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Advanced solution management

Enterprise Fabric Connectivity

Manager

Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager

(EFCM) software is designed to

support interconnection of multiple

IBM TotalStorage SAN m-type switches

and directors for the creation of tiered

enterprise SAN solutions. EFCM soft-

ware with a 1U rack mount manage-

ment server (separately orderable

products) is designed to centralize the

management of multiple, distributed

switches and directors in an enterprise-

wide Fibre Channel fabric.

The SAN32M-2 Element Manager

feature is designed to enable tiered

enterprise-to-edge EFCM management

of SAN32M-2 switches when intercon-

nected with multiple IBM TotalStorage

SAN m-type switches and directors in a

tiered enterprise SAN solution.

Open System Management Server

(OSMS), a standard feature, is an ANSI

(American National Standards Institute)-

based capability that supports SAN

management software from vendors

such as VERITAS, Tivoli and BMC.

OSMS is designed to extend the

switch’s capability to include in-band

management with an open systems,

host-based application and to allow

the fabric switch and devices attached

to it to be “discovered,” or seen in a

fabric through a framework software

application.

SANtegrity™ Enhanced (Security

Suite) feature is designed to help

enhance business continuity by reduc-

ing the impact of human inﬂuences on

networked data. The feature includes

SANtegrity Binding and SANtegrity

Authentication.

SANtegrity Zoning, a standard capabil-

ity of Enterprise Operating System

(E/OS), provides hardware-enforced

world wide name (WWN) and port zon-

ing. SANtegrity Secure Management

Zone (SMZ) is designed to secure man-

agement access to local and remote

SAN devices over a secure connection.

SANtegrity Binding is designed to cre-

ate multiple layers of access control,

including port, switch and fabric

binding.

Standards-based SANtegrity

Authentication is designed to force

each device in the SAN to prove who

they are in order to avoid unauthorized

access and unauthenticated devices.

Preferred Path, a standard feature, is

designed to allow a customer to deﬁne

routes across a fabric. The Preferred

Path modiﬁes the behavior of Open

Trunking by providing guidance for the

balancing function. The Preferred Path

conﬁguration helps address user prefer-

ence regarding exit port assignment but

is subject to the standard rules regard-

ing the Fabric Shortest Path First

(FSPF) protocol.

Full Volatility feature is designed to

support high-security environments,

which require no customer data be

retained after power-off. Full Volatility is

designed to conﬁgure a switch or direc-

tor so that no frame data is stored after

a power-off.

SAN32M-2 FICON® Management

Server feature supports management of

the SAN32M-2 switch using System

Automation for z/OS and System

Automation for OS/390® and zSeries

900 servers. IBM 9032 ESCON®

director is a type of dynamic in-band

management. System Automation—for

z/OS or OS/390—is designed to con-

currently manage IBM 9032 ESCON

directors as well as McDATA® FICON

directors.

High port density,rack space savings

Rapidly growing Fibre Channel SAN

infrastructures place a premium on rack

space. The IBM TotalStorage

SAN32M-2 fabric switch uses SFP LC

optical connectors and advanced pack-

aging that requires only one-rack unit

(1U) height for 32 ports. The

SAN32M-2 switch is also tabletop

stackable.