Lenovo X8-4 Gen 8 Fibre Channel Director

Lenovo X8-4 Gen 8 Fibre Channel Director

Form Factor: 9UTotal Bandwidth: 31TbpsPorts: Up to 192 128Gb portsLink Speeds: 16, 32, 64 and 128Gb FC auto-sensingDefend the Data Center with Advanced SecurityModernize SAN Management with AI-Powered Autonomy

Key Features

The Lenovo X8-4 Director is a modular platform designed for large-scale storage environments, offering a stable, scalable, and high-performance foundation for growth, workload consolidation, and reliable operations. It is ideal for mission-critical and enterprise AI workloads. The Lenovo X8-4 model scales up to 192 × 128G ports, providing exceptional bandwidth and throughput to support a growing number of devices, applications, and workloads without compromising performance.

The X8 Director features a cyber-resilient, quantum-safe architecture, protecting critical SAN data and applications from quantum computing and cybersecurity threats. Brocade enhances storage traffic security through Fibre Channel isolation and role-based access controls, preventing unauthorized access. It achieves this by utilizing hardened Fabric OS and hardware, eliminating superfluous access points, and validating hardware and software roots of trust, ensuring only authenticated components operate within the system.

The Lenovo X8-4 Director, featuring Brocade Gen 8 technology, integrates embedded SAN AI to automate application infrastructure management. Its robust analytics architecture minimizes manual administration, fostering a resilient network that maintains stability and efficiency despite increasing workloads and infrastructure complexity.

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