Host Bus Adapters

Is your data center poised to take the next step in Fibre Channel (FC) connectivity?

The explosive growth in enterprise flash storage and the deployment of servers with multi-core processors is driving the need for high performance storage networking to prevent application performance bottlenecks. The FC Host Bus Adapter (HBA) is a critical element of this storage network to improve storage performance

The HPE StoreFabric SN1600E 32Gb Host Bus Adapter delivers the ultimate in high bandwidth, low latency and increased IOPs to meet enterprise application requirement, from online database transaction processing or data warehousing to backup/restore and OpenStack Cinder block storage.

Delivering twice the performance of current 16Gb HBAs, the StoreFabric SN1600E 32Gb FC HBA delivers better business outcomes across multiple industry verticals that rely on high performance, improved reliability Fibre Channel block storage in their storage infrastructures.

What's new

• 32 Gb Single Port Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter

• 32 Gb Dual Port Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter

Features

High-performance 32Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters

The HPE StoreFabric SN1600E 32Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters delivers twice the bandwidth of 16Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters while being backward compatible with 16 and 8 Gb FC environments.

More data moved per Watt of power consumed when compared to the Generation 5 (16 Gb) FC adapters.

Higher performance with existing server investments when compared to the Generation 5 (16 Gb) FC adapters.

Faster Flash

The HPE StoreFabric SN1600E 32Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters accelerate the time to business insight by completing data warehousing queries in 1/4th of the time (compared to 8 Gb FC HBA).

Meets the massive bandwidth requirements of flash storage arrays with up to 32 Gb FC throughput.

Increases the performance of flash based storage by prioritizing mission critical
traffic in congested networks with the exclusive ExpressLane feature.

Increase Server Virtualization Performance

The HPE StoreFabric SN1600E 32Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters delivers near limitless scalability to support increased VM density with 2X more on-chip resources and bandwidth than Gen5 Fibre Channel.

Improves the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) end-user experience with low latency features providing noticeable improvements during boot storms (degradation of service that occurs when a significant number of end-users boot up within a very narrow time frame and overwhelm the network).

Simplifies management and installation with OneCommand Manager plugin for VMware® vCenter® server.

Enhanced Features

The HPE StoreFabric SN1600E 32Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters are designed to support emerging NVM Express (NVMe) over Fibre Channel storage network.

Provides latest security features that averts unauthorized access to the Host Bus Adapter (HBA) firmware.

T10 Protection Information (T10-PI) data integrity with high performance hardware offload provides data protection from the server to the storage array.

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What's New

• 64 Gb FC HBAs double the bandwidth of 32 Gb FC products while maintaining full compatibility. FC leverages a block-based design, which is best used with data-intensive enterprise workloads.
• The 64 Gb FC HBAs enable a non-disruptive firmware upgrade reducing downtime and meeting critical service level agreements (SLAs) especially in HPE GreenLake environments.
• The new FC-NVMe protocol supports exponentially more data queues and concurrent commands. Customers can experience exponential storage performance gains in the form of much lower latency.
• Applying qualify of service performance parameters for virtual servers and new virtual lanes technology

Key Features | Increased 64Gb bandwidth creates a higher performance option for data delivery and interconnects

Block-based workloads like databases, ERP, and online transaction processing benefit from FC's predictable performance. These applications are designed to accomplish the business task leveraging the highest possible bandwidth, highest I/Os, and lowest latency.

Data center design using FC can offer levels of investment protection where higher performance requirements can be deployed with 64Gb but also allow for backward compatibility to 32 Gb and 16 Gb devices in the same environment. The customer can prioritize performance based on need.

Fibre Channel by design is the most secure protocol

The FC when designed helped eliminate IP addresses and delivered a new standard using unique worldwide names that could be contained within a customer's environment and only allowed FC devices to interact with each other. There are no "outside" communication addresses to access.

All 32 Gb and 64 Gb HPE FC HBAs have secure firmware download. An encryption key validates firmware files as authentic. This feature introduced with HPE Gen10 servers, continues today, and helps ensure the authenticity of device firmware.

HPE SN1700Q offers firmware integrity protection with hardware root of trust (RoT). The adapters' RoT enables both integrity and authenticity during adapter firmware updates by both validating embedded signatures with hardware embedded keys protecting updates that are applied over public networks.

Multi-generational, plug-n-play compatibility for two generations forward and two generations back

The investment in FC can be preserved allowing older generations of products to function with newer FC products and existing FC products to work with future generations of products. The flexibility offers a superb ROI and lower TCO than other data protocols.

Customers have a great deal of flexibility in every SAN design even as new requirements evolve. Older configurations with older HPE ProLiant servers can co-exist if their requirements are unchanged while newer, higher performance can be introduced without interfering with other configurations.

