IBM TotalStorage SAN Switch H08 2005H08 User Manual
Product codes
2005H08
Affordable small and medium business fabric switch for
improved efficiency
improved efficiency
IBM TotalStorage SAN Switch H08
Highlights
IBM TotalStorage SAN Switch H08
The IBM® TotalStorage® SAN Switch
H08, with next-generation switch
technology, is designed to provide
improved availability capabilities, fully
non-blocking performance and
advanced intelligence features. The
IBM H08 SAN Switch is well-suited to
address small and medium business
(SMB) customer requirements for infra-
structure simplification and improved
business continuity.
The H08 SAN Switch is designed to be
interoperable with other members of
the IBM TotalStorage SAN Switch fam-
ily. You can configure a wide range of
scalable solutions that help address
SMB demands for affordable, simple to
operate and integrated heterogeneous
open server SANs.
Configuration options
The entry-fabric switch includes eight
universal ports with four shortwave
(500 M at 1 Gbps, 300 M at 2 Gbps)
SFP transceivers. A mixture of four
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Entry-fabric switch with
advanced zoning and
ability to attach to one
IBM TotalStorage® SAN Switch
for Microsoft® Windows NT®,
Windows® 2000 and UNIX
server clustering
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Upgradable to full-enterprise
capabilities for use in large
core-to-edge fabrics
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Offers 8-port Fibre Channel
switch with wide range of Small
Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP)
transceiver features
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Improved availability capabili-
ties include hot code activation
and single field replaceable
unit, FRU design
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Provides up to 2 Gigabit/sec.
(Gbps) non-blocking
performance
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Uses WEBTOOLS, Fabric
Manager and open fabric inter-
faces which can help simplify
management of small SAN fab-
rics and large core-to-edge
SAN fabrics
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Offers advanced fabric service
features such as end-to-end
performance monitoring and
Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking
with aggregate speed up to
8 Gbps
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Offers Advanced Security fea-
ture with extensive, policy-
based security capabilities
Eight port fabric switch with advanced intelligence that can help simplify management.