Brocade Application Switching Products

ServerIronXL Series

Industry's best entry price and price/performance with all essential application traffic management features for small and mid-sized server farms
High density 10/100 Ethernet ports with a choice of copper and fiber 2-port GbE uplinks, and redundant power
World's most widely deployed application switch in over a thousand networks

Overview
Features
Specifications
System Options
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Overview

Brocade ServerIronXL series switches are the world's most deployed application traffic management devices with tens of thousands of units in over a thousand networks. These switches pack all the essentially swiss-army-knife application traffic management features, including server load balancing, layer 7 switching, global load balancing and ISP link load balancing at the industry's best entry price. The XL series features two fixed-configuration 10/100 Ethernet switches for small server farms with optional Gigabit fiber and copper uplink ports. Redundant power supplies and DC power are offered as factory installed options on both the products.

The ServerIronXL switches are ideal for small server farms and entry level performance needs where cost of the solution is a key consideration. They deliver high availability IP and Web applications at the industry's best price. The switches are built on hardened switch architecture and feature integrated support for basic Layer 3 functions.

ServerIronXL Series Configurations

ServerIronXL 16 (FCSLB16) – Fixed configuration 16-port 10/100 Ethernet with optional redundant power and uplink slot for copper and fiber GbE connectivity.
ServerIronXL 24 (FCSLB24) – Fixed configuration 24-port 10/100 Ethernet with optional redundant power and uplink slot with copper and fiber GbE connectivity.

Features

Traffic Management

Extensive Layer 7 Features: Rich application intelligence, including URL, cookies, SSL session IDs, request type, and other IP traffic, to deliver application scalability, security and acceleration.
Superior Connection Performance: ServerIron switches deliver unprecedented application transaction performance scalable up to 500,000 concurrent sessions.
Advanced Load Balancing: A rich set of methods to load balance client traffic to multiple servers to increase availability and scalability of critical applications.
Sophisticated Health Monitoring from Layer 2 through 7: Customizable server and application health monitoring permits rapid failure detection and service recovery to maintain maximum uptime
Hardware and Software Based Hitless Failover: High availability features such as multi-switch session mirroring and synchronization with redundant AC or DC power supplies maximize uptime in the most critical environments.

Security

DoS Protection: Denial of Service attack protection, including protection against SYN/ACK attacks with the Brocade SYN-Defense technology.
Server Connection Rate Limiting: ServerIron switches can control amount of traffic a particular server receives, which prevents abuse and attacks while increasing the availability of applications without blocking legitimate traffic.

Global Load Balancing

Global Server Load Balancing (Multi-Site Redundancy): The ServerIron switches can be enabled for this application to offer multi-site redundancy and scalability for IP and Web applications using standards-based DNS and IP routing.
Total Transparency to Existing DNS Solution: Works with the existing DNS servers left in place with standards-based interoperability to protect the investment of the current infrastructure. The ServerIron offers increased and independent scaling of the global DNS performance.
Intelligent Traffic Distribution: With advanced site load distribution features such as proximity metrics, and adaptable site specific configurations can be created to provide content localization and efficient traffic delivery.

Advanced L2 and L3

Integrated Full-Function Layer 2 Switching: Industry's most comprehensive Layer 4-7 switching platform with advanced Layer 2 switching for cost-effective and simplified network design with device consolidation. ServerIron XL includes the ability to utilize static routes and also connect to attached servers that are not on their local subnet protecting the inside IP addresses from outside viewing.
High Performance Stateful IP NAT: Deploying network address translation on the ServerIron protects servers and reduces load on the high cost firewalls

Specifications

	ServerIronXL 16 Port	ServerIronXL 24 Port
Concurrent Sessions	1,000,000	1,000,000
Throughput	800 Mbps	800 Mbps
L4 Connection Performance (CPS)	19,000	19,000
L7 Connections/Sec	4,000	4,000
Number of 10/100 ports	16	24
Number of Gigabit ports	2	2
Total number of ports	18	26
Layer 3 switching capabilities	Supports servers on different subnets from that of Virtual IP address	Supports servers on different subnets from that of Virtual IP address
Physical dimensions	2.75"h x 17.5"w x 16.75"d (6.7cm x 44.5cm x 42.2cm)
Weight	18-22 lbs (8-10 kg)
Power Requirements	110v/220v auto-sensing

System Options

Part Number	Description
ServerIronXL Base Platforms
FCSLB16*	16-port 10/100Base-TX (RJ45) ServerIronXL with one expansion slot
FCSLB24*	24-port 10/100Base-TX (RJ45) ServerIronXL with one expansion slot
FCSLB16-U2GC	16-port 10/100Base-TX (RJ45) ServerIronXL with 2 Gigabit copper uplink ports in expansion slot
FCSLB16-F2GE	16-port 10/100Base-TX (RJ45) ServerIronXL with 2 Gigabit 1000Base-SX (SC) for 50 or 62.5 um MMF uplink ports in expansion slot
ServerIronXL System Options
FCSLB16*	16-port 10/100Base-TX (RJ45) ServerIronXL with one expansion slot
U2GC	2-port 1000Base-T (RJ45) copper Gigabit uplink
F1GE	1-port 1000Base-SX (SC) Gigabit uplink for 50 or 62.5 um MMF
F2GE	2-port 1000Base-SX (SC) Gigabit uplink for 50 or 62.5 um MMF
RPS	Redundant auto-switching 90-240v AC power supply for ServerIronXL 16/24 port only
RPS-I	(International Orders Only) Redundant auto-switching 90-240v AC power supply for ServerIronXL 16/24 port only
RPSDC-FC	-48VDC power supply for ServerIronXL 16/24 only and is a factory configuration only