SAN Switches

Are you looking for a high-performance, low latency, Fibre Channel (FC) switch for the modern SAN? HPE Storage Fibre Channel Switch C-Series SN6730C is a 96 port switch that delivers 32 Gb and 64 Gb high-speed Fibre Channel connectivity from the server rack/storage rack as an edge or core switch. It empowers small, midsize, and large enterprises to rapidly deploy cloud-scale applications using extremely dense virtualized servers, providing greater bandwidth and consolidation benefits. 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 SN6730C is available half-populated or fully populated with either 32 Gb or 64 Gb transceivers or empty switch with 48 active ports with incremental 16 port licenses up to 96 ports.

Features | High Performance for All-flash Arrays, Virtualized, and NVMe Workloads

HPE Storage Fibre Channel Switch C-Series SN6730C provides consistent 32 or 64 Gbps low-latency, line-rate performance across every FC port on the switch.

Delivers increased performance with an aggregate bandwidth of 6 Tbps end-toend full duplex for growing and dynamic workloads in a 2RU form factor.

Delivers the same outstanding 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 each virtual machine logged into the fabric through host bus adapters (HBAs) capable of priority tagging the virtual machine identifier (VMID) on every FC frame.

Investment Protection

Available with 32 Gb FC SFP+, 64 Gb FC SFP+ optics or non-populated to accommodate your budget.

Intelligent Network Services for Modern SAN

HPE Storage Fibre Channel Switch C-Series SN6730C supports slow-drain detection and isolation, VSAN technology, access control lists for hardwarebased intelligent frame processing, smart zoning, and other services.

The VSAN technology provides a cost-effective way to consolidate resources while providing high resiliency to potential fabric disruptions.

Provides powerful NX-API capabilities to enable flexible and rapid programming of utilities for the SAN.

Easy Manageability

Provides intelligent diagnostics tools such as Inter-Switch Link (ISL) and HBA diagnostics, remote SFP (read diagnostic parameter) diagnostics, remote port beaconing, and link-level forward error correction (FEC) for faster problem resolution and reduced service costs.

Consolidate separate physical SAN fabrics into one large fabric for ease of management and reduced total cost of ownership.

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) software provides a centralized management tool with task-based wizards. These features are available with the HPE Storage Fibre Channel Switch C-Series SN6730C Advantage and Premier licenses.

HPE C-series SAN analytics delivers deep visibility into I/O traffic between the compute and the storage infrastructure. These features are available with the HPE Storage Fibre Channel Switch C-Series SN6730C Premier license.

Today we are witnessing continued exponential growth of mission-critical and business-critical workloads, increased server virtualization and accelerating all-flash storage technologies that have an ever-increasing requirement for more scale, 100% availability and reliability leading to infrastructure complexity and growing management costs. To meet these dynamic and growing business demands, organizations need to deploy infrastructure that can deliver greater consistency, predictability, and performance. Faced with exponential data growth, the network must evolve to enable businesses to thrive in this new era. To meet these dynamic and growing business demands, organizations need to deploy infrastructure that can deliver greater consistency, predictability, and performance. The newest and most exciting storage advancement today is flash-based storage. The unprecedented speed and rapidly increasing cost-effectiveness of flash-based products are dramatically accelerating data center transformation. Tomorrow, next-generation flash storage based on Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) over Fabrics will provide even greater value through significant performance gains. As companies redefine application performance with flash storage, HPE StoreFabric can help organizations modernize their storage networks to maximize productivity and increase the efficiency of their storage networks - even as they rapidly scale their environments.

HPE StoreFabric B-series SAN Director Switch Family
The HPE StoreFabric SAN Directors are the industry's leading Fibre Channel switching infrastructure solutions that provide the tools to optimize NVMe storage, simplify operations, and automate SAN management tasks, while serving as a modular building block to accommodate growth in large-scale enterprise infrastructures with breakthrough performance, and energy efficiency with long-term investment protection.

Today we are witnessing continued exponential growth of mission-critical and business-critical workloads, increased server virtualization and accelerating all-flash storage technologies that have an ever-increasing requirement for more scale, 100% availability and reliability leading to infrastructure complexity and growing management costs. To meet these dynamic and growing business demands, organizations need to deploy infrastructure that can deliver greater consistency, predictability, and performance. Faced with exponential data growth, the network must evolve to enable businesses to thrive in this new era. To meet these dynamic and growing business demands, organizations need to deploy infrastructure that can deliver greater consistency, predictability, and performance. The newest and most exciting storage advancement today is flash-based storage. The unprecedented speed and rapidly increasing cost-effectiveness of flash-based products are dramatically accelerating data center transformation. Tomorrow, next-generation flash storage based on Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) over Fabrics will provide even greater value through significant performance gains. As companies redefine application performance with flash storage, HPE StoreFabric can help organizations modernize their storage networks to maximize productivity and increase the efficiency of their storage networks - even as they rapidly scale their environments.

HPE StoreFabric B-series SAN Director Switch Family
The HPE StoreFabric SAN Directors are the industry's leading Fibre Channel switching infrastructure solutions that provide the tools to optimize NVMe storage, simplify operations, and automate SAN management tasks, while serving as a modular building block to accommodate growth in large-scale enterprise infrastructures with breakthrough performance, and energy efficiency with long-term investment protection.