IBM System Storage SAN06B-R provides 8 Gbps capable SAN extension for remote data replication, backup, and migration
IBM United States Hardware Announcement 109-754November 10, 2009
 ENUS109-754.PDF (151KB)
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Delivering 8 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) routing and switching capability coupled with hardware-assisted traffic forwarding for FC over Internet Protocol (FCIP), the IBM® System Storage™ SAN06B-R helps address the demanding availability, performance, manageability, and scalability requirements.
The SAN06B-R base model features:
- Sixteen FC ports supporting 1, 2, 4, or 8 Gbps link speeds
- Six Ethernet ports supporting 1 GbE link speeds
- FC routing combined with SAN distance extension
- FCIP activation
- Long-wave SFP transceivers designed to support connectivity at distances up to 4 and 10 km
- Extended long distance SFP transceiver designed to support connectivity at distances up to 25 km
- Copper SFP transceiver designed to be used with IP ports on the SAN06B-R
For ordering, contact your IBM representative or an IBM Business Partner. For more information, contact the Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL.
Reference: YE001
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IBM System Storage SAN06B-R is a scalable and flexible platform designed for building or expanding a high-performance SAN extension infrastructure for disaster recovery, data protection, and data mobility storage solutions. Leveraging next-generation Fibre Channel and advanced Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) technology, the IBM System Storage SAN06B-R provides a flexible and extensible platform to move more data faster and further than previous generations.
Fibre Channel and FCIP switch port density, bandwidth, and throughput are designed to help address today's dynamic I/O and workload requirements and are designed to meet tomorrow's evolving requirements for virtual data centers. The SAN06B-R can provide up to 16 8 Gbps Fibre Channel and 6 1 GbE ports.
The SAN06B-R is designed to utilize IP WAN transport to extend open systems and mainframe disk and tape storage applications over distances to meet a wide range of business continuity, data retention, and global data access requirements using advanced Fibre Channel frame compression, disk and tape protocol acceleration, and FCIP networking technology. Unique performance and optimization technologies include the following:
- FCIP trunking
- Adaptive rate limiting
- FCIP quality of service
- Open systems tape pipelining
- Storage-optimized TCP
Feature exchange
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The IBM Systems Storage SAN b-type switch family supports FC connectivity for servers and storage.
The SAN06B-R requires Fabric Operating System V6.3, or later.
For a list of supported servers and storage systems, refer to the Hardware requirements section.
For specific support dates, configuration options, server models, operating systems levels, and attachment capabilities, visit
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November 20, 2009
- All functions and features except FICON® with CUP (#7737) and SFP Transceiver 1 GbE Copper (#2551)
December 4, 2009
- Feature Code 7737 (FICON with CUP)
- Feature Code 2551 (SFP Transceiver 1 GbE Copper)
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IT organizations continue to face unprecedented data growth as more platforms, applications, and users connect to the data center network. In turn, the storage network infrastructure must continue evolving to enable fast, continuous, and cost-effective access to mission-critical data from anywhere in the world.
To address this challenge, the IBM System Storage SAN06B-R is designed to provide reliable and cost-effective network infrastructure for remote data replication, backup, and migration. Leveraging next-generation Fibre Channel and advanced Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) technology, the IBM System Storage SAN06B-R is designed to provide a flexible and extensible platform to move data. Whether configured for simple point-to-point or comprehensive multisite SAN extension, SAN06B-R addresses business continuity, compliance, and global data access requirements. Up to 16 8 Gbps Fibre Channel ports and 6 1 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports provide Fibre Channel and FCIP bandwidth, port density, and throughput for application performance over WAN links.
The IBM System Storage SAN06B-R Extension Switch combines Fibre Channel switching and routing capabilities with hardware-assisted FCIP traffic forwarding over IP wide area networks (WAN). The SAN06B-R is designed to provide remote storage and SAN connectivity. It integrates a variety of capabilities, such as Fibre Channel routing, Storage-Optimized TCP (SO-TCP), hardware-based compression, write and read acceleration for disk and tape, IP Security (IPSec) encryption, FCIP trunking and adaptive rate limiting to help deliver a high performance, reliable, and secure distance-connectivity solution. This makes the SAN06B-R suitable for a variety of IT initiatives, including business continuance, site mirroring, replication, and data migration across virtually unlimited distances.
Based on the fifth-generation Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) technology combined with high performing network processors, the SAN06B-R is designed to provide FCIP solution designed to improve application performance over IP WANs while supporting reliability and availability and Fibre Channel port speed at 8 Gbps. In addition, this platform offers a number of new features designed to enhance performance and manageability of the switch.
