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IBM System Storage SAN768B and SAN384B

Designed for highest performance and scalability for the most demanding enterprise SAN environments

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Feature Benefits
Hot-swappable and redundant control processors, core routing, modules, power supplies and fans
  • Designed to avoid single points of failure to maximize availability and simplify serviceability
Nondisruptive control processor failover and concurrent firmware activation
  • Helps improve availability through planned and unplanned maintenance
Multiprotocol support for FC, FICON®, FCoE, FCIP, CEE, IPFC
  • Helps simplify network infrastructure with a unified platform to support data center networking requirement
Advanced Inter-Chassis Links—Connects multiple chassis through high-performance, load-balanced links
  • Developed to provide extensive scalability and flexibility at the network core without sacrificing server, storage or switch ports
  • Designed to simplify SAN consolidation with fewer switch domains, easier firmware upgrades and fewer disruptions
SAN768B: Scalable from 16 to 512 ports in a single domain; up to 1536 ports in three domains with Inter-Chassis Links
SAN384B: Scalable from 16 to 256 ports in a single domain; up to 768 ports in three domains with Inter-Chassis Links
  • Aimed to maximize port density in a smaller footprint to reduce space requirements, power consumption and costs
  • Designed to scale efficiently and non-disruptively to meet storage growth and application demands, without adding complexity
Inter-Switch Link Trunking—Combine as many as eight links into a single 64 Gbps logical Inter-Switch Link (ISL)
  • Designed to optimize and balance performance, bandwidth and availability
  • Developed to overcome link failures with automated rerouting
Adaptive Networking—Uses QoS, Ingress Rate Limiting and Traffic Isolation to manage performance
  • Intended to assure bandwidth for critical servers, virtual servers or applications
  • Designed to reduce latency and minimize congestion
Advanced Performance Monitoring—Provides end-to-end visibility into fabric performance
  • Tailored to simplify and improve fabric design, planning, tuning and optimization
  • Enables more accurate reporting for managing service level agreements
Fabric Watch—Monitors and creates alerts based on the health of switch and fabric elements
  • Intended to simplify failure and disruption detection to improve availability
  • Integrates easily with existing enterprise systems management tools
FICON with CUP Activation—Enables in-band management of the SAN768B and SAN384B by System Automation for z/OS®
  • Provides easy integration with z/OS management tools for FICON hardware resources
Server Application Optimization- isolates and prioritizes individual Virtual Machine data flow for end-to-end QoS, preserving individual SLAs from each VM through the SAN
  • Maximizes server consolidation and enables more Virtual Machines (VMs) per server without compromising Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for critical applications
Virtual Fabrics—Partitions a physical switch into independently managed logical switches
  • Enables virtual data and management domains without sacrificing performance, scalability, security, or reliability
  • Simplifies resource allocation by customer, department, application, or storage tier

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