HPE AM868B, C8R07A Getting Started Guide
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HPE 8/24 SAN Switch
Overview
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HPE 8/24 SAN Switch
The HPE 8/24 SAN Switch delivers affordable and flexible 8 Gb/s connectivity and can be incorporated into an extensive core
fabric or placed as an edge switch for SAN environments. The 8/24 SAN Switch is ideal for entry and SMB cust
simple, yet flexible networked storage connectivity solution that will meet evolving requirements. The 8/24 SAN Switch provid
the needed connectivity and flexibility at a price point that is affordable, while delivering industry
term investment protection. It is a solution that is easy to deploy and requires little management time, reducing operational
The 8/24 Base SAN Switch delivers sixteen high performance auto Sensing 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gb/s Fibre C
yet flexible capabilities
organizations to start small and grow their storage networks in a non
24 enabled ports provides 384 Gb switching (8 Gb full duplex) capacity for un
addition, organizations can choose to initially deploy 4 Gbit/sec SFPs and upgrade to 8 Gbit/sec SFP
necessary.
The 8/24 SAN Switch with 24 enabled ports may be deployed as a full
connectivity into any SAN (the default mode setting is a switch). Access Gateway mode utilizes N_
switch standards to present Fibre Channel connections as logical devices to SAN fabrics. Attaching through NPIV-enabled switches
and directors, the 8/24 SAN Switch with 24 enabled ports in Access Gateway mode can connect to Br
other SAN fabrics. Key benefits of Access Gateway mode include:
An optional enhanced Power Pack+ software bundle can be purchased separately and includes Fabric Vision, Fabric Watch, ISL
Trunking, Extended Fabric and Advanced Per
necessary tools to proactively monitor the health and performance thresholds of the network, while also ensuring the highest levels
of security, scalability and manageability. Po
glass.
HPE 8/24 SAN Switch
What's New
• Updated HPE B-series Network Advisor SKUs to the next suffix (A to B) and added 3 Network Advisor E-LTU SKUs (suffix
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 interchangeable.
omers requiring a
es
-leading performance for long costs.
hannel ports. With powerful
-such as Ports On Demand scalability to 24 ports in an 8-port increment-the 8/24 SAN Switch enables
-disruptive manner. A fully populated 8/24 SAN Switch with
-congested sustained, 8 Gb full duplex throughput. In
+ at a later date when
-fabric switch or in Access Gateway mode, which provides
Port ID Virtualization (NPIV)
ocade, McDATA, Cisco, or
• Improved scalability for large or rapidly growing server and virtual server environments
• Simplified management through the reduction of domains and management tasks
• Fabric interoperability for mixed-vendor SAN configurations that require full functionality
formance Monitor. The software bundle provides the SAN administrator with the
wer Pack+ software enables infrastructure management through a single-pane-of-
AE)
• HPE StoreFabric 8/24 8Gb Bundled Fibre Channel switch
• New RoHS 2016 compliant HPE SAN switches
Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive or RoHS is a directive adopted by the European Union that restricts
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HPE 8/24 SAN Switch
Features and Benefits
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Key Features and Benefits
• Superior Performance
SAN Switch functionality from Embedded to Enterprise. The
- 8Gb/s full duplex performance to enable up to 384 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
• Flexible storage connectivity
- The only SAN solutions providing the complete HPE
HPE B-series line of 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.
• 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
- Interoperability with more than 3 Million 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
- Fabric Watch
• Broadest Range of HPE Packaged SAN Services
• Highest integration with Storage Essentials via:
• Unique Bundle model
- Advanced Performance Monitor
- Extended Fabric
- Mission critical SAN Services SAN-ES
- Assessment and installation services for security
- SAN Switch API
- SAN Switch element managers
- The HPE StoreFabric 8/24 8Gb Bundled Fibre Channel switch model facilitates ease of ordering with more
affordability by offering the HPE 8/24 Base SAN switch along with sixteen 8Gb optical transceivers in one
package
- The HPE StoreFabric 8/24 8Gb Bundled Fibre Channel switch model is offered at a lower price than the sum of
the list prices of the HPE 8/24 Base SAN switch and the 8Gb optical transceiver
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HPE 8/24 SAN Switch
Models
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HPE
HPE 8/24 Base 16-port Enabled SAN Switch
AM868C
HPE StoreFabric 8/24 Bundled FC Switch
C8R07A
HP 8/8 and 8/24 SAN Switch 8-port Upgrade E-LTU
T5518AAE
(Physical License
- T5518A)
HP 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 software licenses in this document are represented by two par
numbers, the first of which is the E-Delivery version (ending with AAE) and the second is the physical version.
8/24 SAN Switch
Some HPE B-series software licenses are now available through the Electronic Delivery (E-Delivery) mechanism. The
t
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Product Highlights
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24 non
Sixteen enabled ports with expandability to 24 ports; auto-sensing 1, 2, 4, or 8 Gb universal, selfconfiguring ports (F, FL, E). Can be programmed to fixed 1 Gb, 2 Gb, 4Gb, or 8Gb speed.