The IBM System Storage SAN06B-R is designed to support the following performance and optimization technologies.
FCIP trunking is designed to virtualize two or more TCP connections as part of a single FCIP tunnel. FCIP trunking combines multiple IP source and destination address pairs into a logical high-bandwidth FCIP trunk spanning multiple physical ports to provide load balancing and network failure resiliency. These connections, called circuits, will be explicitly configured to be part of an FCIP tunnel to increase the tunnel bandwidth and provide failover paths in the event of a network failure. The functionality of the FCIP trunking and the additional TCP connections is transparent to the applications using the FCIP tunnel.
Adaptive Rate Limiting feature is designed to meet minimum bandwidth requirements for each tunnel while making the full utilization of the available network bandwidth without adverse throughput performance impact at high traffic load.
Hardware-based compression is designed to deliver the ability to maximize throughput over lower bandwidth links in the wide area network, supporting improved cost efficiencies of FCIP. The SAN06B-R compresses FC frames before they are encapsulated into FCIP packets.
FCIP Quality of Service (QoS) provides high-priority, medium-priority, and low-priority handling of initiator-target flows within the same FCIP tunnel for transmission over the WAN.
FC Routing delivers fabric isolation in conjunction with FCIP, enabling separate fabrics to share devices without merging across the IP network.
FCIP Fast Write accelerates SCSI write processing, supporting increased performance of synchronous and asynchronous replication applications across high-latency WAN connections.
Open Systems Tape Pipelining helps accelerate read and write tape processing over distance, reducing backup and restore windows.
Storage-Optimized TCP increases TCP window size and flow control, helping to accelerate TCP transport for storage applications.
Multiple logical FCIP tunnels (up to 8 in FOS V6.3; VE or VEx) allow for scalable connectivity between sites between two SAN06B-R models or when it is connected to a 8 Gbps Routing Blade.
The SAN06B-R Extension Switch is designed to include the following attributes:
- Fibre Channel Ports: 16 ports, universal (E, F, Mirror port (M), Ex, and FL).
- FCIP Ports: 6 ports, 1 GbE Virtual E-port (VE and VEX).
- Scalability: Full fabric architecture with 239 switches maximum.
- Certified Maximum: Single fabric is 56 domains, 7 hops. Multiprotocol routing fabric is 19 hops.
- Fibre Channel Performance: 1.063 Gbps line speed, full duplex; 2.125 Gbps line speed, full duplex; 4.25 Gbps line speed, full duplex; 8.5 Gbps line speed, full duplex. Auto-sensing of 1 Gbps, 2 Gbps, 4 Gbps, and 8 Gbps port speeds; optionally programmable to fixed port speed, speed matching between 1 Gbps, 2 Gbps, 4 Gbps, and 8 Gbps ports.
- FCIP Performance: 1 Gbps line speed.
- ISL Trunking: Up to eight 8 Gbps ports per ISL trunk; up to 64 Gbps per ISL trunk.
- FCIP Trunking: Up to four GbE ports per FCIP Trunk; up to 4 Gbps.
- Fibre Channel Aggregate bandwidth: 128 Gbps, 16 ports at 8 Gbps data rate.
- FCIP Aggregate bandwidth: 6 Gbps, 6 ports at 1 Gbps data rate.
- Fabric latency: 700 nanosec with no contention, cut-through routing at 8 Gbps.
- Maximum frame size: 2112-byte payload.
- Maximum MTU size: 1500 byte Ethernet packets with FCIP.
- Classes of service: Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames).
- Port types: FL_Port, F_Port, E_Port, Ex_Port, M_Port, and self-discovery based on switch type (U_Port). For FCIP, VE port (virtual E port) and VEx port (virtual Ex port).
- Data traffic types: Fabric switches supporting unicast, multicast (255 groups) and broadcast.
- USB: One USB port for system log file downloads or firmware upgrades.
- Media types: Fibre Channel - Hot-pluggable, industry-standard Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP), LC connector; Short-Wave Laser (SWL), Long-Wave Laser (LWL); Extended Long-Wave Laser (ELWL); distance depends on fiber optic cable and port speed. Supports SFP (4/2/1 Gbs) and/or SFP (8/4/2 Gbs) optical transceivers.
