Lenovo ThinkSystem DB720S Gen7 FC SAN Switch

The Lenovo ThinkSystem DB720S Gen 7 FC SAN Switch, with its unmatched 64Gbps performance and industry-leading port density, provides a building block that supports data growth, demanding workloads, and data-center consolidation. Delivering unmatched 64Gbps performance and 50% lower latency compared to the previous generation, this switch delivers a fixed-port building block, designed to maximize the performance of flash and NVMe environments to meet demanding workloads. With Brocade® Gen 7 technology, the DB720S delivers far more than just speed and latency improvements. It can eliminate the pain of managing your data center, with autonomous SAN technology to deliver a network that can self-learn, self-optimize, and self-heal without intervention.

The Lenovo DB720 is built for maximum flexibility, scalability, and ease of use. Organizations can scale from 24 to 64 SFP+ ports in an efficient 1U form factor that delivers industry-leading port density and space utilization.

The following figure shows the Lenovo ThinkSystem DB720S Gen 7 FC SAN Switch.

Figure 1. Lenovo ThinkSystem DB720S Gen 7 FC SAN Switch

The DB720S is designed for maximum flexibility and value. This enterprise-class switch offers pay-as-you-grow scalability with Ports on Demand (PoD). Organizations can quickly, easily, and cost-effectively scale from 24 ports to 64 ports in an efficient 1U form factor that delivers industry-leading port density and space utilization. This switch also provides easy integration into existing SAN environments -- from 8Gb to 64Gb speeds -- while introducing the benefits of Gen 7 Fibre Channel connectivity. And the DB720S simplifies deployment, configuration, and management of SAN resources with a collection of easy-to-use tools.

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The DB720S provides exceptional price/performance value by including standard enterprise class software standard like Fabric Vision®, ISL Trunking, Integrated Routing, and Extended Fabrics.

The ThinkSystem DB720S FC SAN Switch offers the following features and benefits:

• Provides high scalability in an ultra-dense, 1U switch with up to 56 ports, providing up to 64 connections with the use of SFP-DD transceivers, to support high-density server virtualization, cloud architectures, and flash-based storage environments.
• Increases scalability by using SFP-DD transceivers that provide dual SN connections that allow organizations to connect more servers, storage, or switches in a small footprint. Each transceiver supports two independent connections of 64G Fibre Channel via a two-lane electrical interface.
• Accelerates critical workloads with 64Gb/s links
• Maximizes performance of NVMe storage with 50% lower switching latency than Gen 6
• Enables pay-as-you-grow scalability from 24 to 64 ports—for on-demand flexibility
• Safeguards mission-critical workloads from vulnerabilities with Gen 7 integrated security.
• Provides cyber-resiliency with integrated security technology that protects mission-critical operations by validating the integrity of Gen 7 hardware and software.
• Guarantees critical application performance by automatically prioritizing traffic and avoiding congestion with Brocade Traffic optimizer.
• Simplifies troubleshooting by identifying and isolating issues
• Collects comprehensive telemetry data across the fabric to enable powerful analytics
• Visualizes the data to easily understand the health and performance of the SAN
• Automates repetitive tasks to save time and eliminate human error
• Protects existing device investments with auto-sensing 8, 16 and 32 Gbit/sec capabilities and native operation with any Brocade SAN fabrics.
• Leverages Fabric Vision technology’s powerful monitoring, management, and diagnostic tools to simplify administration, increase uptime, and reduce costs.
• Supplies a rich set of standard features at no extra cost, including fabric services, advanced zoning, adaptive networking, full fabric and access gateway operations, integrated 10 Gb FC, and diagnostic tools.
• Expands fabric capabilities with optional licensed functions, including trunking, advanced monitoring and alerting, long-distance fabrics, and FC-FC routing.
• Compresses in-flight data on up to four ports for more efficient link utilization.
• Maximizes resiliency with redundant hot-swap power supplies.
• Accelerates troubleshooting with built-in advanced diagnostics tools featuring ClearLink Diagnostics with D_Ports (Diagnostic Ports) and select adapters from QLogic and Emulex, which helps ensure optical and signal integrity for 32/64 Gb Fibre Channel optics and cables.

