Fibre Channel Switches for M-Series Blade Enclosure

Enterprise server farms, large enterprise data centers and virtualized environments

Infrastructure optimization and connectivity for existing storage investments

Extending benefits of server virtualization to the network and storage

Data centers deploying blades to FC SANs.

Small to large data center deployments requiring greater flexibility and scalability.

Fully optimizing available I/O bandwidth between physical and virtual servers and native FC SANs.

Broader connectivity to more Fibre Channel SANs utilizing industry standard NPIV.

Auto-Negotiating Full Fabric Fibre Channel or Access Gateway

Easily integrating Fibre Channel (FC) technology into new or existing Storage Area Network (SAN) environments using the PowerEdge M1000e blade enclosure, Brocade M5424 8Gbps FC SAN I/O Module (Brocade M5424) and Dell/EMC storage

Reducing optical and cabling components.

Simplifying deployment and management of a Dell blade server environment into Brocade fibre channel SANs

Easily integrate Fibre Channel technology into new or existing Storage Area Network (SAN) environments using the PowerEdge M1000e blade enclosure, Brocade M4424 Switch and Dell/EMC storage

Reducing optical and cabling components.

Simplify deployment and management of a Dell blade server environment with the dual function Brocade M4424, providing NPIV based Access Gateway functionality or full fabric switch functionality

Utilize advanced software tools to ease SAN management while increasing availability and performance

Connecting M-Series blades into the Fibre Channel (FC) infrastructure of your choice.

Eliminating FC SAN switch management within the blade chassis with one-to-one connectivity of internal (server HBA) ports to external (SAN) ports.

Protecting your investment with a product that can run at 8, 4 or 2 gigabits per second, depending on your needs.