Highlights
- Provides exceptional value, flexibility, simplicity, and enterprise-class functionality
- Enables fast, easy, and cost-effective scaling from 12 to 48 ports
- Simplifies compute node connectivity and Storage Area Networks (SAN) scalability
- Through Feature on Demand license keys, customers can now activate additional ports or enable advanced capabilities such as fabric watch and ISL trunking
- Available as three offerings to meet customer requirement; 12-port base model, 24-port model and 24-port model with Advanced Software licenses
- Just-in-Time future DPOD upgrade scalability
- High performance end to end 16 Gb support
- Auto negotiate at 8 Gb speed to connect with existing storage targets
Network complexity in data centers is growing and you have to make a range of important decisions for any new deployment. You can’t afford to add risk to your environment so you need to address network capacity planning for your current and future needs with the following considerations in mind:
- Cost—current demands and future growth
- Interoperability with existing environment
- Reliability—especially crucial for SAN planning
The IBM® Flex System™ FC5022 SAN Scalable Switch meets the demands of hyper-scale, private cloud networked storage environments by delivering market-leading 16/8 Gbps Fibre Channel technology as well as expert optimized, automated and integrated capabilities. The switch is designed to support highly virtualized computing and Storage Area Network (SAN) environments with high performance, reliability and usability. The IBM Flex System FC5022 SAN Scalable Switch is available as a 12-port base model, 24-port model and a 24-port Enterprise model. The enterprise model includes a powerful enterprise software bundle of advanced SAN fabric services. Through Feature on Demand license keys, customers can now activate additional ports on the base switch, or enable advanced capabilities such as fabric watch and ISL trunking, by applying software license keys. Customers have complete choice of one or more of the following options to apply to the base hardware:
Product features
Meet the demands of hyper-scale, private cloud networked storage environments with market-leading 16 Gbps Fibre Channel technology as well as expert optimized, automated and integrated capabilities. The switch is designed to support highly virtualized computing and Storage Area Network (SAN) environments with high performance, reliability and usability. The IBM Flex System FC5022 SAN Scalable Switch is available as 12-port base model, 24-port model and 24-port model with Enterprise Service License.
Hardware summary
Ports:
- Up to 48 total physical ports: 28 internal, 20 external
- 48 virtual channels per port
Contact IBM
- Request a quote
- Email IBM
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Call IBM: 1-866-261-3023
Priority code: 102LH02W
Product resources
- IBM PureFlex System brochure (890KB)
- IBM PureFlex system configurations (971KB)
- Data sheet (862KB)
- Product guide
- IBM Redpaper: 16Gb Fibre Channel for Storage-Intensive Enterprise Workloads
- Technical support
Special offers
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