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IBM TotalStorage SAN256B

High performance and scalability for the most demanding enterprise SAN requirements

  
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Feature Benefits
Redundant control processors, power supplies and fans
  • Designed to avoid single points of failure


  • Can help improve system availability
Non-disruptive control processor failover and concurrent firmware activation
  • Help improve availability through planned and unplanned maintenance
Auto-sensing 8, 4, 2 and 1 Gbps ports
  • High link speeds offer extraordinary performance


  • Auto-negotiation offers easy interoperability with a wide range of servers, storage systems, switches and directors
Scalable from 16 to 384 ports in a single domain
  • Manage fewer elements in large scale SANs


  • Scalable in 16-, 32- or 48-port increments


  • Install longwave or shortwave transceivers on a port-by-port basis
Access from lower-cost servers via iSCSI
  • Provides economical connection to large capacity, high-performance storage devices
Advanced Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking
  • Combine as many as eight links to from a single logical ISL


  • Capable of forming aggregate bandwidth of 64 Gbps


  • Help simplify management and improve reliability
High-performance extended distance ISL links
  • 10 Gbps ISLs support extended distance connections


  • Useful for full band-width utilization of dark fibre or DWDM links
Frame Filtering
  • Enable end-to-end performance analysis


  • Monitor specific devices or ports
Fibre Channel connectivity
  • Supports the interconnection of multiple IBM SAN switches and directors


  • Implement fault tolerant storage solutions

 
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