Appendix A. Product Specifications - IBM Storage Networking SAN128B-6 Installation, Service And User Manual

Appendix A. Product specifications

This topic highlights the features and specifications for the SAN128B-6 switch.
System specifications
System component
Enclosure
Power inlet
Power supplies
Fans
Cooling
System architecture
System processors
Port-to-port latency
Fibre Channel
System component
Fibre Channel ports
ANSI Fibre Channel
protocol
Modes of operation
Fabric initialization
FCIP (IP over Fibre
Channel)
Port Status
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Description
2U, power from back
v Front-to-back airflow/nonport-side exhaust
v Back-to-front airflow/nonport-side intake
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Dual, hot-swappable redundant power supplies with integral cooling fans
Three hot-swappable redundant fan assembly units with system cooling fans
Port side to the nonport-side of the switch (nonport-side exhaust) and nonport-side to
the port side (port-side exhaust)
Nonblocking shared memory switch
Freescale T1042E CPU
<900 nanoseconds (including FEC) with no contention (destination port is free)
Description
96 SFP+ ports that support any combination of Short Wavelength (SWL) and Long
Wavelength (LWL) or Extended Long Wavelength (ELWL) optical media.
8 QSFP ports that support 32-Gbps QSFP transceivers.
The SFP+ ports are capable of auto-negotiating to 4, 8, 16, or 32 Gbps speed
depending on the SFP+ model and the minimum supported speed of the optical
transceiver at the other end of the link.
v 10-Gbps performance is enabled by 10-Gbps SFP+ transceivers provided the other
end of the connection is also of 10-Gbps speed.
v 4-, 8-, and 16-Gbps performance is enabled by 16-Gbps SFP+ transceivers provided
the other end of the connection is minimum of 4 Gbps speed.
v 8-, 16-, and 32-Gbps performance is enabled by 32-Gbps SFP+ transceivers provided
the other end of the connection is minimum of 8 Gbps speed.
Note: 2-, 4- and 8-Gbps transceivers are not supported.
FC-PH (Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface standard) with NVMe support
Fibre Channel Class 2 and Class 3
Complies with FC-SW-3 Rev. 6.6
Complies with FC-IP 2.3 of FCA profile
Bicolor LED (amber/green)
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