Optional Features - HP 316095-B21 - StorageWorks Edge Switch 2/24 Planning Manual

Optional Features

HP offers several operating features that are available for the switch as
customer-specified options. Available features include:
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FMS.
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feature.
SAN High Availability Planning Guide
Open Systems Management Server or FICON Management Server —
Inband director or switch management is provided through purchase of the
OSMS or FMS feature.
The Edge Switch 2/24 does not support out-of-band management through
Flexport Technology — The Flexport technology feature is a hardware port
expansion kit that allows customers to upgrade switch capacity on demand in
eight-port increments. A Flexport technology switch is delivered at a discount
without all the ports enabled. When additional port capacity is required, the
remaining ports are enabled (in eight-port increments) through purchase of
this feature.
The Director 2/64 and Director 2/140 do not support the Flexport technology
SANtegrity Binding — Purchase and enabling of this feature enhances
security in SANs that contain a large and mixed group of fabrics and attached
devices.
Open Trunking — Purchase and enabling of this feature provides dynamic
load balancing of Fibre Channel traffic across multiple ISLs.
Full volatility — Purchase and enabling of this feature ensures that no Fibre
Channel frames are stored after a director or switch is powered off or fails,
and a memory dump file (that possibly includes classified frames) is not
included as part of the data collection procedure.
CNT WAN support — This feature is included only in software maintenance
release 4.02.00 and is required to allow an Edge Switch 2/12 or Edge Switch
2/24 to communicate with Computer Network Technologies (CNT) UltraNet
Edge storage routers.
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