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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 high-availability data networking. It provides new levels of performance with industry-leading 8 Gbps FC technology. It is also the first member of the IBM System Storage b-type family designed to exploit Brocade’s new Data Centre Fabric architecture.

The SAN768B interoperates with other members of the IBM System Storage b-type and m-type families as well as other fabrics.

It can be configured with a wide range of connectivity options, including 10, 8, 4, 2 and 1 Gbps FC, up to 4 Gbps FICON and FCIP
It is also designed to enable support for emerging high-performance and high-function network protocols, including FCoCEE
The SAN768B is 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.

Highlights

Drive new levels of performance with 8 Gigabits per second (Gbps) Fibre Channel (FC) technology
Reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) through consolidation of network resources
Protect existing infrastructure investment while positioning for future technologies
Manage your infrastructure with greater flexibility and scalability
Unify management framework for consolidated and virtualised resources
Improve energy efficiency by combining higher band-width with reduced power consumption.

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. Providing new levels of performance with industry-leading 8 Gbps FC technology, it is also the first member of the IBM System Storage b-type family designed to exploit Brocade’s new Data Centre Fabric architecture.

The SAN768B interoperates with other members of the IBM System Storage b-type and m-type families as well as other fabrics.

It can be configured with a wide range of connectivity options, including 10, 8, 4, 2 and 1 Gbps FC, up to 4 Gbps Fibre Connections (FICON) and Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol (FCIP) over 1 gigabit per second Ethernet
It is also designed to enable support for emerging high-performance and high-function network protocols, including Fibre Channel over Converged Enhanced Ethernet (FCoCEE)
The SAN768B is 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.

As a member of the IBM System Storage family of b-type products, the SAN768B is designed to participate in fabrics containing other b-type and m-type devices manufactured by Brocade. This versatile hardware can serve as a new top tier (or backbone) in a complex fabric and provide connections to other b-type and m-type directors, switches and routers.

Common features		Hardware summary

Designed for enterprise and larger-midrange fabrics Ideal as the ‘top tier’ or core component in a core-to-edge fabric New 8 Gbps switch hardware 8, 4, 2 and 1 Gbps server and device interfaces with auto-sensing capability Fabric OS is common across all current members of the IBM SAN b-type Storage Area Network (SAN) family		Chassis includes two control processor blades and two core module blades plus space for up to eight port blades, dual power supplies with an option for two additional power supplies and three fan modules in a 14U rack height Available 8 Gbps 16-port, 32-port and 48-port switch blades Available 10 Gbps Inter Switch Link (ISL) blades Available FC routing blade with sixteen 4 Gbps FC ports and two GbE IP ports Available optical transceivers include 8 Gbps and 4 Gbps shortwave SFPs, 8 Gbps 10 Km and 4 Gbps 4 Km and 10 Km longwave SFPs, 10 Gbps XFPs and GbE optical SFPs for IP connectivity Full Fabric and Universal Port operation (E_Port, F_Port and FL_Port) Install in IBM TotalStorage SAN Cabinet (2109-C36)