Configuration support
SAN Switch 8/24 will interoperate with 1Gb/s, 2Gb/s, 4 Gb/s, and 8 Gb/s B-Series SAN Switches running
the firmware version defined in the SAN Design Guide: http://www.hp.com/go/sandesignguide
High
features
• Hot Code Load Activation
Advanced Fabric
Services
•
Manageability
• Web Tools
Scal
•
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 B-series 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 Performance
Monitoring.
Advanced Zoning
In the 8 Gb generation of switches, 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
Zone.
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.
-blocking ports
-availability
ability
Adaptive Networking
• ISL Trunking (optional)
• Hardware Enforced Zoning
• Web Tools
• Enhanced Group Management (EGM)
• Fabric Watch (optional)
• Extended Fabric (optional)
• Server Application Optimization (SAO)
• SAN Network Advisor (optional)
• Enhanced Group Management (EGM)
• OpenView
• API
• IP
• SNMP
• Radius
The SAN Switch 8/24 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.
groups and prevent unauthorized access by devices outside the
-capable Web browser from a standard laptop, desktop PC or
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EGM
Enhanced Group Management (EGM) is a FOS license that is included with all B-Series switches and
enables multi
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 t
SAN Network Advisor Professional, Professional Plus, 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
Professional Plus, or Enterprise.
Adaptive Networking
Adaptive Networking (AN) is a 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 bandwidt
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 wi
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 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) improves overall application performance for physical servers
and virtual machines. SAO, when deployed with B
Adaptive Networking from the
application
applications.
Solution Requirements:
Software Components, Optional
Power Pack+ Software
Bundle
Includes bundled license for:
NOTE: Starting with FOS 7.4.0a, Fabric Watch and Advanced Performance Monitor are replaced
-switch operations. It helps automate operations across multiple
roubleshooting for more effective fabric monitoring and diagnosis.
- SAN Network Advisor Professional,
h of a port to be throttled to a rate lower than negotiated with the SAN
thin a fabric on a zone by zone basis. This can be
-Series Fibre Channel HBAs, extends B-Series
B-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
• Extended Fabric
• ISL Trunking
-preferred path to be used if
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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 proble
operational costs. It Includes
ion: A comprehensive 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 late
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 8Gb switch needs its own license. The
switch operating system views the trunk as a single, high b
routing connections between switches. Connections are load-balanced across the individual links, which
comprise the logical trunk group.
Advanced Performance
Monitor
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 spo
the fabric, a powerful tool for maintaining overall balanced performance.
NOTE:
utilize the Fabric Vision licensed Flow Vision features for performance monitorin
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. Mon
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
Professional
HPE SAN Network Advisor Professional is a management application available at no-charge and comes
with B
• Allows management of up to two SAN Fabric OS (FOS) fabrics (up to a 300 B-series switch
ms before they 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 Vis
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
r). In all other 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
andwidth resource (up to 64 Gb) when
ing
-- 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
itoring fabric-wide events, ports, SFPs, and environmental
Fabric Watch has been obsoleted in FOS 7.4.0 and later. Users can migrate their Fabric
.
-series SAN Switches and:
ts within
g.
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ports and 1000 devices) at a time
It is targeted for SMB customers that use FOS based SAN fabrics and require a management solution
for smaller SANs based
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
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 Professional+ or SAN Network Advisor Enterprise.
SAN Network Advisor
Enterprise and
Profess
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.
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 com
configuration, settings and policies across the SAN. Smart SAN is only supported with B
Switches, HPE Storefabric Fibre Channel Adapters (HBAs) and 3PAR storage. HPE Smart S
3PAR through its Target Driven Peer Zoning (TDPZ) feature enables customers to automate peer
zoning, resulting in the creation of fewer zones and enables configuration of zones in minutes and not
in hours. Through automation, it reduces the probabil
information can be found here:
detail.html?oid=8295863#!tab=features
NOTE:
NOTE:
https://h20272.www2.hp.com/spoc
NOTE:
3PAR StoreServ storage.
• Performs group switch management beyond the scope of Web Tools
• Does not offer management of the SN8000B 8-Slot or DC SAN Backbone Directors
= fabrics.
-class product (SAN Network Advisor
Enterprise) as their environments start to grow in size and
-class functionality (such as Fibre Channel
-EOS products together. SAN Network Advisor Enterprise provides
ional+
HPE
-Slot Director, DC SAN Backbone Director, and FICON.
SAN Network Advisor Enterprise delivers unprecedented scalability, up to 100 fabrics and 15,000
-Slot Director and DC SAN Backbone Director management including enterprise-
HPE SAN Network Advisor Professional+ scales to 36 SAN Fabrics and 2560 switch
-new features including Adaptive Networking features for quality of
HPE Smart SAN for
ponents (array, hosts and switches) that enables 3PAR arrays to orchestrate
ity of errors and potential downtime. Additional
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/storage-software/product-
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
k/
Supports 3PAR StoreServ storage with 3.2.2 or later with only 16Gb target ports on HPE
-series
AN for
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