IBM TotalStorage SAN16B-2 Express Model
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1. 2 Express Model switch can operate at up to 4 Gbps it is ready to operate with future 4 Gbps capable server adapters and storage devices when they become available Multiple management options In addition to Web Tools EZ the SAN16B 2 Express Model fabric switch provides advanced options to help manage the SAN Switch fabric man agement is available through various interfaces including GUI SNMP Telnet and serial port Remote access and remote management is also available Advanced Zoning Advanced Zoning provides hardware enforced zoning that helps protect against unauthorized or unauthenti cated storage network access non secure management access and World Wide Name WWN spoofing Optional features B16 4 Port Express Model Activation Enables upgrade from 8 to 12 to 16 ports The base model activates the first eight ports O to 7 The first 4 Port Activation feature activates ports eight to eleven first four port increment and the second 4 Port Activation feature activates ports twelve to fifteen second four port increment B16 Full Fabric Activation The switch by default can connect to servers and storage Full Fabric Activation is required to enable E Ports capability to allow connection to other switches via Inter Switch Links ISLs Full Fabric Activation is a prerequisite to Advanced Security Activation Performance Bundle Activation and Performance Monitoring B16 Extended Fabric Activation Exten2. capacity This simple SAN is depicted in Diagram 1 below The SAN16B 2 Express Model was designed specifically for use as the SAN switch in this type of configuration It is easy to install and easy to manage The tan green and blue servers repre sent heterogeneous server types which are members of the same SAN and share capacity of the large disk system Diagram 1 The SAN16B 2 Express Model can be upgraded to 16 ports and is future ready to support 4 Gbps servers and storage devices as they are introduced Its flexible design allows participation with other SAN b type switches in fab rics that evolve as requirements change And it supports advanced functions to help enable participation in complex fabrics including cascaded switches and ISL trunks High availability SAN configuration Many applications require continuous operation A common design approach to achieve that objective is to run multi ple instances of the application across a cluster of servers When a server fails or must be taken offline for mainte nance a backup server is available to help continue operation with a minimum of impact Redundant paths to data are usually configured in a clustered server environment for the same reasons in an effort to help maintain access to data Each server is configured with redun dant Host Bus Adapters And each Host Bus Adapter is connected to a dif ferent SAN switch and each switch is connected to both controll
3. Designed for high performance scalable and simple to use small to medium size SAN environments IBM TotalStorage SAN16B 2 Express Model The IBM TotalStorage SAN16B 2 Express Model fabric switch is designed specifically to address the needs of small to medium size SAN environments It can be used to create High port density design with 16 ports in an efficient 1U height helps save rack space a wide range of high performance SAN solutions from simple single switch a configurations to larger multi switch Highlights configurations which support fabric connectivity and advanced business E Simple to use SAN switch with E High performance 4 Gigabit per continuity capabilities Infrastructure ease of installation and ease second links requires storage ce ti cat l simplification solutions for of use features designed hardware that supports 4 Gbps IBM System x System i and specifically for the needs of throughput with pay as you System p servers include storage small to medium size grow Ports on Demand Pater aren consolidation and high availability server environments scalability enables growth from clustering with IBM TotalStorage disk 8 to 12 to 16 ports f ie storage arrays Business continuity E ji i Foundation Tor n w infrastruc solutions include data protection with ture simplification and business IBM TotalStorage tape libraries and continuNy solutions Tor servers devices a
4. IBM TotalStorage SAN16B 2 Express Model at a glance Product characteristics Product Number Base fabric switch Fibre Channel interfaces Optical transceivers Fans and power supplies Hot swap components Rack support Non rack support Management software Servers supported Operating systems supported Storage products supported Fibre Channel switches supported Fibre optic cable Warranty standard Optional features 200516B IBM TotalStorage SAN16B 2 Express Model fabric switch with 16 ports 8 ports activated 0 to 7 hardcopy install guide CD ROM with manuals service and wrap tools rack 240 V PDU power cord and mount kit E Port F_Port FL Port 4 2 and 1 Gigabits per second Gbps short wave and long wave Dual fans one power supply SFP optical transceivers 19 inch 1U industry standard rack Non rack installation is supported required country specific power cords must be ordered Advanced Zoning Web Tools EZ IBM System x Other Intel processor based servers IBM System p IBM System i Selected Sun and HP servers Microsoft Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows 2003 Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux Advanced Server SUSE Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES United Linux Novell NetWare IBM TotalStorage DS8000 and DS6000 storage servers IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server systems IBM TotalStorage DS4000 servers IBM TotalStorage 3580 3588 3590 and 3592 tape drives IBM
