FW 07.00.00/HAFM SW 08.06.00 McDATA Products in a SAN Environment Planning Manual (620-000124-500, April 2005)

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Introduction to McDATA Multi-Protocol Products
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Introduction to McDATA Multi-Protocol Products
— 32-port Sphereon 3232 Switch.
— 12-port Sphereon 4300 Switch. The switch provides both
switched fabric and Fibre Channel arbitrated loop (FC-AL)
connectivity.
— 24-port Sphereon 4500 Switch. The switch provides both
switched fabric and FC-AL connectivity.
Refer to Fabric Switches for detailed information about each
product.
• Eclipse™-series SAN routers - A SAN router is a low port count,
high-bandwidth product that unifies storage and networking
architectures and provides metropolitan area network (MAN) or
wide area network (WAN) extended distance access and multi-
protocol access to traditional Fibre Channel SANs. McDATA
offers the:
— Four-port Eclipse 1620 SAN Router.
— 16-port Eclipse 2640 SAN Router.
Refer to SAN Routers for detailed information about each product.
McDATA products (except the Sphereon 4300 Fabric Switch) are
managed and controlled through a rack-mount management server
with a SAN management application installed. Multiple products
and the management server communicate on a local area network
(LAN) through one or more 10/100 Base-T Ethernet hubs. Each hub
provides 24 Ethernet connections. Hubs are daisy-chained as
required to provide additional Ethernet connections as more directors
and switches are installed on a customer network.
Per customer request, directors and switches are delivered separately
or installed in a McDATA FC-512 Fabricenter
®
equipment cabinet.
The rack-mount management server is mounted at the cabinet center,
and one Ethernet hub is mounted at the cabinet top. Figure 1-1
illustrates two Fabricenter equipment cabinets populated with the
following:
1. Ethernet hub.
2. Sphereon 3232 Switch.
3. Intrepid 6064 Director.
4. Rack-mount management server.
5. Sphereon 4300 Switch.