SAN Network Intelligence

Alternate

Paths

DS3

DS3

SCSI

ESCON

SCSI

ESCON

Enterprise

Server

S/390

MVS

MVS

Servers

• Channel Parity Protected

• End-to-End CRC Checking

• Network priorities for QoS

• Remote diagnostics and repair

• GUI-based configuration, monitoring and management

• Pipelining (data streaming) provides native performance

• Device level mapping for any-to-any

• Store-and-forward SAN protocol for guaranteed data integrity and data delivery

Disk

Tape Library

Bandwidth

Management

• Multiple channels and different types

• Channel extension, conversion, multiplexing

• Data compression

• Data encryption

SAN Protocol

SAN Input/Output (I/O)

SAN

• Load leveling

• Alternate pathing

• Maximum bandwidth utilization

• Common backbone

• High performance WANs

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