HPE AM867B, AM866C Getting Started Guide
QuickSpecs
HPE 8/8 Base SAN Switch and 8/8 SAN Switch Family
Overview
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HPE 8/8 Base SAN Switch and 8/8 SAN Switch Family
The 8/8 Base SAN Switch and 8/8 SAN Switch are targeted for small to medium sized enterprises and are ideal for entry-level
SANs, and as an edge switch for core
connectivity that simplifies IT management infrastructures, improves system performance, maximizes the value of virtual serve
deployments, and reduces overall storage costs.
The 8/8 SAN Switch integrates innovativ
a wide range of IT environments. The 8 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel 8/8 Base SAN Switch provides a simple, affordable, single
solution for a new, small SAN installati
provides connectivity to other switches. The 8/8 SAN Switch has 8 active ports and can be connected to multiple switches and
scale to full fabric limits as defined in
Demand, the ability to activate additional ports in 8 port increments to a maximum of 24 ports. This provides the flexibility
small and grow storage networks in a
SFPs and upgrade to 8 Gbit/sec SFP+ at a later date when necessary.
The 8/8 SAN Switch significantly increases performance and functionality for SANs at an entry
provides auto
Auto
more targeted performance, enhanced Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking combines up to eight ISLs between a pair of switches into a
single, logical high
while consuming less than 2.5 watts of power per port for exceptional power and cooling efficiency.
An optional enhanced Power Pack+ software bundle can be purchased separately and includes Fabric Vision, Fabric Watch, ISL
Trunking, Extended Fabric and Advanced Performance Monitor. The software bundle provides the SAN administrator with the
necessary tools to proactively monitor the health and performance thresholds of the network, while also ensuring the highest levels
of s
glass.
The 8 port 8 Gb/s 8/8 Base SAN Switch
What's New
• New 2016 RoHS compliant HPE SAN switches
NOTE:
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 interchan
-to-edge SAN environments. The 8/8 Base SAN Switch and 8/8 SAN Switch provide SAN
e hardware and software features that make it easy to deploy, manage, and integrate into
on and connects to storage and servers only. An optional Full Fabric SAN scaling license
the SAN Design Guide. Both new 8 port switches provide growth options with Ports On
non-disruptive manner. In addition, organizations can choose to initially deploy 4 Gbit/sec
-level price. The 8/8 SAN Switch
-sensing 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gbit/sec full duplex performance to enable up to 128 Gbit/sec of uncongested throughput.
-sensing and speed-matching of data traffic provides interoperability with previous 1, 2, and 4 Gbit/sec devices. To provide
-speed trunk capable of up to 64 Gbit/sec of throughput. The evolutionary design provides these capabilities
r
-switch
to start
ecurity, scalability and manageability. Power Pack+ software enables infrastructure management through a single-pane-of-
• Updated HPE B-series Network Advisor SKUs to the next suffix (A to B) and added 3 Network Advisor E-LTU SKUs
(suffix AE)
Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive or RoHS is a directive adopted by the European Union that restricts
geable
QuickSpecs
HPE 8/8 Base SAN Switch and 8/8 SAN Switch Family
Features and Benefits
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Key Features and Benefits
SAN Switch functionality from Embedded to Enterprise. The
• Superior Performance
- 8Gb/s full duplex performance to enable up to 128 Gbit/s of uncongested throughput
- Optional enhanced ISL Trunking combines up to eight ISLs between a pair of switches into a single, logical high-
speed trunk capable of up to 64 Gbit/s of throughput
• Superior Scalability
- Eight 8Gb/s ports expandable to 16 or 24 ports with the purchase of optional 8 port upgrade license
- "pay as you grow" scalability from single-switch to full fabric connectivity
• Reduced Total Cost of Ownership for SAN Infrastructure
- Enables storage consolidation, simplified management of data center SAN environment
• Broadest range of compatibility with SAN products
- Multi-vendor server and storage environment
- Widest range of HPE SAN solutions
- nteroperability with the more than 3.0 Million port HPE SAN Switch installed base
• HPE Power Pack+ Software Bundle (Optional) - Rich, feature packed software that provides the highest supported
modular functionality. It includes
- Fabric Vision
- Trunking - highest throughput between switches
- Proactive threshold monitor (Fabric Watch)
- Advanced Performance Monitor
- Extended Fabric
• Broadest Range of HPE Packaged SAN Services
- Mission critical SAN Services SAN-ES
- Assessment and installation services for security
• Flexible storage connectivity
- The only SAN solutions providing the complete HPE
HPE SAN Switch value line products allows the capability to apply the complete SAN Switch functionality to an
affordable entry level SAN deployment and then to grow that deployment to the largest SAN fabric solutions
supported by Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
QuickSpecs
HPE 8/8 Base SAN Switch and 8/8 SAN Switch Family
Models
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HPE
Models
HPE 8/8 Base (0) E-port Enabled SAN Switch
AM866C
HPE 8/8 Base 8-port Enabled SAN Switch
AM867C
HPE 8/8 and 8/24 SAN Switch 8-port Upgrade LTU
T5518A
HPE B-series 4/8 SAN Switch Full Fabric LTU
T4261A
HPE B-series Entry Switch Power Pack+ E-LTU
T5521AAE
(Physical License
- T5521A)
NOTE:
E-Delivery software licenses with new part numbers listed in this document are functionally equivalent to the corresponding
physical licenses with different part numbers. Some
numbers, the first of which is the E
8/8 SAN Switch
Some HPE B-series software licenses are now available through the Electronic Delivery (E-Delivery) mechanism. The
software licenses in this document are represented by two part
-Delivery version (ending with AAE) and the second is the physical version.
