LightSource SAN
Your data center infrastructure must evolve rapidly to improve resiliency, increase business responsiveness and keep up with the growing demands of new applications while reducing overall power consumption.
Storage costs are growing faster than server costs, increasing the need for efficient and cost-effective storage area networks. In highly competitive environments that comply with government regulations for data recovery, 24-hour access to critical information is imperative.
FiberLight LightSource SAN benefits and features:
- Multi-protocol storage networking – Reduces business risk by providing flexibility and options – FC, FICON, FCoE, iSCSI, and FCIP
- Unified management tools for reduced opex – operational simplicity, seamless interop and feature consistency
- Enterprise-class storage connectivity to support significantly higher virtualized workloads – availability, scalability and performance
- Services-Oriented SANs – to extend any network service to any device regardless of protocol, speed, vendor or location
- Lowest cost-per-bit transport
- 120 channels of 10Gbit/s or 40Gbit/s (up to 4.8Tbit/s) with sub-wavelength aggregation (TDM)
- Highest single span distance up to 200km
- Lowest latency transport
- Dedicated enterprise features
- All SAN specific protocols
- All qualifications of market-leading SAN vendors
- Full set of advanced enterprise features (encryption, active link monitoring, fiber fault locator)
- High availability supported by a rich set of protection options
Drivers and Challenges
An effective and efficient IT infrastructure that can accommodate mission critical data demands is a key requirement for enterprises. Avoiding network downtime and data unavailability caused by disasters and quick recovery of all crucial data is mandatory (Disaster Recovery). Business critical applications require a hot standby data center (Business Continuity). A highly reliable, scalable and powerful technology is essential to connect dispersed data centers.
Key Applications
- Business Continuity (BC)
- Open systems server cluster (x86 systems)
- Mainframe clustering in IBM Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS®) environments
- Disaster Recovery (DR)
- Synchronous and asynchronous disk mirroring
- Tape backup
- Distributed file systems
FiberLight solutions for storage area networks provide:
- Disaster Recovery / Business Continuance
Businesses have instantaneous access to data from multiple tiers for disaster recovery. - Virtualization
IT managers can provision their storage infrastructure. - Security
Data is protected when it is at rest and while it is being transported and replicated. - Consolidation
Storage professionals can consolidate resources by taking advantage of highly scalable, intelligent SAN platforms.
Storage area networks are central to the FiberLight network architecture, providing a networking platform that helps IT departments achieve lower total cost of ownership, enhanced resiliency and greater agility through our LightSource optical solutions.