Brocade Fabric Vision

To further simplify operations and increase visibility, the DB720S includes Brocade Fabric Vision® technology to monitor and analyze the SAN. This technology provides visibility and insight to quickly identify problems and achieve critical service-level agreements (SLAs).

The DB720S Switch with Fabric Vision technology provides a robust analytics architecture that delivers autonomous SAN technology through self-learning, self-optimizing, and self-healing capabilities. Fabric Vision technology is a suite of features that leverage comprehensive data collection capabilities with powerful analytics to quickly understand the health and performance of the environment and identify any potential impacts or trending problems. The combination of SAN analytics and automation technologies unlocks the capabilities to deliver a self-learning, self-optimizing, and self-healing autonomous SAN.

Features of Fabric Vision include:

• Self-learning
  • Gather and transform billions of data points into network intelligence
  • Visualize application and device-based performance and health metrics
  • Detect abnormal traffic behaviors and degraded performance
  • Eliminate operational steps by automatically learning application flows
• Self-optimizing
  • Optimize critical application performance by automatically prioritizing traffic
  • Guarantee application performance by proactively monitoring and actively shaping traffic
  • Eliminate human errors and performance impacts through open DevOps automation technology
  • Optimize administrative resources with cloud-like SAN orchestration
• Self-healing
  • Instantly notify end devices of congestion for automatic resolution
  • Ensure data delivery with automatic failover from physical or congestion issues
  • Detect and automatically reconfigure out-of-compliance fabrics
  • Eliminate performance impacts by automatically taking corrective action on misbehaving devices

Brocade SANnav Management Portal

To streamline management workflows, organizations can leverage the optional subscription-based Brocade SANnav Management Portal software to accelerate the deployment of new applications, switches, servers, and storage. Furthermore, a modernized graphical user interface (GUI) improves operational efficiencies with visual dashboards for instant visibility and faster troubleshooting.

EZSwitchSetup

With EZSwitchSetup, organizations can reduce the number of steps to deploy and configure a switch. In addition, the simplified user interface of Brocade Web Tools makes the SAN easier to manage. For more information, see the EZSwitchSetup User Guide, available from https://docs.broadcom.com/doc/FOS-90x-EZSwitch-UG.

Perfect for high-performance, latency-sensitive workloads

Enterprises are quickly moving their high-performance, latency-sensitive workloads to NVMe flash-based storage. The DB720S Switch supports NVMe over Fibre Channel, enabling organizations to integrate Gen 7 Fibre Channel networks with next-generation flash storage, without a disruptive rip-and-replace. This enables enterprises to achieve faster application response times and harness the performance innovation inherent in NVMe storage. NVMe, combined with the high performance and low latency of Gen 7 Fibre Channel, delivers the performance, application response time, and scalability needed for next-generation data centers.

Access Gateway

The DB720S can be deployed as a full-fabric switch or as an Access Gateway, which simplifies fabric topologies and allows heterogeneous fabric connectivity (the default mode setting is a switch). Access Gateway mode utilizes N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) switch standards to present physical and virtual servers directly to the core of SAN fabrics. Access Gateway allows you to configure your fabric to handle additional devices without increasing the number of switch domains. Key benefits of Access Gateway mode include the following:

• Improved scalability for large or rapidly growing server and virtual server environments
• Reduced management of the network edge, since Access Gateway does not have a domain identity and appears transparent to the core fabric
• Support for heterogeneous SAN configurations without reduced functionality for server connectivity

The following figure shows the port-side view of the DB720S FC SAN Switch.

Figure 2. DB720S FC SAN Switch port-side view

The following figure shows the non-port side view of the DB720S FC SAN Switch.

Figure 3. DB720S FC SAN Switch non-port-side view

The following table lists the ThinkSystem DB720S system specifications.

The following table lists the ThinkSystem DB720S FC SAN Switch models.

The DB720S FC SAN Switch part numbers include the following items:

• One FC SAN Switch
  • Model CTO1WW/CTO3WW: With 24 ports activated and 24x 32 Gb FC SWL SFP+ transceivers included
  • Model CTO2WW/CTO4WW: With 24 ports activated and 24x 64 Gb FC SWL SFP+ transceivers included
• Serial cable (Mini-USB console cable to DB-9/RJ-45)
• Rubber feet for setting up the switch as a standalone unit
• Universal rack mount kit, 4-post & installation guide
• Web pointer document (Downloading FOS, EZSwitch, SANnav and Docs)
• Firmware Download Instructions Flyer (Instructions for downloading publicly-available Brcd docs + docs behind CSP + access to open source code.)

