User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Lenovo ThinkSystem DB730S FC SAN Switch Product Guide
- Did you know?
- Key features
- Components and connectors
- System specifications
- Models
- Port activation licenses
- Transceivers and cables
- Firmware
- Management software
- Fibre Channel standards
- Power supplies and cables
- Rack installation
- Physical specifications
- Operating environment
- Warranty and support
- Services
- Regulatory compliance
- Interoperability
- External storage systems
- External backup units
- Rack cabinets
- Power distribution units
- Uninterruptible power supply units
- Related publications and links
- Related product families
- Notices
- Trademarks
Accelerates troubleshooting with built-in advanced diagnostics tools featuring ClearLink Diagnostics
with D_Ports (Diagnostic Ports) and select adapters from QLogic and Emulex, which helps ensure
optical and signal integrity for 32G and 64G Fibre Channel optics and cables.
Brocade Fabric Vision
To further simplify operations and increase visibility, the DB730S includes Brocade Fabric Vision®
technology to monitor and analyze the SAN. This technology provides visibility and insight to quickly identify
problems and achieve critical service-level agreements (SLAs).
The DB730S Switch with Fabric Vision technology provides a robust analytics architecture that delivers
autonomous SAN technology through self-learning, self-optimizing, and self-healing capabilities. Fabric
Vision technology is a suite of features that leverage comprehensive data collection capabilities with
powerful analytics to quickly understand the health and performance of the environment and identify any
potential impacts or trending problems. The combination of SAN analytics and automation technologies
unlocks the capabilities to deliver a self-learning, self-optimizing, and self-healing autonomous SAN.
Features of Fabric Vision include:
Self-Learning
Gather and transform billions of data points into network intelligence
Visualize application and device-based performance and health metrics
Detect abnormal traffic behaviors and degraded performance
Eliminate operational steps by automatically learning application flows
Self-Optimizing
Optimize critical application performance by automatically prioritizing traffic
Guarantee application performance by proactively monitoring and actively shaping traffic
Eliminate human errors and performance impacts through open DevOps automation
technology
Optimize administrative resources with cloud-like SAN orchestration
Self-Healing
Instantly notify end devices of congestion for automatic resolution
Ensure data delivery with automatic failover from physical or congestion issues
Detect and automatically reconfigure out-of-compliance fabrics
Eliminate performance impacts by automatically taking corrective action on misbehaving
devices
Brocade SANnav™ Management Portal
To streamline management workflows, organizations can leverage the optional subscription based Brocade
SANnav Management Portal software to accelerate the deployment of new applications, switches, servers,
and storage. Furthermore, a modernized graphical user interface (GUI) improves operational efficiencies
with visual dashboards for instant visibility and faster troubleshooting. For more information, see the
Management software section.
EZSwitchSetup
With EZSwitchSetup, organizations can reduce the number of steps to deploy and configure a switch. In
addition, the simplified user interface of Brocade Web Tools makes the SAN easier to manage. For more
information, see the EZSwitchSetup User Guide, available from
https://docs.broadcom.com/doc/FOS-90x-
EZSwitch-UG
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