Lenovo B300 FC SAN Switch

The Lenovo B300 FC SAN Switch (Machine Type 3873) provides small to medium-sized enterprises with Storage Area Network (SAN) connectivity that simplifies their IT management infrastructures, improves system performance, maximizes the value of virtual server deployments, and reduces overall storage costs.

The Lenovo B300 is a 1U rack-mount 8 Gb Fibre Channel switch with up to 24 ports (8 ports licensed by default; the remaining ports can be licensed in 8-port increments) that support 2/4/8 Gbps speeds. The switch offers a rich set of standard features with the options to expand its capabilities as needed.

The Lenovo B300 features the EZSwitch Setup wizard and can be configured in Access Gateway Mode to simplify deployment. The switch provides full non-blocking performance with Ports On Demand scalability to support SAN expansion and enable long-term investment protection.

The following figure shows the Lenovo B300.

Figure 1. Lenovo B300

The Lenovo B300 leverages storage connectivity technologies from Brocade, the market share leader in Fibre Channel networking that is deployed in 90% of the Fortune 1000 data centers.

The Lenovo B300 offers dual functionality as either a full-fabric SAN switch or as an N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV)-enabled Access Gateway that simplifies server connectivity in heterogeneous enterprise fabrics.

With flexible feature expansion capabilities — such as Ports-on-Demand scalability from 8 to 16 or 24 ports (in 8-port increments) — the Lenovo B300 enables organizations to start small and grow their storage networks in a non-disruptive manner.

With Lenovo FC SAN Switch offerings, Lenovo can be your trusted partner that offers "one stop shop" and single point of contact for delivery of leading edge technologies and innovations from Lenovo and other leading IT vendors. These offerings can satisfy the wide range of your end-to-end IT infrastructure needs, including handheld devices, notebooks, personal computers, servers, storage, networking, services, management software, and financing.

The Lenovo B300 FC SAN switch offers the following features and benefits:

• Provides an affordable, flexible foundation for entry-level SANs, and an edge switch for core-to-edge SAN environments.
• Delivers up to 24 ports of 8 Gbit/sec performance in an energy-efficient, optimized 1U form factor to support the most demanding server and virtual server deployments.
• Consumes less than 2.5 watts of power per port for exceptional power and cooling efficiency.
• Simplifies configuration and management with easy-to-use EZSwitch Setup.
• Enables “pay-as-you-grow” scalability from single-switch fabric to full-fabric enterprise capabilities with Ports On Demand scalability from 8 to 16 or 24 ports in 8-port increments.
• Optimizes fabric behavior and ensures sufficient bandwidth for mission-critical applications with advanced traffic management capabilities and adaptive networking.
• Offers dual functionality as either a full-fabric SAN switch or as an NPIV-enabled Access Gateway (requires 24 ports be licensed) that enhances fabric scalability and simplifies management.
• Protects existing device investments with auto-sensing 2, 4, and 8 Gbit/sec capabilities and native operation with Brocade and Brocade M-Series fabrics.
• Runs Fabric OS, which delivers distributed intelligence throughout the network and enables a wide range of value-added features.
• Supplies a rich set of standard features at no extra cost, including fabric services, advanced zoning, adaptive networking, single-switch fabric, access gateway operations, and diagnostic tools.
• Expands fabric capabilities with optional licensed functions, including multi-switch full fabric, trunking, advanced monitoring and alerting, and long-distance fabrics.
• Helps achieve higher availability with redundant cooling and non-disruptive firmware upgrades.
• Accelerates troubleshooting with built-in advanced diagnostics tools.

The following figure shows the port side of the Lenovo B300.

Figure 2. Lenovo B300 port-side view

The following table lists the Lenovo B300 system specifications.

The following table lists the Lenovo B300 models.

* MTM = Machine Type-Model.

