Appendix A. Product specifications
This topic highlights the features and specifications for the SAN128B-6 switch.
System specifications
System component
Description
Enclosure
2U, power from back
v
Front-to-back airflow/nonport-side exhaust
v
Back-to-front airflow/nonport-side intake
Power inlet
C14
Power supplies
Dual, hot-swappable redundant power supplies with integral cooling fans
Fans
Three hot-swappable redundant fan assembly units with system cooling fans
Cooling
Port side to the nonport-side of the switch (nonport-side exhaust) and nonport-side to
the port side (port-side exhaust)
System architecture
Nonblocking shared memory switch
System processors
Freescale T1042E CPU
Port-to-port latency
<900 nanoseconds (including FEC) with no contention (destination port is free)
Fibre Channel
System component
Description
Fibre Channel ports
96 SFP+ ports that support any combination of Short Wavelength (SWL) and Long
Wavelength (LWL) or Extended Long Wavelength (ELWL) optical media.
8 QSFP ports that support 32-Gbps QSFP transceivers.
The SFP+ ports are capable of auto-negotiating to 4, 8, 16, or 32 Gbps speed
depending on the SFP+ model and the minimum supported speed of the optical
transceiver at the other end of the link.
v
10-Gbps performance is enabled by 10-Gbps SFP+ transceivers provided the other
end of the connection is also of 10-Gbps speed.
v
4-, 8-, and 16-Gbps performance is enabled by 16-Gbps SFP+ transceivers provided
the other end of the connection is minimum of 4 Gbps speed.
v
8-, 16-, and 32-Gbps performance is enabled by 32-Gbps SFP+ transceivers provided
the other end of the connection is minimum of 8 Gbps speed.
Note:
2-, 4- and 8-Gbps transceivers are not supported.
ANSI Fibre Channel
protocol
FC-PH (Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface standard) with NVMe support
Modes of operation
Fibre Channel Class 2 and Class 3
Fabric initialization
Complies with FC-SW-3 Rev. 6.6
FCIP (IP over Fibre
Channel)
Complies with FC-IP 2.3 of FCA profile
Port Status
Bicolor LED (amber/green)
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