Product Highlights; Product Overview - IBM SAN64B-6 Product Manual

Product highlights

The IBM SAN64B-6 switch has the following highlights:
Provide high scalability in an ultra-dense, 1U, 64-port switch to support high-density server
virtualization, cloud architectures, and flash-based storage environments.
Increase performance for demanding workloads across 32 Gbps links. Shatter application
performance barriers with up to 100 million input/output operations per second (IOPS).
Enable "pay-as-you-grow" scalability for on-demand flexibility.
Detect degraded application performance with built-in device latency and IOPS metrics.
Optimize end-to-end performance and availability tuning with IO Insight and VM Insight
intelligence.

Product overview

The SAN64B-6 with Gen 6 Fibre Channel, Fabric Vision technology with IO Insight and VM
Insight delivers unmatched 32/128 Gbps performance for application acceleration,
industry-leading port density for data center consolidation, and built-in instrumentation for
deep network monitoring and diagnostics, all managed with a command-line interface (CLI),
b-type Advanced Web Tools, or with IBM Network Advisor.
Gen 6 Fibre Channel
Gen 6 Fibre Channel is the purpose-built network infrastructure for mission-critical storage,
delivering breakthrough performance, increased scalability, and operational stability. The
SAN64B-6 with Gen 6 Fibre Channel, Fabric Vision technology with IO Insight and VM Insight
delivers unmatched 32/128 Gbps performance, industry-leading port density, and built-in
instrumentation.
These next-generation storage networking technologies and capabilities enable the
SAN64B-6 to accelerate data access, adapt to evolving requirements, and drive always-on
business operations for hyper-scale virtualization, larger cloud infrastructures, and growing
flash-based storage environments.
Fabric Vision technology
Fabric Vision technology provides unprecedented insight and visibility across the storage
network with powerful built-in monitoring, management, and diagnostic tools that enable
organizations to complete the following tasks:
Simplify monitoring:
– Deploy more than 20 years of storage networking best practices in predefined,
threshold-based rules, actions, and policies with a single click
– Automatically detect degraded application and device performance with the industry's
first built-in IO Insight device latency and IOPS metrics monitoring tool
– Gain comprehensive visibility into network health, performance, latency, and
congestion issues in the fabric, using browser-accessible dashboards with drill-down
capabilities
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