The Lenovo B300 part numbers include the following items:

• One FC SAN Switch:
  • Model HC4:
    8 ports activated, 8x 8 Gb FC SWL SFPs included, 3-year firmware entitlement
  • Model HC7:
    E_Port license, 8 ports activated, 8x 8 Gb FC SWL SFPs included, 1-year firmware entitlement
• Serial cable (DB-9/RJ-45 to RJ-45)
• Rubber feet for setting up the switch as a standalone unit
• Fixed rack mount kit
• EZSwitch Setup CD
• Lenovo B300 Quick Start Guide
• Access Gateway Quick Start Guide
• Documentation CD
• Warranty information

Note: The switch comes standard without a power cord; it must be purchased together with the switch (see "Power supplies and cables" for details).

The Lenovo B300 comes standard with 8 licensed ports and 8x 8 Gb FC SWL SFP+ transceivers. The remaining unlicensed ports can be activated in 8-port increments by purchasing and installing the Ports on Demand (POD) bundles that include licenses for eight ports and eight 8 Gb FC SWL SFP+ transceivers. By default, ports 0 through 7 are enabled on the Lenovo B300. To enable ports 8 through 15, install a POD license key. To enable ports 16 through 23, install another POD license.

The following table lists additional POD bundles for the Lenovo B300.

The Lenovo B300 comes with 8x 8 Gb FC SWL SFP+ transceivers, and the optional 8-port POD bundle comes with 8x 8 Gb FC SWL SFP+ transceivers. Additional SWL, LWL, and EWL SFP+ transceivers can be ordered for the switch, if needed. The following table lists the supported SFP+ options and optical cables.

* When using ELW SFP+ transceivers over distances over 10 km, the Extended Fabric feature is required on a SAN switch to drive the maximum bandwidth over the extended links (see Table 7 for ordering information).

The Lenovo B300 comes standard with the following features:

• Advanced Fabric Services
  • Single-switch fabric (standalone): Enables high performance 8 Gbps switching.
  • Advanced Zoning (default zoning, port/WWN zoning, broadcast zoning)
  • Dynamic fabric provisioning (DFP): Fabric-assigned port World Wide Names (FA-PWWNs).
  • Dynamic path selection (DPS): Distributes input traffic across multiple paths proportionally to the bandwidth of each path.
  • Dynamic load sharing (DLS): Distributes traffic across multiple equivalent paths between switches.
  • Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF)
  • Buffer-to-Buffer (BB) credit flow control
  • Enhanced BB credit loss recovery
  • Fabric Device Management Interface (FDMI)
  • Frame order delivery
  • Frame redirection
  • FC login services
  • Registered State Change Notification (RSCN)
  • Reliable Commit Service (RCS)
  • Simple Name Server (SNS)
  • Fibre Channel Authentication Protocol (FCAP) switch authentication
  • Management Server (MS): Assists in the auto-discovery of switch-based fabrics.
• Adaptive Networking
  • Bottleneck detection: Identifies devices attached to the fabric that are slowing down traffic.
  • Ingress rate limiting: Restricts the speed of traffic from a particular device to the switch port.
  • Traffic isolation zoning (TIZ): Creates a dedicated path for traffic flowing from a specific set of source ports (F_Ports).
  • Quality of Service (QoS): SID/DID traffic prioritization
• Virtualization
  • N_Port ID virtualization (NPIV): Enables a single FC port to appear as multiple, distinct ports with separate port identification within the fabric.
  • Access Gateway (requires all 24 ports be licensed): Leverages NPIV to connect to any fabric without adding switch domains to reduce management complexity.
• Management
  • IPv4 and IPv6 addressing
  • Firmware upload and download
  • Hot code load and activation
  • Network Time Protocol (NTP) v3
  • EZ Switch Setup Wizard
  • Command line interface (CLI)
  • Web Tools
  • Brocade SANnav Management Portal and SANnav Global View (purchased separately)
  • Brocade Network Advisor (purchased separately)
  • SNMPv1, SNMPv3, and MIBs
  • SMI-S compliant
  • Syslog
• Security
  • Local switch user accounts
  • LDAP, RADIUS, TACACS+ user authentication
  • Role-based access control (RBAC)
  • Administrative Domains: Partition the fabric into logical groups and allocate administration of these groups to different user accounts
  • IP Security (IPsec)
  • IP filtering with access control lists (ACLs)
  • HTTPS
  • Secure Copy (SCP)
  • Secure RPC
  • Secure FTP (SFTP)
  • Secure Shell (SSH) v2
  • Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
  • Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 L2-compliant
• Advanced Diagnostic Tools
  • Power-on self-test (POST)
  • MAPS basic monitoring: Monitors system resources and overall switch health status.
  • Event logging
  • Environmental monitoring
  • FCping
  • Pathinfo (FC traceroute)
  • Non-disruptive daemon restart
  • Port mirroring
  • Port fencing: Disables a port if specified error conditions are met.
  • RAS trace logging

