SAN Switches

Looking for a high-performance Fiber Channel (FC) switch for the modern SAN?The HPE Storage C Series SN6720C Fiber Channel Switch provides 64 or 32 Gbps Fiber Channel switching delivering high-speed FC connectivity from the server rack to the core of the SAN.It enables businesses of all sizes to rapidly deploy applications at cloud scale, using extremely dense virtualized servers to gain the dual benefits of greater bandwidth and consolidation.This switch offers industry-leading analytics and telemetry functionality integrated into its ASIC platform.For added flexibility, the HPE Storage C Series SN6720C Fiber Channel Switch is available in semi-featured or fully-featured versions with 64Gb or 32Gb transceivers.Additionally, investing in this switch for the low-speed (32Gbps) server rack gives you the flexibility to upgrade to 64Gbps performance later.

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

The HPE Storage Fibre Channel Switch C-Series SN6720C provides consistent 64 or 32 Gbps low-latency performance across every FC port on the switch.

Delivers increased performance with an aggregate bandwidth of 3-Tbps end-to-end full duplex for growing and dynamic workloads.

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.

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

Investment Protection

Available with 32Gb FC SFP+ or 64Gb FC SFP+ optics to accommodate your budget.

Intelligent Network Services for Modern SAN

The HPE Storage Fibre Channel Switch C-Series SN6720C supports slow-drain detection and isolation, VSAN technology, access control lists for hardware-based 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.

Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) ¹software provides a centralized management tool with task-based wizards. These features are available with the HPE SN6710C/SN6720C Advantage license.

HPE C-series SAN Analytics delivers deep visibility into I/O traffic between the compute and the storage infrastructure. These features will be available with the HPE SN6710C/SN6720C Premier license (available at a future date).

Are you looking for a high performance Fibre Channel switch for the modern storage area network?

The HPE Storage Fibre Channel Switch C-series SN6610C delivers 32 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) 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-art analytics and telemetry capability built into its ASIC platform. For increased flexibility, the HPE Storage Fibre Channel Switch C-series SN6610C scales from 8 to 32-ports. Additionally, investing in this switch for the lower-speed (8 or 16 Gbps) server rack gives you the flexibility to upgrade to 32 Gbps performance in the future.

Are you looking for a high-performance Fiber Channel switch for the modern storage area network?

The HPE Storage C-Series SN6610C Fiber Channel Switch delivers 32Gbps Fiber Channel (FC) switching for high-speed FC connectivity from the server rack to the SAN core.The switch enables medium and large enterprises to rapidly deploy cloud-scale applications using ultra-dense virtualized servers, providing the dual benefit of greater bandwidth and consolidation.The switch offers state-of-the-art analytics and telemetry capabilities integrated into the ASIC platform.For greater flexibility, the HPE Storage SN6610C C-Series Fiber Channel Switch can be scaled from 8 to 32 ports.Additionally, investing in this switch for the lower speed server rack (8 or 16 Gbps) gives you the flexibility to expand to 32 Gbps in the future.

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 infrastructure to ensure fast, continuous, and secure replication of mission- critical data anywhere in the world.

HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN4700B addresses these challenges by providing a powerful, reliable, secure solution for disaster recovery of large complex environments. This cyber-resilient replication connectivity solution for enterprise storage securely moves more data, faster, over distance for continuous data protection.

HPE Storage B-series SN4700B delivers unprecedented performance, continuous availability, and simplified management to handle the unrelenting growth of data traffic between data centers.

Features | High Performance

The HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN4700B consolidates high-speed Fibre Channel and IP storage replication workloads moving more data faster and further with 64Gb Fibre Channel and 100GbE ports.

The HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN4700B 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 Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN4700B offers 24 64Gbps Fibre Channel ports, 16 1GbE/10GbE/23GbE ports, and 2 100GbE ports that provide the bandwidth, port density, and throughput required for maximum application performance over WAN links.

Greater Control and Insight Across Data Centers

Simplify network monitoring and alerting between data centers to automatically detect WAN anomalies and avoid unplanned downtime.

Pre-validate and troubleshoot the physical infrastructure to streamline deployment and avoid issues.

Delivers real-time information that organizations can act on to meet recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO).

Monitor Fibre Channel and IP health and performance from a single dashboard.

Simplified Disaster Recovery and Data Protection

The HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN4700B supports simple point-to-point or comprehensive multisite SAN extension for a variety of strategic IT initiatives.

The HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN4700B centralizes backup to consolidate infrastructure and administrative resources.

The HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN4700B 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 Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN4700B utilizes the same Fabric OS (FOS) that supports the entire B-series product family to help ensure interoperability.

The HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN4700B leverages existing and familiar B-series management tools, including Fabric Vision, WebTools, and the command-line interface (CLI) to simplify deployment and administration.