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Summary of TotalStorage 2109 M12
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Ibm totalstorage san switch 2109 model m12 and model m14 user’s guide gc26-7636-00 read before using this product contains software that is licensed under written license agreements. Your use of such software is subject to the license agreements under which they are provided..
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Ibm totalstorage san switch 2109 model m12 and model m14 user’s guide gc26-7636-00
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Note: before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in “notices” on page 39. First edition (may 2004) this publication replaces the ibm totalstorage san switch 2109 model m12 user’s guide (gc26–7468). The following paragraph does not apply to any country (or region)...
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Contents figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vii tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ix safety and environmental notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xi safety notices and labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xi danger notices . ....
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2n power architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 chapter 4. Cp blades and 16-port blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 cp blade assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 cpu subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 configuration . . . . . . . . . ...
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Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 contents v.
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Figures 1. Port side of the 2109 model m12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Port side of the 2109 model m14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3. Blower (non-port) side of the m12 and m14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4. M12 16–port card, port sid...
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Tables 1. Brocade and ibm product and model number matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xviii 2. Power distribution system specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3. Power supply configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 4. Cable side leds . . ...
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Safety and environmental notices this section contains information about: v “safety notices and labels” v “safety inspections, installations, and service” on page xiv v “laser safety” on page xiv v “environmental notices and statements” on page xv safety notices and labels when using this product, o...
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Danger electrical voltage and current from power, telephone, and communication cables are hazardous. To avoid a shock hazard: v do not connect or disconnect any cables or perform installation, maintenance, or reconfiguration of this product during an electrical storm. V connect all power cords to a ...
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Labels as an added precaution, safety labels are often installed directly on products or product components to warn of potential hazards. The actual product safety labels may differ from these sample safety labels: sj000323 >240 v~ danger hazardous voltage, current, or energy levels are present insi...
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Caution: this product contains a class 1m laser. Do not view directly with optical instruments. (c028) attention notices an attention notice indicates the possibility of damage to a program, device, or system, or to data. An exclamation point symbol may accompany an attention notice, but is not requ...
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Environmental notices and statements this section describes the environmental notices and statements. Battery notice caution: only trained service personnel may replace this battery. The battery contains lithium. To avoid possible explosion, do not burn or charge the battery. Do not: v throw or imme...
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About this document this document describes how to use the ibm totalstorage ®™ san switch 2109 model m12 and model m14. Throughout this document, the products are referred to as the model m12 and model m14, or simply the m12 and m14. The term switch also applies to the two products. The sections tha...
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V brocade san migration guide v brocade secure fabric os user’s guide when you use any of the brocade documents, you will notice that the model numbers reflect the original brocade switches. Table 1 provides a product matrix for you to use to correlate the brocade model numbers to the ibm product an...
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Getting help contact your switch supplier for technical support. This includes hardware support, all product repairs, and ordering of spare components. Be prepared to provide the following information to support personnel: v the switch serial number v the switch worldwide name (licenseidshow command...
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Chapter 1. Introduction this chapter provides an overview of the ibm totalstorage san switch 2109 model m12 and the model m14. For the remainder of this document, these switches will be referred to as the model m12 and model m14, or simply the m12 and m14. These two switches will also be referred to...
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Throughput the m12 and m14 provide continuous and sustained bandwidth to all ports in a single or dual 32-port or 64-port switch scenario at their rated line speed. Throughput is 2.125 gbps inbound and outbound per port. All ports can be simultaneously loaded for up to 100% utilization at full bandw...
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Chapter 2. System design overview the m12 and m14 switches are designed with a number of features that ensure that these switches are highly available, reliable, and serviceable. These products have a number of modular design features, allowing for ease and speed of maintenance, as well as future ex...
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The chassis sizes for the m12 and m14 are identical. There are differences in the number of power supplies provided in a standard configuration, and in the cp and 16–port cards that populate the different model chassis. The blower side of both models is identical, consisting of three blower assembli...
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These benefits of these features are described in more detail in the following sections. High availability the switch high availability features include: v redundant, hot-swappable control processors (cps) with automatic failover v dual redundant ac input v hot-swappable, redundant power supplies in...
