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HP StoreFabric SN8500C Director Switch
For a converged and virtualized environment to exist, there is pressure on the IT organization to manage fewer devices, utilize less
energy and resources, and transfer data faster, all while handling similar or higher volumes of work than a traditional
environment. When large amounts of data need to be transferred between data centers, arrays, or sites, a faster link can allow the
same tasks to be completed in less time.
With virtualization taking a strong hold in the datacenter, and the resulting increase in the storage networking traffic, customers
want high performance, high capacity, and a reliable storage area network (SAN) enabling them to deploy enterprise class
applications. This high density virtualization combined with new storage technologies is driving even higher I/O and bandwidth
requirements in the SAN and this problem is solved with 16Gb Fibre channel switching products and solutions from HP Storage.
The HP StoreFabric C-series SN8500C Director delivers many unique innovations for constructing powerful, large scale storage
networks. With these innovations, users can build highly scalable, always available, high performance storage network solutions
with comprehensive security and unified management. The HP StoreFabric SN8500C 8-slot 16Gb FC Director delivers industryleading scalability and performance (up to 24-Tbps front panel FC switching bandwidth), high port density (up to 384-ports in an
SN8500C 8-Slot Director) and high availability to lower TCO and enable integrated SAN infrastructures. HP delivers the HP
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StoreFabric SN8500C 8-slot 16Gb FC Director with high availability features inherent in the design. The base units include an 8 slot
modular chassis with 2 hot swappable redundant Supervisor 1 Modules, and 6 hot swappable redundant 3000W Power Supplies to
help ensure smooth, continuous operation and non-disruptive upgrade capability. The HP StoreFabric SN8500C 8-slot 16Gb FC
Director also includes 3 hot swappable redundant Fabric 1 Modules making even the backplane fabric both redundant and hotswappable, thereby taking fabric availability to a higher plane. The open expansion slots of the SN8500C Director can be filled by
HP StoreFabric C-series Family Modules, which include a 48-port 16Gb FC Module.
Layered, intelligent features also include integration with fabric-based applications to fabric-wide services for a wide range of
solutions for business continuance, storage virtualization, network assisted backup and information life cycle management.
Key Features and Benefits
Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for SAN Infrastructure
o Enables storage consolidation, simplified management of SAN environment
High Port Density
o 384 Fibre Channel ports (auto-sensing 16/8/4 or 8/4, or 10Gbps) in single chassis
Up to 1152 4/8/16-Gbps Fibre Channel ports in a standard rack
o 384 FCoE Channel ports (autosensing 10Gbps) in single chassis
Up to 1152 10-Gbps FcoE ports in a standard rack
Scalable
o Supports throughput up to 256Gb in a single PortChannel 'ISL Trunk'
Offers 48 to 384 Fibre Channel ports in a single chassis
Offers 48 to 384 FCoE Channel ports in a single chassis
Highly Available
o Grid Redundancy on Power Supply and 1+1 redundant Supervisors
o Users can add additional fabric card to enable N+1 Fabric Redundancy
o Combines non-disruptive software upgrades, stateful process restart and failover, and full redundancy of all
major components
o Supplies 1.5-Tbps in each directions, per slot for full 16Gb line rate performance in all slots
Interoperable
o Broad range of HP servers and operating systems
o Disk and tape storage devices
o Common architectural platform across all SN8500C and MDS9700 family products
Integrated Management
o Unified SAN management: includes built-in storage network management with all features available through a
command-line interface (CLI)
o Provides intelligent diagnostics, protocol decoding, and network analysis tools as well as integrated Call Home
capability for added reliability, faster problem resolution, and reduced service costs.
o Embedded Device Manager
o Integration with Cisco Works Resource Manager Essentials (RME)
Hardware Assisted Encryption Security
Comprehensive network security framework
o Comprehensive security framework consisting of RADIUS and TACACS+, Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP),
Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol, and Simple Network Management Protocol
Version 3 (SNMPv3)
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SN8500C Director
Supports up to 384 ports capable of 16/8/4 Gbps (with the use of the SN8500C FC 48 port Modules).
Supports up to 384 FCoE ports capable of 10-Gbps (with the use of the SN8500C 48 port FCoE
Modules).
Network-based
Intelligent Storage
Applications
Integrated hardware-based VSANs and Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR)
Data replication and backup
Smart Zoning
Security
Supports role-based access control, VSANs, hardware-enforced Zoning, FC-SP, ACLs,
RADIUS authentication and TACACS+, SNMPv3, SSH, SFTP, and IPsec.
High Performance
Up to 24 Terabits/sec total internal system throughput
16Gbps Fibre Channel for ISL connectivity to 8Gbps platforms supporting 10Gb
Port Channels up to 16Gb
Supports data compression
Intelligent network
services
Integrated hardware-based VSANs and Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR):
Virtualization
Data replication
Network-Assisted Back-up IP and FC network acceleration Virtual SANs (VSANs and Inter-
VSAN routing)
Quality of Service (QoS)
Management Security
Embedded Diagnostics
High Availability
Online non-disruptive software upgrades
Stateful process restart/failover
Redundancy of all major components
Hot swappable components including switch fabric modules
Embedded Diagnostics
Provides intelligent diagnostics, protocol decoding and network analysis tools including Fibre Channel
ping and trace route, SPAN, Zone and VSAN merge analysis, and integrated Call Home capability.
