Lenovo ThinkSystem DB730S FC SAN Switch

The Lenovo ThinkSystem DB730S Fibre Channel Switch is a Gen 7 high-density building block that enables dense rack-mount environments to connect more devices and build larger fabrics. Its 128 line-rate 64G FC ports in a 2U design allow organizations to create high-scale fabrics in less space.

The DB730S utilizes 96x 64G SFP+ ports and 16x 2x64G double-density optical transceiver (SFP-DD) ports. Each of the 16 SFP-DD transceivers provides 2 ports, making 32 ports available for device or ISL connectivity. The addition of SFP-DD ports allows the DB730S to connect more servers, storage, and switches in a very dense footprint.

With a 50% latency reduction compared to the previous generation and no oversubscription, the DB730S enables the maximum performance of NVMe storage and high-transaction workloads.

The following figure shows the ThinkSystem DB730S FC SAN Switch.

Figure 1. ThinkSystem DB730S FC SAN Switch

The DB730S Switch with enhanced security and autonomous SAN technology takes the guesswork out of protecting and managing a network. The DB730S enables a cyber-resilient network that protects against security threats, enables nonstop operations, and maximizes management automation.

With integrated security technology, the DB730S protects mission-critical operations by validating the integrity of Gen 7 hardware and software. In addition, it reduces the vulnerabilities from malware and hijacking attacks by hardening Fabric OS® (FOS) and strengthening hardware.

To simplify and automate management, the DB730S Switch harnesses powerful analytics and advanced automation. Leveraging these capabilities enables organizations to realize a self-learning, self-optimizing, and self-healing SAN that maximizes performance and availability.

The DB730S with Gen 7 technology transforms billions of telemetry data points in real time into automated actions that ensure the reliability and performance of critical applications, virtual infrastructure, and NVMe storage. By understanding and analyzing network telemetry data in real time, the SAN can automatically make intelligent decisions on traffic prioritization and congestion mitigation to ensure nonstop operations.

With automated congestion detection and resolution, Brocade Gen 7 instantly mitigates impacts to applications and resolves issues much faster, freeing up valuable admin time.

The DB730S provides exceptional price/performance value by including enterprise class software as standard features including Fabric Vision®, ISL Trunking, Integrated Routing, and Extended Fabrics.

The ThinkSystem DB730S FC SAN Switch offers the following features and benefits:

• Provides high scalability in an ultra-dense 2U switch with up to 128 ports 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 SFP-DD transceiver supports two independent connections of 64G Fibre Channel via a two-lane electrical interface.
• Accelerates critical workloads with 64G Fibre Channel links
• Increases fabric bandwidth and resiliency while avoiding congestion and maximizing performance with Interswitch Link (ISL) Trunking that can load balance up to eight (8) 64G links for a total bandwidth of up to 512Gb/s.
• Maximizes performance of flash and NVMe storage with 50% lower switching latency than Gen 6
• Enables pay-as-you-grow scalability from 48 to 128 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
• Transforms telemetry data into actionable insights to optimize performance and ensure reliability
• Visualizes the telemetry 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 32G 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 10G 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 32G and 64G Fibre Channel optics and cables.

Brocade Fabric Vision

To further simplify operations and increase visibility, the DB730S 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 DB730S 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. For more information, see the Management software section.

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.

The following table lists the ThinkSystem DB630S system specifications.

The following table lists the ThinkSystem DB730S FC SAN Switch models.

The models include the following items:

• One DB730S FC SAN Switch
  • 48 ports activated
  • 48x 64G FC SWL SFP+ transceivers
• 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 Brocade documents, documents behind the Customer Support Portal, CSP, and access to open source code.)

Note: The switch does not include power cords; two power cables must be purchased together with the switch. See the Power supplies and cables section for details.

With the flexibility of the DB730S FC SAN Switch, customers can choose the following connectivity technologies:

• SFP-DD ports
  • For 64G FC links, customers can use 64G 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 64G, 32G, or 16G speeds.
• SFP+ ports
  • For 64G FC links, customers can use 64G 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 64G FC LWL SFP+ optical transceivers can support up to 10 km on SMF cables. These transceivers can operate at 64G, 32G, or 16G speeds.
  • For 32G FC links, customers can use 32G 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 32G FC LWL SFP+ optical transceivers can support up to 10 km on SMF cables. These transceivers can operate at 32G, 16G, or 8G speeds.
  • For 10G FC links, customers can use 10G FC SFP+ SWL transceivers for distances up to 125 meters on OM4 or up to 100 meters on OM3 50 µ MMF cables, or 10G FC SFP+ LWL transceivers for distances up to 10 km on SMF cables. 10G 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 10G FC connectivity).
• 1 GbE RJ-45 management port: Customers can use UTP cables for distances up to 100 meters.

