Easy-to-manage tiered enterprise infrastructure simplification and business continuity solutions for IBM System i™, System p™, System x™ and System z™ servers
Highly-scalable 64 to 256-port switching backbone for tiered global enterprise storage area networks (SANs)
Designed to provide high availability with concurrent hardware and firmware upgrades and call-home with McDATA® Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager, EFCM
Director LPAR and Open VSAN, designed to provide dynamic application network provisioning, can help simplify Fibre Channel and mainframe IBM FICON® SAN consolidation
Helps to provide global business continuity solutions with 10 Gigabit per second (Gbps) links up to 190 km
EFCM and FICON Management Server (CUP) software can help simplify management of complex SAN infrastructures
IBM TotalStorage tiered enterprise SAN solutions
A wide range of IBM TotalStorage® enterprise storage area network (SAN) infrastructure simplification and business continuity solutions can be created with the IBM TotalStorage SAN256M enterprise 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, high availability server clustering and SAN island consolidation with IBM System Storage™ DS4000™, DS6000™ and DS8000™ series disk storage.
Business continuity solutions include data protection with IBM TotalStorage Ultrium™ 2 Linear Tape-Open™ (LTO™) and IBM TotalStorage 3592 Tape Drives and tape libraries with IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager data protection software. Standard director features and capabilities may be combined with IBM TotalStorage disk, tape and software products to create metro mirroring and global mirroring solutions to support disaster tolerance. Enterprise-to-edge SAN management features help simplify management of large enterprise solutions.
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.
FICON Management Server
SANtegrity™ Binding and Authentication help provide mainframe and open system security
1, 2, or 4 Gbps ports support your existing servers and storage
2 to 8 line card modules offer 32-256 shortwave or longwave Fibre Channel ports
1, 2 or 4 Gbps auto-negotiating ports
Scalable backplane bandwidth design offers two to four switching modules
Optional XPM blade features provide inter-switch linking up to 100km (with repeaters)
Redundant processors, power supplies and cooling fans
Director LPAR and Open VSAN help simplify management
14 rack units of industry-standard 19-inch rack space
