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Solution Technology Overview

VMware Horizon View 5.3 and VMware vSphere for up to 2,000 Virtual

Desktops Enabled by Brocade Network Fabrics, EMC VNX, and EMC Next-

Generation Backup

Figure 7. Example of Highly-Available Brocade network design – for FC

block storage network

Brocade 6510 Fibre Channel switches supports provide high availabity for

the VSPEX SAN infrastructure. Active – active links for all traffic from the

virtualized to compute servers to the EMC VNX storage arrays. The

Brocade

6510 Switch meets the demands of hyper-scale, private cloud

storage VSPEX storage traffic environments with market-leading Gen 5

Fibre Channel technology and capability that supports the VSPEX

virtualized architecture.

The failure of a link in a route causes the network to reroute any traffic that

was using that particular link—as long as an alternate path is available.

Brocade Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF) is a highly efficient routing

algorithm that reroutes around failed links in less than a second.

ISL Trunking improves on this concept by helping to prevent the loss of the

route. A link failure merely reduces the available bandwidth of the logical

ISL trunk. In other words, a failure does not completely “break the pipe,”

but simply makes the pipe thinner. As a result, data traffic is much less likely

to be affected by link failures, and the bandwidth automatically increases

when the link is repaired.