Brocade 300 FC SAN Switch for Lenovo

The Brocade 300 FC SAN Switch for Lenovo (Machine Type 3873) provides small to medium-sized enterprises with Storage Area Network (SAN) connectivity that simplifies their IT management infrastructures, improves system performance, maximizes the value of virtual server deployments, and reduces overall storage costs.

The Brocade 300 is a 1U rack-mount 8 Gb Fibre Channel switch with up to 24 ports (8 ports licensed by default; the remaining ports can be licensed in 8-port increments) that support 2/4/8 Gbps speeds. The switch offers a rich set of standard software features with the options to expand its capabilities as needed.

The Brocade 300 features the EZSwitchSetup wizard and can be configured in the Brocade Access Gateway mode of operation to simplify deployment. The switch provides full non-blocking performance with Ports On Demand scalability to support SAN expansion and enable long-term investment protection.

The following figure shows the Brocade 300.

Figure 1. Brocade 300

Brocade is the market share leader in Fibre Channel networking and is deployed in 90% of the Fortune 1000 data centers.

The Brocade 300 offers dual functionality as either a full-fabric SAN switch or as an N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV)-enabled Brocade Access Gateway that simplifies server connectivity in heterogeneous enterprise fabrics.

With flexible feature expansion capabilities — such as Ports-on-Demand scalability from 8 to 16 or 24 ports (in 8-port increments) — the Brocade 300 enables organizations to start small and grow their storage networks in a non-disruptive manner.

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The Brocade 300 FC SAN switch offers the following features and benefits:

• Provides an affordable, flexible foundation for entry-level SANs, and an edge switch for core-to-edge SAN environments.
• Delivers up to 24 ports of 8 Gbit/sec performance in an energy-efficient, optimized 1U form factor to support the most demanding server and virtual server deployments.
• Consumes less than 2.5 watts of power per port for exceptional power and cooling efficiency.
• Simplifies configuration and management with easy-to-use Brocade EZSwitch Setup.
• Enables “pay-as-you-grow” scalability from single-switch fabric to full-fabric enterprise capabilities with Ports On Demand scalability from 8 to 16 or 24 ports in 8-port increments.
• Optimizes fabric behavior and ensures sufficient bandwidth for mission-critical applications with advanced traffic management capabilities and adaptive networking.
• Offers dual functionality as either a full-fabric SAN switch or as an NPIV-enabled Brocade Access Gateway (requires 24 ports be licensed) that enhances fabric scalability and simplifies management.
• Protects existing device investments with auto-sensing 2, 4, and 8 Gbit/sec capabilities and native operation with Brocade and Brocade M-Series fabrics.

• Runs Brocade Fabric OS, which delivers distributed intelligence throughout the network and enables a wide range of value-added features.

• Supplies a rich set of standard features at no extra cost, including fabric services, advanced zoning, adaptive networking, single-switch full fabric and access gateway operations, and diagnostic tools.
• Expands fabric capabilities with optional licensed functions, including multi-switch full fabric, trunking, advanced monitoring and alerting, and long-distance fabrics.
• Helps achieve higher availability with redundant cooling and nondisruptive software upgrades.
• Accelerates troubleshooting with built-in advanced diagnostics tools.

The following figure shows the port side of the Brocade 300.

Figure 2. Brocade 300 port-side view

Figure 3. Brocade 300 non-port-side view

The following table lists the Brocade 300 system specifications.

The following table lists the Brocade 300 models.

The Brocade 300 part numbers come standard with the following items:

• One Brocade 300 FC SAN Switch
• Serial cable (DB-9/RJ-45 to RJ-45)
• Rubber feet for setting up the switch as a standalone unit
• Fixed rack mount kit
• EZSwitch Setup CD
• Brocade 300 QuickStart Guide
• Access Gateway Quick Start Guide
• Documentation CD
• Warranty information

Note: The switch comes standard without a power cord; it must be purchased together with the switch (see "Power supplies and cables" for details).

The Brocade 300 comes standard with 8 licensed ports. The remaining unlicensed ports can be activated in 8-port increments by purchasing and installing the Brocade Ports on Demand (POD) software license packs. By default, ports 0 through 7 are enabled on the Brocade 300. To enable ports 8 through 15, install a POD license key. To enable ports 16 through 23, install another POD license.

