IBM System Storage Data Center Fabric Manager V10.3

IBM Corp. enhanced its IBM Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) with V10.3 for better performance and scalability.

Enhancements:

• M-Enterprise OS (M-EOS) support: DCFM, supporting management of M-EOS or m-type fabrics consisting solely of McData SAN networking elements, scales up to 24 fabrics and 5,000 switch ports.
• Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and converged enhanced Ethernet (CEE) management: DCFM is a single solution to manage both traditional Fibre Channel and FCoE supported devices for converged environments.
• Integrated host bus adapter (HBA) and converged network adapter (CNA) management: DCFM provides unified management of fabric, HBAs, and CNAs, including group management across hundreds of adapters from a single console.
• Server virtualization support: DCFM provides a number of facilities that display virtual machine connectivity information to the SAN administrator.
• Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) enhancements: Users can now view all discovered tunnels and circuits across all fabrics, and can take advantage of new extension hardware support.
• Encryption enhancements: All DCFM editions support Brocade Encryption products.
• FICON enhancements: DCFM Enterprise enables easy configuration of cascaded FICON and rapid trouble-shooting for conflict resolution.
• Reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) enhancements: A number of enhancements are provided for improved RAS support.
• Zoning enhancements: Improvements have been made to support traffic isolation zones and quality of service (QoS) domain and port index zones.

Planned availability date: November 20, 2009