Specifications

DATA CENTER BEST PRACTICES

SAN Design and Best Practices 83 of 84

APPENDIX E: REFERENCES

Software and Hardware Product Documentation

•Brocade Fabric OS v7.1 Release Notes

•Brocade Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide, supporting Brocade Fabric OS v7.1

•Brocade Fabric OS Command Reference Manual, supporting Brocade Fabric OS v7.1

•Brocade Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide, supporting Brocade Fabric OS v7.1

•Brocade Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide, supporting Brocade Fabric OS v7.1

•Brocade Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide, supporting Brocade Fabric OS v7.1

•Hardware Reference Guides and QuickStart Guides for backbone, director, switch, and blade platforms

Technical Briefs

www.brocade.com/sites/dotcom/data-center-best-practices/resource-center/index.page

www.brocade.com/products/all/san-backbones/product-details/dcx8510-backbone/specications.page

Brocade Compatibility Matrix

www.brocade.com/forms/getFile?p=documents/matrices/compatibility-matrix-fos-7x-mx.pdf

Brocade Scalability Guidelines

www.brocade.com/forms/getFile?p=documents/matrices/scalability-matrix-fos-v7.0a.pdf

Brocade SAN Health

www.brocade.com/services-support/drivers-downloads/san-health-diagnostics/index.page

Brocade FOS Features

http://www.brocade.com/forms/getFile?p=documents/brochures/FabricOS_Guide.pdf

Brocade Bookshelf

•Principles of SAN Design (updated in 2007) by Josh Judd

•Strategies for Data Protection by Tom Clark

•Securing Fibre Channel Fabrics by Roger Bouchard (updated 2012)

•The New Data Center by Tom Clark

Other