Qlogic SANbox2 SANbox2-64 User manual

CASE STUDY
VERITAS®
Interoperable Solutions Form the
Core of VERITAS-QLogic Partnership
Partnership
Data Protection
Solution
SAN components
QLogic SANbox2-64
QLogic QLA234x HBA
Applications
VERITAS NetBackup
Sun Solaris
Microsoft Windows 2000
With both companies actively demonstrating strong commitment toward
product interoperability and solving customer needs, VERITAS Software Corp.
and QLogic Corp. benefit from a winning partnership that ultimately provides
the answers to the IT questions of today, for small business and enterprise
users in Storage Area Network (SAN) environments worldwide.
VERITAS — the world’s leading storage software company providing data
protection, storage management, high availability and disaster recovery
software — has established the VERITAS Enabled™Program. This innovative
technology partner program has resulted in a broad spectrum of interoperable
solutions by offering standardized testing tools, APIs and development
assistance along with a cooperative support model to efficiently address our
customers’ support requirements.
QLogic simplifies networking storage with controller chips, host bus adapters
(HBAs), network switches and management software that move data from the
storage device through the fabric to the server. QLogic has also established the
SAN Interoperability Guide — a one-stop Web-based manual for developers
and consultants to identify multi-vendor certification information for switches
and HBAs, as well as products powered by embedded QLogic technology.
Working together, VERITAS and QLogic provide our mutual customers with
supported solutions that are achieved as a result of the close engineering
relationship between the companies. QLogic’s proven storage hardware and
VERITAS’ industry leading data protection software offer SAN users the ideal
combination of performance, cost reduction and ease of use. The most-
recent evidence of this team partnership appeared when VERITAS qualified
QLogic’s family of Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure products for use with
VERITAS NetBackup.
“Extensive qualification testing of QLogic’s Fibre Channel products with VERITAS’
industry-leading backup and recovery software ensures the highest levels of re-
liability and interoperability for heterogeneous SANs,” “VERITAS Data Protection
Software combined with QLogic’s proven storage hardware offers a robust and
cost-effective solution for protecting critical data.”
– Bob Maness, senior director of product marketing, VERITAS Software

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CASE STUDY
Protect your Data with VERITAS and QLogic
VERITAS and QLogic realize that a company’s data is likely its most
critical asset. Indeed, most IT departments agree, and have come to
the conclusion that a costeffective and efficient backup strategy must
be put into place to protect vital business information. By establishing
state-of-the-art hardware and software protection VERITAS and
QLogic provide effective SAN strategies that reduce the chance of
data loss and business failure.
A SAN —only as strong as its weakest link — is a separate network
dedicated to storage, enabling disk and tape storage to be isolated
from the LAN. A complete SAN solution includes hardware, software
and networking components that provide any-to-any interconnection
of server and storage elements. SANs link multiple storage systems
and servers over a secure, high-speed network that is datacentric
rather than server-centric.
Three vital components compose the VERITAS-QLogic complete solution.
VERITAS NetBackup automates all aspects of backup, recovery and
automated system restore, centralizing management of storage
resources. To dynamically share tape drives and perform zero-
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impact backups of business critical systems, NetBackup Shared
Storage Option and NetBackup ServerFree Agent leverage a high
per forming SAN infrastructure.
QLogic’s Award-winning QLogic SANblade 2Gb Fibre Channel
HBAs offer high performance for demanding storage area
networks (SANs) and are available in PCIX form factor, which
is backward- compatible to PCI. QLogic SANblade HBAs are
the industry’s highest-performing and most widely deployed
host adapter solutions for server, networking, storage and
clustering solutions.
QLogic’s SANbox2-64 modular fabric switch provides all the benefits
of edge and Director technology — high port count, modularity and
scalability, low port cost, ease of use and high integration — in
one costeffective piece of technology. The SANbox-2-64 scalable
architecture provides entry-level 16-port configuration to a full non-
blocking 64 ports.
QLogic HBAs and switches, combined with VERITAS’ NetBackup
solutions, deliver enterprise-level performance, reliability
and interoperability.
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