Table of Contents
Advertisement
Chapter 1: General information
Director description
© Copyright IBM Corp. 2006
®
The IBM
TotalStorage SAN140M director provides up to 140 ports of
high-performance, dynamic Fibre Channel connectivity for switched
fabric devices in a storage area network (SAN). The director provides
a broad bandwidth (1, 2 or 10 gigabits per second), redundant
switched data paths, and long transmission distances.
This chapter presents information and features of the director and its
management, including:
•
Director description.
•
Field-replaceable units (FRUs).
•
Error detection, reporting, and serviceability features.
•
Element Manager status indicators
•
Tools and test equipment.
•
Director management.
The SAN140M director is a 140-port product that provides dynamic
switched connections between Fibre Channel servers and devices in a
SAN environment. The ports operate at 1, 2 or 10 gigabits per second
(Gbps). Directors (from one to three) can be configured to order in an
equipment cabinet, which can provide up to 420 ports in a single
cabinet.
The director provides dynamic switched connections for servers and
devices, supports mainframe and open-systems interconnection (OSI)
computing environments, and provides data transmission and flow
control between device node ports (N_Ports) as dictated by the Fibre
Channel Physical and Signaling Interface (FC-PH 4.3). Through
interswitch links (ISLs), the director can also connect to one or more
additional directors to form a Fibre Channel multiswitch fabric.
The director can be managed through a management server running
a Java™-based SAN management application (Enterprise Fabric
Connectivity Manager (EFCM) and Element Manager applications).
1
Advertisement
Chapters
Table of Contents
