director 2/64 installation guide

director 2/64 installation guide 1–1

Overview

This chapter contains the following HP StorageWorks Director 2/64 information:

• Director Description, page 1–1

• Features, page 1–1

• Hardware Components, page 1–7

• Optional Kits, page 1–13

Director Description

The director is a second-generation, 64-port product that provides dynamic switched

connections between Fibre Channel servers and devices in a SAN environment.

Directors are managed and controlled through a HAFM server with the High

Availability Fabric Manager (HAFM) and Director 2/64 Product Manager

applications installed. The HAFM server is a notebook personal computer (PC) that

provides a central point of control for up to 48 directors and/or edge switches.

Multiple directors and the HAFM server communicate through the customer’s local

area network (LAN).

Features

Features of the Director 2/64 include:

• Scalable from 32 to 64 User ports (with optional UPM 2 Gb add-on)

• 100% dynamic non-blocking, cut through switching with congestion queuing

• Online error detection, error isolation, and error recovery

• Redundant hot pluggable components

• Full duplex 200 MB/sec per port performance

• Less than 2-µs average switch latency