| Product SKU | DB720S |
|---|---|
| Ports | Minimum of 24 ports and maximum of 64 ports |
| Optics | 64Gbps hot-pluggable SFP-DD and SN connectors, 64Gb/s SWL |
| Power Supply | Dual, hot-swappable redundant power supplies (80 PLUS Gold) with integrated system cooling fans (3 built into each power supply), N+N cooling redundancy |
| Rack Mounting | Rack-mount rail kits included |
| System Architecture | System Architecture |
| Fibre Channel Ports | Switch mode (default): Minimum of 24 ports and maximum of 64 ports. Ports are enabled in increments of 8 ports up to 64 ports via Ports on Demand (PoD) licenses; E_Ports, F_Ports, M_Ports, D_Ports, and EX_Ports. |
| Scalability | Full-fabric architecture with a maximum of 239 switches |
| Certified Maximum | 4K active nodes; 56 switches, 19 hops in Brocade Fabric OS® fabrics |
| Performance | Non-blocking architecture with wire-speed forwarding of traffic: |
| Traffic Load Balancing | • Frame-based ISL Trunking load balances supports up to eight SFP+ ports per ISL trunk; up to 512Gb/s per ISL trunk when using 64Gb/s optics |
| Aggregate Bandwidth | 4.096 Tb/s |
| Maximum Fabric Latency | Latency for locally switched ports is 460 ns (including FEC). |
| Maximum Frame Size | 2112-byte payload |
| Frame Buffers | 24K per switching ASIC |
| Classes Of Service | Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames) |
| Port Types | • D_Port (ClearLink® Diagnostic Port), E_Port, EX_Port, F_Port, M_Port |
| Data Traffic Types | Fabric switches supporting unicast |
| Media Types | • 64Gb/s: Brocade Secure hot-pluggable SFP-DD, SN connector; 64Gb/s SWL |
| USB Port | One standard USB port for firmware download, support save, and configuration upload or download. |
| Fabric Services | BB Credit Recovery; Brocade Advanced Zoning (Default Zoning, Port/WWN Zoning, Peer Zoning); Congestion Signaling; Dynamic Path Selection (DPS); Extended Fabrics; Fabric Performance Impact Notification (FPIN); Fabric Vision; FDMI; FICON CUP; Flow Vision; F_Port Trunking; FSPF; Integrated Routing; ISL Trunking; Management Server; NPIV; NTP v3; Port Decommission/Fencing; QoS; Registered State Change Notification (RSCN); Name Server; Slow Drain Device Quarantine (SDDQ); Target-Driven Zoning; Traffic Optimizer; Virtual Fabrics (Logical Switch, Logical Fabric); VMID+ and AppServer. |
| Extension | Fibre Channel, in-flight compression (Brocade LZO) and encryption (ES-GCM-256 encryption on FC ISLs, E_Port); integrated optional 10Gb/s Fibre Channel for DWDM MAN connectivity |
| Management | Management |
| Security | DH-CHAP (between switches and end devices); FCAP switch authentication; HTTPS; IP filtering; LDAP with IPv6; OpenLDAP; Port Binding; RADIUS; TACACS+; user-defined Role-Based Access Control (RBAC); Secure Boot, Secure Copy (SCP); Secure Syslog; Secure FTP (SFTP); Secure Shell (SSH) v2; Secure Socket Layer (SSL); Switch Binding; Trusted Switch |
| Diagnostics | Active Support Connectivity (ASC) and Brocade Support Link (BSL); built-in flow generator; ClearLink optics and cable diagnostics, including electrical/optical loopback, link traffic/latency/distance; Fabric Performance Impact Monitoring (FPI); flow mirroring; Forward Error Correction (FEC); frame viewer; IO Insight for SCSI and NVMe monitoring; Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS); nondisruptive daemon restart; optics health monitoring; POST and embedded online/offline diagnostics, including environmental monitoring, FCping and Pathinfo (FC traceroute); power monitoring; RAStrace logging; Rolling Reboot Detection (RRD); Syslog/Audit Log; VM Insight |
| Mechanical | Mechanical |
| Enclosure | Front-to-back airflow; non-port-side exhaust; power from back, 1U |
| Dimensions (H x W x D) | Width: 440 mm (17.3 in.) |
| Weight | 7.17 kg (15.8 lb) with two power supply FRUs, without transceivers |
| Support | Support |
| Warranty | Three-year customer-replaceable unit limited warranty with 9×5 next business day parts delivered. Three-year software/firmware entitlement. |
| Power | Dual, hot-swappable redundant power supplies (80 PLUS Gold) with integrated system cooling fans (3 built into each power supply), N+N cooling redundancy |
Network
Lenovo ThinkSystem DB720S FC SAN Switch
The Lenovo ThinkSystem DB720S FC SAN Switch is a storage network switch from Lenovo, supporting Switch mode.
