Product Brief Brocade® G610 Switch

Affordable, No-Compromise Storage

Switch for the Modern Data Center
Overview
Today’s organizations are under pressure to digitize everything to be
more competitive, maximize revenue growth, and increase productivity.
Yet explosive data growth, coupled with user expectations of unlimited
access from anywhere, at any time, on any device, is pushing storage
environments to the limit. To meet these dynamic business demands,
the network must evolve to improve speed, efficiency, and costs. This
Highlights requires looking beyond legacy infrastructure, which was not designed to
• Provides an affordable storage support the performance requirements of evolving workloads and flash-
switch that redefines simplicity and based storage technology—and will therefore impede the performance
flexibility of an all-flash data center. Organizations need a new approach to storage
networking to enable databases, virtual servers, desktops, and critical
• Meets the high-throughput,
applications, and to unlock the full capabilities of flash. By treating the
low-latency demands of critical
network as a strategic part of a storage environment, organizations can
applications with flash-ready
maximize their productivity and efficiency, even as they rapidly grow their
performance
environments.
• Enables the seamless transition to
next-generation NVMe flash arrays,
The Brocade® G610 provides an access to industry-leading storage
without a disruptive rip-and-
replace
affordable storage switch without technology, and the ability to
compromising on performance and start small and grow on demand,
• Starts small and grows on demand, reliability. Leveraging the power of from 8 to 24 ports, to support an
from 8 to 24 ports, to support an Gen 6 Fibre Channel technology, evolving storage environment.
evolving storage environment
it delivers a flash-ready solution The Brocade G610 is also easy to
• Powers up from 16 Gb/s to 32 Gb/s for the always-on, digital business. use and install, with a point-and-
to deliver increased performance With its combination of up to 32 click user interface that simplifies
on demand Gb/s performance, unmatched deployment and saves time.
• Simplifies end-to-end management simplicity, and enterprise-class
functionality, the Brocade G610 Designed in an efficient 1U
by automating repetitive daily
management tasks provides exceptional price/ package, starting with 8 ports and
performance value in an entry-level low energy consumption at 0.10
• Installs in three easy steps with watts per Gb/s and 3.2 watts per
switch.
a point-and-click user interface - port, the switch delivers a low total
simplifying deployment and saving
The Brocade G610 offers small to cost of ownership (TCO) for Gen
time
midsized data centers affordable 6. To help further control costs,
• Proactively monitors and optimizes access to industry-leading Gen the Brocade G610 provides real-
the health and performance of 6 Fibre Channel technology. time monitoring to enable users
individual virtual machines (VMs), Organizations gain the best of to actively monitor the switch’s
and identifies anomalies with VM both worlds: high-performance power usage.
Insight
• Leverages Brocade® Fabric
Vision® technology to simplify
administration, quickly resolve
problems, increase uptime, and
reduce costs

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EZSwitchSetup wizard. This tool Links (ISLs) in a 256 Gb/s framed-