Firmware entitlement is included with the Lenovo B300 and provides 3-year (Model HC4) or 1-year (Model HC7) firmware support. The options to extend the entitlement up to 7 years in 1-year or 2-year increments are available for Model HC4. The firmware entitlement is included in the warranty service upgrades for Model HC7.

The firmware entitlement and support extension options for Model HC4 are listed in the following table.

Lenovo offers optional Brocade SANnav™ Management Portal and SANnav Global View software license subscriptions that provide comprehensive visibility into the SAN environment, allow administrators to quickly identify, isolate, and correct problems, and accelerate administrative tasks by simplifying and automating workflows.

SANnav Management Portal is a next-generation SAN management application with a simple browser-based user interface (UI) and with a focus on streamlining common workflows, such as configuration, zoning, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, reporting, and analytics.

SANnav Management Portal supports all Brocade SAN switches and platforms that run the Fabric OS® version 7.4 or above, including Lenovo B300, B6505, B6510, DB610S, DB620S, DB400D, DB720S, DB800D, Brocade Directors, and FC5022.

With SANnav Global View, administrators can quickly visualize the health, performance, and inventory of multiple SANnav Management Portal instances using a simple, intelligent dashboard and can easily navigate from a global view down to local environments to investigate points of interest. SANnav Global View is designed to manage up to 20 SANnav Management Portal instances.

For more information, refer to the SANnav Management Portal documentation:
http://www.broadcom.com/products/fibre-channel-networking/software/sannav-management-portal#documentation

The following table lists ordering information for the optional SANnav Management Portal and SANnav Global View management tools. After a client has an active SANnav license, Lenovo offers a “license extension/renewal”. This offering provides our clients the flexible to extend their subscription down to a specific end date. This allows clients the ability to align to your company’s budget or align with warranty of your FC SAN switches/directors. Please engage directly with your Lenovo sales representative for more details.

The Lenovo B300 supports the following standards:

• FC-AL-2 INCITS 332: 1999
• FC-BB-2 INCITS 372: 2003
• FC-BB-3 INCITS 414: 2006
• FC-DA INCITS TR-36: 2004
• FC-FLA INCITS TR-20: 1998
• FC-FS INCITS 373: 2003
• FC-FS-2 ANSI/INCITS 424:2006
• FC-GS-4 ANSI INCITS 387: 2004
• FC-GS-5 ANSI INCITS 427:2007
• FC-IFR INCITS 1745-D, revision 1.03 (under development)
• FC-LS INCITS 433: 2007
• FC-MI-2 ANSI/INCITS TR-39-2005
• FCP-2 INCITS 350: 2003 (replaces FCP ANSI X3.269: 1996)
• FC-PI INCITS 352: 2002
• FC-PI-2 INCITS 404: 2005
• FC-PI-4 INCITS 1647-D, revision 7.1 (under development)
• FC-PLDA INCIT S TR-19: 1998
• FC-SB-3 INCITS 374: 2003 (replaces FC-SB ANSI X3.271: 1996; FC-SB-2 INCITS 374: 2001)
• FC-SP INCITS 426-2007
• FC-SP-2 INCITS 496-2012
• FC-SW-3 INCITS 384: 2004
• FC-SW-4 INCITS 418:2006
• FC-TAPE INCITS TR-24: 1999
• FC-VI INCITS 357: 2002
• MIB-FA INCITS TR-32: 2003
• RFC 2625 IP and ARP Over FC
• RFC 2837 Fabric Element MIB
• SNIA Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) Version 1.03 ISO standard IS24775-2006. Replaces (ANSI INCITS 388: 2004)
• SNIA Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) Version 1.1
• SNIA Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) Version 1.2

The Lenovo B300 has one fixed 75 W AC power supply with an IEC 320-C14 connector. The switch comes standard without a power cord; one rack power cable or line cord must be ordered together with the switch (see the following table).

