IBM Storage Networking SAN64B-7

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IBM Storage Networking

SAN64B-7
Modern storage infrastructure built for
Highlights flash, NVMe and FICON
• Provide high scalability with With the growing adoption of flash and the ramp-up of NVMe-
64 ports in a 1U switch based storage, organizations are moving more data through a SAN
• Automate repetitive, than ever before, requiring an increase in I/O capacity tokeep up
administrative tasks with ever-increasing demand. Coupled with higher expectations for
availability and data resiliency, organizations need a network that
• Maximize NVMe, is capable of maximizing performance while simplifying
FICON®,and high management and protecting against cybersecurity threats to
transaction workloads increase the productivity, efficiency and resiliency of their storage
with lower latency investments and resources.
• Enable pay-as-you-grow
scalability from 24 to 64 To meet these requirements, the network must evolve. AnIBM b-
ports at 64G type Fibre Channel infrastructure unleashes the performance of
NVMe workloads with reduced latency and increased bandwidth.
• Simplify troubleshooting by
In addition, this infrastructure lays the foundation for an
identifying and isolating
autonomous SAN by combining powerful analytics, advanced
issues
automation, and integrated security capabilities to maximize
• Safeguard mission- performance, ensure reliability, and protect their data. With
critical workloads autonomous SAN technology, organizations can realize a self-
• Visualize SAN health and learning, self- optimizing, and self-healing storage network.
performance data
The IBM Storage Networking SAN64B-7 is a Gen 7 Fibre Channel
64 port switch in an ultra-dense 1U design. Delivering unmatched
64G performance and 50% lower latency compared to the
previous generation, this switch delivers a fixed-port building
block designed to maximize the performance of flash, NVMe, and
FICON environments to meet demanding workloads.

The SAN64B-7 Switch simplifies deployment, configuration, and

management of SAN resources with a collection of easy-to-use
tools. With EZSwitchSetup, organizations can reduce the
number of steps to deploy and configure a switch. In addition,
the simplified user interface of Web Tools makes the SAN easier
to manage. To streamline management workflows,
organizations can leverage, IBM® SANnav™
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Management Portal to understand the health and performance of the SAN and improve operational
efficiencies with visual dashboards for instant visibility and faster troubleshooting.

To further simplify operations and increase visibility, the SAN64B-7 includes Fabric Vision® technology
to monitor and analyze the SAN. This technology provides visibility and insight to quickly identify
problems and achieve critical service-level agreements (SLAs). To streamline management workflows,
organizations can leverage IBM SANnav Management Portal to accelerate the deployment of new
applications, switches, servers, and storage. Furthermore, amodernized graphical user interface (GUI)
improves operational efficiencies with visual dashboards for instant visibility and faster
troubleshooting.

Build High-Performance Fabrics

The SAN64B-7 is designed for maximum flexibility and value. This enterprise-class switch offers pay-
as-you-grow scalability with Ports on Demand (PoD). Organizations can quickly, easily, and cost-
effectively scale from 24 ports to 64 ports to support higher growth. The IBM SAN64B-7 provides 48
ports that support 64G SFP+ optics and eight SFP-DD (double-density) ports that support either 64G
SFP+ and 2x64G SFP-DD optics. The SFP-DD optical transceivers provide two ports for device or ISL
connectivity. The SAN64B-7 base configuration comes with 24 ports enabled and can scale to 64 ports
by installing SFP and SFP-DD POD licenses in any order and any combination.

The SAN64B-7 Switch supports SCSI, FICON, and NVMe over Fibre Channel, enabling organizations to
integrate IBM b-type Fibre Channel networks with next-generation flash storage, without a disruptive
rip-and-replace. This enables enterprises toachieve faster application response times and harness the
performance of new storage technologies to deliver the performance, application response time, and
scalability neededfor next-generation data centers.

Protect Mission-Critical Workloads with Gen 7 Integrated Security

The volume of cybercriminal behavior has increased as a direct result of the added reliance on
digital data by businesses and has caused billions of dollars in losses across all industries. An
IBM SAN64B-7 cyber-resilient storage network helps protect against security threats, enable
nonstop operations, and maximize management automation. Fibre Channel fabrics are secure
by design based on controlled access between servers and storage and isolation within the
data center. IBM Gen 7 technology further reduces the risk of vulnerabilities from malware
and hijacking by validating the integrity of the switch operating system, security settings, and
hardware.

The IBM b-type Fabric OS® (FOS) adds additional security enhancements to validate the
integrity and security of b-type hardware and software. These features include Secure Boot,
Trusted FOS (TruFOS) Certificates, FOS hardening with removal of root access, and automated
distribution of SSL certificates via SANnav Management Portal. These features ensure that
enterprises running IBM b-type directors and switches are currently covered with support and
securely enabled to perform critical operations without having to worry about whether the
operating system has been tampered with. In addition, the FOS has been hardened by
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removing root-level access to the operating system to protect the SAN against malware and
hijacking attacks.