QuickSpecs
HPE 8/8 Base SAN Switch and 8/8 SAN Switch Family
Product Highlights
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24 non
Eight enabled ports with expandability to 16 or 24 ports; auto-sensing 2, 4, or 8 Gb universal, selfconfiguring ports (F, FL, E). Can be programmed to fixed 2 Gb, 4Gb, or 8Gb speed.
Configuration support
8/8 SAN Switch will interoperate with 1Gb ,2Gb, 4Gb, 8Gb/s B-Series SAN Switches running the
firmware
http://www.hp.com/go/sandesignguide
High
features
• Hot Code Load Activation
Advanced Fabric
Services
•
Manageability
• Web Tools
Scalability
•
g license provides connection to
Cabinet Support
• HPE (22U, 36U and 42U) 10000 G2 Series, the Intelligent Series racks and HPE (14U, 22U,
Software Components
Frame Filtering
An ASIC based capability in the 8Gb family of switches that enables new applications and features. The
switch now 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
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.
-blocking ports
-availability
version as defined in the SAN Design Guide:
Adaptive Networking (optional)
• ISL Trunking (optional)
• Hardware Enforced Zoning
• Web Tools
• Enhanced Group Management (EGM)
• Fabric Watch (optional)
• Advanced Performance Monitor (optional)
• Extended Fabric (optional)
• Server Application Optimization (optional)
• SAN Network Advisor (optional)
• Enhanced Group Management (EGM)
• Radius
• API
• IP
• SNMP
8/8 Base SAN Switch has zero e-port connectivity and connects to storage or servers only
(single-switch connectivity). An optional Full Fabric SAN scalin
switches
• 8/8 SAN Switch scales to the maximum limits defined in the SAN Design Guide:
http://www.hp.com/go/sandesignguide
36U, 42U, and 47U) 11000 G2 Series.
NOTE: To order factory integration, add 0D1 after the part number on your sales order.
Performance
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HPE 8/8 Base SAN Switch and 8/8 SAN Switch Family
Product Highlights
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Web Tools
Enables organizations to monitor and manage single Fibre Channel switches and small SAN fabrics.
Tasks can be performed through a Java
workstation from any location within the enterprise.
EGM
Enhanced Group Management (EGM) is a FOS license that is included with all B-Series switches and
enables multi
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 troubleshooti
Both SAN Network Advisor Professional and Enterprise enable EGM functionality. Customers have
EGM functionality enabled within the hardware product and need only to make the decision around
which mana
SAN Network Advisor Professional, Professional Plus,
or Enterprise.
Adaptive Networking
Adaptive Networking (AN) is a family of technologies which allow flexible control of traffic movement
within the fabric whic
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 throttle
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
the
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) improves overall application performance for physical servers
and virtual machines. SAO, when deployed with B
Adaptive Networking from the B
application
applications.
Solution Requirements:
Software Components, Optional
SAN Switch Power
Pack+ Software Bundle
Includes bundled license for:
• Extended Fabric
-capable Web browser from a standard laptop, desktop PC or
-switch operations. It helps automate operations across multiple switches to
ng for more effective fabric monitoring and diagnosis.
gement application is right for them -
h deliver application aware management of fabric resources. Applications may be
d to a rate lower than negotiated with the SAN
preferred fails. TIZs use failover by default but it can be disabled if traffic should stop if a preferred
-Series Fibre Channel HBAs, extends B-Series
-series SAN fabric to the server infrastructure. This delivers
-level, fine-grain Quality of Service (QoS) management to the HBAs and related server
• SAO requires B-series HBA installed in the server
• Fabric Vision
• Fabric Watch
• Advanced Performance Monitoring
-preferred path to be used if
QuickSpecs
HPE 8/8 Base SAN Switch and 8/8 SAN Switch Family
Product Highlights
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• ISL Trunking
NOTE:
by MAPS and Flow Vision respectively. Both are included in Fabric Vision.
Fabric Vision
Fabric Vision offers innovative diagnostic, monitoring and management capabilities to help accelerate
new application deployments, address SAN problems before the
operational costs. It Includes
hensive tool that enables administrators to identify, monitor, and analyze
Fabric Vision will be included by default in all
Directors bundled with Power Pack+ (with FOS 7.2.0a and later). In all oth
enabled on
ways
ISL Trunking
For high performance enhanced Trunking, this optional license logically groups up to eight 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 resou
routing connections between switches. Connections are load-balanced across the individual links, which
comprise the logical trunk group.
