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IBM System Storage SAN80B-4

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

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Feature Benefits
Efficient 2U design
  • High-density 48, 64 and 80-port configurations
Auto-sensing 8, 4, 2 and 1 Gbps ports Designed to:
  • Enable high performance and improved utilization
  • Enable rapid switch deployment with minimal set-up
  • Provide easy installation and manageability
  • Offer future readiness for 8 Gbps capable servers and storage devices
Hot swappable SFP optical transceivers
  • Provides fast and easy replacement of optical transceivers with no tools required
  • Support for both short wave and long wave optical transceivers
Inter-switch link (ISL) Trunking
  • Support for up to 8-port ISLs provides total bandwidth of 128 Gbps
  • Helps eliminate packet rerouting and possible application failure due to link failure
Advanced zoning
  • Hardware-enforced zoning helps protect against non-secure, unauthorized and unauthenticated network and management access and World Wide Name spoofing
N_Port ID Virtualization
  • Allows each host image behind the same physical host bus adapter (HBS) to connect to an F_Port using a unique N_Port ID to help maximize port usage in a virtualized server environment
EZSwitchSetup and Web Tools
  • Quickly guides novice users through setup
  • Helps simplify administration and configuration
Hot firmware activation Designed to:
  • Significantly reduce firmware installation time
  • Enable fast firmware upgrades
  • Help elimination disruption to existing fabric
  • Help reduce administrative overhead
Integrated power supply/fan modules
  • Reduced power, cooling and weight
  • Fewer FRUs reduces service complexity
Redundant power and cooling
  • Helps avoid outages to maximize fabric availability
Upgradeable architecture for scalable SAN fabrics
  • Optional features enable upgrades to support more complex fabrics
  • Modular upgrades enable a pay-as-you-grow approach to adding features when needed
Backward compatibility with IBM SAN b-type and m-type fabrics
  • Helps provide investment protection for existing fabrics
  • Allows inter-operation with other SAN products manufactured by Brocade
  • Supports native interoperability with m-type products manufactured by McDATA (running current firmware)
Server Application Optimization license
  • Maximizes server consolidation and enables more virtual machines (VMs) per server without compromising service level agreements (SLAs) for critical applications

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