Qlogic SANbox 9200 Supplementary Manual

SANbox 9000
Series Stackable
Chassis Switch
Modular Blades at an Edge
Switch Price
Changing business requirements at many of
today's best companies are driving the need for the
scalability , resiliency, and manageability provided by
modular chassis-based SAN switches. As new and
unpredictable demands spring up every quarter, these
companies require the flexibility to modify and expand
their server/storage infrastructure frequently without
impacting production environments. In addition, as
the mission-critical role of data continues to grow,
more businesses than ever must guarantee iron-clad
security while providing a high degree of control and
monitoring.
Until now, the robust performance, rapid deployment
potential, and "pay as you grow" budgeting advantages
of Fibre Channel chassis switches have been available
only in the form of expensive Director appliances
targeted primarily at mainframe customers.
managers with high-port-count open systems SANs
who are unwilling to pay a premium for unused Director
features (such as FICON support) have been forced to
purchase complicated meshes of smaller switches, or
very large fixed-port units – both of which offer high
port counts, but much less flexibility, fault tolerance,
and overall system control.
QLogic now provides a new class of core switch,
representing a sane alternative to quarter-million
dollar Directors and large, less resilient fixed-port
switches. The SANbox 9000 is Designed to the Core
for cost-sensitive, business-critical, open-system
environments that require high port and performance,
with support for 99.999% available solutions.
Key Features and Benefits
Scalability
• 16 to 128 ports in a single 4U chassis
• 256 ports in a dual-chassis 8U HyperStack™
• Mix and match Fibre Channel I/O blades
– 8Gb or 4Gb blades for server/storage connections (
– 10Gb blades for auto-trunking links to other switches (
• Intelligent Storage Router Modules: iSCSI for connecting low-cost servers
and FCIP for replicating data across a WAN.
Fault-Tolerance
• Dual CPU option – True director-class redundancy with failover is now
affordable for open system SANs. No large edge switch can compare!
• Hot-swappable I/O blades – Easy, non-disruptive expansion and
maintenance
• Redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and fans
Low Cost of Ownership
• Pricing begins well under $100K
• 16-port entry point
• More standard features at no charge, fewer software licenses
IT
• Customer Replaceable Units (CRUs) ensure simplicity, economy
• Lower power consumption, smaller rack space footprint, lower weight
Powerful Included Software
• QuickTools™ gets you up and running in minutes.
• Enterprise Fabric Suite™ 2007 helps you set up, monitor, tune,
troubleshoot and service an unlimited number of large fabrics.
• Adaptive Trunking, RSCN suppression, Drag-and-drop Zoning Wizard,
Extended Distance and more at no extra charge
• Advanced Fabric Security – Protect your data with the right mix of easy-
to-implement features:
– User security
– Connection security
– Device security
D A T A S H E E T
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