Advanced Performance
Monitoring
This enabling technology helps administrators monitor and watch specific fabric metrics -- from a SID
(Source ID) to a DID (Destination ID)
Advanced Performance Monitoring includes the ability for early warning detection of hot spots within
the fabric, a powerful tool for maintaining overall balanced performance.
NOTE:
utilize the Fabric Vision licensed Flow Vision features for performance monitoring.
Fabric Watch
Fabric Watch 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 f
parameters permits early fault detection and isolation as well as performance measurement. Each
switch in the SAN needs its own Fabric Watch license.
NOTE:
Watch settings to the Fabric Vison licensed Monitoring and Performance Suite (MAPS) prior to
upgrading
Extended Fabric
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.
SAN Network Advisor
HPE SAN Network Advisor Professional is a management application available at no-charge and comes
Starting with FOS 7.4.0a, Fabric Watch and Advanced Performance Monitor are replaced
y impact operations and reduce
• 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 compre
specific application data flows without using taps to ensure optimized performance
• Health and performance dashboard: A single customizable screen displayed in HPE SAN
Network Advisor that contains all critical SAN information for convenient review and analysis.
HPE StoreFabric B-series Fibre Channel switches and
er cases, Fabric Vision can be
HPE StoreFabric B-series Fibre Channel switches and Directors in any one of the following
• 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
-- so they can fine-tune and scale the fabric more efficiently. Plus,
Advanced Performance Monitoring has been obsoleted in FOS 7.4.0 and later. Users can
abric-wide events, ports, SFPs, and environmental
Fabric Watch has been obsoleted in FOS 7.4.0 and later. Users can migrate their Fabric
.
rce (up to 64 Gbit/s) when
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HPE 8/8 Base SAN Switch and 8/8 SAN Switch Family
Product Highlights
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Professional
with B-series SAN Switches and:
It is targeted for SMB customers that use FOS based SAN fabrics and require a management solution
for smaller SANs based on fabric
SMB customers that initially start off with SAN Network Advisor Professional and have a small SAN
environment may over
Professional+ or SAN Network Advisor
complexity, and as they start to uptake more enterprise
Routing, FCIP, etc.). A non-disruptive upgrade path is available from SAN Network Advisor Professional
to SAN Network Advisor
SAN Network Advisor
Enterprise and
Professional+
HPE SAN Network Advisor Enterprise and Professional+ are the enterprise-class products that support
FOS products as well as FOS and M
complete SN8000B 8
class features/environments such as FICON, Fibre Channel Routing, FCIP, adaptive networking, etc
while
SAN Network Advisor Professional+ provides the same feature set except for support for the
SN8000B 8
HPE
switch ports, while
ports. To accommodate growth, there is an upgrade available to SAN Network Advisor Enterprise from
SAN Network Advisor Professional Plus.
Both offerings provide brand
service, ingress rate limiting and traffic isolation zones.
Full Fabric License for
8/8 SAN Switch
Provides connectivity from zero e-ports to full fabric scaling. Please see the following web site for
further information on supported configurations and SAN scalability:
http://www.hp.com/go/sandesignguide
HPE
8 port upgrade license
Optional 8 port increments on demand licenses for additional connectivity. Enables the 8, 16, and 24
universal (E,F and FL) port progression to scale up.
HPE Smar
3PAR
HPE Smart SAN, optional software for HP 3PAR, makes end-to-end SAN configuration and
management simple and reduces the probability of errors through automation. It is an application
embedded in SAN components (array, host
configuration, settings and policies across the SAN. Smart SAN is only supported with B
Switches, HPE
3PAR through its Target Driven Pe
zoning, resulting in the creation of fewer zones and enables configuration of zones in minutes and not
in hours. Through automation, it reduces the probability of errors and potential downtime. A
information can be found here:
detail.html?oid=8295863#!tab=features
NOTE:
NOTE:
https://h20272.www2.hp.com/spock/
NOTE:
3PAR StoreServ storage.
• Allows management of up to two Fabric OS (FOS) fabric (up to a 300 switch ports and 1000
devices) 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
s.
time feel the need for an enterprise-class product (SAN Network Advisor
Enterprise) as their environments start to grow in size and
-class functionality (such as Fibre Channel
Professional+ or SAN Network Advisor Enterprise.
-EOS products together. SAN Network Advisor Enterprise provides
HPE
-Slot Director, DC SAN Backbone Director, and FICON.
-Slot Director and DC SAN Backbone Director management including enterprise-
SAN Network Advisor Enterprise delivers unprecedented scalability, up to 100 fabrics and 15,000
HPE SAN Network Advisor Professional+ scales to 36 SAN Fabrics and 2560 switch
-new features including Adaptive Networking features for quality of
8/8
t SAN for
s and switches) that enables 3PAR arrays to orchestrate
Supports B-series Brocade 16/8Gb FC switches with FOS 7.4.0a or later.
A list of supported HPE FC Adapters can be found at
Supports 3PAR StoreServ storage with 3.2.2 or later with only 16Gb target ports on HPE
Storefabric Fibre Channel Adapters (HBAs) and 3PAR storage. HPE Smart SAN for
er Zoning (TDPZ) feature enables customers to automate peer
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-series
dditional
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