Features and Capabilities
Benefits
- Flexibility for growth
- Single switch solution for small SAN deployments
- Easy deployment and management
- Affordable switch with enterprise-class features
Features
- PowerOn Auto Provisioning and intelligent diagnostics
- In-Service Software Upgrade and dual redundant hot-swappable power supplies for high availability
- Role-based authentication, authorization, and accounting services to support regulatory requirements
- High-performance interswitch links with multipath load balancing
- Smart zoning and virtual output queuing
- Hardware-based slow port detection and recovery
Specifications at a Glance
Performance and Port Configuration
- Supports configurations of 48 60, 72, 84, or 96 active ports, with pay-as-you-grow, on-demand licensing
- 2/4/8/10/16-Gbps auto-sensing with 16 Gbps of dedicated bandwidth per port
- Up to 4095 buffer credits per group of 4 ports (500 per port default, 4095 maximum for a single port in the group)
Advanced Functions
- Virtual SAN (VSAN)
- Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR)
- PortChannel with multipath load balancing
- Flow-based and zone-based Quality of Service (QoS)