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Brocade 6505 24x 16Gb SFP Port FC SAN Switch

Model No: NA-6505-12-16G-MC-1R

P/N: 80-1008310-03

In Good Condition, Full Working Order

Tested

1 Year Warranty

Back-to-Front Airflow

12-Ports Active

Includes Extended Fabric, Fabric Watch, Performance Monitor, Trunking, and Fabric Vision licenses

Included

1 x Brocade 6505 24x 16Gb SFP Port FC SAN Switch NA-6505-12-16G-MC-1R
1 x 150W Power Supply

Description

Flexible, Easy-to-Use Entry-Level SAN Switch for Private Cloud Storage
To keep pace with growing business demands, data centers are transitioning to highly virtualized, private cloud storage environments. This approach enables organizations to consolidate and simplify their IT resources, resulting in increased business agility and lower capital and operating expenses. But virtualization is not without its challenges. Data centers must keep up with the explosive data growth and dynamic changes driven by virtualized workloads. Selecting the right network is key to realizing the full benefits of these cloud-based architectures.

The Brocade 6505 Switch with Gen 5 Fibre Channel provides exceptional price/performance value, combining flexibility, simplicity, and enterprise-class functionality in an entry-level switch. Designed to enable maximum flexibility and reliability.

A simplified deployment process and a point-and-click user interface make the Brocade 6505 both powerful and easy to use. Moreover, the Brocade 6505 offers low-cost access to industry-leading Gen 5 Fibre Channel technology while providing "pay-as-you-grow" scalability to meet the needs of an evolving storage environment.

Exceptional Price/Performance for Growing SAN Workloads
The Brocade 6505 combines market-leading throughput with an affordable switch form factor, making it ideal for growing SAN workloads. The 24 ports produce an aggregate 384 Gbps full-duplex throughput; any eight ports can be trunked for 128 Gbps Inter-Switch Links (ISLs). Exchange-based Dynamic Path Selection (DPS) optimizes fabric-wide performance and load balancing by automatically routing data to the most efficient and available path in the fabric. It augments Brocade ISL Trunking to provide more effective load balancing in certain configurations.

In addition, the Brocade 6505 provides a low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) thanks to a 12-port base configuration, easy administration, 1U footprint, and low-energy consumption—0.22 watts per Gbps and 3.3 watts per port. Enterprise-class capabilities combined with a low TCO yield 40 percent higher performance compared to 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) alternatives at a similar cost.

Industry-Leading Technology That Is Flexible, Simple, and Easy to Use
The Brocade 6505 delivers industry-leading Gen 5 Fibre Channel technology within a flexible, simple, and easy-to-use solution. The base configuration includes 12 ports, with up to 24 ports on demand. In addition to providing best-in-class scalability, the Brocade 6505 is easy to deploy with the Brocade EZSwitchSetup wizard and the ClearLink Diagnostic Ports (D_Ports) feature, which simplifies setup.

Features

Provides exceptional price/performance value, combining flexibility, simplicity, and enterprise-class functionality in a 24-port, 1U entry-level switch
Enables fast, easy, and cost-effective scaling from 12 to 24 ports
Leverages Brocade Fabric Vision technology's powerful monitoring, management, and diagnostic tools to simplify administration, increase uptime, and reduce costs
Helps pinpoint problems faster and simplify SAN configuration and management with Brocade Network Advisor
Simplifies deployment with the Brocade EZSwitchSetup wizard and supports high-performance fabrics by using Brocade ClearLink D_Ports to identify optic and cable issues
Maximizes resiliency with non-disruptive software upgrades and an optional redundant power supply

Brocade Fabric Vision Technology
Brocade Fabric Vision technology, an extension of Gen 5 Fibre Channel, provides unprecedented insight and visibility across the storage network with powerful built-in monitoring, management, and diagnostic tools that enable organizations to:

Simplify monitoring:
- Deploy more than 15 years of SAN best practices in one click to simplify the deployment of monitoring with pre-defined, threshold-based rules, actions, and policies
- Gain comprehensive visibility into network health, performance, latency and congestion issues in the fabric using browser-accessible dashboards with drill-down and point-in-time playback capabilities
Increase availability:
- Avoid 50 percent of common network problems with proactive monitoring and advanced diagnostic tools that address problems before they impact operations
- Identify hot spots and automatically mitigate network problems—before they impact application performance—through intuitive reporting, trend analysis, and integrated actions
Dramatically reduce costs:
Eliminate nearly 50 percent of maintenance costs through automated testing and diagnostic tools that validate the health, reliability, and performance of the network prior to deployment
Save up to millions of dollars on CapEx costs by eliminating the need for expensive third-party tools through built-in monitoring and diagnostics targets/LUNs, from multiple hosts to a specific target/LUN, or across a specific ISL. Additionally, they can perform LUN-level monitoring of specific frame types to identify resource contention or congestion that is impacting application performance.
Flow Generator: Provides a built-in traffic generator for pre-testing and validating the data center infrastructure—including route verification and integrity of optics, cables, ports, back-end connections, and ISLs—for robustness before deploying applications.
Forward Error Correction (FEC): Enables recovery from bit errors in ISLs, enhancing transmission reliability and performance.
Credit Loss Recovery: Helps overcome performance degradation and congestion due to buffer credit loss.

Specification
System Architecture

Fibre Channel ports:
- Switch mode (default): 12- and 24-port configurations (12-port increment through Ports on Demand [PoD] license); E, F, M, D ports
- Brocade Access Gateway default port mapping: 16 F_Ports, 8 N_Ports
Scalability: Full-fabric architecture with a maximum of 239 switches
Certified maximum: 6,000 active nodes; 56 switches, 19 hops in Brocade Fabric OS fabrics; larger fabrics certified as required
Performance: Fibre Channel: 2.125 Gbps line speed, full duplex; 4.25 Gbps line speed, full duplex; 8.5 Gbps line speed, full duplex; 14.025 Gbps line speed, full duplex; auto-sensing of 2, 4, 8, and 16 Gbps port speeds
ISL trunking: Frame-based Trunking with up to eight 16 Gbps ports per ISL trunk; up to 128 Gbps per ISL trunk. Exchange-based load balancing across ISLs with DPS included in Brocade Fabric OS.
Aggregate bandwidth: 384 Gbps end-to-end full duplex
Maximum fabric latency: Latency for locally switched ports is 700 ns; Forward Error Correction (FEC) adds 400 ns between E_Ports (enabled by default).
Maximum frame size: 2,112-byte payload
Frame buffers: 8,192 dynamically allocated
Classes of service: Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames)
Port types: D_Port (ClearLink Diagnostic Port), E_Port, F_Port, M_Port (Mirror Port); optional port type control, Brocade Access Gateway mode: F_Port and NPIV-enabled N_Port
Data traffic types: Fabric switches supporting unicast
Fibre Channel distance subject to fiber-optic cable and port speed USBOne USB port for system log file downloads or firmware upgrades

Management

Supported management software: HTTP, SNMP v1/v3 (FE MIB, FC Management MIB), SSH; Auditing, Syslog; Brocade Advanced Web Tools; Brocade Network Advisor SAN Enterprise or Brocade Network Advisor SAN Professional/Professional Plus; Command Line Interface (CLI); SMI-S compliant; Administrative Domains; trial licenses for add-on capabilities
Security: DH-CHAP (between switches and end devices), FCAP switch authentication; HTTPS, IPsec, IP filtering, LDAP with IPv6, OpenLDAP, Port Binding, RADIUS, TACACS+, User-defined Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Secure Copy (SCP), Secure RPC, SFTP, SSH v2, SSL, Switch Binding, Trusted Switch
Management access: 10/100 Mbps Ethernet (RJ-45), in-band over Fibre Channel, serial port (RJ-45), and one USB port
Diagnostics: ClearLink optics and cable diagnostics, including electrical/optical loopback, link traffic/latency/distance; flow mirroring; built-in flow generator; POST and embedded online/offline diagnostics, including environmental monitoring, FCping and Pathinfo (FC traceroute), frame viewer, non-disruptive daemon restart, port mirroring, optics health monitoring, power monitoring, RAStrace logging, and Rolling Reboot Detection (RRD)

Mechanical

Enclosure: Back-to-front airflow (port-side exhaust); power from back, 1U
Size
- Width: 437.64 mm (17.23 in.)
- Height: 43.18 mm (1.7 in.)
- Depth: 443.23 mm (17.45 in.)
System weight:
- 7.82 kg (17.25 lb) with one power supply, without transceivers
- 9.16 kg (20.19 lb) with two power supply FRUs, without transceivers

