SANbox 5600 Fibre Channel Stackable Switches
INTELLIGENT STORAGE ROUTER
While approximately 20% of the servers in a data center would require
the redundancy, high levels of throughput and high availability offered by
Fibre Channel connectivity, the remaining 80% of the servers including
1U and 2U form factor rack servers might have less stringent require-
ments. These servers might run applications like web servers, Microsoft
Exchange or IT-developed applications and would usually be using Direct
Attached Stora
ge (DAS).
These rack ser
vers could also benefit from stor-
a
ge consolida
tion around highly a
vailable F
ibre Channel stora
ge if only
there was a way to lower the per-server connectivity costs.
No
w iSCSI software initia
tors (a
vailable for
Windo
ws,
Linux,
Solaris, and
VMWare ESX 3.x ) could be used with a QLogic SANbox 6140 Series (or
two routers mounted alongside in a 1U rack space) to allo
w the remain
-
ing 80% of ser
vers to access existing highly a
vailable F
ibre Channel stor
-
age. This eases the transition from Direct Attached Storage (DAS) to a
FC and
Ethernet Port
SANbox 6140/6142 Intelligent Storage Router
SANbox 6140/6142
the
FIBRE CHANNEL SWITCHES
FC AND
ETHERNET POR
T
Gbps
2
The QLogic SANbox 6000 Series is the industry’s first multi-protocol router that
sets the standard for ease-of-use and exceptional price/performance. Per-server
connectivity costs are brought to radically low levels, allowing users to connect
remote servers over iSCSI to Fibre Channel-based disk/tape storage and thus
gaining
the benefits of storage consolidation. Migration from Direct Attached
Storage (DAS) to Storage Area Networks (SAN) now becomes virtually effortless, so
that the entire organization has a way to keep data synchronized and readily available.
Installation wizards guide the user through router configuration in record time.
Ongoing monitoring, configuring and managing become greatly simplified using
wizard-based configuration tools. Based on the same proven ASIC technology that
powers over 50 million storage products sold by leading storage vendors, the
QLogic SANbox 6000 Series offers unparalleled levels of performance and scalability.
• Two auto-detecting 2/1 Gbps
FC ports
• Two auto-detecting 10/100/1000
Mbps Ethernet ports
• Dedicated FC and iSCSI interface
• FC SFP and Ethernet RJ45 ports
• Support for iSCSI, FCP-SCSI
and FCIP
• Dual management ports:
serial & Ethernet
• Transparent & non-transparent
routing
• Configuration wizards for
ease of installation
• Field upgradeable firmware
• Support for Ethernet Jumbo frames
and VLAN
• Traffic shaping to 10/100/1000 Mbps
on the iSCSI interfaces
• SNMP and SMI-S agents
• Inter-operable with all FC-SW-2
compliant FC switches
Breakthrough Ease of Use
• Installation wizards with intuitive user
interfaces to expedite installation and
configuration.
• CLI that can be scripted to allow use
of the SANbox 6000 Series in pre-
configured rack servers"
Flexible Connection Choices
• Support for iSCSI, FCP-SCSI and FCIP
• Turns FC storage into multi-protocol
storage
• Allows for multi-vendor SAN routing
Incredibly Low Cost
• Brings server connectivity costs to
below 20%
• Complete tools for configuration save
money and time
Performance & Interoperability
• SmartWrite™ which is available in the
SANbox 6142, features LUN-based
compression and provides breakthrough
data replication performance over low
band-width connections including
Gi/jointfilesconvert/298224/bgabit Ethernet links"
• Powered by proven QLogic iSCSI and
Fibre Channel ASICs
• Protocol processing in hardware for
better performance
• Interoperates with server and storage
products from all major OEMs
Reliability
• Support for header and data digest at
the iSCSI layer
OS support
• Windows, Linux, Solaris and other
proprietary OS
SANbox
®
6140/6142
A
TTACH LOW-COST SERVERS VIA iSCSI TO A FIBRE CHANNEL SAN
Servers
with HBAs
FC Storage
Low Cost Servers
with iSCSI Software Drivers
