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28 Implementing Cisco InfiniBand on IBM BladeCenter

򐂰 Load Distribution

– Supports redundancy groups across multiple gateways and multiple chassis

򐂰 High-Availability

– Options Flexible deployment in active-active or active-passive modes to eliminate

single points of failure

򐂰 DHCP Relay Support

– Allows DHCP to work across Ethernet and InfiniBand fabrics

The following are some key features and benefits of the Fibre Channel gateway module

򐂰 Virtual I/O for Fibre Channel

– Allows a group of servers to share a pool of centralized Fibre Channel I/O resources.

Translates between SCSI over InfiniBand (SRP) and FCP at the gateway

– Allows an SRP initiator to concurrently talk through multiple shared connections

򐂰 Topology Transparency

– Creates unique World-Wide-Names for every virtual HBA, enabling

InfiniBand-attached hosts to seamless connect with existing Fibre Channel storage

and management tools

򐂰 Failover/Failback

– Enables sessions to failover and failback

򐂰 Multipathing Support

– Seamless support for existing multipathing tools, including EMC Powerpath and others

򐂰 Load Distribution

– Centralized connection manager dynamically distributes sessions across multiple

gateways

򐂰 Storage Access Controls

– Compatible with existing switch-based zoning and LUN-based access controls

– Multifabric Server Switch includes support for port and LUN access controls through

storage management GUI

򐂰 Storage Traffic Monitoring

– Creates graphs and reports on storage performance statistics on individual or

aggregated ports

Table 2-3 lists the SFS 3012s product specifications.

Table 2-3 SFS 3012R product specifications

Feature Description

Cards/Ports/Slots Two 12-port InfiniBand 4X switch blades

Twelve modular expansion slots (any combination

Fibre Channel or Ethernet)

Redundant (active/standby) control processor modules with One

RS-232 serial port and One Ethernet management port

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