Switches & Bridges

How can you provide fast, reliable and cost-effective connectivity in the data center with predictable performance and investment protection? The HPE StoreFabric SN2010M Switch is ideal for modern server and storage networks. Supporting port speeds of 1, 10, 25, 40, 50 and 100GbE, they deliver predictable performance and zero packet loss at line-rate. Its unique port counts and half-width form factor allows for up to two HPE StoreFabric SN2010M Switch units to be deployed side-by-side for increased density and high-availability in a single rack unit making it the perfect top-of-rack switch. Storage-specific features combined with an efficient design provides enterprise-level performance with attractive economics and outstanding ROI. Networks built on Hewlett Packard Enterprise M-series switches are fast, reliable, and scalable while also being affordable. This makes these switches ideal for storage, hyperconverged, financial services, Big Data and media and entertainment deployments.

Features

Unleash Storage Performance and Improve Flash ROI

The HPE StoreFabric SN2010M Switch is a half-width 10/25GbE and 40/100GbE Ethernet switch designed for primary, secondary storage, and hyper converged infrastructures. This top-of-rack (ToR) solution packs 18-ports of 10/25GbE and 4-ports of 40/100GbE that can be reconfigured with breakout cables.

Delivers low latency for 10/25GbE and 40/100GbE switching, featuring a robust implementation of data, control and management planes, and offers a compact form factor and low power consumption.

Provides ultra-low latency of under 300 ns port-to-port. This is advantageous for flash storage which has moved latency bottlenecks from storage access to the network, as well as for the burst nature of today's software defined and cloud data centers traffic.

The buffering architecture provides superior micro-burst absorption for applications that experience data surges across different parts of the network at random intervals.

Ideal for Demanding Enterprise Data Centers and Storage Environments

The HPE StoreFabric SN2010M Switch provides a flexible combination of ports, allowing for great flexibility, efficiency, and simplification of scale-out environments, saving on total cost of ownership.

Unique port configurations allow high-speed rack connectivity to the server at 1/10GbE or 25GbE speeds with 40/100GbE uplink ports that allow for a variety of blocking ratios that suit specific application requirements.

Enhanced for RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), full buffer utilization, and zero packet loss combined into a small form factor with low latency make it the ideal switch for the Ethernet storage fabric (ESF).

Enhanced for Storage and Hyper Converged Environments

The HPE StoreFabric SN2010M Switch provides high port density in a single rack unit, allowing for increased capacity and efficiency, simplifying scale-out environments and saving on total cost of ownership.

With its unique half-width form factor and port counts, this Ethernet switch allows for two HPE StoreFabric SN2010M Switch units to be deployed side-by-side allowing for increased density and high-availability in a single rack unit, making it the ideal top-of-rack switch.

Designed to use less electric power than competing switches, the SN2010M provides for one of the industry's lowest power draws, producing less heat than competing products and reducing operating expenses.

HPE StoreFabric M-Series SN2700M Ethernet Switch

With an increasing need to access data faster and accommodate growing workloads, rising levels of east-west traffic, and new storage arrays based on flash storage technologies, a high bandwidth, low-latency network becomes paramount. The HPE StoreFabric M-Series SN2700M Ethernet switches offer a 100GbE-based network platform capable of delivering unbelievable networking speed and agility to keep pace with the most intense workloads small- to large-scale enterprises can produce. With port speeds spanning from 1Gb/s to 100 Gb/s and a switching capacity of 6.4Tb/s from 32 ports at 100GbE, the switch enable non-blocking throughput at wire-speed transfers-across all packet sizes. All this enables the SN2700M to deliver a landmark 9.52 Bpps processing capacity and an uncompromising 300ns cut-through latency in a compact 1RU form factor. The M-series are perfect for Top-Of-Rack (TOR) deployments and optimized for virtualized environments, hyperconverged infrastructure, and storage deployments.

