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 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 Converged Enhanced Ethernet (FCoCEE). 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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Up to 384 per chassis, up to 768 when two chassis are connected via inter-chassis links |
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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 Accelerator, FICON w/CUP Activation; FCIP/FC Extension |
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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; 4 Gbps and Gigabit Ethernet 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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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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Cisco MDS 9513 for IBM System Storage
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The Cisco MDS 9513 for IBM® System Storage™ provides 12 to 524 ports, 4 and 8 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, 24-, 48- and 4/44-port 8 Gbps, and 4-port 10 Gbps FC Modules; IP and Multiservice 18/4 Modules; Enterprise, SAN Extension over IP, Fabric Manager Server, Storage Services Enabler and Mainframe Packages.
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IBM System z9™, IBM Power Systems™, IBM System p5™, IBM System i®, System p®, IBM System x™ and IBM System z® |
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1, 2, 4, 8 and 10 Gbps |
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up to 528 |
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Cisco MDS 9506 for IBM System Storage
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The Cisco MDS 9506 for IBM System Storage provides 24 to 192 Fibre channel ports—with up to 8 Gigabits per Second (Gbps) 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).
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Up to 192 |
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1, 2, 4, 8 and 10 Gbps |
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IBM AIX®, Linux®, Microsoft® Windows NT® or Microsoft Windows® 2000 and IBM mainframe operating systems |
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Cisco MDS 9509 for IBM System Storage
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The Cisco MDS 9509 for IBM® System Storage™ provides 24 to 336 Fibre channel ports—with up to 8 Gigabit per second (Gbps) 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).
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AIX®, Linux®, Microsoft® Windows NT® or Microsoft Windows® 2000 and IBM mainframe operating systems |
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1, 2, 4, 8 and 10 Gbps |
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Up to 336 Fibre Channel ports |
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