IBM System Storage, SAN24B-4 Express, 2498-B80

Storage Area Network (SAN) Products

Entry SAN switches for easy-to-use SMB solutions

Enterprise SAN directors for high availability and scalability enterprise solutions

IBM System Storage	●	Provides high-performance, scalable and simple-to-use fabric switching with 8, 16 or 24 ports operating at
SAN24B-4 Express		8, 4, 2 or 1 Gigabits per second (depending on which optical transceiver is used) for servers running Microsoft®
(2498-B24, 249824E)		Windows®, AIX®, UNIX®, and Linux® operating systems, server clustering, infrastructure simpliﬁcation and busi-
		ness continuity solutions. The SAN24B-4 Express includes EZSwitchSetup wizard, which is an embedded setup tool
		designed to guide novice users through switch setup, often in less than ﬁve minutes.

IBM TotalStorage®	●	Provides high-performance, scalable and simple-to-use fabric switching with 8, 12 or 16 ports operating at
SAN16B-2 (2005-B16)		1, 2 and 4 Gigabits per second (Gbps) fabric for servers running Microsoft Windows, AIX, UNIX, Linux, and
IBM TotalStorage		IBM OS/400® operating systems, server clustering, infrastructure simpliﬁcation and business continuity solutions.
SAN16B-2 Express		The SAN16B-2 includes EZSwitchSetup wizard, which is an embedded setup tool designed to guide novice users
Model (200516B)		through switch setup, often in less than ﬁve minutes.

IBM TotalStorage SAN256B (2109-M48)

●High-performance, high-density and high-availability SAN director designed to be the foundation for large enterprise-class infrastructure simpliﬁcation and business continuity solutions. The SAN256B director provides from 16 to 384 ports and contains two control processors for high-availability, sup- porting one to eight blades. Two different types of switch blades are available; one capable of support- ing 4, 2 and 1 Gbps link speeds and the other type capable of supporting 8, 4 and 2 Gbps link speeds. Switch blades contain 16, 32 or 48 ports. Each port can support either Fibre Channel or FICON® links. A Fibre Channel Routing blade is available to enable routing between heterogeneous SAN fabrics and distance extension between sites using FCIP. A 10 Gbps FC switch blade is available to support high- speed Inter-Switch Links (ISLs), and an iSCSI blade is available to enable low-cost connectivity to servers via Ethernet. Standard features including Advanced Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking, Web Tools, Advanced Zoning, Fabric Watch, Performance Monitoring and Fabric Access Layer (API).

Cisco® MDS 9124	● Provides high-performance, scalable and simple-to-use fabric switching with 8, 16 or 24 ports operating at
Express for	1, 2 and 4 Gbps for servers running Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Linux, NetWare and OS/400 operating systems,
IBM System Storage	server clustering, infrastructure simpliﬁcation and business continuity solutions. The switch includes replaceable
(2053-424, 241724C)	power supply, Virtual SAN, Cisco Fabric Manager and redundant power supply feature designed to simplify setup
	and ongoing maintenance for Cisco MDS 9000 users.

Midrange SAN switches for scalable SMB and enterprise solutions

IBM System Storage SAN40B-4	●	Provides high-performance, scalable and simple-to-use fabric switching with 24, 32 or 40 ports operat-
(2498-B40, 249840E)		ing at 8, 4, 2 or 1 Gigabits per second (depending on which optical transceiver is used) for servers run-
		ning Microsoft Windows, AIX, UNIX, Linux, OS/400 and z/OS® operating systems. Many advanced
		functions are available to facilitate operation in medium and large networks.

IBM System Storage SAN32B-3	●	Provides high-performance, scalable and simple-to-use fabric switching with 16, 24 or 32 ports operat-
(2005-B5K, 20055KB)		ing at 1, 2 and 4 Gbps for servers running Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Linux, OS/400 and z/OS operating
		systems, server clustering, infrastructure simpliﬁcation and business continuity solutions. The SAN32B-2
		and SAN32B-3 include dual replaceable power supplies, Advanced Zoning, Fabric Watch and Web Tools.