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V fabric shortest path first (fspf) rerouting around failed links v integration with snmp managers the high-availability software architecture of these switches provides a common framework for all applications that reside on the system, allowing global and local states to be maintained enough to man...
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V snmp integration with higher layer managers for basic information about diagnostics, see chapter 5, “fault monitoring and diagnostics,” on page 19. Refer to brocade diagnostic and system error message reference for more detailed information. For information about fabric watch, see brocade fabric w...
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Ethernet port the m12 and m14 provide a fully ieee compliant 10base-t or 100base-t ethernet port for switch management. The port has two leds that indicates: v speed (10 mbps or 100 mbps) v status of the connection additionally, each cp has its own ethernet port. You can choose to connect the ethern...
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The m12 and m14 switches operate indefinitely if a single blower fails. When a blower assembly is removed, a mechanical flap seals the air chamber to maintain positive cooling air pressure in the chassis while the failed blower assembly is being replaced. Cable management the cable management tray a...
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Chapter 3. Power distribution system the power subsystem for the m12 and m14 switches is a redundant +48 v dc power distribution system with a provision for up to four 1000–watt, 48 v dc bulk power supplies. Bulk power supplies produce the intermediate distribution voltage in the distributed power s...
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Power supplies are required to run a completely loaded chassis. Therefore, if one ac input fails, and all power supply modules are populated, the chassis continues to run uninterrupted. If a power supply module fails, the remaining power supply modules continue to provide uninterrupted power to the ...
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Chapter 4. Cp blades and 16-port blades the m12 and m14 switch chassis contain two control processor (cp) blades and up to eight 16–port blades. The features of these two types of blades are described in “cp blade assembly” on page 14 and “switch blade assembly” on page 16. With up to eight hot-swap...
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Cp blade assembly each chassis has two cp blade assemblies installed, one in slot 5, and the other in slot 6. One cp blade is the active cp, while the other is the standby cp. A single active cp can control both logical switches in the chassis. The m12 or m14 can continue to operate while one cp bla...
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V high availability drivers v name server v system management v fabric os v fabric manager v extended fabrics v fabric watch v remote switch v web tools v zoning the cp blade assembly is compliant with the pci local bus specification 2.1. It provides all control and management functions in an m12 or...
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V two i²c i/o expander devices. Configuration the cp blade assemblies can be configured to support a single 2–blade assembly topology, dual 2–blade assembly topology, a 4–blade assembly topology, a dual 4–blade assembly topology, or an 8–blade assembly switch topology. Other topologies can be suppor...
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Each switch blade assembly has an on-board serial eeprom that is only accessible through the i²c bus interface. This serial eeprom can be accessed by a cp to determine information, including: v oem serial number v ibm serial number v manufacturing date v manufacturing location v part number v revisi...
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Chapter 5. Fault monitoring and diagnostics fault monitoring, diagnostic tests, and system status indicators simplify switch management and ensure the availability of the m12 and m14 switches. Diagnostic tests diagnostic testing occurs in three areas: power-on self test (post), switch level testing,...
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Table 4. Cable side leds (continued) each power supply contains three leds. V green – solid indicates that ac is applied and power outputs are ok. – flashing indicates that only the auxiliary output is valid. V amber center light is a predictive failure light. It indicates that a power supply might ...
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Chapter 6. Software features fabric os version 4.2 supports the model m12 and m14 switches. Fabric os includes all the basic switch and fabric support software as well as optionally licensed software that is enabled using license keys. It is comprised of two major software components: firmware that ...
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Related fibre-channel feature standards. Each operating environment requires that a fibre-channel host bus adapter (hba) be available with a standards-compliant driver for proper interface to the fabric. Fabric os consists of a set of embedded applications running on top of an embedded real-time lin...
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V the blowers and power supply modules can be hot-removed without service interruption. V detailed environmental monitoring including blade assembly temperature, blower status, power supply status, and dc-dc converter status is supported. V reporting of fru and backplane information including serial...