Overview
The Lenovo ThinkSystem DB720S FC SAN Switch is a Lenovo network platform, aimed at network platform workloads. Its full parameter set is listed below.
At a glance
- Product SKU: DB720S
- Ports: Minimum of 24 ports and maximum of 64 ports
- Optics: 64Gbps hot-pluggable SFP-DD and SN connectors, 64Gb/s SWL
- Power Supply: Dual, hot-swappable redundant power supplies (80 PLUS Gold) with integrated system cooling fans (3 built into each power supply), N+N cooling redundancy
- Rack Mounting: Rack-mount rail kits included
- System Architecture: System Architecture
- Fibre Channel Ports: Switch mode (default): Minimum of 24 ports and maximum of 64 ports. Ports are enabled in increments of 8 ports up to 64 ports via Ports on Demand (PoD) licenses; E_Ports, F_Ports, M_Ports, D_Ports, and EX_Ports. ; Up to 48 autosensing ports that support 32Gb or 64Gb SFP+ transceivers ; Up to 8 double density (DD) ports that support either SFP+ (32Gb or 64Gb) transceivers for a single connection, or SFP-DD transceivers that each support two 64G connections, thus providing an additional 16 ports at 64Gb. Access Gateway default port mapping: 56x SFP+ F_Ports, 8x SFP+ N_Ports. The SFP+ ports are…
- Scalability: Full-fabric architecture with a maximum of 239 switches
- Certified Maximum: 4K active nodes; 56 switches, 19 hops in Brocade Fabric OS® fabrics
- Performance: Non-blocking architecture with wire-speed forwarding of traffic: ; 8GFC: 8.5 Gb/sec line speed, full duplex ; 16GFC: 14.025 Gb/sec line speed, full duplex ; 32GFC: 28.05 Gb/sec line speed, full duplex ; 64GFC: 57.8 Gb/sec line speed, full duplex 10GFC: 10.53Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 10Gb/s optionally programmable to fixed port speed
- Traffic Load Balancing: Frame-based ISL Trunking load balances supports up to eight SFP+ ports per ISL trunk; up to 512Gb/s per ISL trunk when using 64Gb/s optics ; Dynamic Path Selection (DPS) provides exchange-based load balancing across all available ISLs.
- Aggregate Bandwidth: 4.096 Tb/s
- Maximum Fabric Latency: Latency for locally switched ports is 460 ns (including FEC).
- Maximum Frame Size: 2112-byte payload
- Frame Buffers: 24K per switching ASIC
- Classes Of Service: Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames)
- Port Types: D_Port (ClearLink® Diagnostic Port), E_Port, EX_Port, F_Port, M_Port ; Optional port-type control ; Brocade Access Gateway mode: F_Port and NPIV-enabled N_Port
- Data Traffic Types: Fabric switches supporting unicast
- Media Types: 64Gb/s: Brocade Secure hot-pluggable SFP-DD, SN connector; 64Gb/s SWL ; 64Gb/s: Brocade Secure hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 64Gb/s SWL, LWL 10 km, ELWL 25 km ; 32Gb/s: Brocade Secure hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 32Gb/s SWL, LWL 10 km, ELWL 25 km 10Gb/s: Brocade Secure hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 10Gb/s SWL, LWL 10 km Fibre Channel distance is subject to fiber-optic cable and port speed.
