IBM Solutions

ATTO Technology's Celerity Fibre Channel host bus adapters with MultiPath Director™ provide high-availability, high-performance Mac connectivity to IBM Storwize disk systems.

This solution enables users to directly connect Mac OS® X workstations to IBM’s Storwize systems, providing a low-latency, redundant connectivity solution. Users are able to pool, share and centrally manage storage resources for improved storage utilization, scalability and workflows.

Benefits of this solution include:

• Redundant, high-availability storage access for Mac OS X
• High-bandwidth, low-latency data transactions using ATTO's MultiPath Director technology
• Improved access to enterprise class storage features, increasing productivity
• Ability to use rich content applications with enterprise class storage

ATTO Technology's Multipath Director™ is a specialized multipathing driver incorporated into ATTO's 8Gb/s Fibre Channel host bus adapters providing IBM customers with a completely redundant, high-performance, high-availability storage solution that enhances workflows, improves storage utilization and simplifies management of the storage network infrastructure.

The combination of ATTO's Fibre Channel HBA's and IBM® System Storage™ DS series storage provides:

• Heterogenous workstation multipathing connectivity in Windows, Mac or Linux OS environments
• High-availability access to data
• Consistent high-performance bandwidth
• Increased productivity and storage efficiency

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ATTO Technology's Celerity Fibre Channel host bus adapters provide a high-availability, high-performance Mac connectivity solution for the IBM® System Storage™ SAN Volume Controller.

This solution efficiently manages storage resources by providing improved resource utilization and business application availability. MultiPath Director allows path failover and load balancing capabilities to the SVC.

• Enterprise-class virtualization storage solution for Mac OS X environments
• High-performance connectivity with multiple paths to storage
• Pooled storage resources for improved utilization and greater flexibility
• Load balancing traffic across all SVC inputs for high availability access to data

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The IBM EXN3000 SAS/SATA expansion unit is designed to provide SAS or SATA disk expansion capability for the IBM System Storage N series systems. The unit includes the ATTO FibreBridge™ 6500N Fibre Channel-to-SAS bridge.

The inclusion of ATTO's FibreBridge 6500N Fibre Channel-to-SAS bridge in the EXN3000 enables:

• SAS/SATA disk storage to integrate into a Fibre Channel SAN
• Increased availability and scalability while allowing the use of direct attached storage on a shared FC network
• Connection of newer, faster and higher capacity SAS drive technology to your existing 2, 4 or 8Gb Fibre Channel SAN
• Management of disk and communication errors between targets and initiators