User`s guide

VIXEL INSPEED™ SAN STORAGE SWITCH MODEL 375 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
USER’S GUIDE
EMBEDDED
IN THE FUTURE OF STORAGE 2
FEATURES
The Vixel InSpeed™ SAN Storage Switch Model 375 has the following features:
• High Performance Fibre Channel Switching:
• Wire speed non-blocking Crossbar switch core
• Single 20-port Vixel 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 devices all have guaranteed access, or
explicitly have prioritized access, over all other devices in a system.
• Stealth
TM
Intelligent Change Manager–delivers maximum stability through
automatic elimination of state and change notification system disruptions and
unprecedented control 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 overlapping/non-overlapping zones with port or AL_PA-based
zoning.
• Switch management using the embedded http-based web server, Command Line Interface
(CLI), or Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
• Full-rack, 1U size for easy installation (optional 19" rack-mounting kits available).
• Redundant fans and two hot-swappable, auto-sensing, load sharing, universal power
supplies for high availability.
• Fibre Channel ANSI Standards Compliance
INSPEED™ TECHNOLOGY
Vixel’s InSpeed™ technology is an advanced switching architecture that couples a non-blocking
crossbar switch with a unique switch port logic and per-port SERDES. This results in the industry’s
highest density Fibre Channel switch on a chip (SOC). The port logic is based on Fibre
Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL), an ANSI standard (X3T11) designed to provide shared
bandwidth over low-cost media.
This architecture enables the switch’s router to send data directly from one port to another,
allowing for multiple, simultaneous conversations between ports—effectively multiplying
bandwidth. InSpeed™ provides the same performance as complex fabric switches that support
FC-SW2. InSpeed™ can even exceed fabric switch performance in entry-level SAN environments,
where the overhead associated with longer name addressing and services is not beneficial.