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Storage Area Network (SAN) Products
Entry SAN switches for easy-to-use SMB solutions
IBM System Storage SAN24B-4 Express
(2498-B24, 249824E)
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Provides high-performance, scalable and simple-to-use fabric switching with 8, 16 or
24 ports operating at 8, 4, 2 or 1 Gigabits per second (depending on which optical trans-
ceiver is used) for servers running Microsoft® Windows®, IBM AIX®, UNIX®, and Linux®
operating systems, server clustering, infrastructure simplification and business continuity
solutions. The SAN24B-4 Express includes EZSwitchSetup wizard, which is an embed-
ded setup tool designed to guide novice users through switch setup, often in less than
five minutes.
Cisco MDS 9124 Express for
IBM System Storage
(2053-424, 241724C)
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Provides high-performance, scalable and simple-to-use fabric switching with 8, 16 or
24 ports operating at 1, 2 and 4 Gbps for servers running Microsoft Windows, UNIX,
Linux, Novell NetWare and IBM OS/400® operating systems, server clustering, infrastruc-
ture simplification and business continuity solutions. The switch includes replaceable
power supply, Virtual SAN, Cisco Fabric Manager and redundant power supply feature
designed to simplify setup and ongoing maintenance for Cisco MDS 9000 users.
Midrange SAN switches for scalable SMB and enterprise solutions
IBM System Storage
(SAN40B-4 2498-B40, 249840E)
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Provides high-performance, scalable and simple-to-use fabric switching with
24, 32 or 40 ports operating at 8, 4, 2 or 1 Gigabits per second (depending on which
optical transceiver is used) for servers running Microsoft Windows, AIX, UNIX, Linux,
OS/400 and z/OS® operating systems. Many advanced functions are available to facili-
tate operation in medium and large networks.
IBM System Storage SAN80B-4
(2498-B80)
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Provides high-performance, scalable and simple-to-use fabric switching with
48, 64 or 80 ports operating at 8, 4, 2 or 1 Gigabits per second (depending on which
optical transceiver is used) for servers running Microsoft Windows, AIX, UNIX, Linux,
OS/400 and z/OS operating systems. Many advanced functions are available to facilitate
operation in medium and large networks.
Cisco MDS 9134 for IBM System Storage
(2054-434, -S34)
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Designed to address the needs of medium-sized businesses and large enterprises.
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Model 434 provides high-performance, scalable and simple-to-use fabric switching with
24 or 32 ports operating at 1, 2 and 4 Gbps for servers running Microsoft Windows,
UNIX, Linux, NetWare, OS/400 and z/OS operating systems, server clustering, infrastruc-
ture simplification and business continuity solutions.
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Model S34 provides stacked switch bundle with 48, 56 or 64 port switch fabric with two
10 Gbps Inter Switch Links (ISLs).
IBM TotalStorage® SAN256B (2109-M48)
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High-performance, high-density and high-availability SAN director designed to be the
foundation for large enterprise-class infrastructure simplification and business continuity
solutions. The SAN256B director provides from 16 to 384 ports and contains two control
processors for high availability, supporting one to eight blades. Two different types of
switch blades are available; one capable of supporting 4, 2 and 1 Gbps link speeds and
the other type capable of supporting 8, 4 and 2 Gbps link speeds. Switch blades contain
16, 32 or 48 ports. Each port can support either Fibre Channel or IBM FICON® links. A
Fibre Channel Routing blade is available to enable routing between heterogeneous SAN
fabrics and distance extension between sites using FCIP. The optional FICON Accelerator
feature is available on the Fibre Channel Routing Blade to support mainframe Global
Mirror (formerly XRC) and remote tape applications over extended distances. A 10 Gbps
FC switch blade is available to support high-speed Inter-Switch Links (ISLs), and an iSCSI
blade is available to enable low-cost connectivity to servers via Ethernet. Standard fea-
tures including Advanced Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking, Web Tools, Advanced Zoning,
Fabric Watch, Performance Monitoring and Fabric Access Layer (API).
IBM System Storage SAN384B
(2499-192)
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Designed to be the premier platform for consolidation of your data center connectivity,
providing high-performance and highly available data networking. Providing new levels of
performance with industry-leading 8 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) and 10 Gbps Fibre Channel
over Converged Enhanced Ethernet (FCoCEE) technologies, it is also one of the first
members of the IBM System Storage b-type SAN family designed to exploit Brocade’s
new Data Center Fabric architecture. As a member of the IBM System Storage family of
b-type SAN products, the SAN384B is designed to participate in fabrics containing other
b-type and m-type devices manufactured by Brocade. This versatile hardware can serve
as a new top tier (or backbone) in a complex fabric and provide connections to other
b-type and m-type directors, switches and routers.