features a simple user interface that based trunk. This can be achieved
dramatically reduces deployment through eight individual 32 Gb/s
Gen 6 Fibre Channel and configuration times. SFP+ ports. Moreover, exchange-
Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel based Dynamic Path Selection
(DPS) optimizes fabric-wide
is the purpose-built network Flash-Ready Performance
infrastructure for mission-critical performance and load balancing
storage, delivering breakthrough for Evolving Storage by automatically routing data to
performance, operational stability, Requirements the most efficient, available path in
and increased business agility to the fabric. This augments Brocade
Faced with increased
accelerate data access, adapt to ISL Trunking to provide more
competition and the need to
evolving requirements, and drive effective load balancing in certain
deliver differentiated services,
always-on business operations. The configurations (see the figure
organizations rely on leading
Brocade G610 with Gen 6 Fibre below).
Channel technology is an affordable
technology to help them catapult
storage switch, delivering simplified their businesses and grow revenue. To realize the full benefits of flash,
operations, flash-ready performance, Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel organizations must transition
and always-on reliability to grow with delivers advanced 32 Gb/s their high-performance, latency-
the demands of your business. performance to redefine the limits sensitive workloads to flash-based
of application performance and to storage with NVMe. The Brocade
unleash the full potential of new G610 is NVMe-ready, allowing
storage technologies. organizations to seamlessly
integrate Brocade Gen 6 Fibre
The Brocade G610 combines
Industry-Leading Channel networks with the next
market-leading Gen 6 throughput
Technology That Is Flex- and low latency with an affordable
generation of flash storage, without
a disruptive rip-and-replace.
ible, Simple, and Easy to switch form factor, making it ideal
The simplicity and efficiency of
Use for small to midsized businesses.
NVMe over Fibre Channel enable
Using this switch, organizations can
The Brocade G610 features up to significant performance gains for
build a flash-ready infrastructure
24 Fibre Channel ports, delivering flash storage. Also, NVMe allows
that adapts to their expanding
industry-leading Gen 6 Fibre users to achieve faster application
business requirements.
Channel technology in a flexible, response times and harness the
simple, and easy-to-use solution. Administrators can achieve performance of solid state drives
Designed for maximum flexibility, optimal bandwidth utilization, high for better scalability across virtual
this entry-level switch offers pay- availability, and load balancing by data centers with flash. Leveraging
as-you-grow capability to easily combining up to eight Inter-Switch the efficiency of NVMe over Fibre
and cost-effectively scale from 8
to 24 ports with Ports on Demand
(PoD). Moreover, each of the 24 Dynamic Path Selection (DPS) Augments Brocade ISL Trunking to Route Data
Efficiently between Multiple Trunk Groups
SFP+ ports supports 4, 8, 16, and
32 Gb/s Fibre Channel speeds.
High-speed 32 Gb/s and 16 Gb/s Frame-based Trunking Dynamic Path Solution (DPS)
ASIC preserves in-order delivery Balancing data flow between
optics allow organizations to 8.5 Gb/s multiple trunk groups
Up to
deploy bandwidth on demand to 6 Gb/s 256 Gb/s
12.5 Gb/s
meet growing data center needs. 10.5 Gb/s
4.5 Gb/s
Trunk group
9 Gb/s
With its PoD capability, the
n Gb/s
Brocade G610 provides excellent
overall value and the agility needed Trunk group DPS
Trunk group

to enable rapid deployments to

meet user demands and support 8.5 Gb/s
higher growth. In addition, the 6 Gb/s
12.5 Gb/s

switch can be easily deployed in Up to

10.5 Gb/s
4.5 Gb/s
Trunk group
256 Gb/s 9 Gb/s n Gb/s
just three steps with the Brocade

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Channel, combined with the high Simplified Management

performance and low latency of
Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel,
and Robust Network
Brocade Fabric Vision organizations can accelerate Analytics
Technology IOPS to deliver the performance, Brocade Fabric Vision technology
application response time, and provides unprecedented insight
Brocade Fabric Vision technology
scalability needed for next- and visibility across the storage
with VM Insight, an extension of
generation data centers. network with powerful integrated
Gen 6 Fibre Channel, provides
unprecedented insight and visibility monitoring, management, and
across the storage network. Its Rely on the Network That diagnostic capabilities. These
powerful, integrated monitoring, innovative features enable
management, and diagnostic tools
Delivers Always-on administrators to avoid problems
enable organizations to: Business Operations before they impact operations,
• Simplify monitoring: Brocade Gen 6 technology helping their organizations meet
leverages a rich heritage of Fibre SLAs. Fabric Vision technology
−−Deploy more than 20 years of includes:
Channel innovation to deliver
storage networking best practices
with a single click
industry-leading reliability for
• VM Insight: Seamlessly
the world’s most demanding
−−Leverage integrated network monitors virtual machine (VM)
data centers. Brocade Gen 6
sensors to gain visibility into VM performance throughout a
and Fabric Vision® technology
storage performance metrics to storage fabric with standards-
provide a breakthrough hardware
maintain SLA compliance based, end-to-end VM tagging.
and software solution that helps
Administrators can quickly
−−Gain comprehensive visibility organizations simplify monitoring,
into the fabric using browser- determine the source of VM/
maximize network availability,
accessible dashboards with drill- application performance
and gain insight into issues to
down capabilities anomalies, as well as provision
speed resolution and meet critical
and fine-tune the infrastructure
• Increase operational stability: service-level agreements (SLAs).
based on VM/application
VM Insight is the newest feature
−−Avoid 50% of common network requirements to meet service-
in Fabric Vision technology,
problems with proactive level objectives.
monitoring
enabling proactive visibility into
the health and performance of • Monitoring and Alerting Policy
−−Identify hot spots and individual virtual machines (VMs) Suite (MAPS): Leverages prebuilt,
automatically mitigate network through integrated sensors. rule-/policy-based templates
problems—before they impact within MAPS to simplify fabric-
By leveraging this capability,
application performance wide threshold configuration,
administrators can quickly identify
−−Monitor performance for each abnormal VM behaviors to facilitate monitoring, and alerting.
VM and identify performance troubleshooting and fault isolation, Administrators can configure
anomalies to facilitate fault helping to ensure maximum the entire fabric (or multiple
isolation and troubleshooting performance and operational fabrics) at one time using
• Dramatically reduce costs: stability. common rules and policies, or
customize policies for specific
−−Eliminate nearly 50% of Forward Error Correction (FEC) ports or switch elements. With
maintenance costs through capabilities further increase Flow Vision and VM Insight,
automated testing and diagnostic
resiliency by automatically administrators set thresholds for
tools
detecting and recovering network VM flow metrics in MAPS policies
−−Save up to millions of dollars transmission errors. To ensure in order to be notified of VM
on CapEx costs by eliminating predictable performance prior to performance degradation.
the need for expensive third- deployment, organizations can
party tools through integrated • Fabric Performance Impact (FPI)
validate infrastructure with Brocade
network sensors, monitoring, and Monitoring: Leverages predefined
ClearLink® Diagnostics and Flow
diagnostics MAPS policies to automatically
Generator features.
−−Simplify network planning
and provisioning based on VM
workload requirements to reduce
costs