Those enterprises using the IBM SANnav Management Portal have the ability to automatically distribute
SSL certificates across the SAN to ensure authenticity and encryption settings. With SANnav,
administrators can set up monitoring and alerting for security configuration changes, customize security
thresholds, give proper access control to individual admins, and view switch security events.

Autonomous SAN Innovation

The SAN64B-7 Switch with Fabric Vision technology provides a robust analytics architecture that delivers
autonomous SAN technology through self-learning, self- optimizing, and self-healing capabilities. IBM® b-
type Fabric Vision technology is a suite of features that leverage comprehensive data collection
capabilities with powerful analytics to quickly understand the health and performance of the environment
and identify any potentialimpacts or trending problems.

Automate the SAN to Simplify Management Complexity

IT organizations spend nearly half of their time performing repetitive daily management tasks, such as
zoning, inventory reporting, and operational validation checks. By automating these repetitive tasks, IT
administrators can significantly improve their efficiency and dramatically decrease the risk of
operational mistakes. Automation in large-scale IT environments integrates diverse infrastructure
components with consistency and predictability to deliver greater operational efficiency and agility. The
SAN64B-7 Switch can automate actions to simplify management and resolve issues without
intervention to avoid network disruptions andoutages. Through open DevOps automation technology,
organizations can reliably perform resource-intensive tasks, such as infrastructure deployment and
provisioning, in a fraction of thetime to expedite IT services while eliminating human error. In addition,
automation proactively monitors the network to self-optimize performance and automatically mitigate
fabric-related issues with self-healing capabilities.
With self-optimizing capabilities, IBM b-type utilizes actionable intelligence to maximizeperformance.
Real-time monitoring of heath and performance characteristics enables the network to make smarter
decisions on traffic prioritization, congestion management, and notification to ensure optimal network
performance for applications and storage. IBM b-type Gen 7 Traffic Optimizer guarantees critical
application performance by automatically prioritizing traffic, such as protocol, speed, and latency. In
addition, Traffic Optimizer can help avoid application performance impacts by automatically isolating
traffic that is adversely impacting other flows.

IBM Gen 7 raises the bar for network availability through automatic avoidance and recovery features,
delivering a self-healing SAN. When potential disruptions are detected, the network will automatically
mitigate or resolve issues without intervention. The Fabric OS (FOS) software identifies abnormal or
unexpected behavior and automatically takes action to avoid adegradation in performance. If
congestion occurs, the software instantly notifies end devices of the congestion problem through an
alerting and signaling process. Once the end devices are alerted,the software ensures data delivery
with automatic failover or adjustment of traffic to mitigate the impact of the problem. IBM SANnav
management tools can identify various latency severitylevels, pinpointing exactly which devices are
causing the issues or which devices are impacted by a bottleneck, and they can quarantine
misbehaving devices automatically.
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Instant Visibility with IBMSANnav

IBM SANnav Management Portal and SANnav Global View empower IT administratorswith
comprehensive visibility across the entire SAN, from a global view down to local environments.
SANnav contextualizes data into visual dashboards and topology views, whichallows
administrators to quickly detect and isolate points of interest to increase operational
efficiencies. In addition, IBM SANnav streamlines management workflows to accelerate the
deployment of new applications, switches, servers, and storage.

Access Gateway Mode

The SAN64B-7 can be deployed as a full-fabric switch or as an Access Gateway, which simplifies
fabric topologies and allows heterogeneous fabric connectivity. Access Gateway mode utilizes N_Port
ID Virtualization (NPIV) switch standards to present physical and virtualservers directly to the core of
SAN fabrics, allowing you to configure your fabric to handle additional devices without increasing the
number of switch domains.

Key benefits of Access Gateway

• Improved scalability for large or rapidly growing server and virtual server environments
• Reduced management since Access Gateway appears transparent to the SAN fabric
• Support for heterogeneous SAN configurations with reduced functionality
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SAN64B-7 System Architecture

Fibre Channelports Switch mode (default): 64 ports (48 64G SFP+ ports, plus 8 2x64G SFP-DD ports), each supporting
E_Ports, M_Ports, F_Ports, D_Ports, EX_Ports.
24 -port base configuration; additional ports are enabled with three 8-port SFP+ PODs
(Ports on Demand), plus a 16-port SFP-DD POD (8 2x64G SFP-DD transceivers), scaling the
switch from 24 ports to 64 ports.
Access Gateway default port mapping: 48 F_Ports, 8 N_Ports.
Scalability Full-fabric architecture with a maximum of 239 switches.

Certified maximum 4K active nodes; 56 switches, 19 hops in Fabric OS® fabrics

Performance Fibre Channel: 8.5Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 10.53Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 14.025Gb/sline
speed, full duplex; 28.05Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 57.8Gb/s line speed, full duplex; auto-
sensing of 8, 10, 16, 32, and 64G FC port speeds. 10G optionally programmable to fixed port
speed.

Load balancing Frame-based ISL Trunking load balances up to eight SFP+ ports per ISL trunk; up to512Gb/s
per ISL trunk when using 64G optics.
Dynamic Path Selection (DPS) provides exchange-based load balancing across allavailable
ISLs.