5. System Storage SAN18B R router which translate Fibre Channel Protocol FCP to Internet Protocol IP SAN16B 2 Express Model fabric switches can also be used to connect two locations to enable remote data backup An Information Lifecycle Management ILM application such as IBM Tivoli Storage Manager TSM which runs on a server in the produc tion site can write data to a tape sys tem at a remote location The same distance capabilities are available as for the business continuity solution described above Important characteristics Easy to install and maintain The SAN16B 2 Express Model includes features designed to make it easy to install and easy to maintain for system administrators who have minimal expe rience with SAN components EZSwitchSetup wizard is an embedded setup tool designed for novice users to guide them through switch setup often in less than five minutes Advanced Web Tools Web Tools EZ provides intuitive graphic switch man agement capabilities Advanced management functions are also available Pay as you grow scalability The Ports on Demand feature is designed to support scalable switch upgrades The Ports on Demand fea ture provides an activation key which upgrades the switch in four port increments while helping avoid fabric disruption Small Form factor Pluggable SFP transceivers are also required to connect additional links The ability to increase switch capacity while maintain
6. TotalStorage 3581 Tape Autoloader IBM TotalStorage 3494 3582 3583 and 3584 tape libraries and 3584 High Availability Frame Model HA1 IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller SVC IBM TotalStorage SAN File System SFS Other selected storage systems IBM TotalStorage SAN b type switches and directors Other switches and directors manufactured by Brocade Fibre optic cables are required and are available in various lengths in single mode and multi mode formats 1 year Customer Replaceable Unit CRU Service and IBM On site Repair warranty service upgrades are available B16 4 Port Activation B16 Full Fabric Activation B16 Extended Fabric B16 Fabric Watch B16 Advanced Security Activation B16 Performance Monitoring B16 Trunking Activation Refer to ibm com servers storage san b_type for the most current and complete details IBM TotalStorage SAN16B 2 Express Model at a glance Physical characteristics Height rack mount 4 29 cm 1 69 in 1U Width 42 85 cm 16 87 in Depth 30 73 cm 12 10 in Weight 8 8 lbs Operating environment Temperature 10 C to 40 C 14 F to 104 F Relative humidity 20 to 85 Electrical requirement Power 110 230 VAC 47 63 Hz Not too big Not too small Designed for mid sized busi ness the IBM Express Portfolio of offerings is just right Each and every offering that s part of the IBM Express Portfolio is cer tified to ensure three simple feature
7. ded Fabric Activation enables the Extended Fabric capability within the SAN16B 2 Express Model firmware Extended Fabric is designed to provide extensions within switch internal buffers to maintain performance over distances between ten and eighty kilometers by maximizing data buffering on switch interconnect links ISLs B16 Fabric Watch Fabric Watch is designed to enable real time proactive awareness of the health performance and security of each switch and automatically alert net work managers of problems in order to avoid failures B16 Advanced Security Activation Advanced Security Activation is designed to enable policy based secu rity mechanisms integrated with Fabric Operating System All switches and directors within the SAN fabric must be configured with their respective Advanced Security Activation feature B16 Performance Monitoring Activation Performance Monitoring Activation helps to identify end to end bandwidth usage by host target pairs and is designed to provide information for capacity planning B16 Enhanced Trunking Activation Enhanced ISL Trunking is supported between a SAN16B 2 Express Model a SAN16B 2 a SANB2B 2 Express Model a SAN32B 2 a SAN64B 2 or a SAN256B and enables Fibre Channel FC Packets to be distributed across up to four 4 Gbps capable ISLs for a combined bandwidth of up to 16 Gbps ISL trunking eliminates rerouting and possible application downtime arising from link failure
