IBM FC5022, Product Manual

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IBM Flex System FC5022 16Gb SAN Scalable Switches 7
In-flight 32 Gbps encryption and decryption on up to two external ports (no license required)
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48 Virtual Channels (VCs) per port
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Port mirroring to monitor ingress or egress traffic from any port within the switch
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Two I2C connections able to interface to redundant management modules
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Hot pluggable — up to four hot pluggable switches per chassis
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Single fuse circuit
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Four temperature sensors
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One internal real-time clock
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Managed with Web Tools
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Supports up to 128 domains in Native mode and Interoperability mode
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Full fabric switch mode may be changed to or from Access Gateway mode
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Nondisruptive code load in Native mode and Access Gateway (NPIV) mode
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255 N_port logins per physical port
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D_port support on external ports
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Class 2 and Class 3 frames
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SNMP v1 and v3 support
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SSH v2 support
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SSL support
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NTP client support (NTP V3)
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FTP support for firmware upgrades
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SNMP/MIB monitoring functionality contained within the Ethernet Control MIB-II (RFC1213-MIB)
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UUID put into MIB structure
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End-to-end optics and link validation
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Ability to send switch events and syslogs to the IBM Chassis Management Module (CMM)
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Traps identify cold start, warm start, link up/link down, and authentication failure events
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Support for IPv4 and IPv6 on the management ports
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IBM Flex System FC5022 switches come standard with the following software features:
Full Fabric mode: Enables high performance 16 Gb or 8 Gb fabric switching
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Access Gateway mode: Leverages NPIV to connect to any fabric without adding switch domains to
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reduce management complexity
Dynamic Path Selection: Enables exchange-based load balancing across multiple Inter-Switch Links
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for superior performance
Advanced Zoning: Segments a SAN into virtual private SANs to increase security and availability
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Enhanced Group Management: Enables centralized and simplified management of SAN fabrics
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through IBM Network Advisor
Server Application Optimization: Allows VM QoS, authentication, and monitoring from SAN through
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adapter to VM and associated virtualized application