Smartphone manufacturer Micromax has deployed Brocade’s Ethernet fabric technology in its new virtualized data center. The company had been planning to install network infrastructure that would enable a high level of operational automation while having the flexibility to accommodate rapid growth in the data center capacity.
Micromax is starting with approximately 40 Virtual Machines (VMs) running on four racks of blade servers and expects to scale this up to 100 VMs and 10 server racks within a year. The Brocade switches have been deployed with an initial 24 fiber ports enabled and, as more server connections are needed, additional 8-port increments up to a maximum of 64 per switch can be added.
Micromax selected Brocade?s low-latency VDX 6740 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switches as the network foundation of the new data center on account of the strength of Brocade VCS Fabric technology, ease of configuration, and cost-effective performance and scalability. These switches have also been deployed to accelerate application performance, availability, and improve security.
Meanwhile, more switches can also be added to the Brocade VCS Logical Chassis at the centre using four built-in 40 GbE connector ports. These interconnected switches operate as a seamless Ethernet fabric, and as a single virtual device. This reduces the company?s operating costs since configuration and monitoring are greatly simplified.
