traffic to occur before it services requests from a different port)
Configurable Fabric Address Notification (FAN)
Supports up to 239 switches depending on configuration
8 Gb switch fabric aggregate bandwidth: 320 Gbps at full duplex
Maximum frame size: 2148 bytes (2112 byte payload)
Nonblocking architecture to prevent latency
Fabric Latency: Less than 4 ms
Support for Call Home function
Support for Domain Name Service (DNS)
Support for Internet protocol (IP) Version 4 and Version 6
Support for Internet protocol security (IPsec)
Support for separate trap community strings for each trap address
Support for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Version 3
Support for vital product data (VPD)
Easier SAN maintenance, isolation and troubleshooting with SANdoctor that is a part of base firmware
Optional small form-factor pluggable plus (SFP+) modules
The following software features come with the switch module:
QuickTools Web interface
Fabric Security
The switch supports the following management methods:
Web interface through QuickTools
Command-line interface through SSH (Telnet is also supported but disabled by default)
Switch simple network management protocol (SNMP) agent: enables a network management
workstation to receive configuration values, traffic information, and Fibre Channel failure data through
SNMP and the Ethernet interface
Supported standards
The switch supports the following Fibre Channel standards:
C-PH version 4.3
FC-PH-2
FC-PH-3
FC-AL version 4.5
FC-AL-2 Rev 7.0
FC-FLA
FC-GS-3
FC-FG
FC-PLDA
FC-Tape
FC-VI
FC-SW-2
Fibre Channel Element MIB RFC 2837
Fibre Alliance MIB version 4.0
Lenovo Flex System FC3171 8Gb SAN Switch and Pass-thru Modules
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