| Product characteristics |
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| Product number |
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2109-M48 |
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| Base fabric director |
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Base chassis includes two control processor blades and slots for one to eight blades |
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| Fibre Channel interfaces |
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E-Port, F_Port, FL-Port |
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| FICON interfaces |
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8 Gigabits per second (Gbps) or 4 Gbps |
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| IP interfaces |
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1 Gigabite Ethernet (GbE) |
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| Transceivers |
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- 8 Gbps and 4 Gbps SFP and 10 Gbps XFP shortwave and longwave optical transceivers (optical transceivers may be used on any of the ports of the SAN768B (both FC and GbE))
- A 1 Gigabit per second copper SFP is available for use on Ethernet ports
- All ports on a blade must be populated with transceivers
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| Fans and power supplies |
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Dual power supplies and blowers with option for two additional power supplies and blowers |
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| Hot-swap components |
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SFP and XFP optical transceivers, control processor blades, switch, routing, iSCSI and 10 Gbps blades, power supplies, blowers |
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| Rack support |
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IBM TotalStorage SAN Cabinet (2109-C36) only |
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| Non-rack support |
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Non-rack installation is not supported |
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| Management software |
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Web Tools, Fabric Watch, Performance Monitor |
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| Servers supported |
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IBM System z and IBM eServer zSeries servers; IBM System x™ and IBM eServer xSeries® servers; IBM Power Servers, IBM System p™ and IBM eServer pSeries® servers; IBM System i™ and IBM eServer iSeries™ servers; Other Intel® processor-based servers; Selected Sun and HP servers; IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) |
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| Operating systems supported |
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IBM z/OS®, AIX® and OS/400®, Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows 2003; Red Hat Linux®, Red Hat Linux Advanced Server; SUSE Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES); United Linux; Novell® NetWare® |
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| Storage products supported |
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IBM System Storage DS8000™ series; IBM System Storage DS6000™ series; IBM System Storage DS4000™ series; IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server®; IBM TotalStorage 357x, 358x, and 359x Tape Drives and Libraries (not supported with 3590 or LTO®; Generation 1 Tape Drives); IBM TotalStorage 3494 Tape Library when using 3592 Tape Drives; Other selected storage systems |
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| Fibre Channel switches supported |
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IBM TotalStorage SAN b-type switches, directors and routers
IBM TotalStorage SAN m-type directors (running current firmware)
Other switches, directors and routers manufactured by Brocade |
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| Fibre optic cable |
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Fibre optic cables are required and are available in various lengths in single mode and multi-mode formats |
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| Warranty (standard) |
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1-year; |
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| Optional features |
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Advanced Networking Services; FICON Accelerator, M48 Remote Switch Activation; M48 Extended Fabric Activation; M48 FICON with CUP Activation; M14/M48 N_Port ID Virtualization, M48 FCIP Activation, 2 Additional Power Supplies |
