HP AM872B, AM871B Specifications
The HP 8/80 SAN Switch is ideal for medium- to large-sized organizations that need a scalable, high-availability solution that will
facilitate consolidation and the flexibility to meet rapidly evolving storage requirements. Whether an organization's requirements call
for a standalone high port count switch, a high port count core switch, or a large building block for a tiered enterprise fabric, the 8/80
SAN Switch provides the highest performance, highest scalability, availability, and best investment protection available to meet the
needs of today's consolidated virtual data center.
To support mission-critical environments, the 8/80 SAN Switch features a non-blocking architecture with as many as 80 ports
concurrently active at 8 Gbit/sec full duplex with no over-subscription-providing an aggregate bandwidth of 1280 Gbit/sec. InterSwitch Link (ISL) trunking can supply up to 64 Gbit/sec of balanced data throughput to reduce congestion and increase bandwidth. It
also supports new virtualization technologies that are driving efficiency and flexibility benefits. For example, organizations that have
deployed virtual server environments require higher levels of connectivity for consolidation and higher levels of performance to costeffectively meet the demands of virtual data centers.
The 8/80 SAN Switch is an 8Gb Fibre Channel Switch and delivers up to 80 ports in a 2u footprint. The switch is available in two models
with a 16 port upgrade license to add ports non-disruptively:
HP 8/80 SAN Switch Power Pack+ with 48 active ports and value added software
HP 8/80 SAN Switch with 48 active ports (Base)
The density of the 8/80 SAN Switch uniquely enables fan-out from the core of the data center fabric with less than half the number of
switch devices to manage compared to traditional 32- or 40-port edge switches. When deployed as a core SAN fabric switch, the fully
enabled 80 port SAN Switch provides a single-switch core footprint that is ideal for SAN fan-out using lower-density B-series switches.
This single-domain solution is ideal for environments that have high port count needs but do not require the capabilities of a directorclass fabric core.
The 8/80 SAN Switch provides a reliable SAN foundation by employing enterprise-class availability features such as hot-swappable,
redundant, and integrated fan and power supply assemblies. Moreover, hot code load and activation help maximize application uptime
with faster system upgrades and maintenance to reduce the dependency on scheduled outages. Combined with a wide range of
diagnostic and monitoring functions, these capabilities help provide a highly available SAN environment.
As an option for connecting switches in a fabric, the 8/80 SAN Switch provides Fibre Channel Integrated Routing capabilities. Integrated
Routing provides native Fibre Channel Routing on a per-port basis rather than limiting routing to special-purpose routing switches or
blades. Integrated Routing uses EX_Ports to import/export devices between fabrics, enabling selective device sharing while
maintaining remote fabric isolation for higher levels of scalability and fault isolation
The 8/80 SAN Switch Power Pack+ includes the 8/80 SAN Switch (Base) with additional software: Fabric Vision, Fabric Watch, ISL
Trunking, Extended Fabric and Performance Monitor. Power Pack+ software provides the SAN administrator with the necessary tools
to monitor the health and performance of the network, while also ensuring the highest levels of security, scalability and manageability.
Power Pack+ software enables infrastructure management through a single-pane-of-glass.
The 8/80 SAN Switch enables organizations to use 4 Gbit/sec SFPs today and upgrade to 8 Gbit/sec SFPs, so they can fully leverage
their existing IT resources and seamlessly incorporate new capabilities as necessary.
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What's New
New RoHS compliant HP SAN switches
NOTE:
Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive or RoHS is a directive adopted by the European Union that restricts the use of
certain hazardous materials in the manufacture of various types of electronic and electrical equipment. The RoHS compliant products
with new part numbers listed in this document are functionally equivalent to the corresponding products with old part numbers and are
fully interchangeable.
Key Features and Benefits
Offers best-in-class port density and scalability for enterprise SAN switches
Delivers full 8 Gbit/sec 1:1 performance for up to 80 ports in a single-domain, optimized 2U form factor
Increases network performance with enhanced Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking, which enables a high-speed data path up to 64
Gbit/sec
Protects existing device investments with auto-sensing 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gbit/sec capabilities
Features Ports on Demand capabilities for fast, easy, and cost-effective scalability from 48 to 80 ports in 16-port increments
Meets high-availability requirements with redundant, hot-pluggable components, non-disruptive software upgrades, and hot
code activation for a wide range of SAN configurations
Provides Adaptive Networking services such as Quality of Service (QoS) to help optimize application performance in
consolidated, virtual environments
Leverages intelligent B-series SAN management and monitoring tools to increase operational efficiency and maximize SAN
investments.