- Fabric services: Simple Name Server (SNS); Registered State Change Notification (RSCN), NTP, RADIUS, Reliable Commit Service (RCS), Dynamic Path Selection (DPS), Brocade Advanced Zoning, Web Tools, and Extended Fabric. Optional fabric services include: Fabric Watch, ISL Trunking, Advanced Performance Monitoring (APM), Integrated Routing, Adaptive Networking with QoS, FICON CUP, and Enhanced Group Management (EGM).
- Extensive diagnostics, system-monitoring capabilities, performance monitoring (including extensive and granular TCP statistics graphing in Webtool), and dual redundant and hot-swappable power supplies and cooling units designed to provide high reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS).
The SAN06B-R utilizes the same Fabric Operating System that supports the entire b-type SAN product family - from the 8-port SAN Switch to the 768-port Fabric Backbone. This helps ensure seamless interoperability with optional advanced features such as ISL Trunking, Advanced Performance Monitoring, Fabric Watch, and Advanced Zoning.
In addition, organizations can perform management and administrative tasks through familiar management tools, including the IBM System Storage Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM), Web Tools, and the command line interface. Moreover, optional FICON Control Unit Port (CUP) capabilities enable legacy management applications to support FICON environments.
Optional features
R06 Enterprise Package (#7731): The R06 Enterprise Package offers a convenient method to order a set of optional features bundled into one orderable feature number. Feature #7731 consists of one of each Advanced Performance Monitor (# 7734), Trunking Activation (#7735), Adaptive Networking (#7736), and Fabric Watch (#7740).
R06 Port Activation (#7732): This activation feature enables full hardware capabilities on the SAN06B-R base model, increasing the number of Fibre Channel ports from 4 to 16 and the number of GbE ports from 2 to 6. A SAN06B-R with the upgrade license also supports up to eight FCIP tunnels instead of two and supports advanced capabilities like Open Systems tape read/write pipelining. A SAN06B-R must have the upgrade license to add FICON Management Server (CUP).
R06 8 Gbps Advanced Extension (#7733): This license enables two advanced extension features, FCIP Trunking and Adaptive Rate Limiting (ARL). The FCIP Trunking feature allows multiple (up to 4 in FOS V6.3) IP source and destination address pairs (defined as FCIP Circuits) via multiple (up to 4 in FOS V6.3) 1 GE interfaces to provide a high bandwidth FCIP tunnel and failover resiliency. The ARL feature provides a minimum bandwidth guarantee for each tunnel with full utilization of the available network bandwidth without impacting throughput performance under high traffic load. ARL is performed on the FCIP tunnel connection to dynamically change the rate at which the FCIP tunnel transmits data through the TCP connections. ARL will use the information from the TCP connections to determine and adjust the rate limit for the FCIP tunnel dynamically. This allows FCIP connections to utilize the maximum available bandwidth.
R06 Advanced performance monitor (#7734): Enables performance monitoring of networked storage resources.
R06 Trunking activation (#7735): Provides the ability to aggregate multiple physical links into one logical link. With ISL Trunking Activation, FC packets can be efficiently distributed across multiple links between two SAN b-type fabric devices, while preserving in-order delivery. You can use ISL Trunking between any of the supported 2 Gbps, 4 Gbps, or 8 Gbps b-type models. Both SAN b-type fabric switches must have ISL Trunking activated.
R06 Adaptive networking (#7736): Adaptive Networking provides a set of capabilities allowing high-priority connections to obtain the bandwidth necessary for optimum performance, even in congested environments. The quality of service (QoS) SID/DID Prioritization and Ingress Rate Limiting features are the components of this license option and are available on all 8 Gbps platforms.
R06 FICON w/CUP activation (#7737):FICON with CUP Activation is designed to provide in-band management of the supported SAN b-type switch, router, and director products by System Automation for z/OS® from IBM System z10 EC, z10 BC, z9™ EC, z9 BC, and zSeries® 990, 900, 890, and 800 servers. To enable in-band management on multiple switches and directors, each switch, router, or director must be configured with the appropriate FICON CUP feature. This support is designed to provide a single point of control for managing connectivity in active FICON I/O configurations. System Automation for OS/390® or z/OS can now concurrently manage IBM 9032 ESCON® Directors, as well as supported SAN b-type switch and director products with FICON. You must have R06 8 Gbps Advanced Extension (#7733) license activated prior to enabling R06 FICON with CUP Activation feature.
