SAN Switches

Today's IT organizations are under pressure to keep pace with the growing avalanche of data traffic between data centers and the changes driven by virtualized application workloads. Faced with this challenge, coupled with rising Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements and recovery expectations, enterprise data centers need their disaster recovery plans to enable fast, continuous, and easy access to mission-critical data from anywhere in the world.
The HPE SN4000B SAN Extension Switch with Brocade Fabric Vision technology delivers unprecedented performance, continuous availability, and simplified management to handle the unrelenting growth of data traffic between data centers.
The HPE SN4000B is a purpose-built data center extension solution that maximizes performance and scalability for large, complex environments, allowing IT organizations to future-proof their storage extension infrastructure by adding more throughput capacity as their needs grow.

What's new

• Supports Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS) compliant requirements for RoHS 2016.

• Twenty-four 16 Gbps Fibre Channel ports, sixteen 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports, and two 40 GbE ports.

• Addresses growing requirement for high availability/disaster recovery with demands for increased performance/throughput, manageability, and "always on" reliability.

• Hardware-based capabilities to optimize data transfers over the IP link.

• Provides multiple modes to optimize compression ratios for various throughput requirements.

Features

High Performance

The HPE SN4000B moves more data faster and further with 16 Gb Fibre Channel and 40GbE ports, available with the HPE StoreFabric SN4000B WAN Rate Upgrade license.

The HPE SN4000B advanced performance and network optimization enable replication and backup applications to send more data over metro and WAN links in less time and to optimize available WAN bandwidth.

The HPE SN4000B offers Twenty-four 16Gbps Fibre Channel ports, sixteen 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports, and two 40GbE ports provide the bandwidth, port density, and throughput required for maximum application performance over WAN links.

Scalable and Flexible SAN Extension

The HPE SN4000B leverages cost effective IP WAN transport to extend open systems and mainframe disk and tape storage applications over distances that would typically be impractical.

The HPE SN4000B provides flexibility and investment protection to add advanced extension, FICON, and SAN fabric services for evolving virtual server requirements.

Simplified Disaster Recovery and Data Protection

The HPE SN4000B supports simple point-to-point or comprehensive multisite SAN extension for a variety of strategic IT initiatives.

The HPE SN4000B centralizes backup to consolidate infrastructure and administrative resources.

The HPE SN4000B includes Built-in tools to validate conditions of the WAN links, network paths, and proper setup of FCIP configurations prior to deployment.

Integrated Architecture and Management

The HPE SN4000B Utilizes the same Fabric OS (FOS) that supports the entire B-Series product family to ensure interoperability.

The HPE SN4000B Leverages existing and familiar B-Series management tools, including SAN Network Advisor, Web Tools, and the command line interface to simplify deployment and administration.

The Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch for HPE BladeSystem c-Class delivers an easy to manage embedded native Fibre Channel switch with 8 Gb/s performance. The affordable Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch hot-plugs into the back of the HPE BladeSystem c-Class Enclosure. The integrated design frees up rack space, enables shared power and cooling, and reduces cabling and the number of optics. Enhanced trunking support with external switches provides higher bandwidth to enable demanding applications such as server virtualization. New features in the Power Pack+ option enable you to manage data flow to maintain optimized application performance. The 12 or 24 auto-sensing ports support lower bandwidth components for investment protection and an upgrade license enables you to 'pay as you grow'. The Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch saves space and cost, significantly simplifies the SAN environment, enables easier deployment and management, and delivers the performance required for emerging higher throughput applications.

What's new

• Compliance with the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive; new updates to comply with RoHS 2016 requirements.

Features

High Performance

Affordable 8Gb FC SAN Switch enables data center consolidation with HPE BladeSystem c-Class through a state-of-the-art zero-footprint design while lowering cost through shared power and cooling, fewer cables and SFPs, and a reduction in space.

Supports virtualized environments and other emerging technologies through high-speed technology that doubles the performance of the storage network. Both internal and external facing ports auto-sense lower bandwidth components for flexibility and investment protection (2, 4, or 8 Gb).

Includes connection speed support for all ports to provide a high-performance system with aggregate bandwidth of up to 384 Gb/s (24 ports x 8 Gb/s x 2 for full duplex).

Extensive Enterprise SAN Management software.