HPE StoreFabric M-Series Ethernet switches give you the right network bandwidth with consistent performance for highperformance and storage workloads. Delivering the highest feature set at the right price allows you to get the most out of your Ethernet infrastructure to best support a variety of use cases, including media and entertainment; streaming video, financial services industry, virtualized data centers, and next generation storage, including software-defined storage and NVMe flash. With HPE M-series switches, you can:

Optimize Storage- Modernize your network to eliminate limitations and bottlenecks that can be caused by the addition of flash storage.

Enjoy efficient network performance-Avoid packet loss, provide predictable performance with line-rate packet delivery across all ports and all packet sizes.

Realize breakthrough economics-Make better use of your data center resources with the highest port density per rack unit and the industry's lowest power consumption.

Accelerate business innovation-Support 1/10/40Gbps for existing workloads and deliver 25/50/100Gbps Ethernet to respond quickly to business needs and stay on the leading edge of technology.

The StoreFabric M-Series SN2700 switch provides a high density 100GbE switching solution in single Rack Unit (RU) for the growing demands of today's storage, database, and data center environments. The SN2700 carries a unique design to accommodate the highest rack performance. Available in 16 or 32 ports, the SN2700 carries a switching capacity of 6.4Tb/s with 9.52Bpps processing capacity.

SN2700M is available in two models:

• HPE StoreFabric SN2700M 100GbE 32QSFP28

• HPE StoreFabric SN2700M 100GbE 16QSFP28

The Aruba CX 6400 Switch Series is a modern, flexible and intelligent family of modular switches ideal for access, aggregation and core in enterprise campus and data center deployments. Created for game-changing operational efficiency with built-in security and resiliency, the 6400 switches provide the foundation for high-performance networks supporting IoT, mobile and cloud applications.

Built from the ground up with a combination of cuttingedge hardware, software and analytics and automation tools, the 6400 switches are part of the Aruba CX switching portfolio, designed for today's enterprise campus, branch and data center networks. By combining a modern, fully programmable OS with the Aruba Network Analytics Engine, the 6400 switches provide industry leading monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities across the network.

A powerful Aruba Gen7 ASIC architecture delivers performance and robust feature support with flexible programmability for tomorrow's applications. The Aruba Virtual Switching Extension (VSX) allows for high availability, and also enables non-disruptive fast upgrades and simplified management. This flexible series offers powerful connectivity options in a 5 or 10 slot compact chassis with non-blocking 2.8Tb fabric per slot and high density IEEE 802.3bt high power PoE. HPE Smart Rate multi-gigabit Ethernet paves the way for high speed access points and IoT devices by delivering fast connectivity and high power PoE using existing cabling. Line rate interfaces include 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, and 100GbE ports1 (50GbE transceiver capability will be enabled in future software release). High speed interconnect and Aruba VSX using 50G DACs.

Aruba Dynamic Segmentation extends Aruba's foundational wireless role-based policy capability to Aruba wired switches. What this means is that the same security, user experience and simplified IT management can be enjoyed throughout the network. Regardless of how users and IoT devices connect, consistent policies are enforced across wired and wireless networks, keeping traffic secure and separate.

PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATORS | AOS-CX - a modern operating system

The Aruba CX 6400 Switch Series is based on AOS-CX, a modern, database-driven operating system that automates and simplifies many critical and complex network tasks. A built-in time series database enables customers and developers to utilize software scripts for historical troubleshooting, as well as analysis of past trends. This helps predict and avoid future problems due to scale, security, and performance bottlenecks. Our AOS-CX software also includes Aruba Network Analytics Engine (NAE) and support for Aruba NetEdit. Because AOS-CX is built on a modular Linux architecture with a stateful database, our operating system provides the following unique capabilities:

• Easy access to all network state information allows unique visibility and analytics

The Aruba CX 6400 Switch Series is a modern, flexible and intelligent family of modular switches ideal for access, aggregation and core in enterprise campus and data center deployments. Created for game-changing operational efficiency with built-in security and resiliency, the 6400 switches provide the foundation for high-performance networks supporting IoT, mobile and cloud applications.