The following table lists additional POD licenses for the Brocade 300.

The Brocade 300 comes without SFP+ media; SFP+ transceivers must be ordered together with the switch. The following table lists the supported SFP+ options and optical cables.

* When using ELW SFP+ transceivers over distances over 10 km, the Extended Fabric feature is required on a SAN switch to drive the maximum bandwidth over the extended links (see Table 7 for ordering information).

The following table lists the cabling requirements for the switch.

The Brocade 300 comes standard with the following software features:

• Advanced Fabric Services
  • Full Fabric mode (standalone): Enables high performance 8 Gb switching in single-switch fabric.
  • Brocade Advanced Zoning (default zoning, port/WWN zoning, broadcast zoning)
  • Dynamic fabric provisioning (DFP): Fabric-assigned port World Wide Names (FA-PWWNs).
  • Dynamic path selection (DPS): Distributes input traffic across multiple paths proportionally to the bandwidth of each path.
  • Dynamic load sharing (DLS): Distributes traffic across multiple equivalent paths between switches.
  • Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF)
  • Buffer-to-Buffer (BB) credit flow control
  • Enhanced BB credit loss recovery
  • Fabric Device Management Interface (FDMI)
  • Frame order delivery
  • Frame redirection
  • FC login services
  • Registered State Change Notification (RSCN)
  • Reliable Commit Service (RCS)
  • Simple Name Server (SNS)
  • Fibre Channel Authentication Protocol (FCAP) switch authentication
  • Management Server (MS): Assists in the autodiscovery of switch-based fabrics.
• Adaptive Networking
  • Bottleneck detection: Identifies devices attached to the fabric that are slowing down traffic.
  • Ingress rate limiting: Restricts the speed of traffic from a particular device to the switch port.
  • Traffic isolation zoning (TIZ): Creates a dedicated path for traffic flowing from a specific set of source ports (F_Ports).
  • Quality of Service (QoS): SID/DID traffic prioritization
• Virtualization
  • N_Port ID virtualization (NPIV): Enables a single FC port to appear as multiple, distinct ports with separate port identification within the fabric.
  • Access Gateway (requires all 24 ports be licensed): Leverages NPIV to connect to any fabric without adding switch domains to reduce management complexity.
• Management
  • IPv4 and IPv6 addressing
  • Firmware upload and download
  • Hot code load and activation
  • Network Time Protocol (NTP) v3
  • EZ Switch Setup Wizard
  • Command line interface (CLI)
  • Brocade Web Tools
  • Brocade Network Advisor (purchased separately)
  • SNMPv1, SNMPv3, and MIBs
  • SMI-S compliant
  • Syslog
• Security
  • Local switch user accounts
  • LDAP, RADIUS, TACACS+ user authentication
  • Role-based access control (RBAC)
  • Administrative Domains: Partition the fabric into logical groups and allocate administration of these groups to different user accounts
  • IP Security (IPsec)
  • IP filtering with access control lists (ACLs)
  • HTTPS
  • Secure Copy (SCP)
  • Secure RPC
  • Secure FTP (SFTP)
  • Secure Shell (SSH) v2
  • Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
  • Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 L2-compliant
• Advanced Diagnostic Tools
  • Power-on self-test (POST)
  • MAPS basic monitoring: Monitors system resources and overall switch health status.
  • Event logging
  • Environmental monitoring
  • FCping
  • Pathinfo (FC traceroute)
  • Non-disruptive daemon restart
  • Port mirroring
  • Port fencing: Disables a port if specified error conditions are met.
  • RAS trace logging

The following optional software features are available for the Brocade 300:

• Full Fabric E_Port: Enables connectivity to multi-switch fabrics.
• ISL Trunking: Allows frame-based consolidation of up to 8 inter-switch links (ISLs) into fault-tolerant and load-balanced trunks with bandwidth of up to 64 Gbps.
• Fabric Vision
  • Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS): Provides a policy-based, fabric-wide threshold monitoring and alerting tool.
  • Flow Vision: Allows to identify, monitor, and analyze specific application flows.
• Extended Fabric: Extends Fibre Channel SANs beyond 10 km distance limitations for replication and backup at full bandwidth.

The following table lists ordering information for the optional software features for the Brocade 300 (one software license per switch).