IBM System Storage SAN80B-4	●	Provides high-performance, scalable and simple-to-use fabric switching with 48, 64 or 80 ports operat-
(2498-B80)		ing at 8, 4, 2 or 1 Gigabits per second (depending on which optical transceiver is used) for servers run-
		ning Microsoft Windows, AIX, UNIX, Linux, OS/400 and z/OS operating systems. Many advanced functions
		are available to facilitate operation in medium and large networks.

IBM TotalStorage SAN64B-2	●	Provides high-performance, scalable and simple-to-use fabric switching with 32, 48 or 64 port operating
(2005-B64)		at 1, 2 and 4 Gbps fabric for servers running Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Linux, NetWare, OS/400 and
		IBM z/OS operating systems.

Cisco MDS 9134 for	●	Designed to address the needs of medium-sized businesses and large enterprises.
IBM System Storage	●	Model 434 provides high-performance, scalable and simple-to-use fabric switching with 24 or 32 ports
(2054-434, -S34)		operating at 1, 2 and 4 Gbps for servers running Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Linux, NetWare, OS/400 and
		z/OS operating systems, server clustering, infrastructure simpliﬁcation and business continuity solutions.
	●	Model S34 provides stacked switch bundle with 48, 56 or 64 port switch fabric with two 10 Gbps Inter
		Switch Links (ISLs).

Enterprise SAN directors for high availability and scalability enterprise solutions

IBM TotalStorage SAN140M	●	High-availability enterprise SAN director for Intel® processor-based servers, IBM System i™ systems,
(2027-140)		IBM System p™ servers and IBM System z™ servers. Provides 16 to 140 ports, scalable in 4-port
		increments; 1, 2 and 4 Gbps Fibre Channel and FICON switch for Windows, Linux, UNIX and z/OS
		servers.
	●	Provides 10 Gbps backbone links for high-performance continuity solutions.

IBM TotalStorage SAN256M	●	High-availability enterprise SAN director for Intel processor-based servers, System i systems, System p
(2027-256)		servers, IBM System x™ servers and System z mainframes. Provides 64 to 256 ports, scalable in
		32-port increments; 1, 2 and 4 Gbps Fibre Channel and FICON director with 10 Gbps backbone links
		for Windows, Linux, UNIX and z/OS servers. Includes Director FlexPar capability for up to four logical
		partitions with separate fabric services.

Cisco MDS 9506 for	●	High-availability enterprise SAN director for Intel processor-based servers, System i systems, System p
IBM System Storage		servers and System z mainframes. Scalable from 12 to 192 1, 2, 4 and 10 Gbps ports with one to four
(2054-E04)		4-, 12-, 24- and 48-port Fibre Channel modules for Windows, Linux, UNIX and z/OS servers.
	●	An 18/4 4 Gbps Fibre Channel/GbE port multiservice module enables high-performance, cost-effective
		SAN extension over IP for continuity solutions.

Cisco MDS 9509 for	●	High-availability enterprise SAN director for Intel processor-based servers, System i systems, System p
IBM System Storage		servers and System z mainframes. Scalable from 12 to 336 1, 2, 4 and 10 Gbps ports with one to
(2054-E07)		seven 4-, 12-, 24- and 48-port Fibre Channel modules for Windows, Linux, UNIX and z/OS servers.
	●	An 18/4 4 Gbps Fibre Channel/GbE port multiservice module enables high-performance, cost-effective
		SAN extension over IP for continuity solutions.

Cisco MDS 9513 for	●	High-availability enterprise SAN director for Intel processor-based servers, System i systems, System p
IBM System Storage		servers and System z mainframes. Scalable from 12 to 528 1, 2, 4 and 10 Gbps ports with one to
(2054-E11)		eleven 4-, 12-, 24- and 48-port Fibre Channel modules for Windows, Linux, UNIX and z/OS servers.
	●	An 18/4 4 Gbps Fibre Channel/GbE port multiservice module enables high-performance, cost-effective
		SAN extension over IP for continuity solutions.

