In New Delhi: Brocade has unveiled a new Virtual Cluster Switching, (VCS(TM)), to address the requirements of virtualized data centres. According to the company VCS overcomes the limitations of conventional Ethernet networking by applying the reliability, flexibility and scalability of fabric switching to data centre architectures. Through VCS, enterprises will be able to transition their existing network architectures to converged data centre fabrics.
The product will enable businesses to build converged data centre fabrics. These fabrics are inherently multi-pathing and resilient, effectively eliminating the need for Spanning Tree Protocol (STP).
The company further informs that this system provides continuous synchronisation of state, status and configuration information -- such as virtual machine (VM) meta-data, network and storage policies -- between member nodes to enable converged fabrics to be self-forming, auto-healing and self-configuring.
"Brocade has paved the way for data centre network fabric convergence by combining the best characteristics of existing and emerging technologies into a new network architecture that is purpose-built for virtualized data centres," said Dave Stevens, Brocade CTO.
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