November 2006
Intermediate to advanced
584 pages
14h
English
book
SAN Multiprotocol Routing: An Introduction and Implementation
by Jon Tate, Steve Fodor, Jure Arzensek
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20 SAN Multiprotocol Routing: An Introduction and Implementation
2.1 IBM TotalStorage b-type family
At the time of writing, the IBM TotalStorage b-type family has three products that
implement SAN routing:
IBM TotalStorage SAN18B-R (2005-R18)
M48 FC Routing Blade (for installation in IBM TotalStorage SAN256B
Director)
IBM TotalStorage SAN16B-R (2109-A16)
The SAN18B-R and the M48 FC Routing Blade are the new generation SAN
router products. The SAN16B-R differs from the two newer products in several
respects:
The SAN16B-R has multiprotocol ports; all 16 ports can be configured as
either FC or IP (GbE) ports. Therefore, tri-rate SFPs are required.
The SAN18B-R and the FC Routing Blade have 16 dedicated FC ports and
two dedicated IP ...
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