The Brocade VDX 8770 and VCS Fabric technology enable a highly simplified data center network. Designed specifically for highly virtualized environments, VCS Fabric-based Ethernet fabrics accelerate application deployment and enable faster virtual machine (VM) migrations through zero-touch VM discovery, VM mobility, and VM port configuration migration. Using VCS Fabric-based fabrics, customers can manage dozens of switches as a single logical device, reducing operating costs. They can also save installation time since new switches self-configure when connected to the fabric.
With today's virtualized and cloud-focused data center architectures, application performance is heavily dependent on the efficiency and utilization of the network infrastructure. Virtual machine density per server is also growing rapidly as customers seek to maximize server utilization. To support these requirements, they need a high-performance network that can scale on demand to meet the immediate needs of any business.
The Brocade VDX 8770 provides fabric scalability for the world's largest data center environments, enabling customers to expand a single VCS fabric to up to 8,000 ports, with a maximum of 384,000 virtual machines connected to the fabric—twenty times the scalability of its leading competitor. Designed for today's real-time applications, the Brocade VDX 8770 also offers the lowest port-to-port latency on the market at 3.5 microseconds across all 1 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), 10 GbE, and 40 GbE ports—half the latency of its closest competitor.
Furthermore, the Brocade VDX 8770 sets a new standard for network efficiency and fault tolerance, with enhanced scalability and Layer 3 gateway load balancing in the fabric. By combining this Layer 3 innovation with VCS Fabric trunking and TRILL-based Layer 2 load balancing, customers can achieve improved network flexibility and superior application performance by maximizing available network bandwidth.
