Main benefits Reduce TCO with SAN Consolidation Enterprise-class availability Business Transformation with Enterprise Cloud Deployment IBM Storage Networking SAN384C-6 features the benefits that are described in this section. With data growing exponentially, organizations need efficient, cost-effective, large-scale SANs.  You can  scale while managing TCO with industry-leading port densities of up to 384 32 Gbps Fibre Channel ports  per chassis. You can deploy 1.5-Tbps front-panel Fibre Channel performance per slot and up to 24-Tbps  front-panel Fibre Channel line-rate nonblocking system-level switching.  Intelligent fabric services, VSANs for consolidating physical SAN islands while maintaining logical  boundaries, and IVR for sharing resources across VSANs can be deployed. You can consolidate your  data into fewer, larger, and more manageable SANs, which reduces the hardware footprint and  associated capital and operating expenses. IBM Storage Networking SAN384C-6 is designed from the beginning for high availability. In addition to  meeting the basic requirements of nondisruptive software upgrades and redundancy of all critical  hardware components, IBM Storage Networking SAN384C-6 software architecture offers outstanding  availability. The Supervisor Modules automatically restart failed processes, which makes IBM Storage  Networking SAN384C-6 exceptionally robust. In the rare event that a supervisor module is reset,  complete synchronization between the active and standby supervisor modules helps ensure stateful  failover with no disruption of traffic.  IBM Storage Networking SAN384C-6 director provides redundancy on all major active hardware  components. Table 2 lists the redundancy that is available across all components. High availability is implemented at the fabric level by using robust and high-performance ISLs.  PortChannel allows users to aggregate up to 16 physical links into one logical bundle. The bundle can  consist of any speed-matched ports in the chassis, which helps ensure that the bundle can remain active  if a port, ASIC, or module fails. ISLs in a PortChannel can have significantly different lengths.  This capability is valuable in campus and metropolitan area network (MAN) environments because logical  links can now be spread over multiple physical paths, which helps ensure uninterrupted connectivity even  if one of the physical paths is disrupted. IBM Storage Networking SAN384C-6 provides outstanding high  availability, which helps ensure that solutions exceed the 99.999% uptime requirements of today’s most  demanding environments. With industry-leading scalability and pay-as-you-grow flexibility, IBM Storage Networking SAN384C-6  enables you to quickly scale enterprise clouds up or down as needed. You also receive the following  benefits: Robust security protects multitenancy cloud applications  Predictable high performance meets stringent SLAs  Item Redundancy Supervisors 1+1 Power supplies Grid redundancy Fabrics N+1 redundancy Table 2. Redundancy details for IBM Storage Networking SAN384C-6 14 IBM Storage Networking SAN384C-6 Product Guide