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Data Sheet
IBM System Storage
IBM Systems and Technology
IBM System Storage SAN768B-2 and IBM System Storage SAN384B-2 at a glance
Product Characteristics
Product number
SAN768B-2 (2499-816)
SAN384B-2 (2499-416)
Base machine
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Single chassis: up to 384 (SAN768B-2) or 192 (SAN384B-2) 16 Gbps universal (E, F, D, M and EX) FC ports using
48-port FC blades. Up to 512 (SAN768B-2) or 256 (SAN384B-2) 8 Gbps universal (E, F, M and EX) FC ports using
64-port 8 Gbps FC blades.
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Multi-chassis with ICL ports: Up to 3840×16 Gbps universal FC ports (using 16 Gbps 48-port blades); up to
5120×8 Gbps universal FC ports (using 8 Gbps 64-port blades); ICL ports (32 or 16 per chassis, optical QSFP)
connected up to nine b-type SAN768B-2/SAN384B-2 chassis in a full-mesh topology or up to 10 chassis in a
core-edge topology. Deploying five or more chassis with ICL connections within a fabric requires an Enterprise
ICL license.
The base chassis includes the following components:
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One director chassis with door, two vertical cable management combs, redundant (active/standby) control
processor blades, redundant active/active core-switching blades, redundant power supplies, fans, and a ship
group that includes an installation guide, (optically read) compact disk - read only memory (CD-ROM) (with
manuals), two rack-power distribution unit (PDU) power cords, service tools and wrap tools, a RJ-45 serial
cable, wrist strap, cable retainer kit and small form factor pluggable (SFP) extraction tool.
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In addition to the above components, the base chassis of SAN768B-2 includes three blower fans and the
option for two additional power supplies. The ship group also includes a 14U rack-mounting kit (BR120).
As for SAN384B-2, the base chassis includes two blower fans and a 1U exhaust duct kit.
The base FOS (v7.0 or later) software includes:
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Web Tools, Advanced Zoning, Full Fabric, Virtual Fabrics, EGM and enterprise software bundle (Fabric Watch,
Extended Fabrics, ISL Trunking, Advanced Performance Monitoring, Server Application Optimisation and
Adaptive Networking).
Note:
No port or advanced functionality blades are included in the base. Customers will need to order the
48- or 32-port 16 Gbps or 8 Gbps FC port blades, the 64-port 8 Gbps FC port blade and/or the supported
specialty blades and populate them with transceivers.
