SAN Devices

Key Features

Improved Performance

HPE SAN Director Switch features up to 64Gbps FC performance and up to 31Tbps chassis bandwidth to address 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 48-port 64Gb FC blade, 64-port 32Gb QSFP blade, 48-port 32Gb FC blade, and 32Gb SAN extension blade.

Increase 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 FC links.

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

HPE B-series SAN Director Switches 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

HPE 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 integrated with the HPE SN8600B SAN Director or HPE Network Orchestrator (NetO) integrated with the HPE SN8700B SAN Director offer greater visibility into your SAN fabric.

The HPE I/O Insight software with Gen6 and Gen7 FC enhances visibility into the health of your SAN.

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

With new automation, organizations can quickly and reliably perform resource intensive tasks, such as provisioning, and enable uninterrupted SAN monitoring, so that tasks can be completed in less time. With automation, organizations can automate repetitive daily tasks and deliver consistent results.

Improves Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Solutions

The HPE SAN Director delivers high bandwidth, port density, and throughput required for application performance over WAN connections addressing demanding disaster recovery (DR) requirements through 64Gb, 32Gb FC, and 1GbE/10GbE/40GbE ports.

Reduces bandwidth costs with in-flight data compression at wire speed and increases security with in-flight data encryption.

Provides native 10Gbps FC support on the 32Gb and 64Gb blade.

Lower TCO

HPE B-series SN8700B and SN8600B SAN Director seamlessly integrate with NVMe throughout the fabric.

Enables high-density, core-edge, and active-active mesh chassis topologies reducing inter-switch cabling by up to 75%.¹

To meet ever-increasing demands for faster, more reliable data access, it is essential for organizations to deploy a modernized infrastructure that reduces latency, increases bandwidth, and helps ensure near-continuous availability. Unprecedented performance is not enough on its own.

Flash-Ready Performance

The HPE B-series SN6650B Fibre Channel Switch supports up to 4 Tbps bandwidth with very low latency < 780 ns (including FEC) through the use of cut-through switching.

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

The HPE B-series SN6650B Fibre Channel Switch 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 Power Pack+ software) to provide deeper visibility into FC/NVMe traffic.

Enterprise-class Scalability

HPE B-series SN6650B Fibre Channel Switch delivers industry-leading port density with 128 Fibre Channel ports in an elegant 2U form factor.

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

Offers cost-effective pay-as-you-grow scalability, expanding from 48 to 128 ports with flexible Ports on Demand (PoD).

Supports 32/16/10/8/4 Gb Fibre Channel.

Flash-Ready Performance

The HPE B-series SN6650B Fibre Channel Switch supports up to 4 Tbps bandwidth with very low latency < 780 ns (including FEC) through the use of cut-through switching.

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

The HPE B-series SN6650B Fibre Channel Switch 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 Power Pack+ software) to provide deeper visibility into FC/NVMe traffic.

Enterprise-class Scalability

HPE B-series SN6650B Fibre Channel Switch delivers industry-leading port density with 128 Fibre Channel ports in an elegant 2U form factor.

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

Offers cost-effective pay-as-you-grow scalability, expanding from 48 to 128 ports with flexible Ports on Demand (PoD).

Supports 32/16/10/8/4 Gb Fibre Channel.

Flash-Ready Performance

The HPE B-series SN6650B Fibre Channel Switch supports up to 4 Tbps bandwidth with very low latency < 780 ns (including FEC) through the use of cut-through switching.

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

The HPE B-series SN6650B Fibre Channel Switch 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 Power Pack+ software) to provide deeper visibility into FC/NVMe traffic.

Enterprise-class Scalability

HPE B-series SN6650B Fibre Channel Switch delivers industry-leading port density with 128 Fibre Channel ports in an elegant 2U form factor.

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

Offers cost-effective pay-as-you-grow scalability, expanding from 48 to 128 ports with flexible Ports on Demand (PoD).

Supports 32/16/10/8/4 Gb Fibre Channel.