| Feature |
Benefits |
| Web Tools EZ |
- Quickly guides novice users through setup
- Help simplify administration and configuration
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| Auto-sensing 4, 2 and 1 Gbps ports |
Designed to:
- Enable high performance and improved utilization
- Enable rapid switch deployment with minimal configuration
- Provide easy installation and manageability
- Offer future readiness for 4Gbps capable server and storage devices
|
| Hot swappable SFPs |
- Provides fast and easy replacement of optical transceivers with no tools required
- Support for both short wave and long wave optical transceivers
|
| Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking |
- Support for up to 4-port ISLs provides total bandwidth of up to 16 Gbps (requires storage hardware that supports 4Gbps throughput)
- Helps eliminates packet rerouting and possible application failure due to link failure
|
| Efficient 1U design |
- High-density configurations in both 8 and 16-port configurations
|
| N+1 cooling |
- Helps maximize fabric uptime when a fan fails
|
| Hot code activation |
Designed to:
- Significantly reduce software installation time
- Enables fast software upgrades
- Help eliminate disruption to existing fabric
- Help reduce administrative overhead
|
| Advanced zoning |
- Hardware-enforced helps protect against non-secure, unauthorized and unauthenticated network and management access and World Wide Name spoofing
|
| Upgradeable architecture for scalable SAN fabrics |
- Optional features enable upgrades to support more complex fabrics
- Modular upgrades enable a "pay as you grow" approach to adding features when needed
|
| Backward compatibility with all IBM SAN b-type products |
- Helps provide investment protection for existing fabrics
- Allows inter-operation with other SAN products manufactured by Brocade
|
| Extended Fabric Activation |
- Designed to maintain performance over distances between ten and eighty kilometers
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