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

The DB720S FC SAN Switch Model includes 24 licensed ports and 24 x 32/64 GB FC SWL SFP+ Transceivers depending on the model. The remaining 32 unlicensed ports can be activated by purchasing and installing the Ports on Demand (POD) licenses that are available with transceivers in 8-port increments.

With the flexibility of the DB720S FC SAN Switch, customers can choose the following connectivity technologies:

• SFP-DD (double density) ports
  • For 64 Gbps FC links, customers can use 64 Gb FC SFP-DD SWL optical transceivers for distances up to 100 meters on OM4 or up to 70 meters on OM3 50 µ MMF cables. These transceivers can operate at 64 Gbps, 32 Gbps, or 16 Gbps speeds.
• SFP+ ports
  • For 64 Gbps FC links, customers can use 64 Gb FC SFP+ SWL optical transceivers for distances up to 100 meters on OM4 or up to 70 meters on OM3 50 µ MMF cables. For longer distances, the 64 Gb FC LWL SFP+ optical transceivers can support up to 10 km on SMF cables. For extended distances, the 64 Gb FC ELWL SFP+ optical transceivers can support up to 25 kilometers on SMF cables. These transceivers can operate at 64 Gbps, 32 Gbps, or 16 Gbps speeds.
  • For 32 Gbps FC links, customers can use 32 Gb FC SFP+ SWL optical transceivers for distances up to 100 meters on OM4 or up to 70 meters on OM3 50 µ MMF cables. For longer distances, the 32 Gb FC LWL SFP+ optical transceivers can support up to 10 km on SMF cables. For extended distances, the 32 Gb FC ELWL SFP+ optical transceivers can support up to 25 kilometers on SMF cables. These transceivers can operate at 32 Gbps, 16 Gbps, or 8 Gbps speeds. (Except ELWL part number 4M27A65431 which can only operate at 32Gbps and 16 Gbps).
  • For 10 Gbps FC links, customers can use 10 Gb FC SFP+ SWL transceivers for distances up to 125 meters on OM4 or up to 100 meters on OM3 50 µ MMF cables, or 10 Gb FC SFP+ LWL transceivers for distances up to 10 km on SMF cables. 10 Gb FC operations allow metro connectivity by directly utilizing a fiber optic cable between sites or by creating multiple channels on an optical cable between sites, utilizing Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology (the Extended Fabric feature is NOT required for long distance 10 Gb FC connectivity).
• 1 GbE RJ-45 management port: Customers can use UTP cables for distances up to 100 meters.

The DB720S FC SAN Switch comes with 24x 32 Gb or 64 Gb FC SWL SFP+ transceivers. Additional SWL, LWL, and ELWL SFP+ transceivers can be ordered for the switch, if needed.

The following table lists the supported transceiver and cable options. POD kits and switches come with SWL optics included.

The following table lists the cabling requirements for the switch.

For details on features supported with the DB720S FC SAN Switch look for the latest Administration Guide for the latest available Fabric OS version:
https://www.broadcom.com/products/fibre-channel-networking/software/fabric-operating-system

The following features comes standard with the DB720S FC SAN Switch:

• Enterprise Bundle
  • ISL Trunking (TRK): Allows frame-based consolidation of up to 8 inter-switch links (ISLs) into fault-tolerant and load-balanced trunks with bandwidth of up to 256 Gbps.
  • Fabric Vision (FV)
    • Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS): Provides a policy-based, fabric-wide threshold monitoring and alerting tool.
    • Flow Vision: Identifies, monitors, and analyzes specific application flows.
    • VM Insight: Seamlessly monitors health and performance of individual Virtual Machines (VMs) to quickly identify abnormal VM behavior and enable administrators to proactively facilitate troubleshooting and fault isolation, helping to ensure performance and operational stability.
    • IO Insight: Proactively monitors I/O performance and behavior to gain deep insight into issues and ensure service levels by non-disruptively and non-intrusively gathering I/O statistics for storage traffic and applying this information within a policy-based monitoring and alerting suite to configure thresholds and alarms.
    • Fabric Performance Impact (FPI) Monitoring: Leverages predefined MAPS policies to automatically identify and isolate devices that cause network performance issues by detecting different latency severity levels, and to alert administrators.
  • Extended Fabric (EF): Extends Fibre Channel SANs beyond 10 km distance limitations for replication and backup at full bandwidth.
  • Control Unit Port (CUP). The Control Unit Port provides an in-band management interface that the FICON host (Mainframe) can use for managing and monitoring the FC SAN switch.
• Integrated Routing: The FC-FC routing service provides Fibre Channel routing between two or more fabrics without merging those fabrics.

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, DB630S, DB400D, DB710S, DB720S, DB730S, 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 DB720S FC SAN Switch supports the standards listed at the following web page:

https://www.broadcom.com/support/fibre-channel-networking/san-standards/standards-compliance

The DB720S FC SAN Switch ships with two redundant hot-swap 350 W AC power supplies. Each power supply has an IEC 309-C14 connector.

The switch comes standard without a power cord; two rack power cables or line cords must be ordered together with the switch (see the following table).

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

The DB720S FC SAN Switch comes standard with the fixed rack mount kit that can be used for 4-post rack installations. If needed, the DB720S FC SAN Switch can be mounted in a 2-post rack cabinet by using the optional mid-mount rack kit that is listed in the following table.

The optional mid-mount rack kit for the DB720S FC SAN Switch is shown in the following figure.

Figure 4. Lenovo DB720S Mid-mount Rack Kit

The DB720S FC SAN Switch has the following dimensions and weight (approximate):

• Height: 44 mm (1.7 in.)
• Width: 440 mm (17.3 in.)
• Depth: 356 mm (14.0 in.)
• Weight: 7.17 kg (15.8 lb) with two power supply FRUs, without transceivers

The DB720S FC SAN Switch 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: 8% to 90% non-condensing
  • Non-operating: 8% to 90% non-condensing
• Electrical power:
  • AC Voltage range: 90V to 264V, maximum input current 4.5A
  • AC Frequency: 50 Hz to 60 Hz nominal, 47 Hz to 63 Hz range
  • Power consumption (differs based on VAC input @100 or @200):
    • Idle: 56-58W (No optics)
    • Maximum: 349W with all 64 ports operating at 64G (48 ports populated with 64G SWL transceivers and 8 ports populated with 2x64G SFP-DD SWL transceivers).
• Heat dissipation (differs based on VAC input @100 or @200):
  • Idle: 191-196 BTU per hour (no optics)
  • Maximum: 881-1192 BTU per hour
• Acoustical noise emission: 65 dB maximum

The DB720S FC SAN Switch, machine type 7D5J, has a three-year warranty.

For more information, consult the brochure Lenovo Operational Support Services for Data Centers Services.

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The DB720S FC SAN Switch conforms to the following regulations which can be found in the Hardware Installation Guide, available from the following web page:

https://www.broadcom.com/products/fibre-channel-networking/switches/g720-switch

For end-to-end storage configuration support, refer to the Lenovo Storage Interoperation Center (LSIC):
https://datacentersupport.lenovo.com/us/en/lsic

Use the LSIC to select the known components of your configuration and then get a list all other supported combinations, with details about supported hardware, firmware, operating systems, and drivers, plus any additional configuration notes. View results on screen or export them to Excel.

Lenovo offers the ThinkSystem DE Series, ThinkSystem DG Series and ThinkSystem DM Series external storage systems for high-performance storage. See the DE Series, DG Series and DM Series product guides for specific controller models, expansion enclosures and configuration options:

• ThinkSystem DE Series Storage
  https://lenovopress.com/storage/thinksystem/de-series#rt=product-guide
• ThinkSystem DM Series Storage
  https://lenovopress.com/storage/thinksystem/dm-series#rt=product-guide
• ThinkSystem DG Series Storage
  https://lenovopress.com/storage/thinksystem/dg-series#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 Tape Autoloaders and Libraries category:
https://lenovopress.com/storage/tape/library

The following table lists the supported rack cabinets.

