Chapter 1. Introducing The San06B-R - IBM SAN06B-R Installation, Service And User Manual

Chapter 1. Introducing the SAN06B-R

The SAN06B-R is intended as a platform for Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP). This
enables transmission of Fibre Channel data over long distances via IP networks by
wrapping Fibre Channel frames in IP packets. Each end of the FCIP
communication path must be a compatible FCIP device, either the SAN06B-R or
the FX8-24 blade in a SAN384B or SAN768B chassis.
Refer to the Fabric OS Administrator's Guide for information on configuring these
features.
The base model of the switch is shipped with six Fibre Channel SFP ports and two
physical Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports active. It includes the latest FOS level and is
compatible with the entire IBM b-type switch family. It can operate independently
or in a fabric containing multiple Extension Switches.
A fully licensed SAN06B-R provides the following functionality features:
v FCIP capability
v FCIP Trunking with load balancing and network-based failure recovery
v Adaptive Rate Limiting
v FC frame compression before FCIP encapsulation
v Fibre Channel Routing
v SO-TCP with reorder resistance
v FastWrite over FCIP (not over FC)
v Open Systems Tape Pipelining over FCIP
v FICON CUP
v FCIP QoS
v TCP performance graphing in Web Tools
The switch provides the following hardware features:
v Up to 16 Fibre Channel SFP ports supporting Fibre Channel Routing Services
v Up to six 1 GbE ports supporting the FCIP and Fibre Channel Routing Services
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– Up to 8 FCIP tunnels.
– Each FCIP tunnel is represented and managed as a virtual Fibre Channel
E_Port (VE_Port).
– Fibre Channel Routing Services functionality can be used over the FCIP link.
– Fabrics connected through FCIP merge if the ports are configured as
VE_Ports, and do not merge if one end of the connection is configured as a
VEx_Port. If VE_Ports are used in a Fibre Channel Routing Services backbone
fabric configuration, then the backbone fabric merges but the Ex_Port
attached to edge fabrics do not merge. For more information see the Fabric OS
Administrator's Guide.
– Configurable maximum and minimum committed bandwidth per FCIP tunnel
– Minimum rate is guaranteed rate
with link speeds up to 1, 2, 4, or 8 Gbps.
features with transmit link speeds up to 1-Gbps on each port.
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