User`s guide

INSPEED MODEL 370 EMBEDDED STORAGE SWITCH
USER’S GUIDE CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
EMULEX CORPORATION 2
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ART NUMBER 00041367-003 REV. B
OVERVIEW
The InSpeed Model 370 Embedded Storage Switch is a 20-port, non-blocking switch designed for
storage system suppliers who want to improve the reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) and
performance of their systems.
Enclosed in a 1U, full-rack form factor enclosure, the switch is built around the InSpeed SOC 320 and is
controlled by firmware loaded into the on-board Flash.
The switch is designed as a central interconnect following the ANSI FC-AL standard. Devices are
connected to the switch through Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) transceivers and cables. Each
attached node has 1 or 2 Gigabits per second (Gb/s) of Fibre Channel bandwidth. The switch operates
at full switching bandwidth that reaches wire speeds of 4 Gb/s per port and up to
80 Gb/s of aggregate bandwidth.
Complete switch configuration and management is available through the intuitive, graphical-based Web
Manager interface. A variety of network configurations are easily established using the switch’s Port
Smart Settings, One-Step Zoning, Automatic Trunking, and Load Balancing features. In addition, the
switch features granular change notification management, retained system configuration parameters,
and a Command Line Interface (CLI) for advanced users.
FEATURES
The InSpeed Model 370 Embedded Storage Switch has the following features:
• High Performance Fibre Channel Switching:
• Wire speed non-blocking Crossbar switch core
• Single 20-port InSpeed™ SOC 320 ASIC with embedded SERDES
• Multiple simultaneous conversations between ports
• Traffic routed directly to destination ports
• 2 Gb/s or 1 Gb/s performance across all ports
• Aggregate bandwidth of 80 Gb/s
• Supports cascades up to 3 switches and up to 126 host and storage devices
• No complex fabric services or buffers
• Effortlessly connects to any vendor’s fabric
• Patent-pending technology:
• Fairness and Prioritization–ensures that devices all have guaranteed access, or explic-
itly have prioritized access, over all other devices in a system.
• Stealth
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Intelligent Change Manager–delivers maximum stability through automatic
elimination of state and change notification system disruptions and unprecedented con-
trol of disruptive events.
• Automatic Trunking–enables fully-multiplied throughput and bandwidth, failover pathing,
and dynamic load balancing and device prioritization.
• Advanced diagnostics, performance monitoring, and fault isolation including continuous switch
and port monitoring and automatic bypass of problematic or unused ports.
• Port Smart Settings, which are predefined port-level configurations that optimize switch
performance and stability.
• One-Step Zoning, including port or AL_PA-based overlapping/non-overlapping zoning.
• Switch management using the embedded http-based Web server, Command Line Interface
(CLI), or Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).