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detect and alert administrators to maximize performance, avoid • Forward Error Correction (FEC):
different latency severity levels, congestion, and optimize Enables recovery from bit errors
and to identify slow drain devices resources. Flow Vision includes: in device connections and ISLs,
that could impact network ––Flow Monitor: Provides enhancing transmission reliability
performance. This feature comprehensive visibility, and performance.
identifies various latency severity automatic learning, and • Credit Loss Recovery: Helps
levels, pinpointing exactly non-disruptive monitoring overcome performance
which devices are causing or of a flow’s performance. degradation and congestion due
are impacted by a bottlenecked Administrators can monitor to buffer credit loss.
port, and quarantines slow drain all flows from a specific
devices automatically to prevent host to multiple targets or Improve Efficiency with
buffer credit starvation. volumes, from multiple hosts Fabric Automation
• Dashboards: Provides integrated to a specific target/volume,
dashboards that display an or across a specific ISL. IT organizations spend nearly half
overall SAN health view, along Additionally, they can perform of their time performing repetitive
with details on out-of-range volume-level monitoring daily management tasks, such as
conditions, to help administrators of specific frame types to zoning, inventory reporting, and
easily identify trends and quickly identify resource contention or operational validation checks. By
pinpoint issues occurring on a congestion that is impacting automating these repetitive tasks,
switch or in a fabric. application performance. With IT organizations can significantly
VM Insight, administrators can improve their efficiency and
• Configuration and Operational dramatically decrease the risk of
Monitoring Policy Automation monitor network throughput
statistics for each VM. operational mistakes. Automation
Services Suite (COMPASS): in large-scale IT environments
Simplifies deployment, ––Flow Learning: Enables integrates diverse infrastructure
safeguards consistency, and administrators to non- components with consistency and
increases operational efficiencies disruptively discover all predictability to deliver greater
of larger environments flows that go to or come operational efficiency and agility.
with automated switch and from a specific host port or a With more than 20 years of storage
fabric configuration services. storage port, or traverse ISLs/ networking experience, Brocade,
Administrators can configure a IFLs (Inter-Fabric Links) or a Broadcom Inc. Company,
template or adopt an existing Fibre Channel over Internet understands the nuances that go
configuration to seamlessly Protocol (FCIP) tunnels, to into infrastructure management
deploy a configuration across monitor fabric-wide application and the tasks that can benefit from
the fabric. In addition, they performance. In addition, automation. By introducing REST
can ensure settings do not administrators can discover APIs directly into its switch and
drift over time with COMPASS top and bottom bandwidth- management products, Brocade
configuration and policy violation consuming devices and offers a broad range of choices
monitoring within Brocade manage capacity planning. to enable any SAN management
Network Advisor dashboards. ––Flow Generator: Provides a solution. IT organizations that
• Brocade ClearLink Diagnostics: built-in traffic generator for couple Brocade’s robust data
Ensures optical and signal pretesting and validating the collecting capabilities with
integrity for Fibre Channel data center infrastructure for automation and orchestration tools
optics and cables, simplifying robustness—including route (such as Ansible) gain the ability to
deployment and support of high- verification and integrity of automate configuration tasks and
performance fabrics. ClearLink optics, cables, ports, back-end the visibility to monitor and detect
Diagnostic Port (D_Port) is an connections, and ISLs—before any performance or health changes.
advanced capability of Fibre deploying applications.
Channel platforms. Brocade automation solutions are
––Flow Mirroring: Provides the based on these pillars:
• Flow Vision: Enables ability to non-disruptively
administrators to identify, create copies of specific • Make standard REST APIs
monitor, and analyze specific application and data flows available directly from the
application flows in order or frame types that can be switch in order to automate
to simplify troubleshooting, captured for in-depth analysis. repetitive daily tasks, such as