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8/80 SAN Switch
Simplifies enterprise SAN deployment by combining higher port count density with exceptional
scalability, performance and reliability
Delivers 48, 64, or 80-ports in a 2U enclosure
Meets enterprise level availability requirements with redundant, hot pluggable components, nosingle-points-of-failure within the switch
Provides 1 Gb, 2 Gb, 4Gb, 8Gb/s* performance
Employs optional Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking to provide a high-speed data path between
switches which enables a high speed data path between 8Gb/s switches up to 64 Gbit/sec
*Full 8Gb/s end to end storage performance requires 8 Gb/s HBAs, 8Gb/s controllers, and 8Gb/s switches.
8Gb/s ISL performance can be obtained between two 8Gb/s switches.
Configuration Support
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/san/documentation.html
High-availability features
Redundant, hot swappable cooling fans
Redundant, hot swappable power supplies
Enhanced Fault Detection Logic
Parity protection on all data paths and system memory
Advanced Fabric Services
Hardware and Software Enforced Zoning
Frame Filtering
Built-in Web browser management tools
SAN Network Advisor (optional)
Enhanced Group Management (EGM)
Cabinet Support
HP 9000 and 10000 G1 Series (22U, 36U and 42U), HP System/e (25U, 33U and 41U), and HP 10000
G2 Series (22U, 36U, and 42U) and Intelligent Series racks.
NOTE:
To order factory integration, add 0D1 after the part number on your sales order.
Software Components, Standard, Base Models
Frame Filtering
An ASIC based capability that enables new applications and features. The switch has the ability to "view"
the first 64 bytes of the Fibre Channel frame. At this time, Frame Filtering enables advanced capabilities
such as Advanced Zoning and Advanced Performance Monitoring.
Advanced Zoning
WWN Zoning and Access Control are enforced by hardware that provides the same simple administration
previously enforced only with software. Administrators can organize a physical fabric into logical groups
and prevent unauthorized access by devices outside the Zone.
Web Tools
Web Tools is an intuitive and easy-to-use graphical interface that enables organizations to monitor and
manage SAN fabrics. Tasks can be performed through a Java-capable Web browser from a standard laptop,
desktop PC or workstation from any location within the enterprise.
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EGM
Enhanced Group Management (EGM) is a FOS license that is included with all B-Series switches and enables
multi-switch operations. It helps automate operations across multiple switches to save time and
streamline repetitive operations, which are typically prone to error. EGM drives consistency across fabrics,
while minimizing the risk associated with potential downtime due to configuration mismatches. EGM
provides streamlined troubleshooting for more effective fabric monitoring and diagnosis.
Both Data Center Fabric Manager Professional and Enterprise enable EGM functionality. Customers have
EGM functionality enabled within the hardware product and need only to make the decision around which
management application is right for them - Data Center Fabric Manager Professional, Professional Plus or
Enterprise.
Adaptive Networking
Adaptive Networking (AN) is an optional family of technologies which allow flexible control of traffic
movement within the fabric which deliver application aware management of fabric resources. Applications
may be used with multiple protocols and multiple classes of service. It includes the following features:
Ingress Rate Limiting:
Allows the ingress bandwidth of a port to be throttled to a rate lower than negotiated with the SAN node.
This could be very useful for enterprises offering stepped levels of service and enforcing SLAs.
Quality of Service (QoS):
Enables zones with high, medium, and low priorities within a fabric on a zone by zone basis. This can be
very useful for prioritizing array replication over MANs and WANs over less critical traffic.
Traffic Isolation Zones:
Defines paths through a fabric for some or all nodes. Failover allows a non-preferred path to be used if the
preferred fails. TIZs use failover by default but it can be disabled if traffic should stop if a preferred path
fails. TIZ can be used to manually map out traffic flows within a fabric based on application, priority, and
topology.
Server Application
Optimization
Server Application Optimization (SAO) license improves overall application performance for physical
servers and virtual machines. SAO, when deployed with B-Series Fibre Channel HBAs, extends B-Series
Adaptive Networking from the B-series SAN fabric to the server infrastructure. This delivers applicationlevel, fine-grain Quality of Service (QoS) management to the HBAs and related server applications.
Solution Requirements:
SAO license must be installed on the edge (server connected) switch
Adaptive Networking (AN) license must be installed on the edge (server connected) switch
SAO requires B-series HBA installed in the server
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Software Components, Optional
8/80 SAN Switch Power
Pack+ Software Bundle
The Power Pack+ Software Bundle comes with the 8/80 SAN Switch Power Pack+ or as an optional
software bundle for the 8/80 SAN Switch. It includes the following:
Fabric Vision
Fabric Watch
Performance Monitor
Extended Fabric
ISL Trunking
Fabric Vision
Fabric Vision offers innovative diagnostic, monitoring and management capabilities to help accelerate new
application deployments, address SAN problems before they impact operations and reduce operational
costs. It Includes
Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite: A policy-based monitoring tool with pre-built rules and
automation that simplifies fabric-wide threshold configuration and monitoring.
Flow Vision: A comprehensive tool that enables administrators to identify, monitor, and analyze
specific application data flows without using taps to ensure optimized performance
Health and performance dashboard: A single customizable screen displayed in HP SAN Network
Advisor that contains all critical SAN information for convenient review and analysis.