Built from the ground up with a combination of cuttingedge hardware, software and analytics and automation tools, the 6400 switches are part of the Aruba CX switching portfolio, designed for today's enterprise campus, branch and data center networks. By combining a modern, fully programmable OS with the Aruba Network Analytics Engine, the 6400 switches provide industry leading monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities across the network.

A powerful Aruba Gen7 ASIC architecture delivers performance and robust feature support with flexible programmability for tomorrow's applications. The Aruba Virtual Switching Extension (VSX) allows for high availability, and also enables non-disruptive fast upgrades and simplified management. This flexible series offers powerful connectivity options in a 5 or 10 slot compact chassis with non-blocking 2.8Tb fabric per slot and high density IEEE 802.3bt high power PoE. HPE Smart Rate multi-gigabit Ethernet paves the way for high speed access points and IoT devices by delivering fast connectivity and high power PoE using existing cabling. Line rate interfaces include 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, and 100GbE ports1 (50GbE transceiver capability will be enabled in future software release). High speed interconnect and Aruba VSX using 50G DACs.

Aruba Dynamic Segmentation extends Aruba's foundational wireless role-based policy capability to Aruba wired switches. What this means is that the same security, user experience and simplified IT management can be enjoyed throughout the network. Regardless of how users and IoT devices connect, consistent policies are enforced across wired and wireless networks, keeping traffic secure and separate.

PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATORS | AOS-CX - a modern operating system

The Aruba CX 6400 Switch Series is based on AOS-CX, a modern, database-driven operating system that automates and simplifies many critical and complex network tasks. A built-in time series database enables customers and developers to utilize software scripts for historical troubleshooting, as well as analysis of past trends. This helps predict and avoid future problems due to scale, security, and performance bottlenecks. Our AOS-CX software also includes Aruba Network Analytics Engine (NAE) and support for Aruba NetEdit. Because AOS-CX is built on a modular Linux architecture with a stateful database, our operating system provides the following unique capabilities:

• Easy access to all network state information allows unique visibility and analytics

Key Features

Designed for Superior Performance, Scale, and Future Growth

HPE SN3700M Ethernet switches deliver predictable and consistent throughput regardless of the packet size being transferred, the mixture of ports which are sending data and even within mixed speed environments.

Provide wire-rate performance with zero packet loss across frame sizes, avoiding any negative impact on applications that could occur with frame loss as unexpected packet loss is unacceptable in modern data centers, especially within a storage network.

Capable of forwarding wire-rate performance with zero packet loss across 32-ports concurrently while transferring data across both Layer 2 and Layer 3 networks.

Can be deployed today to support 10 GbE ports (via breakout cables) and is designed to be able to evolve over time to support 25 GbE, 50 GbE, and 100 GbE speeds. This helps future-proof your network architecture and allows implementing significant speed changes to the architecture over time.

Enhanced for Demanding Enterprise Data Centers and Storage Environments

HPE SN3700M Switch allows flexible port speed configurations from 128-ports at 10 GbE, 25 GbE using breakout cables to 32-ports at 40 GbE or 100 GbE allowing flexibility, efficiency, simplifying scale-out of aggregation switching layers, and reducing total cost of ownership (TCO).

In the aggregation layer of fabrics, load balancing and scalability are essential. HPE SN3700M Switch provides superior equal-cost multipath (ECMP) flexibility and efficiency to deliver balanced workloads.

Flexible management and monitoring options from CLI, GUI, and tool sets provide world-class ease-of-use, configuration, and monitoring of your fabric.

Unleash Storage Performance and Improve Flash Return on Investment

HPE SN3700M Switch provides ultra-low latency of under 300 ns port-to-port. This is advantageous for flash storage, which moved latency from storage access to the network, as well as for the burst nature of today's software-defined and cloud data center traffic.

Provides enough internal bandwidth that there is sufficient capacity to carry ports at 100 Gbps bandwidths concurrently. This allows HPE SN3700M Switch to avoid head-of-line blocking which can reduce a switch's overall performance and guarantees.

Extremely flexible and performance-rich lossless fabric capabilities make HPE SN3700M Switch ideal for mission-critical storage applications.