R06 Integrated routing (#7739): Integrated routing allows any port in a SAN768B, SAN384B, SAN80B-4, SAN40B-4, and SANR06B to be configured as an (EX_port) supporting Fibre Channel Routing (FCR). Also allows for VEX_ports for FCR over FCIP tunnels. Integrated routing enables FCR support on the 8 Gbps ports as a native capability; hence they are referred to as native EX_ports. This eliminates the need to add a routing blade or use the SAN06B-R for FCR purposes, and also provides double the bandwidth for each FC Router connection when attached to another 8 Gbps-capable port.
R06 Fabric watch (#7740): Enables real-time proactive awareness of the health, performance, and security of each switch. Fabric Watch also includes Port Fencing capabilities. It automatically alerts network managers to problems and helps avoid costly failures by providing:
- Real-time tracking of numerous fabric and switch elements
- Automatic event notifications when switch and fabric elements exceed thresholds
- Security, availability, and congestion monitoring thresholds and alerts
R06 Extended fabric (#7742): Extended Fabric Activation extends SAN fabrics beyond the FC standard 10 km by increasing the internal switch buffers to help maintain performance on ISLs at distances - depending on platform - of up to 3,000 km.
2498-R06 Firmware upgrade renewal, one year (#7716): The initial purchase of an IBM System Storage SAN06B-R includes one year of firmware upgrade entitlement. This feature provides you with one additional year of renewal for upgrades included in future releases of the Fabric Operating System firmware. You are not eligible to access new features and functions without the purchase of this feature.
2498-R06 Firmware upgrade renewal, two years (#7717): The initial purchase of an IBM System Storage SAN06B-R includes one year of firmware upgrade entitlement. This feature provides you with two additional years of renewal for upgrades included in future releases of the Fabric Operating System firmware. You are not eligible to access new features and functions without the purchase of this feature.
Business Partner information
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The following features support use by people with disabilities: Ports and connectors support connection of industry-standard devices.
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Machine Feature Description type Model number IBM System Storage SAN06B-R 2498 R06 Balanced Warehouse 0710 SFP 4 Gbps SW 2401 SFP 4 Gbps SW 8-Pack 2408 SFP 4 Gbps 10 km LW 2411 SFP 4 Gbps 10 km LW 8-Pack 2418 SFP 4 Gbps 4 km LW 2441 SFP 4 Gbps 4 km LW 8-Pack 2448 SFP 4 Gbps 30 km ELW 2480 SFP 1 GbE Copper 2551 SFP 8 Gbps SW 2801 SFP 8 Gbps SW 8-Pack 2808 SFP 8 Gbps 10Km LW 2821 SFP 8 Gbps 10Km LW 8-Pack 2828 SFP 8 Gbps 25Km ELW 2881 LC/LC 5 m 50U 5605 LC/LC 25 m 50U 5625 LC/LC 31 m 9U 5721 OM3 Cable LC/LC 10 m 5810 Enterprise Bundle 7731 Port Activation 12 FC, 4 IP 7732 8 Gbps Router Advanced Ext 7733 R06 Performance Monitor 7734 R06 Trunking Activation 7735 Adaptive Networking 7736 FICON w/ CUP Activation 7737 Integrated Routing 7739 Fabric Watch 7740 Extended Fabric 7742 2498-R06 Firmware Upgr, 1 yr 7716 2498-R06 Firmware Upgr, 2 yr 7717 Desktop Install Power Cord 9205 Line cord, US, Canada 9800 Line cord, France 9820 Line cord, Denmark 9821 Line cord, UK 9825 Line cord, Israel 9827 Line cord, Switzerland 9828 Line cord, South Africa 9829 Line cord, Italy 9830 Line cord, Australia, NZ 9831 Line cord, Uruguay 9834 Line cord, China 9840 Line cord, US - Chicago 9986
Model conversions
Not applicable.
Feature conversions
Not applicable.
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The following publications are shipped as a hardcopy with the product:
Order Title number IBM System Storage SAN06B-R Installation, GC27-2270 Service, and User Guide IBM System Storage SAN06B-R Quick Start GC27-2271 Guide
Additional copies of the above listed publications will be available on November 10, 2009.
The following publications will be available on November 10, 2009:
Order Title number IBM System Storage SAN06B-R Installation, GC27-2270 Service, and User Guide IBM System Storage SAN06B-R Quick Start GC27-2271 Guide
You can use the following options to order or download additional copies:
- To order additional selected hardcopy publications for a fee or download free PDF format publications, visit the IBM Publications Center Web site
- To directly download publications in PDF format, visit the IBM product support Web site
- Call the Publications Support Group at 800-879-2755, and select option 1.
