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Summary of Contents for Redbooks G8264CS

Page 1: ...witch 36 SFP ports supporting 1 Gb or 10 Gb Ethernet Flexibility with 12 Omni Ports that support 10 Gb Ethernet or 4 8 Gb Fibre Channel connections Ideal for clients looking to aggregate FC or FCoE tr...

Page 2: ...o available see Table 2 Transceivers are not included in the purchase of the switch and all transceivers require the appropriate cables see Table 2 Power cords are also not included and must be ordere...

Page 3: ...or Virtual Fabric The G8264CS can help customers address I O requirements for multiple NICs while reducing cost and complexity By using Virtual Fabric you can carve a physical dual port NIC into multi...

Page 4: ...aces 36 SFP ports 1 Gb or 10 Gb Ethernet 12 Omni Ports 10 Gb Ethernet or 4 8 Gb Fibre Channel Four QSFP ports 40 Gb Ethernet One 10 100 1000 Ethernet RJ45 port for out of band management One USB port...

Page 5: ...ontrol PFC Enhanced Transmission Selection ETS Data Center Bridge Exchange protocol DCBX FIP Snooping Converged Enhanced Ethernet Fibre Channel FCoE NPV Gateway FC Port Speeds 4 8 Gb Bridging to Fibre...

Page 6: ...2006 FC PI 4 Revision 7 0 FC FS Revision 1 9 ANSI INCITS 373 2003 FC FS 2 Revision 0 91 FC FS 3 Revision 1 11 FC LS Revision 1 2 FC SW 2 Revision 5 3 ANSI INCITS 355 2001 FC SW 3 Revision 6 6 ANSI IN...

Page 7: ...arse Mode Dense Mode o Monitoring Port mirroring ACL based mirroring sFlow Version 5 Virtualization VMready with VI API support vNIC MIB support for SNMP User interfaces System Networking Switch Cente...

Page 8: ...ons SFP or Omni Ports SFP SR Transceiver 46C3447 EB28 SFP LR Transceiver 00D6180 SFP ER Transceiver 90Y9415 ECBA 1m LC LC Fiber Cable networking Optical 88Y6851 ECBC 5m LC LC Fiber Cable networking Op...

Page 9: ...CBN 7 m QSFP to QSFP Cable 00D5813 ECBP Fibre Channel options Omni Ports only 8Gb SFP SW Optical Transceiver 44X1964 3286 8Gb SFP FW Optical Transceiver 00FM472 Spare Options Base already includes all...

Page 10: ...F cables with LC duplex connectors to support up to 100m SR4 300m eSR4 Valid Configuration 1 MTP 4xLC up to 100m OM3 with SR4 or 300m with eSR4 4xLC MTP 2 MTP 4xLC connected to 4x SFP SR up to 300m OM...

Page 11: ...tzerland AC plug 10A 250V 39Y7919 Power Cord Europe AC Israel plug 10A 250V 39Y7920 Power Cord Europe South Africa AC plug 10A 250V 39Y7922 Power Cord UK AC plug 13A 250V 39Y7923 Power Cord Australia...

Page 12: ...EM PDU 9 200 240V 10A IEC320 C13 PT 24 Feature 6476 LINECORD TO WALL OEM PDU 9 200 240V 10A IEC320 C13 PT 32 Feature 6475 LINECORD TO WALL OEM PDU 9 200 240V 10A IEC320 C13 PT 62 Feature 6493 LINECORD...

Page 13: ...on speak to your sales representative or Business Partner For examples of official tested configurations see the IBM System Storage Interoperation Center SSIC at the following website http ibm com sys...

Page 14: ...1 Included 90Y6456 90Y5178 95Y3762 95Y3760 88Y6454 95Y3760 pNIC vNIC2 G8264CS Cisco SAN Brocade SAN IBM Storwize V3700 Storwize V7000 SAN Volume Controller DS3K 5K DS8K Tape IBM XIV Win2008 WS2012 ESX...

Page 15: ...tches and finally it can go on to the client s storage devices Figure 6 Leveraging Ethernet further in an existing data center Table 5 summarizes the supported components Table 5 Components Adapter NI...

Page 16: ...oser to the client s storage where the client can install the G8264CS to connect directly upstream to an IBM Storwize V3700 V7000 using simpler Ethernet connectivity Figure 7 Leveraging Ethernet furth...

Page 17: ...k or somewhere else in the data center breaking out the FC connections and connecting to the existing SAN switches and then to the storage devices Figure 8 Leveraging a BladeCenter environment Table 7...

Page 18: ...or somewhere else in the data center breaking out the FC connections and connecting to the existing Brocade or Cisco SAN switches and then in to the storage devices Figure 9 Leveraging G8264CS with a...

Page 19: ...n then use the G8264CS at the top of the rack or elsewhere in the data center and then connect directly into the storage device Note FLOGI is used to obtain a routable FCID for use in the FC frame exc...

Page 20: ...G8264CS will be the center of intelligence and provides all direction and updates to the redundant G8264CS and the 2 18 Flex System SI4093 System Interconnect Modules By using Flex System x222 comput...

Page 21: ...Y3313 2 per chassis Flex System Fabric SI4093 System Interconnect Module Upgrade 1 Assumes we are using fully populated chassis 95Y3318 1 per SI4093 3 Independent of upstream LAN connect to your exist...

Page 22: ...ication Lenovo may make improvements and or changes in the product s and or the program s described in this publication at any time without notice The products described in this document are not inten...

Page 23: ...nd other Lenovo trademarked terms are marked on their first occurrence in this information with the appropriate symbol or indicating US registered or common law trademarks owned by Lenovo at the time...

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