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fabric inventory, provisioning, and Brocade Access Gateway Brocade Global Support
operational state monitoring.
Mode Brocade Global Support has the
• Quickly integrate systems with expertise to help organizations
The Brocade G610 can be deployed
open source PyFOS, a Python build resilient, efficient SAN
as a full-fabric switch or as a
language, to simplify common infrastructures. Leveraging 20+
Brocade Access Gateway, which
SAN management practices. years of expertise in storage
simplifies fabric topologies and
• Leverage Ansible to easily scale heterogeneous fabric connectivity networking, Global Support delivers
automation and orchestration (the default mode setting is world-class technical support,
across the entire infrastructure. a switch). Brocade Access implementation, and migration
Gateway mode utilizes N_Port services to enable organizations
Brocade SANnav: ID Virtualization (NPIV) switch to maximize their hardware and
software investments, accelerate
Next-Generation SAN standards to present physical and
new technology deployments, and
virtual servers directly to the core
Management of SAN fabrics. This makes Brocade optimize the overall performance of
Brocade SANnav Management Access Gateway transparent to their network.
Portal and SANnav Global View the SAN fabric, greatly reducing
Maximizing Investments
empower IT administrators management of the network edge.
To help optimize technology
by providing comprehensive The Brocade G610 in Brocade
investments, Brocade and its
visibility across the entire SAN, Access Gateway mode can connect
partners offer complete solutions
from a global view down to servers to NPIV-enabled SAN
that include professional services,
local environments. These tools fabrics.
technical support, and education.
streamline management workflows
to accelerate the deployment of Organizations can easily enable
For more information, contact a
new applications, switches, hosts, Brocade Access Gateway mode
Brocade sales partner or visit:
and targets. They also increase via Brocade SANnav Management
www.broadcom.com/brocade
operational efficiencies with a Portal, Brocade Network Advisor,
modernized graphical user interface or a Command Line Interface (CLI). For information about supported
(GUI) that enables enhanced Key benefits of Brocade Access SAN standards, visit:
monitoring, faster troubleshooting, Gateway mode include: www.broadcom.com/sanstandards
and advanced analytics.
• Improved scalability for large or
Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel rapidly growing server and virtual
hardware includes integrated server environments
network sensors that non- • Reduced management of the
disruptively gather millions of network edge, since Brocade
real-time metrics that SANnav Access Gateway does not have
Management Portal uses to a domain identity and appears
identify, monitor, and analyze the transparent to the core fabric
overall health and performance of
the SAN. SANnav Management • Support for heterogeneous
Portal contextualizes this data SAN configurations without
into visual dashboards, enabling reduced functionality for server
administrators to quickly detect connectivity
and isolate points of interest
for both troubleshooting and
performance optimization.

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Brocade G610 Switch Specifications