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Chapter 7. Field replaceable units (frus) many of the frus in the m12 and m14 are hot-swappable, to provide high availability, and to simplify service. Fault isolation to the fru level provides failure containment, particularly in highly redundant systems such as the m12 and m14 switches. Each fru w...
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Appendix a. Product specifications this appendix contains the model m12 and model m14 specifications. All specifications, unless otherwise noted are for both the m12 and the m14. Model m12 and m14 components the m12 and m14 contain the following components: v a 14u chassis, designed to be mounted in...
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Table 7. Component weights (continued) component m12 component weight m14 component weight empty chassis 47.1 kg (104.0 lbs) 47.1 kg (104.0 lbs) door 3.4 kg (7.6 lbs) 3.4 kg (7.6 lbs) blower assembly 4 kg (8.8 lbs) 4 kg (8.8 lbs) power supply 3.2 kg (7.0 lbs) 3.2 kg (7.0 lbs) wwn bezel 0.27 kg (0.6 ...
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Cp card specifications this section describes the specifications for the cp card. Memory specifications the centralized memory maximizes switch throughput by guaranteeing full transmit and receive bandwidth to all fibre-channel ports at all times. Each cp card contains the type and specification of ...
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You can use the terminal serial port to connect to a computer workstation or terminal without connecting to the fabric. Configure the terminal device to 9600 baud, 8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit, and with no flow control. The terminal serial port requires a straight through serial cable with a f...
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Facility specifications to ensure correct operation of the 2109 model c36 with model m12 or m14, ensure that the facility meets the following specifications: v power requirements for a physical inlet: – input power requirements: 200—240 v ac, 12a, 50—60 hz – recommended power connector. V an adequat...
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Table 13. Power specifications (continued) specification value heat output (btu rating) v 64 ports: 1080 watts, 3690 btu per hour v 128 ports : 1960 watts, 6700 btu per hour maximum inrush current per power cord 40 amps peak input line protection thermal circuit breaker power supply dimensions 6.96 ...
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Table 15. Environmental requirements (continued) condition acceptable range during operation acceptable range during nonoperation shock 4g, 11 ms duration, half-sine wave 0g, 11 ms duration, sq wave vibration 5g, 0—3 khz at 1.0 octave per minute 10g, 0—5 khz at 1.0 octave per minute heat dissipation...
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Table 16. General specifications (continued) specification description fabric initialization complies with fc-sw 5.0 internet protocol (ip) over fibre-channel (fc-ip) complies with fc-ip 2.3 of the fca profile aggregate switch input/output (i/o) bandwidth per port: 4 gbps, running at 2 gbps, full du...
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Table 17. Regulatory specifications (continued) country or region safety specification emc specification european union (austria, belgium, denmark, finland, france, germany, greece, ireland, italy, luxembourg, netherlands, portugal, spain, sweden, united kingdom) 73/23/eec based on compliance to en ...
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Appendix b. Safety certifications and regulatory compliance the switch complies with all the safety and regulatory standards listed in this chapter. Safety the switch is certified to: v ul1950/csa950 binational v iec950/en 60950 (nemko & tuv; ce) additionally, the following product safety/country or...
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Notices this information was developed for products and services offered in the u. S. A. Ibm may not offer the products, services, or features discussed in this document in other countries. Consult your local ibm representative for information on the products and services currently available in your...
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Trademarks the following terms are trademarks of the international business machines corporation in the united states, other countries, or both: ibm netfinity totalstorage microsoft ® , windows ® , and windows nt ® are trademarks of microsoft corporation in the united states, other countries, or bot...
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Failure to satisfy the protection requirements resulting from a non-recommended modification of the product, including the fitting of non-ibm option cards. This product has been tested and found to comply with the limits for class a information technology equipment according to european standard en ...
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Glossary this glossary provides definitions for fibre channel and switch terminology used for ibm totalstorage san switches and related products. It also provides additional definitions of technical terms and abbreviations. If you do not find the term you are looking for, see the ibm glossary of com...
