Brocade unveils HP-branded Brocade 8 Gbps Fibre Channel products

Brocade has announced a set of HP-branded Brocade 8 Gbps Fibre Channel data center and server connectivity products and a virtualization solution bundle. The new offerings extend the Brocade storage area network (SAN) and server connectivity portfolio delivered by HP. The products, which work with HP’s BladeSystem platform, help provide thousands of data center customers globally with highly scalable and reliable access to data in mission-critical environments. Brocade also announced that the companies have achieved a record-breaking milestone by shipping over 7 million HP StorageWorks B-series Fibre Channel ports to date.

 

The new 8 Gbps Fibre Channel products and virtualization solution bundle extend the broad portfolio of Brocade storage networking and server connectivity solutions that HP already offers.

 

The new solutions include the Brocade 804 8 Gbps Fibre Channel HBA for HP c-Class BladeSystem; the HP StorageWorks P2000 G3 Modular Smart Array (MSA) Virtualization SAN Starter Kit; and the HP StorageWorks B-series Data Center SAN Director 64-port 8 Gbps Fibre Channel Blade:

 

The new 8 Gbps Fibre Channel mezzanine card offers high-performance connectivity, extends fabric services to the server and applications and integrates seamlessly with management software such as HP StorageWorks Data Center Fabric Manager. The new Fibre Channel mezzanine card supports Server Application Optimization (SAO) to extend data center fabric technologies to the server infrastructure, thereby optimizing overall application performance and virtual machine scalability. The new mezzanine card also provides storage connections for all HP ProLiant server blades and is compatible with the 8 Gbps Brocade SAN switch, as well as HP’s Virtual Connect Fibre Channel modules.

 

Meanwhile, the HP StorageWorks P2000 G3 Modular Smart Array (MSA) Virtualization SAN Starter Kit consists of an 8 Gbps P2000 G3 FC MSA storage array, six 8 Gbps HP StorageWorks B-series host bus adapters (HBAs), two 8 Gbps HP StorageWorks B-series Fibre Channel switches, as well as two Brocade-based software licenses per switch that enable SAO and Brocade Adaptive Networking.