IBM(R) Storage Networking SAN256B-6 delivers the following benefits:

? Enhance operational stability, maximize application performance, and increase

business agility with enterprise-class, b-type Gen 6 directors

? Shatter application performance barriers across 32 Gbps links and support up to

1 billion input/output operations per second (IOPS) without oversubscription

? Consolidate infrastructure with high-density solutions built with 128 Gbps

UltraScale ICL connectivity for simpler, flatter, low-latency fabrics

? Simplify end-to-end management of large-scale environments by automating

monitoring and diagnostics

? Detect degraded application or device performance automatically with built-in

monitoring

? Extend distance and replication with a highly scalable, multiprotocol extension

solution

? Integrate next-generation flash storage based on nonvolatile memory express

(NVMe) flash memory with current and future b-type Gen 6 Fibre Channel

networks

? Mitigate risk with backward-compatibility