Emulex 350 manual

Improves reliability 15% with a

field–proven solution

Improves availability 20% by reducing

field service time

Lowers in–field service costs 15% with

advanced diagnostics and statistics tools

Increases overall storage system performance

up to 3x while scaling

Automatic trunking improves overall storage system

performance up to 5x while scaling

Reduces time to market 6 to 18 months

Reduces product cost/MB 20% by increasing the viable

number of drives per controller

Model 350

Embedded Storage Switch

Switch From Shared

The InSpeed™ Embedded Storage Switch Model 350 is

the only storage switch specifically designed for embedded

root switch storage system applications. Unlike in–house

development efforts that use port bypass circuitry, InSpeed

Embedded Storage Switches are designed as a drop–in

solution to deliver 6 to 18 month time to market advantage for

storage system suppliers who want to improve the Reliability,

Availability and Serviceability (RAS) and performance of their

systems. And unlike traditional complex fabric switches

designed for front–end SAN applications that are too big, too

expensive and consume too much power, InSpeed Embedded

Storage Switches are specifically designed to meet the

compatibility and cost–effectiveness that back–end root

switching applications require.

Despite the numerous advances made in storage system

drives and controllers, the back–end connectivity designed

into many of today’s storage systems is still shared loop

technology. While the severe limitations associated with

shared connectivity are broadly acknowledged, the expense

and complexity of implementing high performance switching

technology into the back–end storage arrays was prohibitive

and physically impossible. Emulex’s InSpeed technology has

changed all that.

InSpeed Model 350 Available to OEMs only