Did You Know; Product Highlights; Product Overview - IBM SAN24B-6 Product Manual

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The IBM SAN24B-6 switch provides the following benefits:
Proactively monitors and optimizes the health and the performance of individual virtual
machines (VMs), and identifies anomalies with IBM VM Insight®
Leverages Fabric Vision technology to help simplify administration, quickly resolve
problems, increase uptime, and reduce costs
Scale on demand, from 8 to 24 ports, to connect additional devices as needed

Product highlights

The IBM SAN24B-6 switch has the following highlights:
Meet the high-throughput, low-latency demands of critical applications with flash-ready
performance
Scale on demand, from 8 to 24 ports, to connect additional devices as needed
Deliver 4, 8, 16, or 32 Gbps port bandwidth for increased performance on demand
Simplify deployment and reduce install time with a point-and-click user interface
Automatically discover and recover from common networking problems
Proactively monitor and optimize the health and performance of individual virtual
machines (VMs)
Simplify administration, resolve problems, increase uptime, and reduce costs by using
Fabric Vision technology

Product overview

The IBM Storage Networking SAN24B-6 switch offers low cost of entry, high performance,
power efficiency, and TCO-friendly flexibility in licensing and capacity, with a flash-ready
solution for the always-on business.
Gen 6 Fibre Channel
IBM b-type Gen 6 Fibre Channel is the purpose-built network infrastructure for mission-critical
storage, delivering breakthrough performance to accelerate data retrieval, adapt to evolving
requirements, and drive always-on data access. The SAN24B-6 switch with Gen 6 Fibre
Channel storage technology simplifies setup, management and monitoring while delivering
the performance required by flash storage, and can grow with your business at a low cost of
entry.
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IBM Storage Networking SAN24B-6 Switch