Advanced Features - IBM TotalStorage DS300 Best Practices Manual

simplification and improved business continuity. The H08 comes standard with
eight fibre channel ports, while the H16 comes standard with sixteen fibre
channel ports.
Figure 3-23 SAN Switch 2005-H16
They are designed to be fully interoperable with other products in the IBM
TotalStorage SAN Switch family. You can configure a wide range of scalable
solutions that help address SMB demands for affordability, simple to manage and
integrated heterogeneous open server SANs.
The switches come with four shortwave fibre optic transceivers, and a single
power supply. The support one connection to one other IBM SAN Switch in a
two-switch fabric, as well as support for optional full-fabric activation.
Both switches support:
Entry-fabric switch with advanced zoning and ability to attach to two IBM
TotalStorage SAN Switch fabric for Microsoft Windows and UNIX server
clustering
Upgradable to full-enterprise capabilities for use in large core-to-edge fabrics
Offers 8-port or 16-port Fibre Channel switching with wide range of Small
Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) transceiver features
Improved availability capabilities include hot code activation and single field
replaceable unit, FRU design
Provides up to 2 Gigabit/sec. (Gbps) non-blocking performance. With
Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking, four links can be combined with an
aggregate speed up to 8 Gbps
Offers Advanced Security feature with extensive, policy based security
capabilities

3.9 Advanced features

The following features are available for both DS300 and DS400 systems:
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