42C1828 IBM Brocade Enterprise 20-port 8Gb SAN Switch Module for BladeCenter Servers Deals

Product Name: IBM Brocade Enterprise 20-port 8Gb SAN Switch Module for BladeCenter Servers

Product Category: Hubs & Switches in Electronics

Manufacturer: IBM

Product Features :

• 1. 10-port model includes 10 Dynamic Ports-On-Demand (DPODs) that can be activated in any combination of internal and external ports 3
• 2. 14 internal Fibre Channel ports that operate as F-ports (fabric ports) at 2 Gbps, 4 Gbps, or 8 Gbps, depending on FC expansion cards installed into blades 2
• 3. Aggregate Fibre Channel I/O bandwidth: 48 Gbps (6 external ports at 8 Gbps line rate) 5
• 4. External ports that can operate as F-ports (fabric ports), FL-ports (fabric loop ports), or E-ports (expansion ports) when in full FC switch mode. When in Brocade Access Gateway mode the external ports operate as NPIV-enabled N-Ports 6
• 5. Fabric latency of 0.74 ?sec ensures the fastest response and access time to data for critical applications and servers 7
• 6. High availability features including hot pluggable design, non-disruptive software upgrades, automatic path failover, and power-on self-test diagnostics and status reporting 4
• 7. Six external auto-sensing Fibre Channel ports (2 Gbps, 4 Gbps, or 8 Gbps for 8Gb SFP+ transceivers) that operate at a maximum speed of 8 Gbps 1
• 8. Supports full 8 Gbps operations at distances up to 129 km and up to 1036 km at 1 Gbps 8

The Brocade Enterprise 20-port 8 Gb SAN Switch Modules for IBM BladeCenter deliver embedded Fibre Channel switching with the industry's fastest Fibre Channel throughput performance (8 Gbps). The 20-port switches provide basic FC switch functionality while the Enterprise 20-Port model is a fully enabled switch with a complete set of advanced SAN fabric service licensed features.

The Enterprise 20-port model (42C1828) is a fully enabled switch with a complete set of licensed features that maximizes performance, ensures availability and simplifies management for the most demanding applications and expanding virtualization environments. The factory-installed licenses include: ISL Trunking - Consolidates ISLs into fault-tolerant and load balanced trunks with bandwidth of up to 48 Gbps for greater performance and simplified management; Adaptive Networking - Ensures high priority connections obtain the bandwidth necessary for optimum performance; Advanced Performance Monitoring - Provides end-to-end visibility into fabric performance to maximize performance tuning and the utilization of fabric resources; Fabric Watch - Monitors and creates alerts based on the health of switch and fabric elements; Extended Fabrics - Extends Fibre Channel SANs beyond traditional distance limitations for replication and backup; Server Application Optimization - Allows Virtual Machine Quality of Service (QoS), authentication and monitoring from adapter through SAN.

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