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IBM System Storage and TotalStorage SAN b-type family provides entry and midrange switches and enterprise directors
IBM System Storage SAN768B
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The IBM System Storage SAN768B fabric backbone is designed to be the premier platform for consolidation of your data centre connectivity, providing high- performance and highly available data networking. It provides new levels of performance with industry-leading 8 Gigabits per second (Gbps) Fibre Channel (FC) and 10 Gbps Fibre Channel over Converged Enhanced Ethernet (FCoCEE) technologies. 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 Gbps FC, 10 Gbps FCoCEE, up to 8 Gbps Fibre Connection (FICON) 1 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and 10 GbE Internet Protocol (IP) and Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol (FCIP). Designed to enable support for emerging high-performance and high-function network protocols. Designed to serve as the basis for transforming existing networks into a unified, high-performance data centre fabric connecting applications with their data and virtual servers with virtual storage.
The IBM System Storage SAN768B supports the ANSI standard-based implementation of Virtual Fabrics, which adds the capability for physical switches to be partitioned into independently managed Logical Switches, each with its own data, control and management paths.
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Up to 384 per chassis, up to 768 when two chassis are connected via inter-chassis links (ICLs) |
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10 Gbps on dedicated 10 Gbps FC blades; 8, 4, 2 and 1 Gbps auto-sensing on 8 Gbps FC blades; 10 Gbps on FCoCEE blades; 4 Gbps and GbE on FC Routing blade, four ICLs with 1 Terabit per second (Tbps) total bandwidth |
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z/OS, AIX, OS/400, Microsoft® Windows®, UNIX®, Linux®, selected other operating systems |
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16-port, 32-port and 48-port 8 Gbps FC switch blades; 10 Gbps FC switch blades; 24-port 10 Gbps FCoCEE switch blades; 16 FC + 2 IP FC Routing blades; small form factor pluggables (SFPs) and XFPs; fibre optic cables; inter-chassis cable kit; inter-chassis licence; upgrade power supply; FICON Accelerator, FICON w/CUP Activation; FCIP/FC Extension |
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IBM System Storage SAN80B-4
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A compact, high-performance, easy-to-install Fibre Channel (FC) SAN switch that enables multiple servers to connect to external disk and tape systems. The SAN80B-4 supports most common operating systems and connects to most common servers and external storage devices. Supports server virtualization with virtual data paths across a single FC link. Can connect to other SAN switches, routers and directors to form a multi-switch fabric for increased connectivity.
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48, 64 and 80 ports with “Ports on Demand” scalability |
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8, 4, 2 and 1 Gbps auto-sensing |
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Microsoft® Windows®, AIX®, Unix®, Linux®, NetWare and z/OS® |
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IBM System Storage SAN40B-4
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A compact, high-performance, easy-to-install Fibre Channel (FC) SAN switch which enables multiple servers to connect to external disk and tape systems. The SAN40B-4 supports most common operating systems and connects to most common servers and external storage devices. Supports server virtualization with virtual data paths across a single FC link. Can connect to other SAN switches, routers and directors to form a multi-switch fabric for increased connectivity.
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24, 32 and 40 ports with “Ports on Demand” scalability |
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8, 4, 2 and 1 Gbps auto-sensing |
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Microsoft® Windows®, AIX®, UNIX®, Linux®, NetWare and z/OS® |
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IBM System Storage SAN24B-4 Express
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A compact, high-performance, easy-to-install Fibre Channel (FC) SAN switch which enables multiple servers to connect to external disk and tape systems. The SAN24B-4 Express supports most common operating systems and connects to most common servers and external storage devices. Supports server virtualization with virtual data paths across a single FC link. Can connect to other SAN switches, routers and directors to form a multi-switch fabric for increased connectivity.
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8, 16 and 24 ports with “Ports on Demand” scalability |
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8, 4, 2 and 1 Gbps auto-sensing |
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Microsoft® Windows®, Unix®, Linux™, AIX®, OS/400™ |
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IBM System Storage SAN04B-R multiprotocol router
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An entry-level multiprotocol router designed to connect two Storage Area Networks over a wide distance using the Internet as the interconnect fabric. Intended to support business continuity solutions between IBM Power Systems™ or System x™ servers at one site and IBM System Storage™ disk or tape devices at a distant location. Optional features enable functional equivalence to the IBM System Storage SAN18B-R to support the requirements of large enterprises, including support for System z® with FICON®, and FICON Accelerator .
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Base system provides two active Fibre Channel ports and two Ethernet Internet Protocol (IP) ports. The optional High-Performance Extension feature activates all 16 Fibre Channel ports. |
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4 Gigibits per second (Gbps) auto-sensing Fibre Channel and 50 Megabits per second (Mbps) Ethernet. The optional High-Performance Extension feature increases the speed of each Ethernet port to 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps). |
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Microsoft® Windows®, AIX®, UNIX®, Linux®, OS/400® and z/OS® |
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Optical and copper transceivers (SFPs), fibre optic cables, Advanced Performance Monitor, FICON Accelerator, FICON with CUP, High-Performance Extension, Trunking Activation, country-specific power cords |
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IBM TotalStorage SAN256B
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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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up to 384 |
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1, 2, 4, 8 and 10 Gbps |
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As supported by IBM Power System, System i™, System p™, System x™ and System z™ servers |
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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. |
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IBM System Storage™ Data Center Fabric
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IBM System Storage™ Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM™) is a powerful application designed to manage one or more IBM System Storage SAN b-type or mixed b-type and m-type network fabrics in real time. In particular, DCFM helps provide the essential functions needed to efficiently configure, monitor, provision and manage network fabrics on a daily basis.
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