The DB730S FC SAN Switch comes with 48 x 64G 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 the latest features supported with the switch see the Administration Guide for the latest available Fabric OS version 9.1.0b and above, available from:
https://www.broadcom.com/products/fibre-channel-networking/software/fabric-operating-system

The following features are included with the DB730S 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 512Gb/s.
  • 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.
• 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, 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 DB730S supports the standards listed at the following web page:

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

The DB730S ships with two redundant hot-swap 1100 W AC power supplies. Each power supply has an IEC 309-C14 connector.

The switch does not include power cords. Supported power cables and line cords are listed in the following table.

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

The DB730S comes standard with the fixed rack mount kit that can be used for 4-post rack installations. If needed, the 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 is shown in the following figure.

Figure 4. Lenovo Mid-mount Rack Kit

The DB730S FC SAN Switch has the following dimensions and weight (approximate):

• Height: 86.7 mm (3.41 in.)
• Width: 440 mm (17.32 in.)
• Depth: 609.6 mm (24.0 in.)
• Weight: 18.92 kg (41.71 lbs) with two power supply FRUs and three fan FRUs, without transceivers

The DB730S 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: 10% to 85% non-condensing
  • Non-operating: 10% to 90% non-condensing
• Electrical power:
  • AC Voltage range: 100 to 240 VAC nominal, 90 to 264 VAC range, maximum input current 12A @ 100V or 5A @ 240V
  • AC Frequency: 50 Hz to 60 Hz nominal, 47 Hz to 63 Hz range
  • Power consumption (differs based on VAC input @100 or @200):
    • 364W for an empty chassis with no transceivers
    • 969W with all 128 ports operating at 64G (96 ports populated with 64G SWL transceivers, 16 ports populated SFP-DD SWL transceivers, each providing two ports of 64G connectivity).
• Heat dissipation (differs based on VAC input @100 or @200): 128 ports at 3195 Btu/hr
• Acoustical noise emission:
  • Normal: 70.1 dB(A) with intake airflow
  • Normal: 65.8 dB(A) with exhaust airflow

The DB730S FC SAN Switch, machine type 7D9J, has a three-year warranty.

The standard warranty terms are customer-replaceable unit (CRU) and onsite (for field-replaceable units FRUs only) 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 your data center, with an experience consistently ranked number one in customer satisfaction worldwide. Available offerings include:

• Premier Support

  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:

  • Direct technician-to-technician access through a dedicated phone line
  • 24x7x365 remote support
  • Single point of contact service
  • End to end case management
  • Third-party collaborative software support
  • Online case tools and live chat support
  • On-demand remote system analysis

• Warranty Upgrade (Preconfigured Support)

  Services are available to meet the on-site response time targets that match the criticality of your systems.

  • 3, 4, or 5 years of 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 markets)
  • Advanced Service: 24x7 service coverage with 2-hour onsite response or 6-hour committed repair (available only in select markets)
• Managed Services

  Lenovo Managed Services provides continuous 24x7 remote monitoring (plus 24x7 call center availability) and proactive management of your 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 & OS device driver levels, and software as needed. We’ll also maintain records of latest patches, critical updates, and firmware levels, to ensure you systems are providing business value through optimized performance.

• Technical Account Management (TAM)

  A Lenovo Technical Account Manager helps you optimize the operation of your data center based on a deep understanding of your business. You gain direct access to your Lenovo TAM, who serves as your single point of contact to expedite service requests, provide status updates, and furnish reports to track incidents over time. In addition, your TAM will help proactively make service recommendations and manage your service relationship with Lenovo to make certain your needs are met.

• Enterprise Server Software Support

  Enterprise Software Support is an additional support service providing customers with software support on Microsoft, Red Hat, SUSE, and VMware applications and systems. Around the clock availability for critical problems plus unlimited calls and incidents helps customers address challenges fast, without incremental costs. Support staff can answer troubleshooting and diagnostic questions, address product comparability and interoperability issues, isolate causes of problems, report defects to software vendors, and more.

• Health Check

  Having a trusted partner who can perform regular and detailed health checks is central to maintaining efficiency and ensuring that your 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.

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 spare parts.

Lenovo Services is a dedicated partner to your success. Our goal is to reduce your capital outlays, mitigate your IT risks, and accelerate your time to productivity.

Here’s a more in-depth look at what we can do for you:

• 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 your customers. For more information, see the ARS page, https://lenovopress.com/lp1266-reduce-e-waste-and-grow-your-bottom-line-with-lenovo-ars.

• Assessment Services

  An Assessment helps solve your IT challenges through an onsite, multi-day session with a Lenovo technology expert. We perform 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 like yours, no matter how large or small, get a better return on your IT investment and overcome challenges in the ever-changing technology landscape.