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Arbitrate primitive signal (arb). A primitive signal that is transmitted as the fill word by a loop port (l_port) to indicate that the l_port is arbitrating to access to the loop. Applies only to the arbitrated loop topology. Arbitrated loop. A shared 100 mbps fibre channel transport structured as a...
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Buffer-to-buffer flow control. Management of the frame transmission rate in either a point-to-point topology or in an arbitrated loop. See also buffer-to-buffer credit. C cam. Content addressable memory. Cascade. Two or more interconnected fibre channel switches that can build large fabrics. Switche...
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Data rate. The rate at which data is transmitted or received from a device. Interactive applications tend to require a high data rate, while batch applications can usually tolerate lower data rates. Data terminal equipment (dte) port. A port that is capable of interfacing to a transmission circuit t...
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Elp. Extended link parameters. Elwl. See extra long wavelength. Emc. See electromagnetic compatibility. Emi. See electromagnetic interference. Enabled zone configuration. The currently enabled configuration of zones. Only one configuration can be enabled at a time. See also defined zone configuratio...
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Fabric watch. A feature that runs on fabric operating system (os) and allows monitoring and configuration of fabric and switch elements. Failover. The act that causes control to pass from one redundant unit to another. Fan. Fabric address notification. Fc. See fibre channel. Fca. See fibre channel a...
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Fspf. See fibre channel shortest path first. Ftp. See file transfer protocol. Full duplex. A mode of communication that allows the same port to simultaneously transmit and receive frames. See also half duplex. Fx_port. A fabric port that can operate as either a fabric port (f_port) or fabric loop po...
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In-order delivery (iod). A parameter that, when set, guarantees that frames are either delivered in order or dropped. Integrated fabric. The fabric created by six switches cabled together and configured to handle traffic as a seamless group. Internet protocol (ip). In the internet suite of protocols...
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Loop master timeout value (lm_tov). The minimum time that the loop master waits for a loop initialization sequence to return. Loop mode. One of the modes for a loop port (l_port). An l_port is in loop mode when it is in an arbitrated loop and is using loop protocol. An l_port in loop mode can also b...
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O operating system (os). A collection of system programs that control the overall operation of a computer system. Ordered set. A transmission word that uses 8b/10b mapping and begins with the k28.5 character. Ordered sets occur outside of frames, and include frame delimiters, primitive signals, and ...
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Public nl_port. A node loop port (nl_port) that logs into the fabric, can function within either a public or private loop, and can communicate with either private or public nl_ports. Q quad. A group of four adjacent ports that share a common pool of frame buffers. Quickloop. (1) a feature that makes...
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Communication between components, terminals, and modems. See also db–9 connector, dce port, and dte port. Rscn. See registered state change notification. Rsh. Remote shell. Rtc. Real time clock. Rw. Read-write. S san. See storage area network. San island. A group of storage devices and servers conne...
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Switch port. A port on a switch. Switch ports can be expansion ports (e_ports), fabric ports (f_ports), or fabric loop ports (fl_ports). Swl. See short wavelength. Synchronous dynamic random access memory (sdram). The main memory for the switch. Used for volatile storage during switch operation. T t...
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Well-known address. As pertaining to fibre channel, a logical address defined by the fibre channel standards as assigned to a specific function, and stored on the switch. Wide area network (wan). A network that provides communication services to a geographic area larger than that served by a local a...
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Index numerics 16-port card specifications 28 2n power architecture 12 a about this document how to send your comments xix about this document xvii ac input 11 address, ibm xix attention notice definition xiv example xiv b battery notice caution xv battery specifications 29 brocade documents xvii ib...
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Immunity 37 indicators, system status 19 inspections, conducting xiv intellectual property 39 interoperability, description 23 introduction 1 l laser safety xiv leds cable-side 19 card 9 noncable side 20 license, for patents 39 link distance, high-speed fibre-channel switch 2 m management cable 9 cp...
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Switch (continued) specifications (continued) power 31 regulatory 34 terminal serial port 29 weight 27 switch blade assembly description 16 design 17 system cooling 8 design, overview 3 fabric operating 21 fire suppression xv power distribution 11 status indicators 19 t take-back program, product xv...
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