* Available for factory-built custom configurations and solutions only.

The Lenovo B300 has the following dimensions and weight (approximate):

• Height: 43 mm (1.7 in.)
• Width: 429 mm (16.9 in.)
• Depth: 307 mm (12.1 in.)
• Weight (without SFPs): 4.2 kg (9.3 lb)

The Lenovo B300 is supported in the following environment:

• Air temperature:
  • Operating: 0°C to +40°C (32°F to 104°F)
  • Non-operating: -25°C to +70°C (-13°F to 158°F)
• Maximum altitude:
  • Operating: 3,000 m (9,842 ft)
  • Non-operating: 12,000 m (39,370 ft)
• Humidity:
  • Operating: 10% to 85% at 40°C (104°F), with maximum gradient of 10% per hour
  • Non-operating: 10% to 90% at 70°C (158°F)
• Electrical power:
  • Voltage range: 100 V AC - 240 V AC (nominal)
  • Frequency: 50 Hz - 60 Hz (nominal)
  • Power consumption:
    • Nominal: 48 watts
    • Maximum (with 24 ports at 8 Gbps): 57 watts
• Heat dissipation: 195 BTU per hour
• Acoustical noise emission: 46.7 dB

The Lenovo B300's hardware has a one-year Customer Replaceable Unit (CRU) parts-only warranty with standard call center support during normal business hours and 9x5 Next Business Day Parts Delivered.

Lenovo’s additional support services provide a sophisticated, unified support structure for a customer's data center, with an experience consistently ranked number one in customer satisfaction worldwide.

The following Lenovo support services are available:

• Premier Support provides a Lenovo-owned customer experience and delivers direct access to technicians skilled in hardware, software, and advanced troubleshooting, in addition to the following capabilities:  
  • Direct technician-to-technician access through a dedicated phone line.
  • 24x7x365 remote support.
  • Single point of contact service.
  • End to end case management.
  • 3rd Party collaborative software support. 
  • Online case tools and live chat support.
  • On-demand remote system analysis.
• Warranty Upgrades (Preconfigured Support) are available to meet the on-site response time targets that match the criticality of your systems:
  • 1, 3, or 5 years of warranty service coverage.
  • 1-year or 2-year post-warranty extensions.
  • Foundation Service: 9x5 service coverage with next business day onsite response.
  • Essential Service: 24x7 service coverage with 4-hour onsite response or 24-hour committed repair (available only in select regions).
  • Advanced Service: 24x7 service coverage with 2-hour onsite response or 6-hour committed repair (available only in select regions).
• Managed Services

  Lenovo Managed Services provide continuous 24x7 remote monitoring (plus 24x7 call center availability) and proactive management of a customer's data center using state of the art tools, systems, and practices by a team of highly skilled and experienced Lenovo services professionals.

  Quarterly reviews check error logs, verify firmware and operating system device driver levels, and software as needed. Lenovo will also maintain records of latest patches, critical updates, and firmware levels, to ensure customer's systems are providing business value through optimized performance.

• Technical Account Management (TAM)

  A Lenovo Technical Account Manager helps customers optimize operations of their data centers based on a deep understanding of customer's business. Customers gain direct access to a Lenovo TAM, who serves as their single point of contact to expedite service requests, provide status updates, and furnish reports to track incidents over time. Also, a TAM helps proactively make service recommendations and manage service relationship with Lenovo to make certain that customer's needs are met.

• Health Check

  Having a trusted partner who can perform regular and detailed health checks is central to maintaining efficiency and ensuring that customer systems and business are always running at their best. Health Check supports Lenovo-branded server, storage, and networking devices, as well as select Lenovo-supported products from other vendors that are sold by Lenovo or a Lenovo-Authorized Reseller.

Some regions might have different warranty terms and conditions than the standard warranty. This is due to local business practices or laws in the specific region. Local service teams can assist in explaining region-specific terms when needed. Examples of region-specific warranty terms are second or longer business day parts delivery or parts-only base warranty.