The design allows for greater flexibility in budgeting and IT planning. Funding may only be available only for a database or online transaction processing project while other existing configurations are not. FC can easily integrate old with new and extend lifecycles to 10 years or more.

A 100% uptime Storage Arrays require a complementary, highly available, storage network

A SAN storage array like the 100% available HPE Alletra Storage Array would require a redundant network path to reduce the probability of network failures impacting the storage array's availability. A failed network negates a 100% available storage array.

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Key Features

Higher Performance for NVMe Deployments

The HPE SN1700E 64Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter offers higher bandwidth, better latency, enhanced security, and operational efficiency for 64 GFC storage area networks.

It speeds up applications and AFAs, as well as handles peak workload I/O spikes better than the previous generation adapters.

It offers PCIe 4.0 support and provides better interconnect performance bandwidth when compared to PCIe 3.0.

Simplified Manageability

The HPE SN1700E 64Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter saves time with no server reboots for firmware updates, queue depth changes, and optics replacements.

It provides improved HBA reliability through which one can meet the service-level agreements (SLA) on time.

It enables full end-to-end implementation of Brocade Fabric Vision from the HBA to the switch.

Protect Your Data

The HPE SN1700E 64Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter can thwart malicious firmware with a silicon root of trust and digitally signed firmware.

The secure boot offers UEFI boot code security with digitally signed boot code.

The HPE SN1700E 64Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter can protect the data from corruption using the data integrity field (T10 DIF).

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Key Features

Higher Performance for NVMe Deployments

The HPE SN1700E 64Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter offers higher bandwidth, better latency, enhanced security, and operational efficiency for 64 GFC storage area networks.

It speeds up applications and AFAs, as well as handles peak workload I/O spikes better than the previous generation adapters.

It offers PCIe 4.0 support and provides better interconnect performance bandwidth when compared to PCIe 3.0.

Simplified Manageability

The HPE SN1700E 64Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter saves time with no server reboots for firmware updates, queue depth changes, and optics replacements.

It provides improved HBA reliability through which one can meet the service-level agreements (SLA) on time.

It enables full end-to-end implementation of Brocade Fabric Vision from the HBA to the switch.

Protect Your Data

The HPE SN1700E 64Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter can thwart malicious firmware with a silicon root of trust and digitally signed firmware.

The secure boot offers UEFI boot code security with digitally signed boot code.

The HPE SN1700E 64Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter can protect the data from corruption using the data integrity field (T10 DIF).

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HPE StoreFabric SN1600 32Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter
The HPE StoreFabric 32Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters are designed to support ProLiant Servers with PCI-Express I/O slots to connect to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Storage Arrays using the 32/16/8 Gb Fibre Channel protocol.

The HPE 32GFC Host Bus Adapters bring datacenter infrastructure components to a higher level of performance and efficiency with the ability to deliver twice the bandwidth performance of 16Gb HBAs at lower latency. A 32GFC HBA purchased today is backward compatible with 16Gb and 8Gb storage networks and will protect future investments. When using storage intensive applications, such as backup/restore, database transactions, virtualization, and rich media, the increased performance of the 32GFC infrastructure enables rapid storage and retrieval of critical information. Designed for environments with greater virtual machine density and bandwidth requirements, the 32GFC HBAs enable more applications and VMs to run on a single host server and Fibre Channel port, resulting in reduced cabling and a higher return on IT investment. Enhanced diagnostics and orchestration capabilities make 32Gb Fibre Channel adapters well suited for to deliver on SLA requirements and application performance.

What's New
HPE ProLiant Gen10 Servers support

Key Features and Benefits
Performance

• Up to two ports of Gen6 FC delivers 1.6 million1 IOPS and 12,800MBps bandwidth across two 32GFC ports. Enhanced reliability, diagnostics, and accelerated deployment powered by Gen 6 Fibre Channel ASIC.
• Advanced integration with HPE StoreFabric B-series Gen 5 and Gen 6 fabrics to speed SAN deployment and configuration, speed and simplify SAN diagnostics, improve SAN resiliency and Quality of Service.
• Best combination of Fibre Channel IOPS, latency and throughput performance enables increased application and database transactions per second, enables faster large block transfers and increases the number of VMs that can be supported per server.

Reduced power consumption
Latest generation technology saves power by pausing the SFP when activity is not present Gbps per watt increased 100% providing better power consumption compared to previous generations of Fibre Channel adapters.

Support for greater Server Virtualization
Higher bandwidth and ability to virtualize physical ports with QoS in the adapter, make these adapters ideal for high density server virtualization environments for increased scalability. Enables more applications and VMs to run on a single server and Fibre Channel port, resulting in reduced cabling and a higher return on IT investment.

Connectivity to HPE Server and Storage
Provides an HPE-branded HBA solution which has undergone extensive HPE interoperability testing for connecting HPE ProLiant servers into HPE Storage and networking environments.

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