SAN routers to connect heterogeneous SAN fabrics and enable distance extension using Fibre Channel over IP

IBM System Storage SAN04B-R router	● Provides SAN distance extension using FCIP over the Internet for IBM System x servers,
(2005-R04)	System i systems, and System p server environments. The SAN04B-R includes two 4, 2 and
	1 Gbps Fibre Channel ports and two 50 Megabits per second Ethernet ports. FCIP Tunnelling
	Service for SAN extension of IP WAN infrastructure features is included.

IBM System Storage SAN768B (2499-384)

●Premier fabric backbone for data network consolidation in large enterprise data centers. Provides high performance and high availability data networking with new industry-leading 8 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) technology. It is also the ﬁrst member of the IBM System Storage b-type family designed to exploit Brocade®’s new Data Center Fabric architecture. The SAN768B introduces Inter-Chassis Links (ICLs) to connect two systems to form a 768-port fabric. With 16 to 384 ports per system, it includes all capabilities of SAN256B (including the Fibre Channel Routing Blade and the 10 Gbps FC Blade) plus adds Adaptive Networking to enable Quality of Service (QoS) management and Integrated Routing to enable interconnect of heterogeneous SAN fabrics.

IBM TotalStorage SAN18B-R SAN router	●	Provides multiprotocol SAN routing for IBM System x servers, System i systems, System p
(2005-R18)		servers and System z mainframes. The SAN18B-R includes sixteen 4, 2 and 1 Gbps Fibre
		Channel or FICON ports and two Gigabit Ethernet ports. FC-FC Routing for SAN island consoli-
		dation and optional FCIP Tunnelling Service for SAN extension of IP WAN infrastructure features
		are included.

Cisco MDS 9222i for	●	Designed to address the needs of medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, the modu-
IBM System Storage		lar 18/4 (4 Gbps Fibre Channel/GbE) port multiservice SAN router enables high-performance,
(2054-E01)		cost-effective SAN extension over IP for continuity solutions.
	●	Scalable from 18 to 66 1, 2, 4 and 10 Gbps ports with one 4-, 12-, 24- and 48-port Fibre
		Channel module for Windows, Linux, UNIX and z/OS servers.

DS4700 Express specifications

The IBM DS4700 Express is a robust, mid-range storage solution designed to help businesses manage and optimize their data effectively. This storage system is part of the IBM DS family, renowned for its reliability, performance, and scalability. Targeted primarily at small to medium-sized enterprises, the DS4700 Express offers a blend of advanced technologies and user-friendly features.

One of the key characteristics of the DS4700 Express is its scalability. It supports a wide range of capacities, allowing businesses to start small and expand their storage infrastructure as their data needs grow. With the ability to support up to 96TB of storage, the system can accommodate various workloads, from simple file storage to complex database environments.

The DS4700 Express is equipped with high-speed Fibre Channel connectivity options, ensuring rapid data access and transfer rates. This feature is particularly beneficial for applications that demand low-latency responses, such as virtualized environments and transaction-heavy workloads. The system also supports iSCSI connectivity, providing flexibility for organizations looking to integrate it into their existing infrastructure without needing significant changes.

In terms of data protection and management, the IBM DS4700 Express is packed with advanced features. It includes support for RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) configurations, ensuring data redundancy and enhancing reliability. Additionally, it offers snapshot capabilities, enabling organizations to create point-in-time copies of their data for backup and recovery purposes. This feature is crucial for minimizing downtime and ensuring business continuity.

Performance optimization is another highlight of the DS4700 Express. With intelligent caching features, the system efficiently manages data requests, improving response times and overall throughput. Its ability to manage both SSDs and HDDs through tiered storage means businesses can balance cost and performance based on their specific needs.

The IBM DS4700 Express also offers an intuitive management interface, simplifying the process of configuring and monitoring the storage environment. This user-friendly design makes it accessible even for IT teams without extensive storage experience.

In summary, the IBM DS4700 Express combines scalability, performance, and ease of use, making it an excellent choice for small to medium-sized businesses looking to enhance their data storage capabilities. With its advanced technologies and comprehensive features, it stands out as a dependable solution for organizations aiming to manage their growing data needs efficiently.