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The add-on licensing model puts additional responsibility on the customer to analyze their requirements and potential upgrade paths, but the tradeoff is switch technology like the 6150 can be tailored to match the needs of the SAN fabric and can be enhanced with add-ons over time to add new functionality as needs change. Our review unit is configured with 24 ports active as part of the Brocade 6150’s base configuration, while additional ports can be activated via licensing.
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The Brocade 6510 represents best-of-class Fibre Channel SAN switching, which is an important asset to the StorageReview Enterprise Storage Lab in order to ensure that network components do not bottleneck storage devices during SAN benchmarks. With an aggregate 768Gb/s throughput and an 18-inch deep 1U footprint, the 6510 supports 2, 4, 8, 10, or 16 Gb/s Fibre Channel across 24, 36, or 48 ports of connectivity and with a feature set that can be extended via add-on licenses for a wide variety of usage scenarios.
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The Brocade 6510 switch features up to 48 ports of Gen 5 Fibre Channel technology with specifications suitable for hyper-scale, private cloud, virtualized, and other high-bandwidth Fibre Channel environments.