Enterprise-class availability FCIP for remote SAN extension Business transformation with enterprise cloud deployment Comprehensive solution for robust security The IBM Storage Networking SAN192C-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, the IBM Storage Networking SAN192C-6 software architecture offers outstanding  availability. It provides redundancy on all major hardware components, including the supervisor, fabric  modules, and power supplies. The Supervisor Module automatically restarts failed processes, which  makes the IBM Storage Networking SAN192C-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. FCIP for remote SAN extension simplifies data-protection and business-continuance strategies by  enabling backup, remote replication, and other disaster-recovery services over WAN distances using  open standards FCIP tunneling. It optimizes utilization of WAN resources for backup and replication by  enabling hardware-based compression, hardware-based encryption, FCIP write acceleration, and tape  read and write acceleration for both FCIP and FICON over IP. The SAN extension module will support  four tunnels per interface and can scale up to 32 tunnels (4 tunnels x 8 1/10GE ports). Enterprise clouds provide organizations with elastic computing and network capabilities, which enables IT  to scale resources up or down as needed in a quick and cost-efficient manner. IBM Storage Networking  SAN192C-6 provides industry-leading scalability and the following features for enterprise cloud  deployments: Furthermore, Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) provides resource monitoring and capacity planning  on a per-virtual machine basis. You can federate up to 10 DCNM servers to easily manage large clouds.  Resource use information can be delivered through Storage Management Initiative Specification  (SMI-S)-based developer APIs to deliver IT as a service. IBM Storage Networking SAN192C-6 offers an extensive security framework to protect highly sensitive  data crossing today's enterprise storage networks. It employs intelligent packet inspection at the port  level, including the application of ACLs for hardware enforcement of zones, VSANs, and advanced  port-security features. It also uses Fibre Channel Service Protocol (FC-SP) and TrustSec Fibre Channel  link encryption mechanisms to provide comprehensive security for storage networks. Pay-as-you-grow flexibility to meet the scalability needs in the cloud  Robust security for multitenant cloud applications  Predictable performance to meet stringent service-level agreements (SLAs)  Resilient connectivity for an always-on cloud infrastructure  Advanced traffic management capabilities, such as quality of service (QoS), to allocate network   capabilities to cloud applications rapidly and cost-efficiently 3 IBM Storage Networking SAN192C-6 Product Guide