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Page 1: ...Product Guide Front cover IBM Storage Networking SAN64B 6 Switch Megan Gilge...

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Page 3: ...scalability The SAN64B 6 switch is designed to meet the demands of hyper scale virtualization larger cloud infrastructures and growing flash based storage environments by delivering market leading Gen...

Page 4: ...uilt network infrastructure for mission critical storage delivering breakthrough performance increased scalability and operational stability The SAN64B 6 with Gen 6 Fibre Channel Fabric Vision technol...

Page 5: ...wing and dynamic workloads through a combination of market leading throughput and low latency across 32 Gbps and 128 Gbps links With Gen 6 application specific integrated circuit ASIC technology provi...

Page 6: ...network management by automating monitoring and diagnostics through Fabric Vision technology The switch is easy to deploy with the EZSwitchSetup wizard and provides validation prior to deployment with...

Page 7: ...inistrators can configure the entire fabric or multiple fabrics at one time using common rules and policies or customize policies for specific ports or switch elements In addition administrators can i...

Page 8: ...dit Loss Recovery Helps overcome performance degradation and congestion due to buffer credit loss IBM Network Advisor IBM Network Advisor simplifies Gen 6 Fibre Channel management and helps organizati...

Page 9: ...Channel frames to be distributed efficiently across multiple ISLs between two IBM b type SAN fabric switches and directors while preserving in order delivery Both b type SAN devices must have trunkin...

Page 10: ...ID Virtualization NPIV switch standards to present physical and virtual servers directly to the core of SAN fabrics This makes it transparent to the SAN fabric greatly reducing management of the netw...

Page 11: ...53 Gbps line speed full duplex 14 025 Gbps line speed full duplex 28 05 Gbps full duplex Auto sensing of 4 8 16 32 Gbps port speeds and capable of supporting 128 Gbps speeds 10 Gbps optionally program...

Page 12: ...ning DFP Dynamic Path Selection DPS Extended Fabrics Enhanced BB Credit Recovery FDMI Frame Redirection Framebased Trunking Fibre Channel shortest path first FSPF Integrated Routing Internet Protocol...

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