If warranty terms and conditions include onsite labor for repair or replacement of parts, Lenovo will dispatch a service technician to the customer site to perform the replacement. Onsite labor under base warranty is limited to labor for replacement of parts that have been determined to be field-replaceable units (FRUs). Parts that are determined to be customer-replaceable units (CRUs) do not include onsite labor under base warranty.

If warranty terms include parts-only base warranty, Lenovo is responsible for delivering only replacement parts that are under base warranty (including FRUs) that will be sent to a requested location for self-service. Parts-only service does not include a service technician being dispatched onsite. Parts must be changed at customer’s own cost and labor and defective parts must be returned following the instructions supplied with the spares parts.

Lenovo support services are region-specific. Not all support services are available in every region. For information about Lenovo support services that are available in a specific region, refer to the following resources:

• Service part numbers in Data Center Solution Configurator (DCSC):
  http://dcsc.lenovo.com/#/services
• Lenovo Services Availability Locator
  https://lenovolocator.com/

Lenovo Services is a dedicated partner to customer success. Lenovo's goal for customers is to reduce capital outlays, mitigate IT risks, and accelerate time to productivity.

Here is a more in-depth look at what Lenovo can do for their customers:

• Asset Recovery Services

  Asset Recovery Services (ARS) helps customers recover the maximum value from their end-of-life equipment in a cost-effective and secure way. On top of simplifying the transition from old to new equipment, ARS mitigates environmental and data security risks associated with data center equipment disposal. Lenovo ARS is a cash-back solution for equipment based on its remaining market value, yielding maximum value from aging assets and lowering total cost of ownership for customers.

• Assessment Services

  An assessment helps solve customer IT challenges through an onsite, multi-day session with a Lenovo technology expert. Lenovo performs a tools-based assessment which provides a comprehensive and thorough review of a company's environment and technology systems. In addition to the technology-based functional requirements, the consultant also discusses and records the non-functional business requirements, challenges, and constraints. Assessments help organizations, no matter how large or small, get a better return on their IT investment and overcome challenges in the ever-changing technology landscape.

• Design Services

  Professional Services consultants perform infrastructure design and implementation planning to support customer's strategy. The high-level architectures provided by the assessment service are turned into low level designs and wiring diagrams, which are reviewed and approved prior to implementation. The implementation plan will demonstrate an outcome-based proposal to provide business capabilities through infrastructure with a risk-mitigated project plan.

• Basic Hardware Installation

  Lenovo experts can seamlessly manage the physical installation of customer's server, storage, or networking hardware. Working at a time convenient for the customer (business hours or off shift), the technician will unpack and inspect the systems on customer site, install options, mount in a rack cabinet, connect to power and network, check and update firmware to the latest levels, verify operation, and dispose of the packaging, allowing customers to focus on other priorities.

• Deployment Services

  When investing in new IT infrastructures, customers need to ensure that their business will see quick time to value with little to no disruption. Lenovo deployments are designed by development and engineering teams who know Lenovo products and solutions better than anyone else, and Lenovo technicians own the process from delivery to completion. Lenovo will conduct remote preparation and planning, configure and integrate systems, validate systems, verify and update appliance firmware, train on administrative tasks, and provide post-deployment documentation. Customer’s IT teams leverage Lenovo skills to enable IT staff to transform with higher level roles and tasks.

• Integration, Migration, and Expansion Services

  Integration, Migration, and Expansion Services allow to move existing physical and virtual workloads easily, or to determine technical requirements to support increased workloads while maximizing performance. These services include tuning, validation, and documenting ongoing run processes, and they leverage migration assessment planning documents to perform necessary migrations.

Some service options may not be available in every country. For more information about Lenovo service offerings that are available in a specific country or area, contact a local Lenovo sales representative or business partner.

