Abstract
This IBM® Redbooks® Product Guide describes the IBM System Storage® SAN42B-R extension switch. Today’s organizations depend on fast, reliable access to data wherever and whenever it is needed. The ramifications and potential business impact of an unreliable disaster recovery (DR) and data protection infrastructure are greater than ever. The System Storage SAN42B-R extension switch provides scalable deployment options to extend disaster recovery and data protection storage solutions across any distance. It includes a suite of features that help ensure continuous availability of a storage extension network, from predeployment validation tools to advanced network failure recovery technologies.
Contents
This IBM® Redbooks® Product Guide describes the IBM System Storage® SAN42B-R extension switch.
Today’s organizations depend on fast, reliable access to data wherever and whenever it is needed. The ramifications and potential business impact of an unreliable disaster recovery (DR) and data protection infrastructure are greater than ever.
The System Storage SAN42B-R Extension Switch is an ideal platform for building a high-performance data center extension infrastructure for replication and backup solutions. It leverages any type of inter-data center wide area network (WAN) transport to extend open systems and mainframe storage applications over any distance. Without the use of extension, those distances are often impossible or impractical.
In addition, the SAN42B-R addresses the most demanding disaster recovery requirements. Twenty-four 16 gigabits per second (Gbps) Fibre Channel/IBM Fibre Channel connection (IBM FICON®) ports, sixteen 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports, and two 40 GbE ports provide the bandwidth, port density, and throughput required for maximum application performance over WAN connections.
The SAN42B-R provides scalable deployment options to extend disaster recovery and data protection storage solutions across any distance. It includes a suite of features that help ensure continuous availability of a storage extension network, from pre-deployment validation tools to advanced network failure recovery technologies, including the following examples:
Others who read this also read
Special Notices
The material included in this document is in DRAFT form and is provided 'as is' without warranty of any kind. IBM is not responsible for the accuracy or completeness of the material, and may update the document at any time. The final, published document may not include any, or all, of the material included herein. Client assumes all risks associated with Client's use of this document.