Lenovo S3200 Quick Start Manual page 7

Lenovo Storage S3200 with Fibre Channel
Lenovo B300
The Lenovo B300 Fibre Channel Switch has up to 24 ports (8 ports licensed by default;
the remaining ports can be licensed in 8-port increments). The switch offers a rich set of
standard software features with the options to expand its capabilities as needed.
The B300 features the EZSwitchSetup wizard and can be configured in Access Gateway
Mode to simplify deployment. The switch provides full non-blocking performance with
Ports On Demand scalability to support SAN expansion and enable long-term
investment protection.
Lenovo B6505/B6510
The Lenovo B6505 Fibre Channel Switch can be configured as 12 or 24 ports while the
Lenovo B6510 Fibre Channel Switch can be configured as 24, 36, or 48 ports. Every
port in these configurations is non-blocking with a port-to-port latency of 700 ns while
running at 16 Gbps. This gives these specialized storage ports industry-leading, real
world benchmark numbers at scale. Beyond bandwidth and latency, these switches offer
manageability and ease of use through their multiple methods of setup including a CLI
and GUI with policy based alerting as an option to ensure that there are no outages for
critical data paths.
With support for Brocade's Fabric Vision™ technology both the B6505 and B6510 have
deep visibility into what is occurring on the storage fabric. An administrator can validate
physical components to ensure that no component is borderline or failing. This prevents
a cable from having a bend radius issue and degrading the performance of a whole
fabric over an important link. Additionally, beyond an initial validation, the administrator
can be alerted once policies have exceeded their limits and know about a problem
before users and their applications see the failures.
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