- Contact your IBM representative.
The IBM Publications Center
Hardcopies of selected publications are available for a fee from the IBM Publications Center, as well as free softcopy publications. The Publications Center is a worldwide central repository for IBM product publications and marketing material with a catalog of 70,000 items. Extensive search facilities are provided. Payment options for orders are via credit card or customer number. A large number of publications are available online in various file formats, and they can all be downloaded free of charge.
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Specified operating environment
Physical specifications
2498-R06
Width: 43.18 cm (17 in)
Height: 4.45 cm ( 1.75 in)
Depth: 64.14 cm (25.25 in)
Weight: 10.9 kg (24 lb) with two power supplies and no
SFPs installed
For information on technical specifications of IBM SAN b-type products, including operating environment, physical specifications, and recommended installation procedures, refer to
Operating environment
- Temperature:
- Operating: 0 to 40 degrees C (32 to degrees 104 F)
- Nonoperating: -25 to 70 degrees C (-13 to 158 degrees F)
- Humidity:
- Operating: 10% to 85% noncondensing at 40 degrees C (104 F)
- Nonoperating: 10% to 90% noncondensing at 70 degrees C (158 F)
- Altitude:
- Operating: Up to 3,000 m (9,842 ft)
- Nonoperating: Up to 12 km (39,370 ft)
- Shock:
- Operating: 20 g, 6 ms half-sine
- Nonoperating: 33 g, 11 ms, half-sine, 3/eg Axis
- Vibration:
- Operating: 0.5 g sine, 0.4 grms random, 5 to 500 Hz
- Nonoperating: 2.0 g sine, 1.1 grms random, 5 to 500 Hz
- Airflow:
- Maximum: 60 CFM
- Nominal: 44 CFM
- Power:
- Input voltage: 85-264 V ac, Universal
- Input line frequency: 47-63 Hz
- Inrush current: Maximum of 60 amps for period of 10 to 150 ms
- Power: Nominal 145 W, maximum 173 W
EMC Conformance:
- ACMA™ C-Tick (Australia and New Zealand)
Product safety/Country testing/Certification:
- CSA NRTL Certification to UL 60950-1: 2003, First Edition
- CSA Certification to CSA 60950-1-03 (Canadian Standards Association)
- CB Certification to IEC 60950-1 (2001) (including all National Deviations)
- Nemko Certification to EN60950-1:2001
- German TUV GS Certificate to EN60950-1+ A11
- GOST Certification (Russia)
- TUV Argentina Certification to IEC60950-1 (2001)
- Low Voltage Directive (2006/95/EC) for CE Marking in European Union
Hardware requirements
Supported servers and storage systems
The IBM System Storage SAN06B-R is designed to support FC connectivity for the following:
Servers
- IBM System z10 EC, z10 BC, z9 EC, z9 BC, zSeries 990, 900, 890, and 800
- IBM Power® Systems
- IBM System p® and selected RS/6000® servers
- IBM System i® and selected AS/400® servers
- IBM System x® and selected Netfinity® servers
- Other Intel-based servers with Linux®, Microsoft® Windows® 2000, and Windows 2003
- Selected Sun and HP servers
Storage software
- IBM TotalStorage® SAN Volume Controller (SVC)
Storage systems
- IBM System Storage DS8000™
- IBM System Storage DS6000™
- IBM System Storage DS4000™
- IBM System Storage DS5000
- IBM System Storage DS3000
- IBM XIV Storage System
- IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server®
- IBM TotalStorage FAStT Family of Storage Servers
- IBM TotalStorage 3580, 3588, and 3592 Tape Drives
- IBM TotalStorage 3590 Tape Drives
- IBM TotalStorage 3494, 3582, and 3583 Tape Libraries
- IBM System Storage 3584 Tape Libraries
- IBM TotalStorage 3581 Tape Autoloader
- IBM System Storage 3584 High Availability Frame Model HA1
- Other selected storage systems
For specific support dates, configuration options, server models, operating systems levels, attachment capabilities, and throughput connectivity speeds, visit
Software requirements
Specific details on supported operating system releases are available at
Planning information
Customer responsibilities
Planning information, including customer responsibilities, physical planning, and installability is available in the specific product planning manuals at
You are responsible for downloading or obtaining from IBM, and installing designated machine code (microcode, basic input/output system code (called BIOS), utility programs, device drivers, and diagnostics delivered with an IBM machine) and other software updates in a timely manner from an IBM Internet Web site or from other electronic media, and following the instructions that IBM provides. You may request IBM to install machine code changes; however, you may be charged for that service.
