The IBM System Storage™ SAN768B fabric backbone is designed to be the premier platform for consolidation of your data center connectivity, providing high- performance, and highly available data networking. It provides new levels of performance with industry-leading 8 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) technology. The SAN768B interoperates with other members of the IBM System Storage b-type and m-type families and can be configured with a wide range of connectivity options, including 10, 8, 4, 2 and 1 gigabits per second (Gbps) Fibre Channel (FC), up to 4 Gbps Fibre Connection (FICON®) and Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol (FCIP). Designed to enable support for emerging high performance and high function network protocols, including Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). Designed to serve as the basis for transforming existing networks into a unified, high performance data center fabric connecting applications with their data and virtual servers with virtual storage.
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Ports
Up to 384 per chassis, up to 768 when two chassis are connected via inter-chassis links
Optional Features
16-port, 32-port and 48-port 8Gbps Fibre Channel switch blades; 10 Gbps Fibre Channel switch blades; 16 FC + 2 IP FC Routing blades; SFPs and XFPs; fibre optic cables; inter-chassis cable kit; inter-chassis license; upgrade power supply; FICON w/CUP Activation; FCIP/FC Extension
Link Speeds
10 Gbps on dedicated 10 Gbps FC blades; 8, 4, 2 and 1 Gbps auto-sensing on 8 Gbps FC blades; 4 Gbps and Gigabit Ethernet on FC Routing blade, four ICLs with 1 Terabit per second (Tbps) total bandwidth
Operating Systems
z/OS®, AIX®, OS/400®, Microsoft® Windows®, UNIX®, Linux®, selected other operating systems
The IBM TotalStorage® SAN256B is designed to provide outstanding performance, enhanced scalability and a design ready for high performance 4 Gbps capable hardware and expanded capability features. The SAN256B is well suited to address enterprise SAN customer requirements for infrastructure simplification and improved business continuity.
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Ports
up to 384
Link Speeds
1, 2, 4, 8 and 10 Gbps
Operating systems
As supported by IBM Power System, System i™, System p™, System x™ and System z™ servers
Optional Features
16, 32 and 48-port switch blades, routing, iSCSI and distance extension using Fibre Channel or FCIP, short wave and long wave plus GbE optical transceivers GbE copper Ethernet transceivers, FICON® and FICON CUP, extended fabrics, and advanced security.
IBM TotalStorage® SAN140M (2027-140, replaces McDATA® 6064 and 6140) high-availability enterprise director provides 16-140 ports; 1, 2 and 4 Gbps fabric switching for Windows® NT®/2000 and UNIX®; and IBM FICON® switching for mainframe server clustering, infrastructure simplification and business continuity solutions. McDATA Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager provides integrated management of complex IBM SAN m-type core-to-edge fabrics.
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IBM TotalStorage® SAN256M high availability enterprise director (2027-256) provides 10 Gbps backbone connections, 64-256 ports 4 Gbps fabric switching for Windows NT®/2000 and UNIX®; and IBM FICON® switching for mainframe server clustering, infrastructure simplification and business continuity solutions. McDATA® Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager provides integrated management of complex IBM SAN m-type (McDATA) tiered enterprise fabrics.
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Ports
64 - 256
Performance
1 ,2 and 4Gbps devices. 10Gbps inter-switch links, ISLs
IBM TotalStorage® SANC40M (2027-C40, replaces McDATA® Fabricenter FC-512) provides space saving cabinet for IBM TotalStorage SAN m-type (McDATA) directors and switches. Redundant power distribution for high-availability directors, space for 1U rack mount server and 39U for directors and switches and cabling flexibility to support up to 512 Fibre Channel ports.
The Cisco MDS 9513 for IBM System Storage™ provides 12 to 524 ports, 4 Gbps fabric switching for Windows® NT®/2000, UNIX® and mainframe IBM FICON® switching for server clustering, infrastructure simplification and business continuity solutions. The base director offers Virtual SAN (VSAN), Cisco® Fabric Manager and 11 feature slots. Features include 12-, 24- and 48-port 4 Gbps and 4-port 10 Gbps FC Modules; IP and Storage Service Modules; Enterprise, SAN Extension over IP, Fabric Manager Server, Storage Services Enabler and Mainframe Packages
Servers
IBM System z9™, IBM System p5™, IBM System i™, System p™, IBM System x™ and IBM System z™
The Cisco MDS 9506 for IBM System Storage™ supports 1, 2 and 4 Gbps Fibre Channel switch connectivity and intelligent network services to help improve the security, performance and manageability required to consolidate geographically dispersed storage devices into a large enterprise SAN.
Ports
Up to 192
Link Speeds
1, 2, or 4 Gbps
Operating Systems
IBM AIX®, Linux®, Microsoft® Windows NT® or Microsoft Windows® 2000
The Cisco MDS 9509 for IBM System Storage provides 24 to 336 Fibre channel ports—with 2 Gigabit per second performance—and 4 to 40 Gigabit Ethernet ports for iSCSI or FCIP connectivity. With a high-availability design, it includes Virtual SAN (VSAN) capability for SAN consolidation into virtual SAN “islands” on a single physical fabric and comprehensive security for large enterprise SANs deployment. The director uses intelligent networking services to help simplify mainframe FICON and Fibre Channel SAN management and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).
Operating Systems
AIX®, Linux®, Microsoft® Windows NT® or Microsoft Windows® 2000
