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Data Sheet
IBM System Storage
IBM Systems and Technology
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8 Gbps Enhanced Extension blade
: This new blade is a scalable
and flexible platform combining FC and advanced FCIP
technology, designed for building or expanding a high
performance SAN extension infrastructure for DR, data
protection and data mobility storage solutions to move more
data faster and further. It proves Internet Protocol Security
(IPSec) over both 10 GbE ports versus the previous blade’s
support on one port. It is ideal for open systems and
mainframe disk and tape extension; multi-site synchronous
and asynchronous disk replication; centralised SAN backup,
recovery and archiving; and global data and storage resource
migration, distribution, and sharing.
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8 Gbps 16-port FC Encryption blade
: This blade provides fabric-
based encryption for data-at-rest and compression, providing
from 48 Gbps up to 96 Gbps of encryption processing power
to help meet the needs of the most demanding environments
with flexible, on-demand performance. It also provides
compression services at speeds up to 48 Gbps for tape
storage systems. The encryption blade is supported with
IBM Tivoli
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Key Lifecycle Manager for both disk and tape
encryption applications. This open systems network-based
solution secures data-at-rest for disk array logical unit
numbers, heterogeneous tape drives and virtual tape libraries.
This encryption blade is not supported for FICON.
Delivers simplified scale-out network
design
Networks are evolving in order to adapt to rapid growth and
change in the server and storage infrastructure. UltraScale
chassis connectivity leverages optical ICLs to connect up to
10 SAN768B-2 and SAN384B-2 backbones up to 100 meters
apart, enabling flatter, faster and simpler fabrics that increase
consolidation while reducing network complexity and costs.
ICLs enable scalable core-edge and active-active mesh chassis
topologies. These high-density chassis topologies reduce
inter-switch cabling and free up ports for servers and storage,
thus maximising overall port density in a lower amount of
rack space.
Includes fabric operating system (FOS)
and management software
The FOS included with each SAN768B-2 and SAN384B-2
contains all functions necessary to operate a base system.
These Gen 5 FC base systems require FOS v7.1 or later to
take advantage of the advanced functions delivered through
Fabric Vision technology. The enterprise software bundle is a
bundle of FOS features on top of base FOS functionality,
and it includes the following features:
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Adaptive Networking
service is a set of features that provide
users with tools and capabilities for incorporating network
policies to ensure optimal behaviour of a large SAN. The
FOS v7.0 release (or later) supports two types of quality of
service (QoS) features with the 16 Gbps fabric backbones:
Ingress Rate Limiting and SID/DID-based prioritisation
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Advanced Performance Monitoring
helps identify end-to-
end bandwidth usage by host/target pairs and is designed
to provide for capacity planning
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Extended Fabrics
extend SAN fabrics beyond the FC
standard of 10 kilometers (km) by optimising internal switch
buffers to maintain performance on ISLs connected at
extended distances
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Fabric Watch
is designed to constantly monitor
mission-critical switch operations for potential faults and
automatically alert administrators to problems before they
become costly failures. Fabric Watch includes Port Fencing
capability
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ISL Trunking
enables FC 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 trunking activated.
SAN768B-2 and SAN384B-2 add enhanced ISL Trunking
support using 16 Gbps ports and enable FC packets to be
distributed across up to eight 16 Gbps-capable ISLs for a
combined bandwidth of up to 128 Gbps
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Server Application Optimisation
license optimises overall
application performance for physical servers and virtual
machines (VMs) by extending virtual channels to the server
infrastructure. Application-specific traffic flows can be
configured, prioritised and optimised throughout the entire
DC infrastructure.
