IBM(R) Storage Networking SAN256B-6 delivers the following benefits:

• Enhance operational stability, maximize application performance, and increase

business agility with enterprise-class, b-type Gen 6 directors

• Shatter application performance barriers across 32 Gbps links and support up to

1 billion input/output operations per second (IOPS) without oversubscription

• Consolidate infrastructure with high-density solutions built with 128 Gbps

UltraScale ICL connectivity for simpler, flatter, low-latency fabrics

• Simplify end-to-end management of large-scale environments by automating

monitoring and diagnostics

• Detect degraded application or device performance automatically with built-in

monitoring

• Extend distance and replication with a highly scalable, multiprotocol extension

solution

• Integrate next-generation flash storage based on nonvolatile memory express

(NVMe) flash memory with current and future b-type Gen 6 Fibre Channel

networks

• Mitigate risk with backward-compatibility