System Architecture
Fibre Channel ports Switch mode (default): 8-, 16-, and 24-port configurations (8-port increment through Ports on Demand
[PoD] license); E_Ports, F_Ports, M_Ports, and D_Ports
Brocade Access Gateway default port mapping: 16 F_Ports, 8 N_Ports
Scalability Full-fabric architecture with a maximum of 239 switches
Certified maximum 6000 active nodes; 56 switches, 19 hops in Brocade Fabric OS® fabrics; larger fabrics certified as
required
Performance Fibre Channel: 4.25 Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 8.5 Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 14.025 Gb/s line speed,
full duplex; auto-sensing of 4, 8, 16, and 32 Gb/s port speeds
ISL trunking Frame-based trunking with up to eight 32 Gb/s ports per ISL trunk; up to 256 Gb/s per ISL trunk
Exchange-based load balancing across ISLs with DPS included in Brocade Fabric OS fabrics
Aggregate bandwidth 768 Gb/s end-to-end full duplex
Maximum fabric latency Latency for locally switched ports is 900 ns (including FEC)
Maximum frame size 2112-byte payload
Frame buffers 2000 dynamically allocated
Classes of service Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames)
Port types F_Port, E_Port, M_Port, D_Port (ClearLink Diagnostic Port) on 24 SFP+ ports
Brocade Access Gateway mode: F_Port and NPIV-enabled N_Port
Data traffic types Fabric switches supporting unicast
Media types 32 Gb/s: Brocade G610 requires Brocade hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 32 Gb/s SWL, LWL
16 Gb/s: Brocade G610 requires Brocade hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 16 Gb/s SWL, LWL, ELWL
Fibre Channel distance subject to fiber-optic cable and port speed
USB One USB port for system log file downloads or firmware upgrades
Fabric services Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS); Flow Vision; Brocade Adaptive Networking (Traffic
Note: Some fabric services Isolation, QoS); Fabric Performance Impact (FPI) Monitoring; Slow Drain Device Quarantine (SDDQ);
do not apply or are unavailable Brocade Advanced Zoning (default zoning, port/WWN zoning, broadcast zoning, peer zoning, target-
in Brocade Access Gateway driven zoning); Dynamic Fabric Provisioning (DFP); Dynamic Path Selection (DPS); Brocade Extended
mode. Fabrics; Enhanced BB credit recovery; FDMI; Frame Redirection; Frame-based Trunking; FSPF; Brocade
ISL Trunking; Management Server; NPIV; NTP v3; Registered State Change Notification (RSCN); Reliable
Commit Service (RCS); Simple Name Server (SNS); Read Diagnostics Parameter (RDP), VM Insight
Management
Supported management software HTTP, SNMP v1/v3 (FE MIB, FC Management MIB), SSH; Auditing, Syslog; Brocade Advanced Web Tools;
Brocade Network Advisor SAN Enterprise or Brocade Network Advisor SAN Professional/Professional
Plus; Brocade SANnav Management Portal and SANnav Global View; EZSwitchSetup; Command Line
Interface (CLI); SMI-S compliant; Administrative Domains; trial licenses for add-on capabilities
Security DH-CHAP (between switches and end devices), FCAP switch authentication; HTTPS, IPsec, IP filtering,
LDAP with IPv6, OpenLDAP, Port Binding, RADIUS, TACACS+, User-defined Role-Based Access Control
(RBAC), Secure Copy (SCP), Secure RPC, Secure Syslog, SFTP, SSH v2, SSL, Switch Binding, Trusted
Switch
Management access 10/100/1000 Mb/s Ethernet (RJ-45), in-band over Fibre Channel, serial port (RJ-45) and one USB port
Diagnostics ClearLink optics and cable diagnostics, including electrical/optical loopback, link traffic/latency/
distance; flow mirroring; built-in flow generator; POST and embedded online/offline diagnostics,
including environmental monitoring, FCping and Pathinfo (FC traceroute), frame viewer, non-disruptive
daemon restart, optics health monitoring, power monitoring, RAStrace logging, and Rolling Reboot
Detection (RRD)
Mechanical
Enclosure Back-to-front airflow (non-port-side intake); power from back, 1U
Size Width: 428.80 mm (16.88 in.)
Height: 42.90 mm (1.69 in.)
Depth: 306.60 mm (12.07 in.)
System weight 5.75 kg (12.67 lb) with one integrated power supply, without transceivers

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Brocade G610 Switch Specifications (cont.)

Environment
Operating environment Temperature: 0°C to 40°C/32°F to 104°F
Humidity: 10% to 85% (non-condensing)
Non-operating environment Temperature: –25°C to 70°C/–13°F to 158°F
Humidity: 10% to 90% (non-condensing)
Operating altitude Up to 3000m (9,842 ft)
Storage altitude Up to 12 km (39,370 ft)
Shock Operating: Up to 20G, 6 ms half-sine
Non-operating: Half sine, 33G 11 ms, 3G axis
Vibration Operating: 0.5g sine, 0.4 grms random, 5 Hz to 500 Hz
Non-operating: 2.0g sine, 1.1 grms random, 5 Hz to 500 Hz
Heat dissipation 24 ports at 215 BTU/hr
Power
Power supply Base switch includes a single, fixed power supply with four integrated system cooling fans
AC input 90V to 264V
Maximum input current 2.2A
Input line frequency 47 Hz to 63 Hz
Power consumption 76.52W with all 24 ports populated with 32 Gb/s SWL optics
55.83W for idle configuration (all optics loaded but not initialized)

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