Environment

Operating environment
- Temperature: 0°C to 40°C/32°F to 104°F
- Humidity: 10% to 85% (non-condensing)
Non-operating environment
- Temperature: -25°C to 70°C/-13°F to 158°F
- Humidity: 10% to 90% (non-condensing)
Operating altitude: Up to 3,000 m (9,843 ft)
Storage altitude: Up to 12 km (39,370 ft)
Shock
- Operating: Up to 20 G, 6 ms half-sine
- Non-operating: Half-sine, 33 G 11 ms, 3/eg axis
Vibration
- Operating: 0.5 g sine, 0.4 grms random, 5 Hz to 500 Hz
- Non-operating: 2.0 g sine, 1.1 grms random, 5 Hz to 500 Hz
Heat dissipation: 24 ports at 338 BTU/hr

Power

Power supply: Base switch includes a single, hot-swappable power supply with integrated system cooling fans. Optional dual redundant hot-swappable power supply.
AC input: 85 V to 264 V ~5 A to 2.5 A
Input line frequency: 47 Hz to 63 Hz
Power consumption:

80 W with all 24 ports populated with 16 Gbps SWL optics
60 W for empty chassis with no optics

Boot Log:

sw0:admin> version
Kernel:     2.6.14.2
Fabric OS: v8.2.2d
Made on:    Fri Sep 25 22:48:15 2020
Flash:      Thu May 25 17:15:39 2023
BootProm:   1.0.11

sw0:admin> switchshow
switchName:     sw0
switchType:     118.1
switchState:    Online
switchMode:     Native
switchRole:     Principal
switchDomain:   1
switchId:       fffc01
switchWwn:      10:00:c4:f5:7c:fd:52:c0
zoning:         OFF
switchBeacon:   OFF
HIF Mode:       OFF

Index Port Address Media Speed   State       Proto
==================================================
0   0   010000   id    N16     No_Light    FC
1   1   010100   --    N16     No_Module   FC
2   2   010200   --    N16     No_Module   FC
3 3   010300   --    N16     No_Module   FC
4   4   010400   --    N16     No_Module   FC
5   5   010500   --    N16     No_Module   FC
6   6   010600   --    N16     No_Module   FC
7   7   010700   --    N16     No_Module   FC
8   8   010800   --    N16     No_Module   FC
9   9   010900   --    N16     No_Module   FC
  10 10   010a00   --    N16     No_Module   FC
  11 11   010b00   --    N16     No_Module   FC
  12 12   010c00   --    N16     No_Module   FC (No POD license)
  13 13   010d00   --    N16     No_Module   FC (No POD license)
  14 14   010e00   --    N16     No_Module   FC (No POD license)
  15 15   010f00   --    N16     No_Module   FC (No POD license)
  16 16   011000   --    N16     No_Module   FC (No POD license)
  17 17   011100   --    N16     No_Module   FC (No POD license)
  18 18   011200   --    N16     No_Module   FC (No POD license)
  19 19   011300   --    N16     No_Module   FC (No POD license)
  20 20   011400   --    N16     No_Module   FC (No POD license)
  21 21   011500   --    N16     No_Module   FC (No POD license)
  22 22   011600   --    N16     No_Module   FC (No POD license)
  23 23   011700   --    N16     No_Module   FC (No POD license)

sw0:admin> chassisshow

FAN Unit: 1
Fan Direction:          Reverse (Non-portside Intake)
Time Awake:             0 days

POWER SUPPLY Unit: 1
Power Source:           AC
PS Voltage input:       Not Available

Time Awake:             0 days

CHASSIS/WWN Unit: 1
Header Version:         2
Factory Part Num:       40-1000737-03
Factory Serial Num:     CCD1940N08F
Manufacture:            Day: 25 Month: 8 Year: 2017
Update:                 Day: 27 Month: 3 Year: 2023
Time Alive:             1865 days
Time Awake:             0 days
ID:                     BRD0000CA
Part Num:               BROCAD0000650

sw0:admin> licenseshow
********************************:
  Extended Fabric license
  Fabric Watch license
  Performance Monitor license
  Trunking license
  Adaptive Networking - obsolete license
  Server Application Optimization - obsolete license
  Fabric Vision license
License Id:
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