Cable orders
Fiber optic cable: A fiber optic cable is required for attaching the IBM System Storage SAN06B-R to the host system adapters or other storage area FC components. The cable can be customer supplied or ordered with the 2498-R06 in the lengths available. The attaching fiber cable must be 50.0/125 micrometers for distances up to 300 meters at 2 Gbps speed, 150 meters at 4 Gbps, or 50 meters at 8 Gbps. The attaching fiber cable must be 62.5/125 micrometers for distances up to 150 meters at 2 Gbps speed, or 70 meters at 4 Gbps, or 21 meters at 8 Gbps. Longwave SFPs require 9-Micron singlemode fiber optic cables. The connection is an LC connector type.
Installability
Hardware installation time for the SAN06B-R switch is estimated at less than one hour.
Security, auditability, and control
The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features, administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communications facilities.
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Volume orders: Contact your IBM representative.
IBM Global Financing
Yes
Warranty period
One year
Warranty service
If required, IBM provides repair or exchange service depending on the types of warranty service specified for the machine. IBM will attempt to resolve your problem over the telephone, or electronically via an IBM Web site. You must follow the problem determination and resolution procedures that IBM specifies. Scheduling of service will depend upon the time of your call and is subject to parts availability. If applicable to your product, parts considered Customer Replaceable Units (CRUs) will be provided as part of the machine's standard warranty service.
Service levels are response-time objectives and are not guaranteed. The specified level of warranty service may not be available in all worldwide locations. Additional charges may apply outside IBM's normal service area. Contact your local IBM representative or your reseller for country-specific and location-specific information.
CRU and On-site Service
CRU Service
IBM provides replacement CRUs to you for you to install. CRU information and replacement instructions are shipped with your machine and are available from IBM upon your request. CRUs are designated as being either a Tier 1 or a Tier 2 CRU.
Tier 1 CRU
Installation of Tier 1 CRUs is your responsibility. If IBM installs a Tier 1 CRU at your request, you will be charged for the installation.
Tier 2 CRU
You may install a Tier 2 CRU yourself or request IBM to install it, at no additional charge.
Based upon availability, CRUs will be shipped for next business day (NBD) delivery. IBM specifies, in the materials shipped with a replacement CRU, whether a defective CRU must be returned to IBM. When return is required, return instructions and a container are shipped with the replacement CRU, you may be charged for the replacement CRU if IBM does not receive the defective CRU within 15 days of your receipt of the replacement.
The following parts have been designated as Tier 1 CRUs:
- Fiber optic cables
- SFPs
- Service kit
- Slide mounting kit
- PDU cord, jumper, 2.8 m
- Power supply/fan assembly
On-site Service
IBM will repair the failing machine at your location and verify its operation. You must provide a suitable working area to allow disassembly and reassembly of the IBM machine. The area must be clean, well lit, and suitable for the purpose.
Service level is 9 hours per day, Monday through Friday, excluding holidays, next business day response. Calls must be received by 5 pm local time in order to qualify for next business day response.
Non-IBM parts service
Warranty service
IBM is now shipping machines with selected non-IBM parts that contain an IBM field replaceable unit (FRU) part number label. These parts are to be serviced during the IBM machine warranty period. IBM is covering the service on these selected non-IBM parts as an accommodation to their customers, and normal warranty service procedures for the IBM machine apply.
Warranty service upgrades
During the warranty period, warranty service upgrades provide an enhanced level of On-site Service for an additional charge. Service levels are response-time objectives and are not guaranteed. See the Warranty services section for additional details.
IBM will attempt to resolve your problem over the telephone or electronically by access to an IBM Web site. You must follow the problem determination and resolution procedures that IBM specifies. Scheduling of service will depend upon the time of your call and is subject to parts availability.
On-site Service
IBM will repair the failing machine at your location and verify its operation. You must provide a suitable working area to allow disassembly and reassembly of the IBM machine. The area must be clean, well lit, and suitable for the purpose. The following on-site response-time objectives are available as warranty service upgrades for your machine. Available offerings are:
- 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, same day response
- 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, 4 hour average response
- 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, 2 hour average response
CRUs may be provided as part of the machine's standard warranty CRU Service except that you may install a CRU yourself or request IBM installation, at no additional charge, under one of the On-site Service levels specified above. For additional information on the CRU Service, see the warranty information.
