Easy-to-manage enterprise infrastructure simplification and business continuity solutions for IBM System i™, System p™, System x™, and System z™
Highly scalable, 16- to 140-port switching backbone for advanced enterprise infrastructure simplification and business continuity solutions, including mainframe IBM FICON® disk and tape storage
Designed to provide high availability of all IBM SAN switches through redundancy of active components, including hot-swappable processors, fans and power supplies; HotCAT online code activation; and call-home capability with Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager (EFCM) software
Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager, FICON Management Server (CUP) and Open Systems Management Server software designed to help simplify management of complex SAN infrastructures
IBM System Storage and TotalStorage enterprise solutions
A wide range of IBM System Storage™ and TotalStorage® enterprise storage area network (SAN) infrastructure simplification and business continuity solutions can be created with the IBM TotalStorage SAN140M director. Infrastructure simplification solutions for IBM System i, System p and System x Fibre Channel servers and IBM System z mainframe FICON servers include storage consolidation and highest-availability server clustering with IBM TotalStorage DS4000™ series and disk storage arrays. Business continuity solutions include data protection with IBM TotalStorage Ultrium® 2 Linear Tape-Open (LTO) or IBM TotalStorage 3590 and 3592 Tape Drives and IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager data protection software
Infrastructure simplification solutions
High-availability server clustering storage consolidation solutions can be created with redundant directors. A typical entry-level server clustering solution consists of up to 28 Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) and FICON servers, each with dual-channel adapters, and four disk storage arrays, each with dual adapters cross-connected to two 32-port IBM TotalStorage SAN140M directors.
This server clustering solution can be scaled up to 132 servers and eight disk arrays, cross connected to two 140-port directors by non-disruptively adding 4-port cards. Additional IBM TotalStorage SAN m-type switches can be added for almost unlimited scalability.
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entry-level data protection solution consists of up to 30 servers attached to one 32-port SAN140M director, with one disk storage array and a library with one tape drive.
An expanded Metro Mirror solution, designed to help protect data and provide disaster tolerance, can be created with a 140-port local site director and cascaded with a 140-port recovery site director. The local site and recovery site directors are connected with two or more longwave Inter-Switch Links (ISLs) to support resiliency. These ISLs can support up to 35 km distances at 2 Gbps, up to 10 km at 4 Gbps and up to 40 km at 10 Gbps with standard director features.
The local site and the remote site can support a combination of up to 140 FICON and Fibre Channel servers, disk storage array, tape library drive and ISL connections. Additional IBM TotalStorage SAN m-type switches can be added for almost unlimited scalability (mainframe FICON director cascading is limited to ISLs between two directors).
IBM System Storage and TotalStorage enterprise solutions
A wide range of IBM System Storage and TotalStorage enterprise SAN infrastructure simplification and business continuity solutions can be created with the IBM TotalStorage SAN140M director. Enterprise-to-edge SAN management features are offered for advanced enterprise infrastructure simplification solutions including disk and tape SAN island consolidation. IBM TotalStorage SAN140M switch data protection solutions with the IBM TotalStorage 3590 or IBM TotalStorage tape drives with Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) attachment can be consolidated with IBM TotalStorage SAN m-type switch and director infrastructure simplification solutions. Tape and disk SAN consolidation can be especially attractive when extended-distance links between local and remote sites can be combined. For example, IBM System Storage and TotalStorage Business Continuity Metro Mirror solutions and solutions designed to help protect data and provide disaster tolerance can share links in an enterprise SAN environment.
Common features
Hardware summary
Automatic fault detection and isolation helps support non-disruptive maintenance
Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager (EFCM) software centralizes management of your m-type infrastructure
Open trunking, designed to optimize throughput between switches.
Open System Management Server
N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) for connection of IBM System z9 LPARs
1,2, or 4 Gbps ports support your existing servers and storage
4 to 35 universal port modules (UPM) offer 16-140 shortwave or longwave Fibre Channel ports
1, 2 or 4 Gbps auto-negotiating ports.
Single stage switching architecture designed for low-latency
Optional XPM blade features provide inter-switch linking up to 100km (with repeaters)
