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2 – General Description

SANbox SSP Overview

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The SANbox 8200/8202 SSP represents a new category of storage virtualization 
devices that centralizes the management and delivery of storage and related 
services, without creating performance bottlenecks in the storage network. Storage 
services such as virtualization and volume management, snapshots, replication, 
backup, and mirroring can be deployed and provisioned from the SANbox SSP. 

While SANbox SSP can process and switch Fibre Channel packets at wire speed, 
it is not itself a Fibre Channel fabric switch. Rather, SANbox SSP complements your 
Fibre Channel fabrics, allowing you to provide storage services uniformly across 
heterogeneous fabrics, and to configure and manage access between devices on 
different fabrics. SANbox SSP provides these capabilities without the complication 
and risk of merging Fibre Channel fabrics.

 

Three models of SANbox SSPs are available: 

SANbox 8200-08 SSP (single power supply integrated with 8 ports)

 

SANbox 8202-08 SSP (dual hot-swappable power supplies with 8 ports)

 

SANbox 8202-16 SSP (dual hot-swappable power supplies with 16 ports)

SANbox SSP:

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Adds new storage services to any existing SAN environment

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Reduces complexity of managing and protecting data resources by centralizing 
storage services within the network

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Integrates host-based agent functionality, avoiding the complexity of managing 
distributed agents

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Extends the reach of storage services across multiple SAN islands, eliminating 
the need for multiple independent deployments

For SANbox SSP specifications, see 

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