• Design Services

  Professional Services consultants perform infrastructure design and implementation planning to support your 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 your server, storage, or networking hardware. Working at a time convenient for you (business hours or off shift), the technician will unpack and inspect the systems on your 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 your team to focus on other priorities.

• Deployment Services

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

• Integration, Migration, and Expansion Services

  Move existing physical & virtual workloads easily, or determine technical requirements to support increased workloads while maximizing performance. Includes tuning, validation, and documenting ongoing run processes. Leverage migration assessment planning documents to perform necessary migrations.

The DB730S 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/g730-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 and ThinkSystem DM Series external storage systems for high-performance storage. See the DE 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.

† Only available in China and the Asia Pacific market.

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

The following sales training courses are offered for employees and partners (login required). Courses are listed in date order.

1. Family Portfolio: Storage Networking
   2023-10-27 | 15 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   Family Portfolio: Storage Networking
   
   

   This course will provide you an overview of the Storage Networking family. After completing this course, you should be able to identify the products in the Storage Networking portfolio and their features, describe product family benefits, and recognize when a specific product should be used.

   Published: 2023-10-27
   Length: 15 minutes
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   Course code: SXXW1113r7
2. Lenovo Data Center Product Portfolio
   2023-07-21 | 15 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   Lenovo Data Center Product Portfolio
   
   

   This course introduces the Lenovo data center portfolio, and covers servers, storage, storage networking, and software-defined infrastructure products. After completing this course about Lenovo data center products, you will be able to identify product types within each data center family, describe Lenovo innovations that this product family or category uses, and recognize when a specific product should be selected.

   Published: 2023-07-21
   Length: 15 minutes
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   Course code: SXXW1110r6
3. The DB730S Gen 7 Enterprise Switch
   2022-06-24 | 20 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   The DB730S Gen 7 Enterprise Switch
   
   

   This course introduces you the DB730S Gen 7 Enterprise Switch. The objectives of this course are to ensure that sellers like you have a good understanding of how and where to position the DB730S, can communicate its benefits to your clients, are able to successfully build a configuration to meet your client’s requirements, and can position the benefits of Lenovo Gen 7 SAN offerings in your clients' environments.

   Published: 2022-06-24
   Length: 20 minutes
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   Course code: DDBS211
4. 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

   Published: 2022-03-17
   Length: 20 minutes
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   Course code: DDBS210
5. The Inherent Security of Fibre Channel SAN
   2022-01-14 | 20 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   The Inherent Security of Fibre Channel SAN
   
   

   In this course, you will learn the security benefits of dedicated FC Storage Area Networks.
   Course objectives:
   1. Be able to articulate some of the high level benefits of Fibre Channel SAN
   2. Understand the difference between Fibre Channel vs. IP Networks
   3. Learn about some of the security benefits in the Lenovo DB series hardware and software SAN offerings

   Published: 2022-01-14
   Length: 20 minutes
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   Course code: DDBS209
6. Lenovo Fibre Channel for SMB
   2021-10-01 | 20 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   Lenovo Fibre Channel for SMB
   
   

   The goal of this course is to help ISG and business partner sellers learn how to build enterprise storage solutions for small-medium businesses using Lenovo SAN switches.

   Published: 2021-10-01
   Length: 20 minutes
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   Course code: DDBS208
7. Selling Storage Networks
   2020-05-07 | 32 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   Selling Storage Networks
   
   

   In this course we will start off discussing why selling Fibre Channel SANs matter. In other words, what’s in it for you and your customers. Then, we will cover SAN essentials including what a SAN is, why SAN is important from a customer value proposition, where SAN best fits versus other alternatives, when to propose directors versus switches and when to propose extension products.

   Published: 2020-05-07
   Length: 32 minutes
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   Course code: DDBS202
8. Storage Network Matters for NVMe
   2020-05-07 | 17 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   Storage Network Matters for NVMe
   
   

   In this course we will start off discussing the trends driving Flash and NVMe arrays, then we will cover the key reasons why the SAN is critical for these environments. From a high level view, we will look at how Gen 6 Fibre Channel enhances and optimizes Flash and NVMe storage solutions.

   Published: 2020-05-07
   Length: 17 minutes
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   Course code: DDBS203

For more information, see the following resources:

• Datasheet of the DB730S:
  https://lenovopress.com/datasheet/DS0141
• 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 DB730S FC SAN Switch product publications - see the Brocade G730 documentation:
  https://www.broadcom.com/products/fibre-channel-networking/switches/g730-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 DB730S FC SAN Switch:
  https://datacentersupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/storage/fibre-channel-switches/db730s-fc-switch/7d9j