IBM System Storage SAN768B
(2499-384)
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Premier fabric backbone for data network consolidation in large enterprise data centers.
Provides high performance and high availability data networking with new industry-
leading 8 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) and 10 Gbps Fibre Channel over Converged
Enhanced Ethernet (FCoCEE) technologies. It is also the first member of the IBM System
Storage b-type family designed to exploit Brocade’s new Data Center Fabric architecture.
The SAN768B introduces Inter-Chassis Links (ICLs) to connect two systems to form a
768-port fabric. With 16 to 384 ports per system, it includes all capabilities of SAN256B
(including the Fibre Channel Routing Blade and the 10 Gbps FC Blade) plus adds
Adaptive Networking to enable Quality of Service (QoS) management and Integrated
Routing to enable interconnect of heterogeneous SAN fabrics.
Cisco MDS 9506 for IBM System Storage
(2054-E04)
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High-availability enterprise SAN director for Intel® processor-based servers,
IBM System i® systems, System p® servers and System z mainframes. Scalable from
12 to 192 1, 2, 4, 8 and 10 Gbps ports with one to four 4-, 12-, 24- and 48-port Fibre
Channel modules for Windows, Linux, UNIX and z/OS servers.
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An 18/4 4 Gbps Fibre Channel/GbE port multiservice module enables high-performance,
cost-effective SAN extension over IP for continuity solutions.
Cisco MDS 9509 for IBM System Storage
(2054-E07)
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High-availability enterprise SAN director for Intel processor-based servers, System i sys-
tems, System p servers and System z mainframes. Scalable from 12 to 336 1, 2, 4, 8 and
10 Gbps ports with one to seven 4-, 12-, 24- and 48-port Fibre Channel modules for
Windows, Linux, UNIX and z/OS servers.
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An 18/4 4 Gbps Fibre Channel/GbE port multiservice module enables high-performance,
cost-effective SAN extension over IP for continuity solutions.
Cisco MDS 9513 for
IBM System Storage (2054-E11)
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High-availability enterprise SAN director for Intel processor-based servers, System i sys-
tems, System p servers and System z mainframes. Scalable from 12 to 528 1, 2, 4, 8 and
10 Gbps ports with one to eleven 4-, 12-, 24- and 48-port Fibre Channel modules for
Windows, Linux, UNIX and z/OS servers.
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An 18/4 4 Gbps Fibre Channel/GbE port multiservice module enables high-performance,
cost-effective SAN extension over IP for continuity solutions.
Enterprise SAN directors for high availability and scalability enterprise solutions
SAN routers to connect heterogeneous SAN fabrics and enable distance extension
using Fibre Channel over IP
IBM System Storage SAN04B-R router
(2005-R04)
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Provides SAN distance extension using FCIP over the Internet for IBM System x®
servers, System i systems, and System p server environments. The SAN04B-R includes
two 4, 2 and 1 Gbps Fibre Channel ports and two 50 Megabits per second Ethernet
ports. A Performance Enhancement upgrade is available to activate all 16 Fibre Channel
ports and increase the speed of the two Ethernet ports to 1 Gbps each. FCIP Tunnelling
Service for SAN extension of IP WAN infrastructure features is included. The optional
FICON Accelerator feature is available to support mainframe Global Mirror (formerly XRC)
and remote tape applications over extended distances. Fibre Channel Routing is standard
to support connection to multiple fabrics.
IBM System Storage SAN06B-R
multiprotocol router (2498-R06)
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A wide range of IBM System Storage midrange and enterprise Storage Area Network
(SAN) infrastructure simplification and business continuity solutions can be created with
the IBM System Storage SAN06B-R multiprotocol extension router including disaster
tolerance over metropolitan and global IP networks. Separate SAN islands can also be
consolidated using Fibre Channel routing. Support for System z servers is provided via
the optional 8 Gbps Advanced Extension and FICON CUP Activation features.
Cisco MDS 9222i for
IBM System Storage (2054-E01)
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Designed to address the needs of medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, the
modular 18/4 (4 Gbps Fibre Channel/GbE) port multiservice SAN router enables high-
performance, cost-effective SAN extension over IP for continuity solutions.
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Scalable from 18 to 66 1, 2, 4, 8 and 10 Gbps ports with one 4-, 12-, 24- and 48-port
Fibre Channel module for Windows, Linux, UNIX and z/OS servers.
Enterprise SAN directors for high availability and scalability enterprise solutions