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IBM System Storage SAN04B-R at a glance
Product characteristics
Produce Number
2005-R04
Base fabric switch
IBM System Storage SAN04B-R multiprotocol router with 2 active Fibre Channel ports,
2 Ethernet IP ports and Brocade Fabric OS (FOS) 6.1.0 or later, hardcopy Installation Guide,
CD-ROM (with manuals), service and wrap tools, SFP extraction tool, two 110 volt power
cords for rack installation, rail kit, Advanced Zoning, Extended Fabric, Fabric Watch, FCIP
Activation, Full Fabric Activation and Web Tools. All active ports must be populated with
SFPs.
Fibre Channel interface
E_Port, F_Port
Optical transceivers
Choice of 4 Gbps short wave, long wave and extended distance long wave (supports 4,
2 and 1 Gbps link speeds) Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP). The optical transceivers may
be used on any of the ports of the SAN04B-R router (both FC and Ethernet).
Copper transceiver
Up to 1 Gigabit per second Ethernet (GbE) (50 MbE on SAN04B-R)
Fans and power supplies
Three fans, two power supplies
Hot-swappable components
SFP transceivers, fans and power supplies
Non-rack support
Non-rack installation is supported; country-specific power cords are required and must be
ordered
Servers supported*
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IBM Power Systems, System i™ and selected AS/400® servers, System p™ and
selected RS/6000® servers
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System x, selected Netfinity® servers and other Intel® processor-based servers
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Select Sun™ and HP servers
Operating systems supported*
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Microsoft® Windows® 2000, Windows 2003
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Red Hat Linux®, Red Hat Linux Advanced Server
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SUSE™ Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
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IBM AIX®, HACMP™, i5/OS® and OS/400®
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Other selected operating systems
Storage Products Supported*
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IBM System Storage DS8000™, DS6000™ and DS4000™ storage servers
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IBM TotalStorage® Enterprise Storage Server® systems
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IBM TotalStorage FAStT Family of storage servers
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IBM System Storage n Series NAS Filers and Gateways
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IBM TotalStorage 3580, 3588, 3590, and 3592 tape drives
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IBM TotalStorage 3494, 3582, 3583 and 3584 tape libraries
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IBM TotalStorage 3581 Tape Autoloader
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IBM TotalStorage 3584 High Availability Frame Model HA1
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IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller
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Other selected storage systems
Fibre Channel switches supported
Current IBM System Storage and TotalStorage SAN b-type and m-type switches, routers
and directors (must be running current firmware)
Fibre optic cable
Fibre optic cables are required and are available in various lengths in single-mode and multi-
mode formats
Power cords
Jumper cables are included for rack installation; country-specific power cords must be
ordered for desktop/standalone installation
Warranty
1-year; Customer Replaceable Unit (CRU); warranty service upgrades are available
Optional features
Performance Monitor, Trunking Activation