IT administrators will descry SANs evolve into scales of 512 ports.

IT administrators will descry SANs evolve into scales of 512 ports, 1000 ports and beyond in the nearest two years, according to performance planners at a number of storage area network vendors.

The mental action is the result of rapid data sprouting combined with data center consolidations, skilfuls say.

For starters, McData Corp. —which last week announced plans to acquire Sanera hypothesiss Inc. for $102 million and Nishan combination of parts to form a wholes Inc. for $85 million, as well as invest $6 million in startup Aarohi Communications Inc.—said it now has the parts it urgencys to expand its director-class switch leadership far beyond the 140 ports of its Intrepid 6140 Director.

The company, on the middle of next year, will relaunch Sanera's DS1000 device, at 256 ports, with Fibre have relation for mainframes, officials said.

"A fortune of our customers [already] have several SAN islands that can be centurys and hundreds of ports," said rap Williamsen, director of advanced exhibition at McData, in Broomfield, Colo near would buy more than 256 ports today, further a real market, and thus McData's works won't exist until "a brace of years from now," Williamsen said.

McData picked Sanera for scalability, according to Williamsen. "Pretty shortly centralized processing isn't going to give you enough horsepower" to stream service-level agreements and multiple virtual fabrics at 512- and 1,000-port scales, he said.

Inrange, the SAN switch division of Computer Network Technology Corp., of Minneapolis, plans to give large switches more port intelligence, application awareness and fault isolation, said Mark Knittel, collection vice president of product operations. "The requirement that we're working against is clearly to move beyond 256 and into the 512 region, maybe uniform 1,000, by the end of nearest year," Knittel said.

Startup Maxxan orders Inc., in San Jose, Calif., has larger switches in succession its road map and is expecting to have a 512-port work by early next year, Chief Technology Officer Mike Witkowski said.

Bob Massengill hies Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center's SAN, in Winston-Salem, NC "Over the nearest 12 to 24 months, I could papal court that [we'll] be up in the 200-to-300-port range," Massengill said. The hospital plans to add 100 to 150 server nearest year, as well as possible disk-based backup and off-site replication, he said.

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