Q-Logic 8200 SERIES manual Features

Q

2 – General Description SANbox SSP Overview

2.2

SANbox SSP Overview

The SANbox 8200/8202 SSP represents a new category of storage virtualization devices that centralizes the management and delivery of storage and related services, without creating performance bottlenecks in the storage network. Storage services such as virtualization and volume management, snapshots, replication, backup, and mirroring can be deployed and provisioned from the SANbox SSP.

While SANbox SSP can process and switch Fibre Channel packets at wire speed, it is not itself a Fibre Channel fabric switch. Rather, SANbox SSP complements your Fibre Channel fabrics, allowing you to provide storage services uniformly across heterogeneous fabrics, and to configure and manage access between devices on different fabrics. SANbox SSP provides these capabilities without the complication and risk of merging Fibre Channel fabrics.

2.2.1

Features

Three models of SANbox SSPs are available:

SANbox 8200-08 SSP (single power supply integrated with 8 ports) SANbox 8202-08 SSP (dual hot-swappable power supplies with 8 ports) SANbox 8202-16 SSP (dual hot-swappable power supplies with 16 ports)

SANbox SSP:

■Adds new storage services to any existing SAN environment

■Reduces complexity of managing and protecting data resources by centralizing storage services within the network

■Integrates host-based agent functionality, avoiding the complexity of managing distributed agents

■Extends the reach of storage services across multiple SAN islands, eliminating the need for multiple independent deployments

For SANbox SSP specifications, see Appendix A Specifications.

SN0054628-00 A 2-3