* Enterprise Bundle includes ISL Trunking, Fabric Vision, and Extended Fabric licenses.

Software subscription and maintenance is included in the Brocade 300 base warranty (see the Warranty section for details), which provides 1-year software support with the option to extend it up to 7 years in 1-year or 2-year increments.

Notes:

• In order to receive code updates for Brocade switches, a support case needs to be opened with Lenovo with the switch machine type and serial number. Lenovo support will provide the code once entitlement has been validated.
• The delivery of firmware is standard business hours from Lenovo L3 USA - please be advised that the firmware delivery may be next business day depending on time of the service call and location.

The Brocade 300 supports the following standards:

• FC-AL-2 INCITS 332: 1999
• FC-BB-2 INCITS 372: 2003
• FC-BB-3 INCITS 414: 2006
• FC-DA INCITS TR-36: 2004
• FC-FLA INCITS TR-20: 1998
• FC-FS INCITS 373: 2003
• FC-FS-2 ANSI/INCITS 424:2006
• FC-GS-4 ANSI INCITS 387: 2004
• FC-GS-5 ANSI INCITS 427:2007
• FC-IFR INCITS 1745-D, revision 1.03 (under development)
• FC-LS INCITS 433: 2007
• FC-MI-2 ANSI/INCITS TR-39-2005
• FCP-2 INCITS 350: 2003 (replaces FCP ANSI X3.269: 1996)
• FC-PI INCITS 352: 2002
• FC-PI-2 INCITS 404: 2005
• FC-PI-4 INCITS 1647-D, revision 7.1 (under development)
• FC-PLDA INCIT S TR-19: 1998
• FC-SB-3 INCITS 374: 2003 (replaces FC-SB ANSI X3.271: 1996; FC-SB-2 INCITS 374: 2001)
• FC-SP INCITS 426-2007
• FC-SP-2 INCITS 496-2012
• FC-SW-3 INCITS 384: 2004
• FC-SW-4 INCITS 418:2006
• FC-TAPE INCITS TR-24: 1999
• FC-VI INCITS 357: 2002
• MIB-FA INCITS TR-32: 2003
• RFC 2625 IP and ARP Over FC
• RFC 2837 Fabric Element MIB
• SNIA Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) Version 1.03 ISO standard IS24775-2006. Replaces (ANSI INCITS 388: 2004)
• SNIA Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) Version 1.1
• SNIA Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) Version 1.2

The Brocade 300 has one fixed 75 W AC power supply with an IEC 320-C14 connector. The switch comes standard without a power cord; one rack power cable or line cord must be ordered together with the switch (see the following table).

* Available for factory-built custom configurations and solutions only.

The Brocade 300 has the following dimensions and weight (approximate):

• Height: 43 mm (1.7 in.)
• Width: 429 mm (16.9 in.)
• Depth: 307 mm (12.1 in.)
• Weight (without SFPs): 4.2 kg (9.3 lb)

The Brocade 300 is supported in the following environment:

• Air temperature:
  • Operating: 0°C to +40°C (32°F to 104°F)
  • Non-operating: -25°C to +70°C (-13°F to 158°F)
• Maximum altitude:
  • Operating: 3,000 m (9,842 ft)
  • Non-operating: 12,000 m (39,370 ft)
• Humidity:
  • Operating: 10% to 85% at 40°C (104°F), with maximum gradient of 10% per hour
  • Non-operating: 10% to 90% at 70°C (158°F)
• Electrical power:
  • Voltage range: 100 V AC - 240 V AC (nominal)
  • Frequency: 50 Hz - 60 Hz (nominal)
  • Power consumption:
    • Nominal: 48 watts
    • Maximum (with 24 ports at 8 Gbps): 57 watts
• Heat dissipation: 195 BTU per hour
• Acoustical noise emission: 46.7 dB

The Brocade 300's hardware has a one-year Customer Replaceable Unit (CRU), parts-only warranty with 9x5/next business day (NBD) terms. Lenovo offers the service upgrades through warranty maintenance upgrades and post-warranty maintenance agreements with a well-defined scope of services, including service hours, response time, term of service, and service agreement terms and conditions.

