Fiber Channel Director offers enterprise level availability.
Press Release Summary:
Within 18U rack-mount director chassis, TotalStorage® SAN256N supports fabric level hard and soft zoning and scalability for up to 16 I/O blades. Switching core provides up to 5 Terabits/sec throughput as well as protocol agnostic and link speed agnostic support. Unit is available in configurations starting with two 16-port Fibre Channel/FICON I/O blades, providing growth from 32-256 ports. It comes with Enterprise Manager software.
Original Press Release:
IBM TotalStorage SAN256N Director Designed to Support Enterprise Level Availability and Performance
Overview
The IBM TotalStorage® SAN n-type family of enterprise director and switch products expands the IBM TotalStorage portfolio. The IBM TotalStorage n-type family is designed to support ultra-scalability and enterprise level availability and performance, flexible management system architecture, FCP and FICON(TM) operation, FICON Cascading, and FICON CUP support as well as compatibility with the CNT FC/9000 and UltraNet Multi-Service Director® (UMD) (IBM 2042) product lines.
The IBM TotalStorage SAN256N director (2045-N16) is the initial model offering in the n-type family, offering support for fabric level hard and soft zoning, and scalability up to 16 I/O blades in an 18U rack-mount director chassis.
The IBM TotalStorage SAN256N director switching core is designed to provide up to 5 Terabits per second throughput, as well as protocol agnostic and link speed agnostic support. The IBM TotalStorage SAN256N director is initially available in configurations starting with two 16-port Fibre Channel/FICON I/O blades, providing growth from 32 to 256 ports. The IBM TotalStorage SAN256N director comes standard with Enterprise Manager software, and support for on demand flexibility with the introduction of optional firmware activation of features for populated quadrants of I/O blades, including FICON Cascading, FICON CUP, and SAN Services Bundle features. The SAN Services Bundle feature enables flexible use of port blades providing Logical Domain partitioning.
The Enterprise Manager (EM) software offers the capability to centralize and monitor the operation of multiple, distributed IBM TotalStorage SAN256N directors, CNT UMD and legacy CNT FC/9000 directors in an enterprise-wide Fibre Channel/FICON fabric backbone. The optional Enterprise Manager Server Bundle allows up to 16 management clients and may be ordered with the IBM TotalStorage SAN256N director. For customers with CNT FC/9000 directors currently using the Enterprise Manager Server, the IBM TotalStorage SAN256N director may be managed from an existing Enterprise Manager Server Bundle having the latest release of Enterprise Manager Server software.
The new IBM TotalStorage SANC40N 40U Cabinet (2045-C40) accepts up to two IBM TotalStorage SAN256N directors. IBM TotalStorage SAN256N directors may be installed in the IBM TotalStorage SANC40N 40U Cabinet at the plant or in the field in the case of an already installed IBM TotalStorage SANC40N cabinet with available space.
Key prerequisites
The IBM TotalStorage SAN n-type family supports Fibre Channel and FICON connectivity for servers and storage.
Planned availability date
November 19, 2004
At a glance
The IBM TotalStorage SAN256N director (IBM 2045-N16) is designed to provide:
· Support for enterprise level availability and performance with ultra-scalability up to 16 I/O blades (32 to 256 Ports FC/FICON ports at 2 Gbps) in 18U rack-mount director chassis.
· Enterprise Manager software, supporting fabric-level hard and soft zoning, and optional Logical Domain partitioning functionally enabled via IBM TotalStorage SAN256N SAN Services Bundle feature.
· Optional on demand activation for populated quadrants of I/O blades: SAN256N FICON Cascading, SAN256N FICON CUP, and SAN256N SAN Services Bundle.
· Compatibility across the CNT UMD and FC/9000 (IBM 2042) product line, intermixed FCP and FICON operation, FICON Cascading, and FICON CUP support. SAN256N SAN Services Bundle supports additional security for intermixed FCP and FICON environments.
· New IBM TotalStorage SANC40N 40U Cabinet (2045-C40).
For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or the Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL Reference: YE001
