Overview
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Director 2/140 Installation Guide
Director Description
The director is a second-generation, 140-port product that provides dynamic
switched connections between Fibre Channel servers and devices in a SAN
environment. Directors are managed and controlled through an High Availability
Fabric Manager (HAFM) appliance with HAFM and Director 2/140 Element
Manager installed. The HAFM appliance is a 1U rack-mount appliance that
provides a central point of control for up to 48 directors and/or edge switches.
Multiple directors and the HAFM appliance communicate through the customer’s
local area network (LAN).
Features
Features of the Director 2/140 include:
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Scalable from 32 to 140 User ports
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100% dynamic non-blocking, cut through switching with congestion queuing
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Online error detection, error isolation, and error recovery
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Redundant, hot-pluggable components
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Full duplex 200 MB/sec per port performance
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Less than 2-µs average switch latency
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100-km distance support (60 buffers), with use of repeaters
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Small form factor, hot-pluggable optical transceivers, auto configure G_ports
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Combination short-wave or long-wave laser transceivers
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Redundant power supplies and fan modules
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Online product repair for Field Replaceable Units (FRUs)
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Periodic health check and enhanced system monitoring
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Non-disruptive firmware load and update