QLogic SANbox 9000 Series 4-Port 10Gb ISL/Stacking Fibre Channel Port Blade Upgrade. No Transceivers included
The SANbox 9000 series is designed to the core for cost sensitive, business-critical, open system environments that require a ultra-high density, blazing performance, 99.999% availability, intelligent, switch platform for their data center core. SANbox 9000 series represents a number of industry firsts: a stackable chassis for simple, cost-effective scalability, a 4U chassis for smaller footprint, the simplicity and economies of Customer Replaceable Units (CRUs) and a comprehensive set of core switch software management tools included as standard.
The intelligent SANbox 9000 offers in one chassis module: 8 slots any mix 10Gb Fibre Channel I/O Blades, iSCSI Intelligent Storage Router” I/O Blades, FCIP Intelligent Storage Router I/O Blades, or Storage Services Platform (SSP) Blades. For high availability, the SANbox 9000 features redundant, hot-swap I/O, SSP, CPU, Power Supply and Fan blades.
ULTRA-HIGH DENSITY AND STACKABLE SCALABILITY
– At twice the port density of typical 14U Director switches, the SANbox 9000 stackable chassis switch scales to 128 ports in a 4U single chassis module or up to 256 ports in an 8U dual chassis module HyperStack configuration (via backplane interconnects) – 32 ports per 1U of rack space!
– Eight I/O Blade slots per chassis module supporting multi-protocol and multi-function technologies including:
- 10Gb FC I/O Blade: high-speed Inter-Switch Links (ISLs) including trunking between other Core, Distribution and Edge class switches.
- Intelligent Storage Router Blade: iSCSI for connecting low cost servers and FCIP for replicating data across a WAN
- Storage services Platform “SSP” Blade: pool heterogeneous storage
- Broadly deployable in local, campus, distributed and remote Core/Distribution/Edge configuration topologies.
