SAN Devices

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.

Are you looking to improve the operational velocity of your workloads with next-generation high-performance Fibre Channel (FC) SAN infrastructure? The Brocade 32Gb Fibre Channel SAN Switch Module for HPE Synergy represents a composable and integrated Fibre Channel interconnect module with Gen6 technology that simplifies integration of the HPE Synergy blade chassis into a Storage Area Network (SAN). It provides breakthrough application performance, operational stability, and simplified manageability to meet the stringent business requirements with 32 Gb FC technology for HPE's Composable Infrastructure. It is ideal for enterprises planning to deploy 32 Gb FC to meet growing bandwidth demands of applications utilizing all-flash storage arrays (AFA) and for customers looking to deploy scalable private cloud storage networks using HPE Synergy. It provides simplified manageability utilizing the Advanced Web Tools for fabric set-up and ongoing maintenance.

What's new

• New 32 Gbps Fibre Channel embedded high performance switch module for HPE Synergy Frame

• 12 downlink internal server ports, up to 8 uplink (SFP+) external ports, and 2 uplink (QSFP) external ports

Features

Accelerate Performance and Service Delivery

Higher switching bandwidth of 896 Gbps to support high-density virtualization and demanding workloads

Increased maximum throughput of 512Gbps to support stringent service-level agreements (SLAs)

Better application performance with lower latency (<=900 ns) and error-free switching with Forward Error Correction (FEC)

Integrated Manageability

Utilizes Advanced Web Tools to simplify fabric set-up and ongoing maintenance for new SAN administrators

Integrates with HPE OneView and HPE Power Pack+ Software for monitoring, diagnostics, and analytics

Detect degraded storage IO performance with automatic IOPS monitoring and integrated device latency using IO Insight Software

Monitors VM performance seamlessly throughout a storage fabric with standards-based, end-to-end VM tagging

Operational Efficiency and Flexibility

Consolidated zero-footprint design to lower cost through shared power and cooling, fewer cables and SFPs, and reduced space

Available in 12-port and 8-port base Ports-on-Demand (PoD) scalability to support operating requirements

Both internal and external facing ports auto-sense lower bandwidth components for flexibility and investment protection (16 Gb or 32 Gb)

Are you looking to improve the operational velocity of your workloads with next-generation high-performance Fibre Channel (FC) SAN infrastructure? The Brocade 32Gb Fibre Channel SAN Switch Module for HPE Synergy represents a composable and integrated Fibre Channel interconnect module with Gen6 technology that simplifies integration of the HPE Synergy blade chassis into a Storage Area Network (SAN). It provides breakthrough application performance, operational stability, and simplified manageability to meet the stringent business requirements with 32 Gb FC technology for HPE's Composable Infrastructure. It is ideal for enterprises planning to deploy 32 Gb FC to meet growing bandwidth demands of applications utilizing all-flash storage arrays (AFA) and for customers looking to deploy scalable private cloud storage networks using HPE Synergy. It provides simplified manageability utilizing the Advanced Web Tools for fabric set-up and ongoing maintenance.

What's new

• New 32 Gbps Fibre Channel embedded high performance switch module for HPE Synergy Frame

• 12 downlink internal server ports, up to 8 uplink (SFP+) external ports, and 2 uplink (QSFP) external ports

Features

Accelerate Performance and Service Delivery

Higher switching bandwidth of 896 Gbps to support high-density virtualization and demanding workloads

Increased maximum throughput of 512Gbps to support stringent service-level agreements (SLAs)

Better application performance with lower latency (<=900 ns) and error-free switching with Forward Error Correction (FEC)

Integrated Manageability

Utilizes Advanced Web Tools to simplify fabric set-up and ongoing maintenance for new SAN administrators

Integrates with HPE OneView and HPE Power Pack+ Software for monitoring, diagnostics, and analytics

Detect degraded storage IO performance with automatic IOPS monitoring and integrated device latency using IO Insight Software

Monitors VM performance seamlessly throughout a storage fabric with standards-based, end-to-end VM tagging

Operational Efficiency and Flexibility

Consolidated zero-footprint design to lower cost through shared power and cooling, fewer cables and SFPs, and reduced space

Available in 12-port and 8-port base Ports-on-Demand (PoD) scalability to support operating requirements

Both internal and external facing ports auto-sense lower bandwidth components for flexibility and investment protection (16 Gb or 32 Gb)

Is there a need to modernize your storage network? The all-flash data center and emerging NVMe storage requires a modern storage network that can keep up with pace of innovation seen with compute and storage resources. The HPE StoreFabric SN6650B 32Gb FC switch is a high-port density building block with 128 Fibre Channel ports that provides the tools to optimize NVMe storage and automate SAN management tasks. It provides 32 Gb SAN connectivity with up to 4 Tbps total system bandwidth for data center consolidation and one of the most demanding all-flash workloads. New automation capabilities enable DevOps resources to automate operations to increase productivity with simple and open automation through open APIs and the Ansible automation engine. The HPE StoreFabric SN6650B enables new insight into NVMe storage fabrics with modern I/O traffic visibility and VM-level granularity to validate and fine-tune performance for better efficiency.

FeaturesFlash-Ready Performance

Supports up to 4 Tbps bandwidth with very low latency

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

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 PowerPack+ software) to provide deeper visibility into FC/NVMe traffic.

Enterprise-class Scalability

Delivers industry-leading port density with 128 Fibre Channel ports in an elegant 2U form factor.

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

Are you looking for a high performance Fibre Channel switch for the modern storage area network? The HPE StoreFabric SN6610C Fibre Channel Switch 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 StoreFabric SN6610C Fibre Channel Switch 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.

Features

High Performance for All-flash Arrays and Virtualized Workloads

The HPE StoreFabric SN6610C Fibre Channel Switch provides consistent 32 Gbps low-latency performance across every FC port on the switch.

Delivers increased performance with an aggregate bandwidth of 1024 Gbps for growing and dynamic workloads.

Delivers the same outstanding availability and reliability as previous generation HPE StoreFabric SN6010C Fibre Channel 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 HBAs capable of priority tagging the Virtual Machine Identifier (VMID) on every FC frame.

On-board 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

The HPE StoreFabric SN6610C Fibre Channel Switch provides an option to deploy as few as eight 32 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) ports which can grow from 8 ports to 16 ports, and thereafter with a port expansion module. Expanding up to a maximum of 32 ports.

Configurable with 16 Gb FC SFP+ or 32 Gb FC SFP+ optics to accommodate your budget while being fully prepared for tomorrow.

Lower initial investment and power consumption for entry-level configurations of up to 8 ports compared to a fully loaded 32-port switch.

Intelligent Network Services for Modern SAN

The HPE StoreFabric SN6610C Fibre Channel Switch supports slow-drain detection and isolation, VSAN technology, access control lists for hardware-based intelligent frame processing, smartzoning and other various services.

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

Provides powerful Representational State Transfer (REST) and NX-API capabilities to enable flexible and rapid programming of utilities for the SAN.

Easy Manageability

The HPE StoreFabric SN6610C Fibre Channel Switch provides intelligent diagnostics tools such as inter-switch link diagnostics, read diagnostic parameters, protocol decoding, network analysis tools, and others for improved reliability, 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® Data Center Network Manager software (included with switch) provides a centralized management tool with task-based wizards that simplifies management of a standalone switch or multiple switches and fabrics.