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IBM System Storage SAN40B-4

High-performance, scalable and ease-of-use for medium-size SAN environments

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Product characteristics
Produce Number 2498-B40 and 249840E
Base fabric switch IBM System Storage SAN40B-4 switch with 40 ports, 24 ports activated (0 to 23) and Fabric OS (FOS) 6.1.0 or later, hardcopy Installation Guide, CD-ROM (with manuals), service and wrap tools, small form factor pluggable (SFP) extraction tool, two 110 volt power cords for rack installation, rail kit, Advanced Zoning, Enhanced Group Management, EZSwitchSetup wizard, Fabric Watch, Full Fabric, Web Tools
Fibre Channel interface E_Port, F_Port, FL_Port, M_Port and optional EX_Port
Optical transceivers Choice of 8 Gbps short wave (supports 8, 4 and 2 Gbps link speeds) and 4 Gbps short wave and long wave (supports 4, 2 and 1 Gbps link speeds) SFP; SFPs; must be ordered for all active ports
Fans and power supplies Dual power supply/fan modules
Hot-swappable components SFP optical transceivers, power/fan modules
Non-rack support Non-rack installation is supported; country-specific power cords are required and must be ordered
Servers supported*
  • IBM Power Systems, IBM System i® and selected IBM AS/400® servers, IBM System p® and selected IBM RS/6000® servers
  • System x, selected IBM Netfinity® servers and other Intel® processor-based servers
  • IBM System z9® EC, z9® BC, zSeries® 990 and 900
  • Select Sun and HP servers
Operating systems supported*
  • Microsoft® Windows NT®, Windows® 2000, Windows 2003
  • Red Hat Linux®, Red Hat Linux Advanced Server
  • SUSE Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
  • IBM z/OS® and IBM OS/390®
  • Other selected operating systems
Storage Products Supported*
  • IBM System Storage DS8000®, DS6000™ and DS4000® storage servers
  • IBM TotalStorage® Enterprise Storage Server® systems
  • IBM TotalStorage FAStT Family of storage servers
  • IBM System Storage N Series NAS filers and gateways
  • IBM TotalStorage 3580, 3588, 3590, and 3592 tape drives
  • IBM TotalStorage 3494, 3582, 3583 and 3584 tape libraries
  • IBM TotalStorage 3581 Tape Autoloader
  • IBM TotalStorage 3584 High Availability Frame Model HA1
  • IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller
  • Other selected storage systems
Fibre Channel switches supported Current IBM System Storage and TotalStorage SAN b-type and m-type switches, routers and directors (must be running current firmware)
Fibre optic cable Fibre optic cables are required and are available in various lengths in single-mode and multi-mode formats
Power cords Jumper cables are included for rack installation; country-specific power cords must be ordered for desktop/standalone installation
Warranty 1-year; customer replaceable unit (CRU); warranty service upgrades are available
Optional features 8-Port Activation, Adaptive Networking, Advanced Performance Monitor, Enterprise Package**, Extended Fabric, Fibre Channel Routing, FICON with control unit port (CUP), Integrated Routing, Trunking Activation, SAO license
Physical characteristics
Height 4.29 cm/1.69 inches
Width 42.88 cm/16.88 in
Depth 61.0 cm/24.0 in
Weight 9.34 kg/20.6 lb
Temperature Operating: 0° to 40° C (32° to 104° degrees F)
Non-operating: -25° to 70° C (-13° to 158° F)
Humidity Operating: 10% to 85% non-condensing @ 40° C (104° F)
Non-operating: 10% to 90% non-condensing at 70° C (158° F)
Power 90-264 V ac (Universal), 47-63 Hz

* For most current and complete details, refer to ibm.com/systems/storage/san/b-type

** Enterprise Package includes two 8-Port Activation features, Adaptive Networking, Advanced Performance Monitor and Trunking Activation

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