SAN Devices

QLogic QMH2562 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter is a dual channel PCI Express Fibre Channel mezzanine card that provides reliable, high-performance connectivity at up to 8Gb/s. Operating systems supported include Windows and Linux. It is optimized for HP StorageWorks and is also supported by third-party SAN vendors.

Key Features

Low-Latency, High-Bandwidth InfiniBand Connectivity

HPE HDR InfiniBand adapters deliver up to 200Gbps bandwidth and a sub-microsecond latency for demanding HPC workloads.

The HPE InfiniBand HDR100 adapters, combined with HDR switches and HDR cables, are aimed at simplified infrastructure by reducing the number of required switches for a given 100Gbps InfiniBand fabric.

HPE HDR InfiniBand adapters are supported on the HPE Apollo XL and HPE ProLiant DL Gen10 and Gen10 Plus servers.

Offloading Mechanisms

HPE HDR InfiniBand adapters include multiple offload engines that speed up communications by delivering a low CPU overhead for increasing throughput.

HPE HDR InfiniBand adapters support MPI tag matching and rendezvous offloads, along with adaptive routing on reliable transport.

Is there a need to modernize your storage network? The all-flash data center and emerging NVMe storage requires a modern storage network that can keep up with pace of innovation seen with compute and storage resources. The HPE StoreFabric SN6650B 32Gb FC switch is a high-port density building block with 128 Fibre Channel ports that provides the tools to optimize NVMe storage and automate SAN management tasks. It provides 32 Gb SAN connectivity with up to 4 Tbps total system bandwidth for data center consolidation and one of the most demanding all-flash workloads. New automation capabilities enable DevOps resources to automate operations to increase productivity with simple and open automation through open APIs and the Ansible automation engine. The HPE StoreFabric SN6650B enables new insight into NVMe storage fabrics with modern I/O traffic visibility and VM-level granularity to validate and fine-tune performance for better efficiency.

FeaturesFlash-Ready Performance

Supports up to 4 Tbps bandwidth with very low latency

Shatters application performance barriers with up to 200 million IOPS utilizing up to 566 million frame switching per second.

Delivers up to 384 Gbps of combined in-flight encryption and 192 Gbps of in-flight compression to improve bandwidth and help minimize the risk of unauthorized access.

Built in ASIC enables I/O insight into NVMe/FC storage traffic with VM-level granularity to validate and fine-tune performance for better efficiency.

Internal fault-tolerant and enterprise-class RAS features help minimize downtime to support growing mission-critical environments.

Easy Manageability with Simple and Open Automation

Provides tools to simplify and automate operations enabling DevOps resources to orchestrate SAN resources through open APIs and the Ansible automation engine.

Easier integration into third-party tools utilizing a library of templates and scripts (REST APIs) to help deploy applications faster.

Supports I/O Insight and VM Insight (included in HPE PowerPack+ software) to provide deeper visibility into FC/NVMe traffic.

Enterprise-class Scalability

Delivers industry-leading port density with 128 Fibre Channel ports in an elegant 2U form factor.

Provides 96 32-Gb SFP+ ports and eight 4?32-Gb QSFP ports to enable data centers to scale efficiently and deliver more connectivity with fewer switches.

Are you looking to modernize your storage-networking infrastructure, massively scale in a smaller footprint, automate procedures to reduce human error, and deliver greater efficiency to meet the dynamic and growing demands of your business? The HPE StoreFabric SAN Director portfolio delivers a powerful and reliable Fibre Channel (FC) and multi-protocol switching infrastructure that can unleash the full performance of flash and emerging NVMe-based storage. It provides a mission-critical, scalable, and high-performance foundation for enterprise data centers in Hybrid IT and cloud storage, highly virtualized environments and all-flash storage. The HPE SAN Director portfolio contains the HPE StoreFabric SN8600B 32 Gb FC Switch and the HPE StoreFabric SN8000B Switch 16 Gb Switch. The HPE StoreFabric SAN Director consists of an 8-slot 14U chassis and a 4-slot 8U chassis providing up to 512 Gen6 32 Gb FC ports and up to 32 QSFP based ICLs which are equivalent to 128 FC ports.

What's new

• Introducing HPE StoreFabric SN8600B 64-port 32 Gb Integrated Fibre Channel Blade, to scale to 512 ports and provides up to 20 Tbps total systems bandwidth

• With robust Gen6 capabilities, 64-port 32 Gb QSFP Blade enables multiprotocol flexibility for FC, FCoE and NVMe fabrics, and enhanced monitoring for NVMe-FC traffic

• Available 32 Gb short-wave QSFP with break-out capability and 32 Gb long-wave 2 km QSFP transceivers

• Fibre Channel Gen6 (32 Gb) with 8-slot and 4-slot configurations providing up to 16.2 Tbps aggregate chassis bandwidth

• Delivers new automation capabilities that enable DevOps to automate and orchestrate SAN resources through open APIs and Ansible automation engine while serving as a building block for large scale

FeaturesImproved Performance

HPE StoreFabric SAN Director features 32 Gbps Fibre Channel performance and up to 16.2 Tbps chassis bandwidth to address next-generation I/O and bandwidth-intensive applications for private cloud storage and highly virtualized environments.

Supports flash-based storage workloads with up to 1 billion IOPS utilizing 64-port 32 Gb QSFP Blade, 48-port 32 Gb FC Blade, and 32 Gb SAN Extension Blade.

Increases scalability with up to 2X throughput for high-density virtual machine (VM) deployments and larger fabrics allowing organizations to support more storage devices using the same number of Fibre Channel links.

HPE StoreFabric SAN Director family provides higher chassis, slot-to-slot, and port performance enabling faster deployment of applications.

The HPE StoreFabric SN8600B SAN Switch and HPE StoreFabric SN8000B SAN Switch offer local switching capabilities to verify that data traffic within the same port group does not consume slot bandwidth, increasing the number of line-rate ports.

Simplified Management

The HPE StoreFabric SAN Director simplifies monitoring, management and diagnostics to avoid problems before they impact operations and it dramatically reduces total cost of ownership (TCO).

HPE Smart SAN is integrated with the HPE SN8600B SAN Director offering greater visibility into your SAN fabric.

The new I/O Insight software with Gen6 Fibre Channel enhances visibility into the health of your SAN.

Enables pro-active monitoring of I/O performance and behavior through integrated network sensors, providing deep insight into problems and improving service level agreements (SLAs).