Partners

Brocade and Microsoft Virtualization

As the leader in data center networking solutions that help enterprises connect and manage their information, Brocade is pleased to work with Microsoft to offer products and services that extend virtualization from the server to the storage network.

Brocade is working with Microsoft to ensure support and integration of the Microsoft Windows virtualization and System Center technologies. When an enterprise application -- such as SQL Server, BizTalk, or an Oracle database application -- is running in a Windows virtual server environment, Brocade can help ensure reliable, secure access to the application’s data by deploying the Brocade DCF architecture. Companies can leverage these solutions to build a truly dynamic environment that features adaptive networking, non-disruptive services, enterprise-class data protection, and unmatched scalability.

• Optimizing system performance: End-to-end data center fabric and host bus adapter (HBA) management capabilities that enable IT organizations to monitor the health and performance of the SAN infrastructure and use the information to dynamically optimize data and server resources in virtualized data centers.
• Bridging the “virtualization management gap”: A comprehensive portfolio of data center networking products that empower organizations to make informed decisions about where to place, migrate, or reconfigure applications, hardware, and virtual machines.

Customer Scenario

Customers continue to ask us for simpler and more efficient ways to track and manage their critical data to maintain business continuity, and the advent of virtualization and virtual machine mobility has only magnified that need.

To maintain a competitive advantage, IT organizations are turning to virtualization solutions built around pools of flexible server and storage resources that can meet dynamic business requirements. However, to implement a holistic data center virtualization strategy, these organizations need a unified, end-to-end solution based on a powerful, reliable, and scalable IT infrastructure.

Brocade + Microsoft Solution

Brocade Management Pack for Microsoft System Center interoperates directly with Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO), a feature of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM), to offer expanded visibility and dynamic management of virtualized infrastructures beyond the confines of the server and into the shared storage network. PRO's real-time monitoring and remedial capabilities enable IT organizations to act upon an event that is impacting performance or a pending failure in the storage network, ultimately helping them to optimize application performance, seamlessly connect data, and unify management of their information assets.

Pro-enabled management pack

The Brocade PRO-enabled management pack monitors the health and performance of data center SAN infrastructure, monitoring IO performance from the server to the data in the SAN—if link congestion exceeds a set threshold, a PRO Tip recommends VM migration from that host.

• The Brocade Management Pack
  A new server-to-storage area network management productivity solution for Microsoft System Center.

Solution Briefs

• Performance and Resource Optimization: Brocade Management Pack for Microsoft System Center
  The Brocade Management Pack for System Center monitors the health and performance of data center SAN infrastructure to help IT manage virtual server workload.
• Brocade Management Pack for Microsoft System Center
  Maintain business continuity while virtualizing the Data Center.
• Brocade Virtualization Solutions for a Microsoft Environment
  Brocade, the world leader in Data Center Fabric technology, is working with Microsoft to ensure support and integration of the Microsoft Windows virtualization and System Center technologies.
• Brocade Host Bus Adapter Technology Leadership
  Brocade Management Pack for Microsoft System Center – at a Glance

Webcasts

• Brocade TechBytes - Building an Intelligent Network for Your Hyper-V Environment
  Listen to host Tom Clark, Microsoft virtualization solutions expert Jim Schwartz, and Brocade virtualization expert Herman Chao to explore networking considerations as you consolidate your server environment with Microsoft Hyper-V.

FAQ

• Brocade Management Pack for Microsoft System Center FAQs

Demos

• The Brocade Management Pack
  Brocade’s HBAs Deliver Virtual Server Management and Performance Optimization to SCVMM Users.

Press releases

• Brocade Showcases Brocade Management Pack for Microsoft System Center