The QLogic SANbox 6000 Series is the industry’s first multi-protocol router that sets the standard for ease-of-use and exceptional price/performance. Per-server connectivity costs are brought to radically low levels, allowing users to connect remote servers over iSCSI to Fibre Channel-based disk/tape storage and thus gaining the benefits of storage consolidation. Migration from Direct Attached Storage (DAS) to Storage Area Networks (SAN) now becomes virtually effortless, so that the entire organization has a way to keep data synchronized and readily available.

Installation wizards guide the user through router configuration in record time. Ongoing monitoring, configuring and managing become greatly simplified using wizard-based configuration tools. Based on the same proven ASIC technology that powers over 50 million storage products sold by leading storage vendors, the QLogic SANbox 6000 Series offers unparalleled levels of performance and scalability.

Key Features

Two auto-detecting 2/1 Gbps FC ports
Two auto-detecting 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet ports
Dedicated FC and iSCSI interface
FC SFP and Ethernet RJ45 ports
Support for iSCSI, FCP-SCSI and FCIP
Dual management ports: serial & Ethernet
Transparent & non-transparent routing
Configuration wizards for ease of installation
Field upgradeable firmware
Support for Ethernet Jumbo frames and VLAN
Traffic shaping to 10/100/1000 Mbps on the iSCSI interfaces
SNMP and SMI-S agents
Inter-operable with all FC-SW-2 compliant FC switches
Breakthrough Ease of Use

Installation wizards with intuitive user interfaces to expedite installation and configuration.
CLI that can be scripted to allow use of the SANbox 6000 Series in preconfigured rack servers"
Flexible Connection Choices

Support for iSCSI, FCP-SCSI and FCIP
Turns FC storage into multi-protocol storage
Allows for multi-vendor SAN routing
Incredibly Low Cost

Brings server connectivity costs to below 20%
Complete tools for configuration save money and time
Performance & Interoperability

SmartWrite™, which is available in the SANbox 6142, features LUN-based compression and provides breakthrough data replication performance over low band-width connections including Gibgabit Ethernet links
Powered by proven QLogic iSCSI and Fibre Channel ASICs

Protocol processing in hardware for better performance
Interoperates with server and storage products from all major OEMs
Reliability

Support for header and data digest at the iSCSI layer
OS support

Windows, Linux, Solaris