The Lenovo B300 conforms to the following regulations:

• Electromagnetic compatibility
  • FCC Part 15, Subpart B (Class A)
  • EN 55022 (Class A)
  • EN 55024
  • ICES-003 (Class A)
  • VCCI (Class A)
  • KN22 and KN24
  • GB 9254-2008
  • CNS 13438
  • CISPR22
• Safety
  • UL/CSA 60950-1
  • EN 60950-1
  • IEC 60950-1
  • GB 4943.1-2011
  • CNS 14336-1:99
  • EU RoHS

The following table lists the FC SAN switches that are currently offered by Lenovo that can be used with the Lenovo B300 in FC SAN solutions.

Note: Information provided in this section is for ordering reference purposes only. End-to-end storage configuration support must be verified through the interoperability matrix for a particular storage system that can be found on the Lenovo Data Center Support web site:
http://datacentersupport.lenovo.com

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the following categories:

• Rack-mount SAN switches
  http://lenovopress.com/storage/switches/rack
• Embedded SAN switches
  http://lenovopress.com/storage/switches/embedded

The following table lists the external storage systems that are currently offered by Lenovo that can be used in Lenovo FC SAN storage solutions.

Note: Information provided in this section is for ordering reference purposes only. End-to-end storage configuration support must be verified through the interoperability matrix for a particular storage system that can be found on the Lenovo Data Center Support web site:
http://datacentersupport.lenovo.com

* Available only in EMEA.

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the Lenovo Storage category:
http://lenovopress.com/storage/san/lenovo#rt=product-guide

The following table lists the external backup options that are offered by Lenovo that can be used in Lenovo FC SAN solutions.

Note: Information provided in this section is for ordering reference purposes only. End-to-end LTO Ultrium configuration support for a particular tape backup unit must be verified through the System Storage Interoperation Center (SSIC):
http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/storage/ssic

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the Backup units category:
https://lenovopress.com/servers/options/backup#rt=product-guide

The following table lists the rack cabinets that are offered by Lenovo that can be used in Lenovo FC SAN solutions.

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the Rack cabinets category:
http://lenovopress.com/servers/options/racks

The following table lists the power distribution units (PDUs) that are offered by Lenovo that can be used in Lenovo FC SAN solutions.

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the Power Distribution Units category:
http://lenovopress.com/servers/options/pdu

The following table lists the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units that are offered by Lenovo that can be used in Lenovo FC SAN solutions.

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the Uninterruptible Power Supply Units category:
http://lenovopress.com/servers/options/ups#rt=product-guide

Lenovo Financial Services reinforces Lenovo’s commitment to deliver pioneering products and services that are recognized for their quality, excellence, and trustworthiness. Lenovo Financial Services offers financing solutions and services that complement your technology solution anywhere in the world.

We are dedicated to delivering a positive finance experience for customers like you who want to maximize your purchase power by obtaining the technology you need today, protect against technology obsolescence, and preserve your capital for other uses.

We work with businesses, non-profit organizations, governments and educational institutions to finance their entire technology solution. We focus on making it easy to do business with us. Our highly experienced team of finance professionals operates in a work culture that emphasizes the importance of providing outstanding customer service. Our systems, processes and flexible policies support our goal of providing customers with a positive experience.

We finance your entire solution. Unlike others, we allow you to bundle everything you need from hardware and software to service contracts, installation costs, training fees, and sales tax. If you decide weeks or months later to add to your solution, we can consolidate everything into a single invoice.

Our Premier Client services provide large accounts with special handling services to ensure these complex transactions are serviced properly. As a premier client, you have a dedicated finance specialist who manages your account through its life, from first invoice through asset return or purchase. This specialist develops an in-depth understanding of your invoice and payment requirements. For you, this dedication provides a high-quality, easy, and positive financing experience.

For your region specific offers please ask your Lenovo sales representative or your technology provider about the use of Lenovo Financial Services. For more information, see the following Lenovo website:
http://www.lenovofs.com

For more information, see the following resources:

• Lenovo B300 FC SAN Switch product page
  https://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/data-center/storage/storage-area-network/fibre-channel-switches/Lenovo-B300-Fibre-Channel-Switch/p/77X2SHSSH02
• Lenovo Support - Lenovo B300 FC SAN Switch
  http://datacentersupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/storage/fibre-channel-switches/b300-fc-san-switch