Flexport Technology; Santegrity Authentication; Santegrity Binding - McDATA StorageWorks 2/140 - Director Switch Planning Manual

Physical Planning Considerations
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Flexport Technology

SANtegrity
Authentication

SANtegrity Binding

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• Connectivity to an IBM eServer zSeries 800 (z800), zSeries 900
(z900), or zSeries 990 (z990) processor, with one or more FICON
or FICON Express channel adapter cards installed, using the
z/OS operating system, Version 1.1 or later.
• A host-attached Hardware Management Console. The console
runs the Hardware Management Console application (HWMCA)
and is the operations and management PC platform for S/390 or
zSeries servers.
Sphereon 3232, 4300, and 4500 Fabric Switches can be purchased at a
discount without all Fibre Channel ports enabled. The Flexport
Technology feature is a hardware port expansion kit that allows
customers to upgrade switch capacity on demand in eight-port
increments. Flexport Technology kits are available to upgrade the:
• Sphereon 3232 Fabric Switch from 16 to 24 ports or
from 24 to 32 ports.
• Sphereon 4300 Fabric Switch from four to eight ports or
from eight to 12 ports.
• Sphereon 4500 Fabric Switch from eight to 16 ports or
from 16 to 24 ports.
Each port expansion kit includes four or eight SFP optical
transceivers, upgrade instructions, and a feature key that enables the
added port capacity through the Element Manager application.
SANtegrity Authentication is a feature that significantly enhances
and extends SAN data security by providing password safety; CHAP
or DHCHAP verification for fabric elements, management servers,
and devices; a PCP user database; CT authentication for the OSMS
interface; RADIUS server support; inband and out-of-band access
controls lists; encrypted SSH protocol; and security logging. For
additional information about the feature, refer to
Authentication.
SANtegrity Binding is a feature that significantly enhances SAN data
security. The feature includes:
• Fabric binding - This portion of the feature allows only specified
directors or fabric switches to attach to specified fabrics in a SAN.
SANtegrity