The SAN 3000 Connectivity Kit from Qlogic is an efficient storage area network kit designed to give IT professionals in small- to medium- sized businesses a simple solution. This kit includes an 8-Port SANbox® 5200 Stackable Switch that delivers seamless high-speed connectivity with the fiber channels. Delivering seamless scalability and performance of a chassis switch, this switch features 8 auto-sensing, self-configuring fiber channel ports. Also it comes with four SANblade 2340 Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) which features an integrated RISC processor, a Fiber protocol engine and transceivers into a single, efficient Fiber Channel controller chip that increase reliability and performance by lowering CPU utilization. The included SANsurfer Management Suite™ makes stack management easy by helping you install, configure, monitor, diagnose and upgrade your QLogic™ HBAs and switches - all from one application. I t also comes bundled with eight small form factor pluggables (SFPs) and four 16.4 ft Dual LC to Dual LC fiber optic cables for easy connectivity and interoperability. |