User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Lenovo ThinkSystem DB610S Gen 6 FC SAN Switch Product Guide
- Did you know?
- Key features
- Components and connectors
- System specifications
- Models
- Firmware entitlement
- Port activation licenses
- Transceivers and cables
- Enterprise Bundle
- Management software
- Fibre Channel standards
- Power supplies and cables
- Rack installation
- Physical specifications
- Operating environment
- Warranty and support
- Services
- Regulatory compliance
- Interoperability
- External storage systems
- External backup units
- Rack cabinets
- Related publications and links
- Related product families
- Notices
- Trademarks
10/100/1000 Mb
Ethernet port
1000BASE-T Up to 25 m with UTP cables supplied by Lenovo (see Table 4).
UTP Category 5, 5E, and 6 up to 100 meters
RJ-45
Serial port RS-232 DB-9/RJ-45-to-RJ-45 console cable (comes with the switch) RJ-45
Transceiver Standard Cable Connector
Enterprise Bundle
As listed in the Models section, some models include a set of software features known as the Enterprise
Bundle. The Enterprise Bundle is comprised of the following features:
ISL Trunking (TRK): Allows frame-based consolidation of up to 8 inter-switch links (ISLs) into fault-
tolerant and load-balanced trunks with bandwidth of up to 256 Gbps.
Fabric Vision (FV)
Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS): Provides a policy-based, fabric-wide threshold
monitoring and alerting tool.
Flow Vision: Enables administrators to identify, monitor, and analyze specific application flows
in order to simplify troubleshooting, maximize performance, avoid congestion, and optimize
resources. Flow Vision includes:
Flow Monitor: Provides comprehensive visibility, automatic learning, and non-
disruptive monitoring of a flow’s performance. Administrators can monitor all flows
from a specific host to multiple targets or volumes, from multiple hosts to a specific
target/volume, or across a specific ISL. Additionally, they can perform volume-level
monitoring of specific frame types to identify resource contention or congestion that is
impacting application performance. With VM Insight, administrators can monitor
network throughput statistics for each VM.
Flow Learning: Enables administrators to non-disruptively discover all flows that go to
or come from a specific host port or a storage port, or traverse ISLs/IFLs (Inter-Fabric
Links) or Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol (FCIP) tunnels, to monitor fabric-wide
application performance. In addition, administrators can discover top and bottom
bandwidth-consuming devices and manage capacity planning.
Flow Generator: Provides a built-in traffic generator for pretesting and validating the
data center infrastructure for robustness—including route verification and integrity of
optics, cables, ports, back-end connections, and ISLs—before deploying applications.
Flow Mirroring: Provides the ability to non-disruptively create copies of specific
application and data flows or frame types that can be captured for in-depth analysis.
VM Insight: Seamlessly monitors health and performance of individual Virtual Machines (VMs)
to quickly identify abnormal VM behavior and enable administrators to proactively facilitate
troubleshooting and fault isolation, helping to ensure performance and operational stability.
Fabric Performance Impact (FPI) Monitoring: Leverages predefined MAPS policies to
automatically identify and isolate devices that cause network performance issues by detecting
different latency severity levels, and to alert administrators.
Extended Fabric (EF): Extends Fibre Channel SANs beyond 10 km distance limitations for
replication and backup at full bandwidth.
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