For specifications about these racks, see the Lenovo Rack Cabinet Reference, available from:
https://lenovopress.com/lp1287-lenovo-rack-cabinet-reference

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

The following table lists the power distribution units (PDUs) that are offered by Lenovo.

For more information, see the Lenovo Press documents in the PDU category:
https://lenovopress.com/servers/options/pdu

The following table lists the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units that are offered by Lenovo.

For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the UPS category:
https://lenovopress.com/servers/options/ups

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   Selling the Gen7 ThinkSystem DB720S SAN Switch
   
   

   This course is designed to give Lenovo sales (general and technical) and partner representatives a foundation for the Gen7 ThinkSystem DB720S SAN switch and the Autonomous SAN solution. As an introduction to the product, this course enables the learner to identify the features and benefits of the switch and how it is integrated into the Autonomous SAN solution. By the end of this training, you should be able to: describe what is happening in the data center and the pressures surrounding the storage network; explain why the network will need to evolve to keep pace with the next wave of innovation in the data center; and describe how Gen 7 Fibre Channel enables an autonomous SAN that will harness the full value of next-gen data centers.
   
   Tags: Storage, ThinkSystem

   Published: 2023-02-01
   Length: 20 minutes
   

   Start the training:
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   

   Course code: DDBS206
8. Why Gen 7 with 64G Fibre Channel
   2022-03-17 | 20 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   Why Gen 7 with 64G Fibre Channel
   
   

   In this course we will be discussing what is happening in the data center and the pressures surrounding the network. We will look at why the network will need to evolve to keep pace with the next wave of innovation; which creates an imbalance in performance. We will review how Gen 7 Fibre Channel enables an autonomous SAN that will harness the full value of next-gen data centers. Last, we will review the Gen 7 hardware. Let’s start with the what businesses require from their infrastructures.
   Course objectives:
   1.Understand the benefits of clients investing in 64G Gen 7 switches today
   2.Help customers have a clear understanding if 64G Gen 7 is a better fit than a Gen 6 switch for their requirements
   3.Articulate to your clients that Gen 7 is more that just 64G speeds
   4.Explain how Lenovo is well positioned for clients looking for the best investment protection of their infrastructure with multiple Gen 7 Fibre Channel offerings
   
   Tags: Sales, Storage, Technical Sales

   Published: 2022-03-17
   Length: 20 minutes
   

   Start the training:
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   

   Course code: DDBS210

For more information, see the following resources:

• Datasheet of the DB720S:
  https://lenovopress.com/datasheet/ds0120-thinksystem-db720s-fc-san-switch
• Interactive 3D Tour of the DB720S:
  https://lenovopress.com/lp1409-3d-tour-thinksystem-db720s
• Analyst report "64 Gb Fibre Channel Performance with Lenovo ThinkSystem Emulex LPe36002 Gen 7 FC HBA"
  https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/resources/data-center-solutions/analyst-reports/64-gb-fibre-channel-performance-with-lenovo-thinksystem-emulex-lpe36002-gen-7-test-report/
• Lenovo ThinkSystem DB720S FC SAN Switch product publications - see the Brocade G720 documentation:
  https://www.broadcom.com/products/fibre-channel-networking/switches/g720-switch

  Tip: Some of the Fabric OS documents can be accessed via the support portal by validating your serial number for software entitlement

  • Hardware Installation Guide
  • Fabric OS Access Gateway Administration Guide
  • Fabric OS Administration Guide
  • Fabric OS Extension Configuration Guide
  • Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide
  • Fabric OS Command Reference
  • Fabric OS Message Reference
  • Fabric OS MIB Reference
  • Web Tools Administration Guide
  • Flow Vision Configuration Guide
  • Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite Configuration Guide
• Brocade 64G SWL SFP-DD Product Brief:
  https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/SFP-DD-64G-SWL-PB
• EZSwitchSetup User Guide:
  https://docs.broadcom.com/doc/FOS-90x-EZSwitch-UG
• Lenovo Data Center Support for the ThinkSystem DB720S FC SAN Switch:
  https://datacentersupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/storage/fibre-channel-switches/db720s-fc-switch/7d5j