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Brocade M5424 8Gb Fibre Channel Switch for M1000e-Series Blade Enclosures

Brocade® switching technology Integrated with Dell M1000e blade architecture

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Flexible platform that delivers advanced Brocade functionality, performance, manageability, scalability and security.

  • Ideal for larger Storage Area Networks
  • Integration of SAN switching capabilities can help to reduce complexity and increase SAN manageability
  • Up to 16 internal fabric ports and up to 8 2Gb/4Gb/8Gb auto-sensing uplinks

Brocade M5424

Highlights

The Brocade® M5424 switch and the Dell™ PowerEdge™ M1000e blade enclosure provide robust solutions for Fibre Channel SAN deployments. Not only does this offering help simplify and reduce the amount of SAN hardware components required for a deployment, but it also maintains the scalability, performance, interoperability and management of traditional SAN environments.

Fast, Reliable 8-Gbit/sec Performance

  • Non-blocking and non-oversubscribed platform with an aggregate bandwidth of 128 Gbit/sec end-to-end
  • Optional adaptive networking services, including adaptive fabric quality of service, traffic isolation and ingress rate limiting, enabling organizations to maintain optimized application performance in virtual environments

Excellent Value for a Variety of SAN Environments

  • Easily integrate Fibre Channel (FC) technology into new or existing Storage Area Network (SAN) environments using the PowerEdge M1000e blade enclosure, Brocade® M5424 and Dell/EMC storage
  • New platform combines with Brocade® 8Gb edge switches from Dell to extends the next generation dynamic Data Center Fabric features of Brocade® backbone DCX architecture to the Dell PowerEdge M1000e Chassis.

Fibre Channel ports

  • 24 ports available in five port increments through Ports on Demand Licensing at 12, and 32 universal ports(E, F, and FL)

Scalability

  • Full fabric architecture with 239 switches maximum

Certified maximum

  • 50 switches. Larger fabrics may be certified as required.

Interoperability

  • All Brocade switches and Directors

Performance

  • 1.063 Gbit/sec line speed, full duplex; 2.125 Gbit/sec line speed, full duplex; 4.25 Gbit/sec full duplex; 8.50 Gbit/sec full duplex; Auto-sensing of 1 Gbit/sec, 2 Gbit/sec, 4 Gbit/sec and 8 Gbit/sec port speeds; optionally programmable to fixed port speed; Speed matching between 1 Gbit/sec, 2 Gbit/sec, 4 Gbit/sec, and 8Gbit/sec ports

ISL Trunking

  • Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking allows up to four ports between a pair of switches to be combined to form a single, logical ISL with an aggregate speed of up to 32 Gbit/sec for optimal bandwidth utilization and load balancing.

Aggregate bandwidth

  • 128 Gbit/sec end to end

Fabric latency

  • 1.2 µsec with no contention, cut-through routing at 4 Gbit/sec. Latency increases as input port speed increases and becomes disparate from out put port speed.

Maximum frame size

  • 2112-byte payload

Classes of Service

  • Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames)

Port Types

  • FL_Port, F_Port, N_Port, and E_Port; self-discovery based on switch type (U_Port)

Data Traffic Types

  • Fabric switches supporting unicast and broadcast

Media Types

  • Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) laser. Short-wave up to 500 m (1,640 ft), and Long-wavelength up to 10km

Fabric Services

  • Simple Name Server, Registered State Change Notification (RSCN). Optional fabric services include: Brocade Advanced Zoning; Brocade Fabric Watch; Brocade ISL Trunking; Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring; Brocade Web Tools.

Options

  • SFP media, Ports on Demand, Advanced Fabric Services

Management

  • Management software supported

    Telnet; SNMP (FE MIB, FC Management MIB); Brocade Advanced Web Tools with Ease of Use and Ease of Setup; Brocade Advanced Zoning; Brocade Fabric Manager (optional)
     
    Management Access

    10/100 Ethernet port (RJ-45); Internal Serial port (RS-232); In-band via Management Server

Diagnostics

  • POST and embedded online/offline diagnostics

Chassis

  • Enclosure
    Width: 272.75 mm
    Height: 32.48 mm
    Depth: 307.24 mm
    Weight: 4.65 Pounds— without media

Environmental Operating Conditions

  • Temperature
    Operating: 0°C to 40°C (32°F to 104°F)
    Non-Operating: -20°C to 70°C (-4°F to 158°F)

    Humidity
    Operating: 10% to 90%, non-condensing at 29°C
    Non-Operating: 5% to 95%, non-condensing at 38°C

    Altitude
    Operating: Up to 3,048 m (10,000 ft)
    Storage: Up to 10.668km (35,000ft)

    Shock
    Operating: 20G for 6ms
    Non-operating: 50G with a velocity change of 4216 mm/sec squared

    Vibration
    Operating: 0.4G at 5 Hz to 500 Hz for 60 minutes
    Non-operating: 0.5G at 2 Hz to 200 Hz for 15 minutes; 1.04 GRMS Random for 15 minutes

Power

  • DC Input 12V and 3.3V from chassis
    Power consumption About 32 Watts

Regulatory

  • The M5424 complies with the following safety certifications:
    United States Bi-Nat UL/CSA 60950-1 1st Ed or latest; ANSI C63.4
    Canada Bi-Nat UL/CSA 60950-1 1st Ed or latest; ICES-003 Class A
    Japan CISPR22 and JEIDA (Harmonics)
    European Community EN60950-1 or latest EN55022 and EN55024
    Australia/New Zealand -- EN55022 or CISPR22 or AS/NZS CISPR22
    Argentina IEC60950-1 or latest
    Russian Federation IEC60950-1 or latest 51318.22-99 and 51318.24.99 or latest
    Korea KN22 and KN24
Dell can offer, via Local Partners, a wide range of Services to suit you and your business. Extensions to the parts or exchange warranty, upgrades to any service level required, International warranty, Installation Services, and other competitive items are available. Dell can also offer Custom Factory Integration (CFI) to customise hardware settings and add Asset Services.

Please contact your Local Partner for further information.
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