Port Channels
Allows users to aggregate up to 16 physical links into one logical bundle. The bundle can consist of any
port in the chassis, ensuring that the bundle remains active in the event of a port, ASIC, or module
failure. The bundle can sustain the failure of any physical link without causing a reset. Additionally,
Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF) multipath provides the intelligence to load balance across up to 16 FC
equal cost paths and, in the event of a switch failure, to dynamically reroute traffic.
Access Control
Hardware-based intelligent frame processing
VSAN-based access control
Role based access control within VSANs
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Hardware-enforced zoning
Traffic management
Virtual Output Queue (VOQ)
Up to 4095 buffer-to-buffer credits
Port Channels (up to 16 ISLs)
Fabric Shortest Path (FSPF) based multipathing
Management modes
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Command Line Interface (CLI)
Cisco Device Manager
Integration with third-party management tools
Cisco Data Center Network Manager
Interoperability
Offers compatibility with a broad range of HP servers and operating systems, as well as disk and tape
storage devices.
Product Family Models
HP StoreFabric SN8500C 8-slot 16Gb FC Director
o Intelligent, multi-protocol 8-slot Director with up to 384 16/8/4 Gb Fibre Channel
ports in a single chassis. Also, the HP StoreFabric SN8500C 48-port 16Gb FC Module
and the included Fabric 1 modules provide up to 384 ports of full 16Gbps line-rate
performance across all ports or 384 10GbE FCoE ports in a single chassis or up to
1152 FCoE ports in a single rack with the use of the SN8500 FCoE module.
HP SN8000C 13-Slot Supervisor 2A Fabric3 Director
o Intelligent, multi-protocol 13-slot Director with up to 528 Auto-Sensing 8/4/2 Gb
Fibre Channel ports in a single chassis. Also, the 32-port 8Gb Advanced Fibre Channel
modules and the included Fabric 3 modules provide up to 352 ports of full 8Gbps
line-rate performance across all ports.
HP SN8000C 6-Slot Supervisor 2A Director
o Intelligent, multi-protocol 6-slot Director with up to 192 Auto-Sensing 8/4/2 Gb Fibre
Channel ports
HP SN6500C 16Gb Multi-service Switch
o Intelligent multi-protocol Fabric Switch with twenty fixed 16Gb Fibre Channel ports,
two fixed 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet FCIP ports, and eight fixed 10 Gigabit Ethernet FCoE
ports. Provides up to forty active 16Gb Fibre Channel ports through a port upgrade
license.
HP MDS 9222i Multilayer Fabric Switch
o Intelligent, multi-protocol modular Fabric Switch with eighteen fixed 4Gb Fibre
Channel ports, four fixed 1Gb Ethernet ports, a four port FCIP software license and an
open modular expansion slot for up to forty-eight 48 additional Fibre Channel ports
or 10Gb Fibre Channel ports for Inter-Switch Links
HP SN6000C 8Gb Fabric Switch
o With up to 48 Auto-Sensing 8/4/2 Gb Fibre Channel ports
o "Pay as you grow" scalability starting at 16 ports
Cisco MDS 8Gb Fabric Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class
o With up to 24 Auto-Sensing 8/4/2 Gb Fibre Channel ports
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o "Pay as you grow" scalability starting at 12 ports
Software Components, Standard
NX-OS
New MDS 9000 NX-OS provides deterministic hardware performance and a comprehensive feature set
that allows virtual machines to have the same SAN attributes as a physical server. The SN8500C
Director with 2 Supervisor 1 modules supports NX-OS 6.2(1) or later. The SN8500C 48port FCoE
Module requires NX-OS 6.2(7) or later.
Cisco Data Center
Network Manager
Cisco Data Center Network Manager is a responsive, easy-to-use Java application that simplifies
management across multiple switches and fabrics. Cisco Data Center Network Manager enables
administrators to perform vital tasks such as topology discovery, fabric configuration and verification,
LUN security, monitoring, and fault resolution. All functions are available through a secure interface,
which enables remote management from any location. Cisco Data Center Network Manager may be
used independently or in conjunction with third-party management applications. Cisco provides an
extensive API for integration with third-party and user developed management tools.
Software Components, Optional
HP StoreFabric SN8500C
Enterprise Package
Cisco MDS switches have a set of advanced traffic engineering and advanced security features that are
recommended for all Enterprise SANs. These features are bundled together in a management
application called the HP StoreFabric SN8500C Enterprise Package (for the SN8500C Director).
HP StoreFabric Data
Center Network Manager
Package
The "Standard" Cisco Data Center Network Manager software that is included at no charge with the
SN8500C Director provides basic switch configuration and troubleshooting capabilities. HP's C-series
StoreFabric Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) Package (for the SN8500C director) extends Cisco
Data Center Network Manager by providing historical performance data collection for network traffic
hot-spot analysis, centralized management services and advanced application integration.
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