Appendix A. Product Specifications; General Specifications; System Architecture; Environmental Requirements - IBM SAN384B-2 Installation, Service And User Manual

Appendix A. Product specifications

This appendix provides product specifications for the SAN384B-2.
v "General specifications"
v "System architecture"
v "System size and weights" on page 127
v "Facility requirements" on page 128
v "Environmental requirements" on page 129
v "Fibre Channel port specifications" on page 129
v "Power specifications" on page 130
v "Data transmission ranges" on page 132
v "Power cords" on page 132

General specifications

The SAN384B-2 general specifications are listed in Table 18.

System architecture

Table 19 lists the system architecture for the SAN384B-2.
Table 19. System architecture
Fibre Channel Ports
Control Processor
Scalability
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Table 18. General product specifications
Specification Description
Configurable port F_Port, E_Port, EX_Port, M_Port, D_Port
types
System architecture Nonblocking shared memory
System processor FreeScale 8548, 1.2 GHz
ANSI Fibre FC-PH (Fibre Channel Physical and Signalling Interface standard)
Channel protocol
Modes of operation Class 2, Class 3, Class F (interswitch frames)
Fabric initialization Complies with FC-SW 5.0
FC-IP (IP over Fibre Complies with FC-IP 2.3 of the FCA profile
Channel)
Port to port latency Local switching - 800ns (add 400ns for E_Port to E_Port); Blade to
blade - 2.4 microseconds (add 400ns for E_Port to E_Port)
Switching capacity An aggregate switching capacity of 3.36 billion frames per second (for
Class 2, Class 3, and Class F frames for a 192 port chassis
Up to 192 16 Gbps ports, universal (E_Port, F_Port,
EX_Port, M_Port, D_Port).
Redundant (active/standby) control processor blades
Full fabric architecture: 239 switches maximum
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