Systems Architecture
Fibre Channel ports Switch mode (default): 24-, 36-, and 48-port
congurations (12-port increments through
Ports on Demand [PoD] licenses);
universal (E, F, M, D, EX) ports
Brocade Access Gateway default port
mapping: 40 F_Ports, 8 N_Ports
Scalability Full fabric architecture with a maximum of
239 switches
Certied maximum 6000 active nodes; 56 switches, 19 hops in
Brocade Fabric OS
®
fabrics; 31 switches, three
hops in Brocade M-EOS fabrics; larger fabrics
certied as required
Performance Auto-sensing of 2, 4, 8, and 16 Gbps port speeds;
10 Gbps and optionally programmable to xed
port speed.
ISL trunking Frame-based trunking with up to eight
16 Gbps ports per ISL trunk; up to 128 Gbps
per ISL trunk. Exchange-based load balancing
across ISLs with DPS included in Fabric OS.
There is no limit to how many trunk groups
can be congured in the switch.
Aggregate bandwidth 768 Gbps end-to-end full duplex
Maximum fabric latency Latency for locally switched ports is 700 ns;
encryption/compression is 5.5 µsec per node;
Forward Error Correction (FEC) adds 400 ns
between E_Ports (enabled by default).
Maximum frame size 2112 byte payload
Frame buffers 8192 dynamically allocated
Classes of service Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames)
Port types D_Port (Diagnostic Port), E_Port, EX_Port,
F_Port, M_Port (Mirror Port); self-discovery
based on switch type (U_Port); optional port
type control
Brocade Access Gateway mode: F_Port and
NPIV-enabled N_Port
BROCADE 6510 SPECIFICATIONS
Data trafc types Fabric switches supporting unicast
Media types Hot-pluggable, industry-standard Small Form-
Factor Pluggable (SFP+), LC connector; Short-
Wavelength (SWL), Long-Wavelength (LWL);
Extended Long-Wavelength (ELWL); distance
depends on ber optic cable and port speed.
Supports SFP+ (2, 4, 8, 10, 16 Gbps) optical
transceivers.
USB One USB port for system log le downloads or
rmware upgrades
Fabric services
Note: Some fabric services
do not apply or are
unavailable in Brocade
Access Gateway mode.
Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring
(APM) (including Top Talkers for E_Ports,
F_Ports, and Fabric mode); Brocade Adaptive
Networking (Ingress Rate Limiting, Trafc
Isolation, QoS); Bottleneck Detection; Brocade
Advanced Zoning (default zoning, port/WWN
zoning, broadcast zoning); Dynamic Fabric
Provisioning (DFP); Dynamic Path Selection
(DPS); Extended Fabrics; Enhanced BB credit
recovery; Brocade Fabric Watch; FDMI; Frame
Redirection; Frame-based Trunking; FSPF;
Integrated Routing; IPoFC; ISL Trunking;
Management Server; NPIV; NTP v3; Port
Fencing; Registered State Change Notication
(RSCN); Reliable Commit Service (RCS); Server
Application Optimization (SAO); Simple Name
Server (SNS); Virtual Fabrics (Logical Switch,
Logical Fabric)
Extension Fibre Channel, in-ight compression
(Brocade LZO) and encryption (AES-GCM-256);
integrated 10 Gbps Fibre Channel for DWDM
MAN connectivity
FICON FICON
®
cascading; support for lossless DLS;
FICON CUP
to the core of SAN fabrics. This makes it
transparent to the SAN fabric, greatly
reducing management of the network edge.
The Brocade 6510 in Access Gateway mode
*
can connect servers to NPIV-enabled
Brocade B-Series, Brocade M-Series, or
other SAN fabrics.
Organizations can easily enable Access
Gateway mode via Brocade Network Advisor
or a CLI. Key benets of Access Gateway
mode include:
• Improved scalability for large or rapidly
growing server and virtual server
environments
• Reduced management of the network
edge, since Access Gateway does not
have a domain identity and appears
transparent to the core fabric
• Support for heterogeneous SAN
congurations without reduced
functionality for server connectivity
BROCADE GLOBAL SERVICES
Brocade Global Services delivers world-class
professional services and technical support to
enable the transition to virtualized data centers
and cloud-optimized architectures. Brocade
Professional Services offers assessment,
design, and implementation services to help
organizations optimize their SAN architectures
in cloud-optimized data centers. Brocade
Premier Support and onsite residencies
help organizations maximize availability of
mission-critical data in SAN environments
through personalized, preferential, and
proactive technical support.
MAXIMIZING INVESTMENTS
To help optimize technology investments,
Brocade and its partners offer complete
solutions that include professional services,
technical support, and education. For more
information, contact a Brocade sales
partner or visit www.brocade.com.
* Note: Access Gateway mode for the Brocade 6510
is supported only in 48-port congurations.