Brocade X6-8 / IBM SAN512B-6 8-Slot Gen6 Director 8961-F08 + 4x FC32-48 2xCPX6

Condition : Refurbished – tested and working grade A refurbished part

Brocade X6-8 / IBM SAN512B-6 8-Slot Gen6 Fibre Channel Director (Model 8961-F08) with 4x FC32-48 32Gb/s Fibre Channel Port Blades and 2x CPX6 Control Processor Blades. This modular director supports up to 384 32Gb/s ports or a 512-port equivalent with UltraScale ICL connectivity for high scalability and low-latency fabric architectures. Features Gen 6 Fibre Channel technology with breakthrough 32/128 Gbps performance, enabling over 1 billion IOPS for flash-based storage workloads. Includes Fabric Vision technology for comprehensive monitoring, diagnostics, and performance optimisation. Supports diverse Fibre Channel port types, advanced fabric services, and mainframe FICON connectivity. The chassis is a 14U rack-mountable unit with redundant power supplies and fans for high availability. Management options include HTTP, SNMP, CLI, RESTful API, and IBM Network Advisor software. Designed for enterprise-scale storage networking with 99.999% uptime capabilities, hot-pluggable components, and extensive diagnostic features. Ideal for mission-critical storage environments requiring operational stability, high throughput, and flexible deployment.