Quick Start Guide

SANbox 6140, an intelligent Storage Router, provides servers with iSCSI connectivity to SAN-attached Fibre Channel-based disk or tape storage.

Suggested Configurations

Figure 1 shows the SANbox 6140 connecting iSCSI servers to a direct-attached storage array.

ISCSI

 

ISCSI

FC

 

 

iSCSI

IP SWITCHED

SANbox 6140

INITIATOR

SERVER

NETWORK

RAID BASED

 

 

FIBRE CHANNEL

 

 

STORAGE SYSTEM

Figure 1. SANbox 6140 in Direct Attach Configuration

Figure 2 shows the SANbox 6140 connecting iSCSI servers to a SAN-attached array.

SERVER

iSCSI

FC

 

FC SAN

RAID BASED

iSCSI

 

 

 

 

 

FIBRE CHANNEL

iSCSI

 

FC

 

SANbox

FC SAN

STORAGE SYSTEM

INITIATORS

 

 

 

6140

 

 

 

 

IP

 

 

 

 

SWITCHED

 

 

 

 

NETWORK

 

 

 

Figure 2. SANbox 6140 in SAN-Attach Configuration

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