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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. Providing new levels of performance with industry-leading 8 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) technology, it is also the first member of the IBM System Storage b-type family designed to exploit Brocade®’s new Data Center 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 gigabits per second (Gbps) Fibre Channel, up to 4 Gbps Fibre Connections (FICON®), and Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol (FCIP) over 1 gigabit per second Ethernet (GbE).
- * 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 center 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
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- Designed for enterprise and larger-midrange fabrics
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- Ideal as the “top tier” or core component in a core-to-edge fabric
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New 8 Gbps switch hardware |
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- 8, 4, 2 and 1 Gbps server and device interfaces with auto-sensing capability
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- Fabric OS® is common across all current members of the IBM SAN b-type SAN famil
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Hardware Summary
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- 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
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- Available 8 Gbps 16-port, 32-port and 48-port switch blades
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Available 10 Gbps Inter Switch Link (ISL) blades |
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- Available FC routing blade with sixteen 4 Gbps FC ports and two Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) IP ports
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- Available optical transceivers include 8 Gbps and 4 Gbps shortwave small-form-factor pluggable (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
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- Full Fabric and Universal Port operation (E_Port, F_Port and FL_Port)
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- Install in IBM TotalStorage® SAN Cabinet (2109-C36)
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