Brocade G630

Brocade G630

  • The Brocade G630 enterprise-class switch delivers industry-leading port density with 128 Fibre Channel ports in an elegant 2U form factor.
  • With 96 32 Gbps SFP+ ports and 8 4×32 Gbps Q-Flex ports, the compact design of the switch enables data centers to scale efficiently and deliver more connectivity with fewer switches
  • Integrate NVMe-ready solutions without a rip-and-replace

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High Scalability and Flexibility
High Performance
User-Centered Design

  • Adapt to storage growth and demanding workloads with the industry's highest-density 128-port 32 Gbit/s Gen 6 Fibre Channel switch

  • Optimize performance and ensurereliability with enhanced monitoring for NVMe
  • Integrate NVMe-ready solutions without a rip-and-replace

  • Accelerate operations with simple and open automation that increases productivity
  • Simplify end-to-end management of large-scale environments by automating repetitive administrative tasks
  • Provide proactive, real-time monitoring and alerting of storage IO health and performance with integrated network sensors
  • Enable Virtual Machine (VM) visibility in a storage fabric in order to monitor VM performance, identify VM anomalies, and optimize VM performance

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    High Scalability and Flexibility
    • Adapt to storage growth and demanding workloads with the industry's highest-density 128-port 32 Gbit/s Gen 6 Fibre Channel switch
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    High Performance
    • Optimize performance and ensurereliability with enhanced monitoring for NVMe
    • Integrate NVMe-ready solutions without a rip-and-replace
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    User-Centered Design
    • Accelerate operations with simple and open automation that increases productivity
    • Simplify end-to-end management of large-scale environments by automating repetitive administrative tasks
    • Provide proactive, real-time monitoring and alerting of storage IO health and performance with integrated network sensors
    • Enable Virtual Machine (VM) visibility in a storage fabric in order to monitor VM performance, identify VM anomalies, and optimize VM performance

Tech Specs

Fibre Channel ports 96 SFP+ ports capable of operating at 4/8/10/16/32 Gbit/s Fibre Channel auto-sensing speeds;
8 QSFP ports capable of operating at 4×32 / 4×16 / 4×8 / 4×4 Gbit/s Fibre Channel speeds.
Offers a base configuration of 48 ports, two 24-port SFP+ PoD (Ports on Demand), and one 32-port QSFP PoD. The switch has a total of eight 32 Gbit/s QSPF ports. This allows users to grow from 48 ports to 128 ports. Supports F/E/EX_Port and D_Port types on the SFP+ ports and only F/E/EX_Port and D_Port types on the QSFP ports with Brocade Fabric OS® (FOS) v8.2.0.
Scalability Full-fabric architecture with a maximum of 239 switches
Certified maximum Single fabric: 56 domains, 7 hops
MPR fabric: 19 hops
Performance Fibre Channel: 4.25 Gbit/s line speed, full duplex; 8.5 Gbit/s line speed, full duplex; 10.53 Gbit/s line speed, full duplex; 14.025 Gbit/s line speed, full duplex; 28.05 Gbit/s, full duplex; 112.2 Gbit/s, full duplex; auto-sensing of 4/8/10/16/32 Gbit/s port speeds and capable of supporting 128 Gbit/s speeds; 10 Gbit/s optionally programmable to fixed port speed. Auto-sensing of 4×32 / 4×16 / 4×8 / 4×4 Gbit/s speeds on the QSFP ports with Brocade FOS v8.2.0.
ISL trunking Frame-based trunking with up to eight 32 Gbit/s connections between a pair of switches combined to form a single logical ISL with a speed of up to 256 Gbit/s (512 Gbit/s full duplex) per ISL trunk. Exchange-based load balancing across ISLs with DPS included in Brocade FOS. On the QSFP ports 256 Gbit/s trunks are supported by trunking 2× (4×32 Gbit/s) QSFP ports.
Aggregate bandwidth 4 Tbit/s
Maximum fabric latency Latency for locally switched ports is 780 ns (including FEC); compression is 1 μs per node
Maximum frame size 2,112-byte payload
Frame buffers 15K frame buffers with dynamic buffer sharing capability across ports
Classes of service Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames)
Port types D_Port (ClearLink Diagnostic Port), E_Port, EX_Port, F_Port, AE_Port, optional port-type control
Data traffic types Fabric switches supporting unicast
Media types Hot-pluggable, industry-standard Small Form-Factor Pluggable Plus (SFP+), LC connector; Short-Wave Laser (SWL), Long-Wave Laser (LWL); Extended Long-Wave Laser (ELWL); distance depends on fiber optic cable and port speed. Supports SFP+ (32/16/8 Gbit/s), SFP+ (16/8/4 Gbit/s), SFP+ 10 Gbit/s optical transceivers, 4×32 Gbit/s QSFP SWL and 4×16 Gbit/s QSFP SWL optical transceivers. Note: 32 Gbit/s ELWL is currently not supported with Brocade FOS v8.2.0 but is planned for future support.
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 (Ingress Rate Limiting, Traffic Isolation, QoS); Fabric Performance Impact (FPI) Monitoring; Slow Drain Device Quarantine (SDDQ); Brocade Advanced Zoning (default zoning, port/WWN zoning, broadcast zoning, peer zoning, target-driven zoning); Dynamic Path Selection (DPS); Brocade Extended Fabrics; Enhanced BB Credit Recovery; FDMI; Frame Redirection; Frame-based Trunking; FSPF; Integrated Routing; Brocade ISL Trunking; Management Server; NPIV; Time Server; Registered State Change Notification (RSCN); Reliable Commit Service (RCS); Simple Name Server (SNS); Virtual Fabrics (Logical Switch, Logical Fabric); Read Diagnostics Parameter (RDP)
Extension Fibre Channel, in-flight compression (Brocade LZO) and encryption (AES-GCM-256); integrated optional 10 Gbit/s Fibre Channel for DWDM MAN connectivity

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