Fabric Vision will be included by default in all HP StoreFabric B-series Fibre Channel switches and Directors
bundled with Power Pack+ (with FOS 7.2.0a and later). In all other cases, Fabric Vision can be enabled on
HP StoreFabric B-series Fibre Channel switches and Directors in any one of the following ways
Application of the Fabric Vision LTU (FOS 7.2.0a and later)
Application of the Power Pack+ LTU (FOS 7.2.0a and later)
Upgrading existing Switch/Director loaded with Power Pack+ to FOS 7.2.0a or later
Upgrading existing Switch/Director loaded with both Advanced Performance Monitor (APM) and
Fabric Watch (FW) licenses to FOS 7.2.0a or later
Fabric Watch
Fabric Watch is an optional license which enables each switch to monitor the SAN for potential faults and
automatically alert network managers to problems before they become failures. Fabric Watch tracks a
variety of SAN fabric elements, events, and counters. Monitoring fabric-wide events, ports, SFPs, and
environmental parameters permits early fault detection and isolation as well as performance
measurement. Each switch in the SAN needs its own Fabric Watch license.
Advanced Performance
Monitor
This optional enabling technology helps administrators monitor and watch specific fabric metrics -- from a
SID (Source ID) to a DID (Destination ID) -- so they can fine-tune and scale the fabric more efficiently. Plus,
Advanced Performance Monitoring includes the ability for early warning detection of hot spots within the
fabric, a powerful tool for maintaining overall balanced performance.
Top Talkers is a component of Advanced Performance Monitoring and tracks the top traffic flows for hosts
and targets for a switch port or a switch. Top Talkers can help identify the ports that need certain Quality
of Service (QoS) attributes or it can help determine portions of the physical topology that need
reconfiguration.
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Extended Fabric
Optional license which extends all of the scalability, reliability, and performance benefits of Fibre Channel
Storage Area Networks (SANs) beyond the native 10 km distance specified by the Fibre Channel standard.
FICON Support
Optional license which enable host control of switches in mainframe environments
SAN Network Advisor
Professional
HP SAN Network Advisor Professional is a management application available at no-charge and comes with
B-series SAN Switches and:
Allows management of a single Fabric OS (FOS) fabric (up to a 1,000 switch ports) at a time
Performs group switch management beyond the scope of Web Tools
Does not offer management of the SN8000B 8-Slot or DC SAN Backbone Directors
It is targeted for SMB customers that use FOS based SAN fabrics and require a management solution for
smaller SANs based on a single fabric.
SMB customers that initially start off with SAN Network Advisor Professional and have a small SAN
environment may over time feel the need for an enterprise-class product (SAN Network Advisor Enterprise)
as their environments start to grow in size and complexity, and as they start to uptake more enterpriseclass functionality (such as Fibre Channel Routing, FCIP, etc.). A non-disruptive upgrade path is available
from SAN Network Advisor Professional to SAN Network Advisor Enterprise.
SAN Network Advisor
Enterprise and
Professional+
HP SAN Network Advisor Enterprise and Professional+ are the enterprise-class products that support FOS
products as well as FOS and M-EOS products together. SAN Network Advisor Enterprise provides complete
SN8000B 8-Slot Director and DC SAN Backbone Director management including enterprise-class
features/environments such as FICON, Fibre Channel Routing, FCIP, adaptive networking, etc while HP SAN
Network Advisor Professional+ provides the same feature set except for support for the SN8000B 8-Slot
Director, DC SAN Backbone Director, and FICON.
HP SAN Network Advisor Enterprise delivers unprecedented scalability, up to 24 fabrics and 9,000 switch
ports, while HP SAN Network Advisor Professional+ scales to 4 SAN Fabrics and 2560 switch ports. To
accommodate growth, there is an upgrade available to SAN Network Advisor Enterprise from SAN Network
Advisor Professional Plus.
Both offerings provide brand-new features including Adaptive Networking features for quality of service,
ingress rate limiting and traffic isolation zones.
ISL Trunking
For high performance enhanced Trunking, this optional license logically groups up to four E-ports to
provide a high bandwidth trunk between two switches. Each 8 Gb switch needs its own license. The switch
operating system views the trunk as a single, high bandwidth resource (up to 64 Gb) when routing
connections between 8Gb switches. Connections are load-balanced across the individual links, which
comprise the logical trunk group.
Integrated Routing
Integrated Routing is an optional license which provides native Fibre Channel Routing (FRC) on a per-port
basis, rather than limiting routing ports to those on a dedicated routing blade or switch. Just like traditional
FCR, Integrated Routing uses EX_Ports to import/export devices between fabrics, enabling selective device
sharing while maintaining remote fabric isolation. Integrated Routing provides architecture flexibility to
route on a port-by-port basis, enabling increased scalability and fault isolation.
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