Scalable and Flexible SAN Extension

Providing support for up to a single trunk made up of all eight SAN ports for a total of up to 64 Gb/s balanced throughput. Trunking of the SAN-facing ports with external Brocade or HPE B-series Switches provides a high-bandwidth solution while lowering costs through fewer SFPs and cables.

Allows organizations to better manage data flows and meet service level agreements (SLAs) while maintaining optimized application performance in virtual environments with new Adaptive Networking services, including Adaptive Fabric Quality of Service, Traffic Isolation, and Ingress Rate Limiting.

Employs N Port ID Virtualization (NPIV), an ANSI T11 standard, to enable interoperability with other SAN fabrics and eliminate domain considerations while improving SAN scalability.

Integrated Architecture and Management

Integrates with HPE Onboard Administrator for BladeSystem, HPE Systems Insight Manager, and HPE Storage Essentials and leverages HPE B-series management and monitoring tools. An SMI-s API enables the use of industry standard interfaces to integrate management with other applications.

Available in 12-port, 24-port and 24-port Power Pack+ Full Fabric models. Choose the features and management options that make sense for your needs. In addition.

Enables 'pay as you grow' scalability for easy, scalable growth in dynamic business environments with a non-disruptive 12-port upgrade for the 12-port model.

Are you struggling to keep pace with ever-increasing workloads on a never-increasing budget? While virtualization has provided some relief by enabling the benefits of faster deployment and consolidation, it tends to put additional stress on data center networks.

The HPE SN6000B Fibre Channel Switch meets the needs of hyper-scale, private cloud storage environments by delivering market-leading 16Gb Fibre Channel (FC) technology and capabilities that support highly virtualized environments. Designed to enable greater flexibility and investment protection, the SN6000B switch scales from 24 to 48 ports and supports 4, 8, 10, or 16 Gb/s speeds in an efficiently designed 1U package. It also provides a simplified deployment process and a point-and-click user interface making it powerful and easy to use. It offers low-cost access to SAN technology while providing "pay-as-you-grow" scalability to meet the needs of an evolving storage environment.

What's new

• New model with a unique Port-side Intake Air flow mechanism (SKU Number E7X99A): This model pulls cooling air in from the port side of the switch and exhausts it out the non-port side.

• New unique bundle model with SFPs - HPE SN6000B 16Gb Bundled FC switch (SKU Number C8R08A) - that simplifies ordering and provides great value to HPE customers.

Features

Flexible Fabrics

The HPE SN6000B Fibre Channel Switch provides high speed 16 Gb/s optimized inter switch links (ISLs) providing twice the performance as previous generation Fibre Channel switches. The net result is there are fewer links, fewer cables, fewer ports and less power for the same performance.

Delivers 128 Gb/s high-performance, resilient frame-based trunk.

Preserves ports for server and storage connectivity and scales from 24 to 48 ports.

Metro Cloud Connectivity

The HPE SN6000B FC Switch offers operating speeds of 16, 10, 8, and 4 Gb/s offer a wide range of performance for long distance connectivity. Operating the port at 10 Gb/s is also supported over Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM) solutions, such as Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM).

Integrated Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Compression provides the capability to compress all data in flight, over an ISL which gives you the choice of either moving more data or reducing bandwidth costs.

Integrated Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Encryption provides the capability to encrypt all data in flight, over an ISL. Both encryption and compression can be enabled on the ISL link simultaneously. Enabling ISL encryption results in all data being encrypted as it is sent over a link for added security.

Operational Simplicity for Administrators

The HPE SN6000B FC Switch provides Diagnostic Ports (D_Ports) that enable administrators to identify and isolate optics and cable problems, reducing fabric deployment and diagnostic times. Use D_Ports to run a variety of tests for ports, SFPs, and cables for faults, latency, and distance.

SAN Network Advisor, offered as an option, provides comprehensive management of data center SAN fabrics, including configuration, monitoring, diagnostics, best-practices validation, and management of B-series Directors, Switches, and Host Bus Adapters (HBAs).

Cloud Optimized Performance and Load Balancing

The HPE SN6000B Fibre Channel Switch provides aggregate 1536 Gb full-duplex throughput and any eight ports can be trunked for 128 Gb Inter-Switch Links (ISLs).

Exchange-based Dynamic Path Selection (DPS) optimizes fabric-wide performance and load balancing by automatically routing data to the most efficient available path.