McDATA Intrepid 6064 Director User Manual download pdf

High-performance, nonstop

switching service

To help provide high data availability

across a SAN, IBM offers the McDATA

Intrepid 6140 Director

™

, which is

designed to provide the

scalability demanded by rapidly

growing e-business and other mission-

critical applications.

The Director design is based upon

the IBM ESCON

Director (designed

and manufactured for IBM by McDATA),

which has provided the level of data

availability, performance and data

integrity required by today’s data centers.

The Intrepid 6064 Director features

redundant power supplies and cool-

ing fans along with redundant active

components that support automatic

failover. Other high-availability capa-

bilities include hot swapping for all

field-replaceable units, support for

nondisruptive firmware updates and

automatic fault detection and isola-

tion. In addition, “call-home” and e-mail

capabilities can automatically alert

support and maintenance personnel to

help accelerate problem resolution.

The Director High-Availability function

provides redundancy for all active

electronic components, supporting

continuous data access and high

performance in the event of a McDATA

 Full interoperability with 2 Gbps

McDATA Intrepid 6064 Director

and Sphereon Switches and 1

Gbps McDATA Directors and

Switches

 Supports connectivity to

McDATA Sphereon 4500 Fabric

Switch for Fibre Channel

attached tape

 Offers 16 to 140-port Fibre

Channel switched fabric

designed with redundancy for all

active components

 Offers rack space saving with

Small Form Factor Pluggable

(SFP) optical transceivers and

LC connectors

 Multiple management options

include enterprise-to-edge

SAN management

Enterprise Storage Area Networks

Large enterprise Storage Area Networks

(SAN) are high-speed switched fabrics

of centrally managed, heterogeneous

servers and storage systems. SAN

fabrics can help companies improve

overall efficiency and performance of IT

operations by enabling centralized data

management, data access and consoli-

dated backups.

Enterprise-to-edge high-availability fabric switching

for large enterprise Storage Area Networks

McDATA Intrepid 6140™ Director

 Up to 2 gigabit per second (Gbps)

throughput

 Designed to provide

enterprise-level scalability and

data-center-level availability

 Provides FICON connectivity for

IBM ~ zSeries ™ and Fibre

Channel connectivity for IBM

~ pSeries, ~ iSeries

and ~ xSeries servers

 Enables connectivity to IBM

FICON-attached, Fibre Channel-

attached storage and to IBM

UltraSCSI-attached storage with

gateways and routers

Highlights

Industry leading port density with up to 420

ports in a single footprint

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Summary of Contents

Page 1 - High-performance, nonstop

High-performance, nonstop switching serviceTo help provide high data availability across a SAN, IBM offers the McDATA Intrepid 6140 Director™, which i

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Intrepid 6140 Director single component failure. Together, these features sup-port nondisruptive maintenance and upgrades without loss of data access.

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izes log files, configuration databases and firmware distribution; and supports centralized “call-home,” e-mail, service and support operations. As ma

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