SAN Devices

Are you looking to modernize your storage area network?

Today's mission-critical storage environments require greater consistency, predictability, and performance to keep pace with growing business demands. Faced with explosive data growth, data centers need more I/O capacity to accommodate the massive amounts of data, applications, and workloads.

The HPE Storage Director Switch C-series SN8700C is a director-class SAN switch designed for deployment in small to medium-sized storage networks to support enterprise clouds and business transformation. It layers a comprehensive set of intelligent features onto a high-performance, protocol-independent switch fabric.

The HPE Storage Director Switch C-series SN8700C enables enterprise clouds, transforms large storage area networks, lowers operating costs, and deploys Fibre Channel (FC) and IBM Fibre Connectivity (FICON) on a single fabric.

32 Gb FC Gen6 Affordability Without Compromise in Functionality

The HPE B-series SN3600B Fibre Channel Switch delivers exceptional price-performance in an entry-level Gen6 FC switch.

Configurable with 16 Gb FC SFP+ or 32 Gb FC SFP+ optics to accommodate a customer's budget while being fully prepared for tomorrow.

Start with 8-port and easily scale to 24-port with 8-port POD or POD kits as business adapts to SAN growth.

Flash-ready Performance

The HPE B-series SN3600B Fibre Channel Switch provides market-leading Gen6 32Gb throughput and low latency in an affordable 1U form factor.

Delivers increased performance with an aggregate bandwidth of 768 Gbps for growing and dynamic workloads.

Latency for locally switched ports is reduced to 900 nanoseconds (including FEC) using cut-through switching at 32 Gbps ready for latency-sensitive applications.

Augment with ISL trunking to provide more effective load balancing in certain configurations.

Integrates with flash storage fabrics that utilize NVMe over FC for latency sensitive applications and greater throughput.

Operational Simplicity

The HPE B-series SN3600B Fibre Channel Switch can easily be installed and configured and simplifies SAN configuration in an easy 3-step process.

Integrates with HPE Smart SAN for HPE 3PAR to simplify all-flash storage SAN deployments through automated SAN orchestration (SAN zoning) from hours to minutes.

Easily validate infrastructure configurations, at the physical-level, with ClearLink Diagnostics before deploying the SAN into production.

Monitor and analyze virtual machine (VM) performance using Fabric Vision VM Insight, a feature of HPE B-series Fabric Vision Software, to quickly identify abnormal VM behaviors to maintain performance service levels.

Supports HPE Power Pack+ software so that the SAN is healthy, easier to troubleshoot, and operating at peak performance.

32 Gb FC Gen6 Affordability Without Compromise in Functionality

The HPE B-series SN3600B Fibre Channel Switch delivers exceptional price-performance in an entry-level Gen6 FC switch.

Configurable with 16 Gb FC SFP+ or 32 Gb FC SFP+ optics to accommodate a customer's budget while being fully prepared for tomorrow.

Start with 8-port and easily scale to 24-port with 8-port POD or POD kits as business adapts to SAN growth.

Flash-ready Performance

The HPE B-series SN3600B Fibre Channel Switch provides market-leading Gen6 32Gb throughput and low latency in an affordable 1U form factor.

Delivers increased performance with an aggregate bandwidth of 768 Gbps for growing and dynamic workloads.

Latency for locally switched ports is reduced to 900 nanoseconds (including FEC) using cut-through switching at 32 Gbps ready for latency-sensitive applications.

Augment with ISL trunking to provide more effective load balancing in certain configurations.

Integrates with flash storage fabrics that utilize NVMe over FC for latency sensitive applications and greater throughput.

Operational Simplicity

The HPE B-series SN3600B Fibre Channel Switch can easily be installed and configured and simplifies SAN configuration in an easy 3-step process.

Integrates with HPE Smart SAN for HPE 3PAR to simplify all-flash storage SAN deployments through automated SAN orchestration (SAN zoning) from hours to minutes.

Easily validate infrastructure configurations, at the physical-level, with ClearLink Diagnostics before deploying the SAN into production.

Monitor and analyze virtual machine (VM) performance using Fabric Vision VM Insight, a feature of HPE B-series Fabric Vision Software, to quickly identify abnormal VM behaviors to maintain performance service levels.

Supports HPE Power Pack+ software so that the SAN is healthy, easier to troubleshoot, and operating at peak performance.

Key Features | High performance for all-flash arrays and virtual workloads.

The HPE Storage C Series SN6710C Fiber Channel Switch provides consistent low-latency 64 or 32 Gbps performance across all FC ports on the switch.

Delivers increased performance with 1.5 Tbps aggregate full-duplex bandwidth for growing dynamic workloads.

Delivers the same exceptional availability and reliability as the previous generation switch by providing optional redundancy on all major components, such as power supplies and fans.

Provides visibility into all virtual machines connected to the fabric through host bus adapters (HBAs) capable of priority tagging the virtual machine identifier (VMID) on all FC chassis.

Embedded hardware protects the entire system against malicious attacks by limiting access to critical components, such as the boot loader, system image loader, and Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) interface.

Investment protection

Available with 32Gb FC SFP+ or 64Gb FC SFP+ optical fibers depending on your budget.

Intelligent Network Services for Modern SAN Systems

The HPE Storage C Series SN6710C Fiber Channel Switch supports slow frame detection and isolation, VSAN technology, access control lists for hardware-based intelligent chassis processing, zoning, and other services.

VSAN technology provides a cost-effective solution for consolidating resources while providing high resilience to potential fabric disruptions.

Provides powerful NX-API capabilities to enable flexible and rapid SAN utility programming.

Ease of use

Provides intelligent diagnostic tools like Inter-Switch Link (ISL) and HBA diagnostics, remote SFP diagnostics (read diagnostic parameter), port tagging, and link-level forward correction (FEC) ), to resolve issues more quickly and reduce service costs.

Consolidate multiple separate physical SAN fabrics into a single extended fabric to simplify management and reduce total cost of ownership.

Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller software provides a centralized management tool with task-based wizards.These features are available with the HPE SN6710C/SN6720C Advantage license.

HPE C Series SAN Network Analysis provides deep visibility into I/O traffic between storage and compute infrastructure.These features will be available with the HPE C Series SN6710C/SN6720C Premier license (available at a later date).

Are you looking for a high-performance Fibre Channel (FC) switch for the modern SAN? The HPE Storage Fibre Channel Switch C-Series SN6710C delivers 64 or 32 Gbps Fibre Channel switching providing high-speed FC connectivity from the server rack to the SAN core. It empowers midsize, enterprise, and large enterprises that are rapidly deploying cloud-scale applications using extremely dense virtualized servers, providing the dual benefits of greater bandwidth and consolidation. The switch offers state-of-the-art analytics and telemetry capability built into its ASIC platform. For increased flexibility, the HPE Storage Fibre Channel Switch C-Series SN6710C is available with partially populated or fully populated ports with either 64Gb or 32Gb speeds. Additionally, investing in this switch for the lower-speed (32 Gbps) server rack gives you the flexibility to upgrade to 64 Gbps performance in the future.