Brocade Fabric Vision technology

1. Brocade Fabric Vision technology

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3. Brocade Fabric Vision Technology Advanced monitoring, management, and diagnostics • Maximizes infrastructure uptime • Prevents problems from occurring • Addresses problems before they impact operations — accelerates problem resolution and recovery • Helps dramatically reduce costs • Speeds time to deploy additional capacity • Reduces day-to-day network administration • Optimizes application performance • Minimizes latency and maximizes network throughput • Complements Hitachi flash storage solutions Fabric Vision Technology

4. Brocade Fabric Vision Technology Innovation that dramatically simplifies SAN administration

5. Brocade Fabric Vision Technology Advantage • Optimized application performance and availability • Automation to accelerate time-consuming provisioning and troubleshooting • A variety of integrated tools for in-depth statistics and analysis • Powerful dashboard views to instantly pinpoint problem areas

6. Real-Life Customer Example ClearLink Diagnostics in action • An enterprise customer was getting ready to deploy a large SAN into production • The cable solution provider had signed off on the cable plan • Before deploying into production, the customer ran ClearLink Diagnostics on the new infrastructure and found hundreds of cable and optics issues that the cable vendor missed • The cable vendor came back and fixed the problems • Downstream problems were avoided

7. Customizable Brocade Network Advisor Dashboards SAN health and performance dashboard views for proactive operations • Instantly view out-of-compliance conditions, congestion, and latency concerns on flows • View status of SFPs and a variety of port-level error statistics to locate intermittent issues • View statistics on time-based graphs to correlate events • View the overall health of the SAN and quickly identify potential problem areas • See the number and severity of events, both real-time and historical

8. Brocade Fabric Vision Technology Extending Gen 5 Fibre Channel • Optimizes application performance and availability • Complements Hitachi flash storage solutions • Accelerates time-consuming provisioning and troubleshooting tasks • Offers integrated tools for in-depth statistics and analysis • Provides powerful dashboard views to instantly pinpoint problem areas

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