Aggregate bandwidth 4.096Tb/s

Maximum fabriclatency Latency for locally switched ports is 460 ns (including FEC).

Maximum frame size 2112-byte payload

Frame buffers 24K per switching ASIC

Classes ofservice Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames)

Port types D_Port (ClearLink® Diagnostic Port), E_Port, EX_Port, F_Port; optional port-type control Access
Gateway mode: F_Port and NPIV-enabled N_Port

Data traffictypes Fabric switches supporting unicast.

Media types 64G: Hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector: SWL, LWL 10 km, ELWL 25 km.
32G: Hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector: SWL, LWL 10 km, ELWL 25 km.
10G: Hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector: SWL, LWL 10 km.
2x64G: Hot-pluggable SFP-DD, SN connector: SWL
Fibre Channel distance is subject to fiber-optic cable and port speed.
USB One standard USB port for firmware download, SupportSave, and configuration upload or
download.
Fabric Services Fabric Vision; Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS); Flow Vision; Adaptive
Networking (QoS); Fabric Performance Impact (FPI) Monitoring; Slow Drain Device Quarantine
(SDDQ); Advanced Zoning (default zoning, port/WWN zoning, broadcast zoning, peer zoning,
target-driven zoning); Dynamic Fabric Provisioning (DFP); Dynamic Path Selection (DPS); Extended
Fabrics; Enhanced BB Credit Recovery; FDMI; Frame Redirection; Frame-based Trunking; FSPF;
Integrated Routing; IPoFC; ISL Trunking; Management Server; Name Server; NPIV; Time Server;
Registered State Change Notification (RSCN); Slow Drain Device Quarantine (SDDQ);
Reliable Commit Service (RCS); Virtual Fabrics (Logical Switch, Logical Fabric); VMID+; AppServer;
Read Diagnostics Parameter (RDP).
Extension Fibre Channel, in-flight compression (LZO) and encryption (AES-GCM-256); integrated optional10G
Fibre Channel for DWDM MAN connectivity.

FICON FICON cascading; support for lossless DLS; FICON CUP; Advanced Accelerator for FICON (IBM
z/OS® Global Mirror and read/write Tape Pipelining). Check IBM FICON Qualification Letters for latest
support details.
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Management

Supported management Brocade Advanced Web Tools; Brocade SANnav Management Portal and SANnav Global View;
software Command Line Interface (CLI); EZSwitchSetup; HTTP/HTTPS; RESTful API; SNMP v1/v3 (FE MIB, FC
Management MIB); SSH.

Security DH-CHAP (between switches and end devices); FCAP switch authentication; HTTPS; IP filtering; LDAP
with IPv6; OpenLDAP; Port Binding; RADIUS; TACACS+;user-defined Role-Based Access Control (RBAC);
Secure Copy (SCP); Secure Syslog; SFTP; SSH v2; SSL; Switch Binding; Trusted Switch.

Management Access 10/100/1000Mb/s Ethernet (RJ-45) port, and serial console port (mini-USB).

Diagnostics ClearLink optics and cable diagnostics, including electrical/optical loopback, link traffic/latency/ distance; flow
mirroring; built-in flow generator; POST and embedded online/offline diagnostics, including environmental
monitoring; FCping and Pathinfo (FC traceroute); frame viewer; non-disruptive daemon restart; opticshealth
monitoring; power monitoring; RAStrace logging; and Rolling
Reboot Detection (RRD).

Mechanical

Enclosure Front-to-back airflow; non-port-side exhaust; power from back, 1UBack-to-

front airflow; non-port-side intake; power from back, 1U

Size Width: 440.00 mm (17.32 in.)

Height: 43.90 mm (1.73 in.)
Depth: 355.60 mm (14.00 in.)

System Weight 7.17 kg (15.8 lb) with two power supply FRUs, without transceivers

Environment

Operating environment Temperature: 0°C to 40°C (32°F to 104°F)Humidity: 8% to

90% (non-condensing)

Non-operatingenvironment Temperature: –25°C to 70°C (–13°F to 158°F)Humidity:

8% to 90% (non-condensing)

Operating Altitude Up to 3000 m (9842 ft)

Storage altitude Up to 12 km (39,370 ft)

Shock Operating: Up to 20G, 6 ms half-sine

Non-operating: Half-sine, 33G, 11 ms, 3/eg axis

Vibration Operating: 0.25 Grms sine, 0.40 Grms random, 5 Hz to 500 Hz

Non-operating: 5 Hz at 0.50 Grms; 10–500 Hz at 1.00 Grms (sine vibration); 3–500 Hz at 1.12
Grms (random vibration)

Heat dissipation 64 ports at 1192 Btu/hr

Power

Power supply Dual, hot-swappable redundant power supplies with integrated system cooling fans. 80 PlusGold.

AC input 90V to 264V, 4.5A

AC input linefrequency 50 Hz to 60 Hz nominal, 47 Hz to 63 Hz range

AC power consumption 349W with all 64ports operating at 64G (48 ports populated with 64G SWL optics and 8
ports populated with 2x64G optics).
57W for an empty chassis with no optics
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