Technical Specifications
| Maximum Ports: |
24 |
| Minimum Ports: |
8 |
| Port Speed: |
1/2/4 Gbps |
| Upgrade: |
8 Port Activation Licenses |
| Redundant Power: |
Yes |
| Rail Kit: | Yes |
The 2026-224 is a 1U rack mount chassis that supports longwave and
shortwave transceivers and a maximum of twenty-four non-blocking ports
in eight port increments.
- Integrated support for Full-Fabric and FC-AL tape attachment to IBM SAN m-type family of enterprise director and switch products
- Up to 24 non-blocking Fibre Channel ports, in 8-port increments,
with auto-sensing, and auto-rate-negotiation support for both 1 and 2
Gb/sec devices
- In-band management with optional Open Systems Management Server
capability and optional SANtegrity to lock-down key attributes of SAN
infrastructure
- Longwave transceivers that can field installed in the first four ports, supporting distances up to 10 Km
- Supports Fibre Channel connectivity for:
- Servers:
- IBM eServer zSeries and selected S/390 servers (SAN24M-1 only)
- IBM eServer pSeries and selected RS/6000 servers
- IBM eServer iSeries and selected AS/400 servers
- IBM eServer xSeries and selected Netfinity servers
- Other Intel-based servers running Linux, Microsoft Windows 2000, or Windows 2003
- Selected Sun and HP servers