IBM SAN06B-R Provides 8Gb FC SAN Extension

Delivering 8 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) routing and switching capability coupled with hardware-assisted traffic forwarding for FC over Internet Protocol (FCIP), the IBM System Storage SAN06B-R helps address the demanding availability, performance, manageability, and scalability requirements.

IBM System Storage SAN06B-R is a scalable and flexible platform designed for building or expanding a high-performance SAN extension infrastructure for disaster recovery, data protection, and data mobility storage solutions. Leveraging next-generation Fibre Channel and advanced Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) technology, the IBM System Storage SAN06B-R provides a flexible and extensible platform to move more data faster and further than previous generations.

Fibre Channel and FCIP switch port density, bandwidth, and throughput are designed to help address today’s dynamic I/O and workload requirements and are designed to meet tomorrow’s evolving requirements for virtual data centers. The SAN06B-R can provide up to 16 8 Gbps Fibre Channel and 6 1 GbE ports.

The SAN06B-R is designed to utilize IP WAN transport to extend open systems and mainframe disk and tape storage applications over distances to meet a wide range of business continuity, data retention, and global data access requirements using advanced Fibre Channel frame compression, disk and tape protocol acceleration, and FCIP networking technology.

Performance and optimization technologies
include the following:

• FCIP trunking
• Adaptive rate limiting
• FCIP quality of service
• Open systems tape pipelining
• Storage-optimized TCP

The SAN06B-R base model features:

• Sixteen FC ports supporting 1, 2, 4, or 8 Gbps link speeds
• Six Ethernet ports supporting 1 GbE link speeds
• FC routing combined with SAN distance extension
• FCIP activation
• Long-wave SFP transceivers designed to support connectivity at distances up to 4 and 10 km
• Extended long distance SFP transceiver designed to support connectivity at distances up to 25 km
• Copper SFP transceiver designed to be used with IP ports on the SAN06B-R

Key prerequisites

• The IBM Systems Storage SAN b-type switch family supports FC connectivity for servers and storage.
• The SAN06B-R requires Fabric Operating System V6.3, or later.

Planned availability date

• November 20, 2009: All functions and features except FICON with CUP (#7737) and SFP Transceiver 1 GbE Copper (#2551)
• December 4, 2009: Feature Code 7737 (FICON with CUP); Feature Code 2551 (SFP Transceiver 1 GbE Copper)