The industry-leading design of the Flex System FC5022 16Gb SAN Scalable Switch, Flex System FC5022 24-port 16Gb SAN Scalable Switch, and Flex System FC5022 24-port 16Gb ESB SAN Scalable Switch provides flexible, reliable, and high-performance features that meet the demands of highly virtualized environments and cloud-based architectures.
The base model of this scalable switch provides 12 ports. With the optional 12-port and 24-port licensing for pay-as-you-grow scalability, you easily and cost-effectively can scale this switch to 48 ports. The Enterprise Switch Bundle (ESB) model comes with 24 ports and a complete set of Brocade advanced SAN fabric service licenses to optimize fabric performance and availability, and to simplify SAN management. These switch models all feature industry-leading 16 Gbps performance to support traffic growth and increased requirements for virtualized workloads.