- USB Port: One standard USB port for firmware download, support save, and configuration upload or download.
- Fabric Services: BB Credit Recovery; Brocade Advanced Zoning (Default Zoning, Port/WWN Zoning, Peer Zoning); Congestion Signaling; Dynamic Path Selection (DPS); Extended Fabrics; Fabric Performance Impact Notification (FPIN); Fabric Vision; FDMI; FICON CUP; Flow Vision; F_Port Trunking; FSPF; Integrated Routing; ISL Trunking; Management Server; NPIV; NTP v3; Port Decommission/Fencing; QoS; Registered State Change Notification (RSCN); Name Server; Slow Drain Device Quarantine (SDDQ); Target-Driven Zoning; Traffic Optimizer; Virtual Fabrics (Logical Switch, Logical Fabric); VMID+ and AppServer. Access Gateway…
- Extension: Fibre Channel, in-flight compression (Brocade LZO) and encryption (ES-GCM-256 encryption on FC ISLs, E_Port); integrated optional 10Gb/s Fibre Channel for DWDM MAN connectivity
- Management: Management Brocade Advanced Web Tools; Brocade SANnav Management Portal and SANnav Global View; Command Line Interface (CLI); EZSwitch Setup; HTTP/HTTPS; RESTful API; SNMP v1/v3 (FE MIB, FC Management MIB); SSH. 10/100/1000Mb/s Ethernet (RJ-45) port, serial console port (mini-USB)
- Security: DH-CHAP (between switches and end devices); FCAP switch authentication; HTTPS; IP filtering; LDAP with IPv6; OpenLDAP; Port Binding; RADIUS; TACACS+; user-defined Role-Based Access Control (RBAC); Secure Boot, Secure Copy (SCP); Secure Syslog; Secure FTP (SFTP); Secure Shell (SSH) v2; Secure Socket Layer (SSL); Switch Binding; Trusted Switch
- Diagnostics: Active Support Connectivity (ASC) and Brocade Support Link (BSL); built-in flow generator; ClearLink optics and cable diagnostics, including electrical/optical loopback, link traffic/latency/distance; Fabric Performance Impact Monitoring (FPI); flow mirroring; Forward Error Correction (FEC); frame viewer; IO Insight for SCSI and NVMe monitoring; Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS); nondisruptive daemon restart; optics health monitoring; POST and embedded online/offline diagnostics, including environmental monitoring, FCping and Pathinfo (FC traceroute); power monitoring; RAStrace…
- Mechanical: Mechanical
- Enclosure: Front-to-back airflow; non-port-side exhaust; power from back, 1U Back-to-front airflow; non-port-side intake; power from back, 1U
- Dimensions (H x W x D): Width: 440 mm (17.3 in.) Height: 44 mm (1.7 in.) Depth: 356 mm (14.0 in.)
- Weight: 7.17 kg (15.8 lb) with two power supply FRUs, without transceivers
- Support: Support
- Warranty: Three-year customer-replaceable unit limited warranty with 9×5 next business day parts delivered. Three-year software/firmware entitlement.
- Power: Dual, hot-swappable redundant power supplies (80 PLUS Gold) with integrated system cooling fans (3 built into each power supply), N+N cooling redundancy
When to choose this network platform
Choose it for network platform workloads. with Dual, hot-swappable redundant power supplies (80 PLUS Gold) with….
Reading the specifications
See the grouped parameters above for capacity, connectivity, power and physical data; confirm the specific configuration against your workload before ordering.
Platform & compatibility
Supplied as a complete platform. Confirm CPU/controller, memory, drives and power against your environment before ordering.
Deployment notes
The Lenovo ThinkSystem DB720S FC SAN Switch is supplied as a configured platform. management: Management Brocade Advanced Web Tools; Brocade SANnav Management Portal and SANnav Global View; Command Line…. Send the required configuration for a firm quote.
FAQ
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