Significantly Higher SAN Efficiency
The Brocade iSCSI Gateway enables cost-effective, easy-to-manage server connectivity to Fibre Channel storage devices-enabling remote user and interdepartmental access to these valuable resources. As a result, even the lowest-cost servers can connect to existing SANs.
The Brocade iSCSI Gateway features a compact 1U half-rack-width design (full-rack-width design for clustered configurations). Each device provides two iSCSI ports for connecting to IP networks supporting iSCSI servers, and two 2 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel ports for connecting to Fibre Channel SANs or storage. By enabling block-based access to business-critical information, the Brocade iSCSI Gateway helps organizations rapidly add new servers and clients to their existing Fibre Channel SANs as business needs dictate.
Reduced Operational Costs
By extending the benefits of networked storage to IP-connected servers, the Brocade iSCSI Gateway helps organizations grow and consolidate their current Fibre Channel SAN infrastructures in a simple and cost-effective manner, thereby reducing operational costs.
Intelligent Management and Monitoring
Organizations can easily manage one or more Brocade iSCSI Gateways through a browser-based GUI that can also monitor traffic statistics on each storage and network interface to help ensure high performance.
High Availability
The Brocade iSCSI Gateway provides two-way active/active clustering with failover and failback capabilities for business-critical environments. In addition, multiple iSCSI connections provide multipathing support from a single gateway to as many as 100 servers.
Key Features and Benefits
- Provides a cost-effective iSCSI gateway that combines two Gigabit Ethernet ports and two 2 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel ports in a single device
- Standardizes connectivity across environments, linking servers with a wider range of storage systems
- Improves data availability with dual gateway, active/active clustered failover, failback, and multipathing capabilities
- Provides high performance with 135 MB/sec of throughput, 9500 IOPS, and up to 100 simultaneous iSCSI connections
- Increases application deployment flexibility with compatibility for Windows, AIX, HP-UX, Linux, NetWare, and Solaris iSCSI initiators
- Enables Web-based management for rapid deployment and simplified management
- Provides traffic statistics on each storage and network interface to help identify bandwidth usage by host and target pairs
SAN Standards Compliance - Software
Brocade products conform to SAN standards in a manner consistent with accepted engineering practices and procedures.