Maintenance services options
If required, IBM provides repair or exchange service depending on the types of maintenance service specified for the machine. IBM will attempt to resolve your problem over the telephone or electronically, via an IBM Web site. You must follow the problem determination and resolution procedures that IBM specifies. Scheduling of service will depend upon the time of your call and is subject to parts availability. Service levels are response-time objectives and are not guaranteed. The specified level of maintenance service may not be available in all worldwide locations. Additional charges may apply outside IBM's normal service area. Contact your local IBM representative or your reseller for country-specific and location-specific information. The following service selections are available as maintenance options for your machine type.
On-site Service
IBM will repair the failing machine at your location and verify its operation. You must provide a suitable working area to allow disassembly and reassembly of the IBM machine. The area must be clean, well lit, and suitable for the purpose.
Service levels are:
- 9 hours per day, Monday through Friday, excluding holidays, next business day response
- 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, same day response
- 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, 4 hour average response
- 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, 2 hour average response
Non-IBM parts service
Under certain conditions, IBM provides services for selected non-IBM parts at no additional charge for machines that are covered under warranty service upgrades or maintenance services.
This service includes hardware problem determination (PD) on the non-IBM parts (for example, adapter cards, PCMCIA cards, disk drives, memory) installed within IBM machines and provides the labor to replace the failing parts at no additional charge.
If IBM has a Technical Service Agreement with the manufacturer of the failing part, or if the failing part is an accommodations part (a part with an IBM FRU label), IBM may also source and replace the failing part at no additional charge. For all other non-IBM parts, customers are responsible for sourcing the parts. Installation labor is provided at no additional charge, if the machine is covered under a warranty service upgrade or a maintenance service.
Warranty service upgrades
Usage plan machine
No
IBM hourly service rate classification
Two
When a type of service involves the exchange of a machine part, the replacement may not be new, but will be in good working order.
Field-installable features
Yes
Model conversions
No
Machine installation
Customer setup. Customers are responsible for installation according to the instructions IBM provides with the machine.
Graduated program license charges apply
No
Licensed machine code
The IBM System Storage SAN b-type (Brocade) family of products is licensed for use by a customer on the IBM machine for which it was provided by Brocade under the terms and conditions of the Brocade End User License Agreement, to enable a specific machine to function in accordance with its specifications, and only for the capacity authorized by IBM and acquired by the customer. You can obtain the agreement by contacting your IBM representative.
IBM may release changes to the licensed machine code. IBM plans to make the licensed machine code changes available for download from IBM technical support at
If the machine does not function as warranted and your problem can be resolved through your application of downloadable licensed machine code, you are responsible for downloading and installing these designated licensed machine code changes as IBM specifies. If you would prefer, you may request IBM to install the downloadable licensed Machine code changes; however, you may be charged for that service.
Educational allowance