Lenovo warranty service upgrade offerings are region-specific; that is, each region might have its own service types, service levels, response times, and terms and conditions. Not all covered types of warranty service upgrades might be available in a particular region. For more information about Lenovo warranty service upgrade offerings that are available in your region, see the Lenovo Services Product Selector that is available at this website:
https://www-304.ibm.com/sales/gss/download/spst/servicepac

The warranty service definitions for the Brocade 300 are listed in the following table.

In general, the following types of Lenovo warranty service upgrades for the Brocade 300 are available:

• Warranty and maintenance service upgrades:
  • Onsite support for 9x5 NBD coverage
  • One, three, four, or five years of 9x5 or 24x7 service coverage
  • Onsite response from next business day to four or two hours
  • Up to five years of warranty extension for all service levels in one or two year increments
• Remote Technical Support Services (RTS) - 1 or 3 years

  RTS provides comprehensive technical call center support. RTS can reduce problem resolution time, which decreases the cost to address technical problems and increases uptime.

The Brocade 300 FC SAN Switch conforms to the following regulations:

• Electromagnetic compatibility
  • FCC Part 15, Subpart B (Class A)
  • EN 55022 (Class A)
  • EN 55024
  • ICES-003 (Class A)
  • VCCI (Class A)
  • KN22 and KN24
  • GB 9254-2008
  • CNS 13438
  • CISPR22
• Safety
  • UL/CSA 60950-1
  • EN 60950-1
  • IEC 60950-1
  • GB 4943.1-2011
  • CNS 14336-1:99
  • EU RoHS

Lenovo provides end-to-end FC SAN compatibility testing to deliver interoperability throughout the network. The Brocade SAN switches support connectivity to Lenovo servers, storage systems, and tape backup units by using FC or FC over Ethernet (FCoE) storage connectivity protocols.

FC SAN storage systems

The following table lists the external storage systems that are offered by Lenovo that can be used in Brocade FC SAN solutions.

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the following categories:

• Lenovo Storage
  https://lenovopress.com/storage/san/lenovo
• IBM Storage
  https://lenovopress.com/storage/san/ibm

FC SAN tape backup units

The following table lists the external backup options that are offered by Lenovo that can be used in Brocade FC SAN solutions.

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the Backup Units category:
http://lenovopress.com/servers/options/backup

FC SAN switches

The following table lists the FC SAN switches that are offered by Lenovo that can be used in Brocade FC SAN solutions.

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the following categories:

• Rack-mount SAN switches
  http://lenovopress.com/storage/switches/rack
• Embedded SAN switches
  http://lenovopress.com/storage/switches/embedded

The following table lists the converged switches that are offered by Lenovo that can be used as FCoE/FC gateways in Brocade FC SAN solutions.

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the following categories:

• 10 Gb Top-of-Rack Switches
  http://lenovopress.com/networking/tor/10gb
• 10 Gb Embedded Switches
  http://lenovopress.com/networking/embedded/10gb

The following table lists the rack cabinets that are offered by Lenovo that can be used in Brocade FC SAN solutions.

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the Rack cabinets category:
http://lenovopress.com/servers/options/racks

The following table lists the power distribution units (PDUs) that are offered by Lenovo that can be used in Brocade FC SAN solutions.

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the Power Distribution Units category:
http://lenovopress.com/servers/options/pdu

The following table lists the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units that are offered by Lenovo that can be used in Brocade FC SAN solutions.

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the Uninterruptible Power Supply Units category:
http://lenovopress.com/servers/options/ups

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For more information, see the following resources:

• Brocade 300 FC SAN Switch product page
  http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/systems/storage/san/fibre-channel-switches/brocade-300
• US Announcement Letter
  http://ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=dd&subtype=ca&&htmlfid=897/ENUS115-057
• For more information, see the Brocade 300 FC SAN Switch product publications, available from the Brocade 300 Resource Library:
  http://www.brocade.com/en/products-services/storage-networking/fibre-channel/300-switch.html
  • Hardware Installation Guide
  • Access Gateway Administrator's Guide
  • EZSwitchSetup Administrator's Guide
  • Fabric OS Administrator's Guide
  • Flow Vision Administrator's Guide
  • Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite Administrator's Guide
  • Web Tools Administrator's Guide
  • Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide
  • Fabric OS Command Reference
  • Fabric OS Message Reference
  • Fabric OS MIB Reference