Appendix B. Application Blades; Fr4-18I Blade; Fs8-18 Blade - IBM SAN768B Installation, Service And User Manual

Appendix B. Application blades

FR4-18i blade

FS8-18 blade

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This appendix contains specification information about optional application blades
The FR4-18i blade has 16 physical Fibre Channel SFP ports supporting the Fibre
Channel Routing Services, and two physical Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) SFP ports
supporting the Fibre Channel Over IP (FCIP) feature. It operates with the Fabric
Operating System and can communicate with another FR4-18i or a SAN04B–R for
both Fibre Channel Routing services and FCIP.
The FR4-18i blade is intended as a platform for Fibre Channel Routing Services
and FCIP. Refer to the Fabric OS Administrator's Guide for information on
configuring these features.
The FR4-18i blade provides the following features:
v 16 Fibre Channel SFP ports supporting the Fibre Channel Routing Services with
link speeds up to 1, 2, or 4 Gbps.
v 2 GbE ports supporting the FCIP and Fibre Channel Routing Services with fixed
link speed at 1 Gbps:
– Each GbE port can support up to eight FCIP tunnels.
– Each FCIP tunnel is represented and managed as a virtual Fibre Channel
E_Port.
– Fibre Channel Routing Services can be used over the FCIP link.
– Fabrics connected through FCIP merge if the ports are configured as
VE_Ports, and do not merge if they are configured as VEX_Ports. If VE_Ports
are used in a Fibre Channel Routing Services backbone fabric configuration,
then the backbone fabric merges, but the EX_Port-attached edge fabrics do
not merge. For more information refer to the Fabric OS Administrator's Guide.
The FS8-18 encryption blade is a high performance 16 port auto-sensing blade with
data cryptographic (encryption/decryption) and data compression capabilities
designed for enterprises to secure their data against theft or unauthorized use and
to compress tape data for maximum utilization of tape media. The encryption
blade is a network-based solution that secures data-at-rest for heterogeneous tape
drives, disk array LUNs, and virtual tape libraries.
The FS8-18 blade provides the following major features:
v 16 auto-sensing F, FL, E, EX, and M ports at 8 Gbps FC ports
v 16 SFP media interfaces
v Encryption engines
v Key management/generation
v Key management with these hardware interfaces:
– Two 1000Base copper type media interfaces
– One smart card interface
v Security supervisor tamper detection and response capability
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