8. ers in a disk system Every effort is made to help maintain application access to data Diagram 2 The SAN16B 2 Express Model is an excellent switch to use in a clustered server environment Separate SAN switches enable two separate SAN fab rics which are desirable as a means to help minimize or eliminate single points of failure The yellow and green clusters shown in Diagram 2 above provide redundant components at every level and are designed to help minimize application outages Business continuity solution Many small and medium size compa nies want to implement a business con tinuity or remote backup capability to help address strict new regulatory requirements The SAN16B 2 Express Model fabric switch is designed to pro vide SAN connectivity for these environ ments Diagram 3 on the following page is intended to represent two dif ferent sites The blue side represents the production site and the green side represents the remote or backup site Many disk subsystems including IBM TotalStorage DS6000 and DS4000 systems are capable of copying data to a remote location The data path for the remote copy operation is repre sented by the red links in the diagram Two SAN16B 2 Express Model fabric switches can be connected over metro Diagram 3 distances up to 35 km using longwave SFP optical transceivers Longer distances can be supported via exten ders or repeaters or via converters such as the IBM
9. he IBM TotalStorage SAN b type family This capability helps provide investment protection as SAN requirements evolve and grow over time Simple SAN configuration The introduction of large capacity high availability storage systems offers new opportunities for cost reduction through storage consolidation and infrastructure and management simplification In older environments each server accessed its own dedicated storage capacity using either internal disks that were contained within the server or disks which were part of an external system attached exclusively to that server It has become difficult to sustain that approach as the requirement for both storage capacity and numbers of servers has increased Storage consolidation is a fundamental objective of infrastructure simplification and is based on the philosophy that it is easiest to share and manage capacity contained in a large capacity high performance and high availability exter nal storage system such as provided by the IBM TotalStorage DS4000 family Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks SANs were developed to provide effi cient high performance access from many servers to many storage devices While it is possible in very small environ ments to direct connect servers to external storage systems using fibre channel links it is more common to configure a SAN switch between the servers and the storage system to enable multiple servers to share the same storage
10. ing service helps customers implement a pay as you grow strategy while mini mizing impact to applications High performance The SAN16B 2 Express Model switch provides 4 Gbps performance on all ports requires storage hardware that supports 4 Gbps throughput Each port auto negotiates to 4 2 Gbps or 1 Gbps depending on the capabilities of the device at the other end of the fibre link Performance up to 64 Gbps is possible with 16 port configurations Network performance can be enhanced with Inter Switch Link ISL Trunking which combines up to 4 ports to pro vide a high speed data path of up to 16 Gbps High availability features Small and medium size businesses require high availability switch fabric solutions The SAN16B 2 Express Model fabric switch uses advanced application specific integrated circuits ASICs to help minimize the number of internal components and thus improve reliability Hot pluggable optical trans ceivers SFPs are designed to be replaced without taking the switch offline Switch investment protection SAN b type switches and directors use common firmware from the sixteen port switch to the 256 port director which helps simplify SAN fabric expansion Common firmware supports forward and backward interoperability of the SAN16B 2 Express Model switch and helps simplify deployment with existing SAN infrastructures ISL trunk ing can interoperate with existing 2 Gbps switches Since the SAN16B
11. nd IBM Tivoli Storage running Microsoft Windows UNIX Linux and NetWare operating systems Manager data protection software A single SAN16B 2 Express Model switch can serve as the cornerstone of a Storage Area Network for those who want to obtain the benefits of storage ON DEMAND EXPRESS PORTFOLIO BUILT FOR MID SIZED BUSINESS consolidation and are just beginning to implement Fibre Channel storage sys tems Such an entry level configuration can consist of one or two Fibre Channel links to a disk storage array or to an LTO tape drive An entry level eight port storage consolidation solution can sup port up to seven servers with a single path to either disk or tape The Ports on Demand feature is designed to enable a base switch to grow to sixteen ports to support more servers and more storage devices without taking the switch offline A high availability solution can be cre ated with redundant switches This capability is ideal for server clustering environments Such a configuration can support from six to fourteen servers each with dual Fibre Channel adapters cross connected to redundant SAN16B 2 Express Model switches which are cross connected to a dual controller storage system While the focus of the SAN16B 2 Express Model is as the foundation of small to medium sized SANs it can be configured to participate as a full mem ber in an extended fabric configuration with other members of t
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