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Director 2/64 installation guide 13

1Overview

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

• Director description, page 13

• Features, page 13

• Hardware components, page 17

• Tools and test equipment, page 22

• Optional kits, page 24

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 an High Availability Fabric Manager (HAFM) appliance with HAFM and

Director 2/64 Element Manager installed. The HAFM appliance is a 1U rack-mount appliance that

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

Multiple directors and the HAFM appliance 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

• 100-km distance support (60 buffers), with use of repeaters

• Small form factor, hot-pluggable optical transceivers, auto configure G_ports

• Combination short-wave or long-wave laser transceivers

• Redundant power supplies and fan modules

• Online product repair for Field Replaceable Units (FRUs)

• Periodic health check and enhanced system monitoring

• Non-disruptive firmware load and update

Director management

The director is managed and controlled through: