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Introduction to HP Fibre Channel Products 1 This chapter introduces Hewlett-Packard (HP) Fibre Channel switching products that allow deployment and implementation of a storage area network (SAN) topology in a Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) or IBM fiber connection (FICON) environments. HP offers several switch alternatives to build a robust and scalable SAN infrastructure that meets the customer's data center requirements. Product Overview HP provides three broad classes of Fibre Channel switching products, as follows: ■ Directors - A director is a high port count, high-bandwidth switch designed with fully redundant, hot-swappable field replaceable units (FRUs) that provide an availability of 99.999% (approximately five minutes of down time per year). HP offers the 64-port StorageWorks Director 2/64 and 140-port StorageWorks Director 2/140. The director implements Fibre Channel technology that provides high-performance scalable bandwidth at 2 gigabits per second (Gbps), highly available operation, redundant switched data paths, long transmission distances (up to 50 kilometers at 2 Gbps or 100 kilometers at 1 Gbps), and high device population. Refer to "Directors" on page 18 for detailed information. ■ Edge switches - An edge switch is a low to medium port count, high-bandwidth switch designed with redundant power supplies and cooling fans that provide an availability of 99.9% (approximately 8.8 hours of down time per year). HP offers the 16-port StorageWorks Edge Switch 2/16, the 24-port StorageWorks Edge Switch 2/24, and the 32-port StorageWorks Edge Switch 2/32 that operate at 2.125 Gbps. These switches implement the same high-performance Fibre Channel technology as the director, but with less redundancy, availability, and expense. Refer to "Edge Switches" on page 25 for detailed information. SAN High Availability Planning Guide 15