A reduced charge is available to qualified education customers. The educational allowance may not be added to any other discount or allowance.
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IBM System Storage 2498 R06 N Y
SAN06B-R
Balanced Warehouse 0710 N Y
SFP 4 Gbps SW 2401 N N
SFP 4 Gbps SW 8-Pack 2408 N N
SFP 4 Gbps 10 km LW 2411 N N
SFP 4 Gbps 10 km LW 8-Pack 2418 N N
SFP 4 Gbps 4 km LW 2441 N N
SFP 4 Gbps 4 km LW 8-Pack 2448 N N
SFP 4 Gbps 30 km ELW 2480 N N
SFP 1 GbE Copper 2551 N N
SFP 8 Gbps SW 2801 N N
SFP 8 Gbps SW 8-Pack 2808 N N
SFP 8 Gbps 10Km LW 2821 N N
SFP 8 Gbps 10Km LW 8-Pack 2828 N N
SFP 8 Gbps 25Km ELW 2881 N N
LC/LC 5 m 50U 5605 N N
LC/LC 25 m 50U 5625 N N
LC/LC 31 m 9U 5721 N N
OM3 Cable LC/LC 10 m 5810 N N
Enterprise Bundle 7731 N N
Port Activation 12 FC, 4 IP 7732 N N
8 Gbps Router Advanced Ext 7733 N N
R06 Performance Monitor 7734 N N
R06 Trunking Activation 7735 N N
Adaptive Networking 7736 N N
FICON w/ CUP Activation 7737 N N
Integrated Routing 7739 N N
Fabric Watch 7740 N N
Extended Fabric 7742 N N
2498-R06 Firmware Upgr, 1 yr 7716 N N
2498-R06 Firmware Upgr, 2 yr 7717 N N
Desktop Install Power Cord 9205 N Y
Line cord, US, Canada 9800 N Y
Line cord, France 9820 N Y
Line cord, Denmark 9821 N Y
Line cord, UK 9825 N Y
Line cord, Israel 9827 N Y
Line cord, Switzerland 9828 N Y
Line cord, South Africa 9829 N Y
Line cord, Italy 9830 N Y
Line cord, Australia, NZ 9831 N Y
Line cord, Uruguay 9834 N Y
Line cord, China 9840 N Y
Line cord, US - Chicago 9986 N Y
N = No
Y = Yes
| MT | Model | FN | Description | List price |
| 2498 | R06 | IBM SAN06B-R Express | $18,552 | |
| 2498 | R06 | 0710 | Balanced Warehouse | $0 |
| 2498 | R06 | 2401 | SFP 4 Gbps SW | $150 |
| 2498 | R06 | 2408 | SFP 4 Gbps SW 8-Pack | $1,200 |
| 2498 | R06 | 2411 | SFP 4 Gbps 10 km LW | $2,000 |
| 2498 | R06 | 2418 | SFP 4 Gbps 10 km LW 8-Pack | $16,000 |
| 2498 | R06 | 2441 | SFP 4 Gbps 4 km LW | $1,025 |
| 2498 | R06 | 2448 | SFP 4 Gbps 4 km LW 8-Pack | $8,225 |
| 2498 | R06 | 2480 | SFP 4 Gbps 30 km ELW | $4,740 |
| 2498 | R06 | 2551 | SFP 1 GbE Copper | $750 |
| 2498 | R06 | 2801 | SFP 8 Gbps SW | $120 |
| 2498 | R06 | 2808 | SFP 8 Gbps SW 8-Pack | $940 |
| 2498 | R06 | 2821 | SFP 8 Gbps 10Km LW | $2,125 |
| 2498 | R06 | 2828 | SFP 8 Gbps 10Km LW 8-Pack | $17,000 |
| 2498 | R06 | 2881 | SFP 8 Gbps 25Km ELW | $12,709 |
| 2498 | R06 | 5605 | LC/LC 5 m 50U | $105 |
| 2498 | R06 | 5625 | LC/LC 25 m 50U | $210 |
| 2498 | R06 | 5721 | LC/LC 31 m 9U | $100 |
| 2498 | R06 | 5810 | OM3 Cable LC/LC 10 m | $120 |
| 2498 | R06 | 7731 | Enterprise Bundle | $17,518 |
| 2498 | R06 | 7732 | Port Activation 12 FC,4 IP | $60,306 |
| 2498 | R06 | 7733 | 8 Gbps Router Advanced Ext | $13,065 |
| 2498 | R06 | 7734 | R06 Performance Monitor | $4,248 |
| 2498 | R06 | 7735 | R06 Trunking Activation | $6,372 |
| 2498 | R06 | 7736 | Adaptive Networking | $6,337 |
| 2498 | R06 | 7737 | FICON w/CUP Activation | $7,702 |
| 2498 | R06 | 7739 | Integrated Routing | $18,288 |
| 2498 | R06 | 7740 | Fabric Watch | $3,823 |
| 2498 | R06 | 7742 | Extended Fabric | $4,673 |
| 2498 | R06 | 7716 | 2498-R06 Firmware Upgr, 1 yr | $645 |
| 2498 | R06 | 7717 | 2498-R06 Firmware Upgr, 2 yr | $1,225 |
| 2498 | R06 | 9205 | Desktop Install Power Cord | $0 |
| 2498 | R06 | 9800 | Line cord,US, Canada | $0 |
| 2498 | R06 | 9820 | Line cord, France | $0 |
| 2498 | R06 | 9821 | Line cord, Denmark | $0 |
| 2498 | R06 | 9825 | Line cord, UK | $0 |
| 2498 | R06 | 9827 | Line cord, Israel | $0 |
| 2498 | R06 | 9828 | Line cord, Switzerland | $0 |
| 2498 | R06 | 9829 | Line cord, South Africa | $0 |
| 2498 | R06 | 9830 | Line cord, Italy | $0 |
| 2498 | R06 | 9831 | Line cord, Australia,NZ | $0 |
| 2498 | R06 | 9834 | Line cord, Uruguay | $0 |
| 2498 | R06 | 9840 | Line cord, China | $0 |
| 2498 | R06 | 9986 | Line cord, US - Chicago | $0 |
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