HPE E7Y73B Getting Started Guide
QuickSpecs
HPE SN4000B SAN Extension Switch
Ov
erview
1
HPE SN4000B SAN Extension Switch
Today’s IT organizations are under pressure to keep pace with the growing avalanche of data traffic between data centers and the
changes driven by virtualized application workloads.
ith rising Service Level Agreement (SLA)
requirements and recovery expectations, enterprise data centers need their disaster recovery plans to enable fast, continuous
easy access to mission
of data quickly, reliably, and simply while minimizing operational and capital expenses.
SN4000B Extension Switch with Brocade Fabric Vision technology delivers unprecedente
and simplified management to handle the unrelenting growth of data traffic betwee
purpose
IT organizations to future
The
implementing disk and tape data protection solutions. The
The
Trunking, Adaptive Rate Limiting,
Networking and Extended Fabric. Optional value
Accelerator are available to address challenging extension and storage networking requirements in open system and ma
environments.
delivering advanced
as the ability to leverage expertise and training across the data center staff.
What's New
Key Features
Maximize the Value of SANs
• Extensive diagnostics, system-monitoring capabilities, and performance monitoring (including extensive and granular TCP
Faced with this challenge, coupled w
-critical data from anywhere in the world. Ultimately, storage administrators want to replicate large amounts
To address this challenge, the HPE
d performance, continuous availability,
n data centers. The HPE SN4000B is a
-built data center extension solution that maximizes performance and scalability for large, complex environments, allowing
-proof their storage extension infrastructure by adding more throughput capacity as their needs grow.
HPE SN4000B Data Center Extension Switch is a robust platform for large scale, multi-site data center environments
HPE SN4000B Data Center Extension Switch is ideal for:
• Data protection for open systems and mainframe
• Multi-site synchronous and asynchronous storage replication
• Centralized tape backup, recovery, and archiving
HPE SN4000B configuration is a bundle including a comprehensive set of advanced services: Fabric Vision, Extension
ISL Trunking, IPsec, Compression, Open Systems Tape Pipelining (OSTP), Fast Write, Adaptive
-add licenses for Integrated Routing, FICON CUP, and Advanced FICON®
The SN4000B SAN Extension Switch is fully compatible with the entire B-Series family of FC switching platforms,
16 Gbit/sec fabric services end-to-end over distance and providing investment protection for hardware as well
, and
inframe
• FCIP Extension of Fibre Channel SANs provides connectivity over longer distances that would otherwise be
technologically not possible, impractical, and too expensive with native Fibre Channel or when dark fiber resources are
unavailable.
• Achieve bandwidth savings and higher bandwidth utilization via data compression by compressing FC frames before they
are encapsulated into FCIP packets.
Page
QuickSpecs
HPE SN4000B SAN Extension Switch
Overview
Page 2
Superior Performance
Outstanding Scalability and operational flexibility
statistics graphing in Webtools).
• TCP acceleration helps to overcome latency between source and target locations by adjusting the TCP window size and
performing selective acknowledgements.
• Advanced Quality of Service (QoS) techniques can be used to prioritize traffic and guarantee that necessary bandwidth
requirements are met.
• Key protocol features are enabled in the FCIP implementation to optimize performance of SAN extension over IP
networks, including Storage-Optimized TCP.
• FCIP Trunking feature allows multiple IP source and destination address pairs (defined as FCIP circuits) to provide high
bandwidth FCIP tunnel and failover resiliency.
• Adaptive Rate Limiting feature meets minimum bandwidth guarantee for each tunnel while allowing full utilization of the
available network bandwidth without adverse impact to throughput performance during high traffic loads.
• Optional FC Routing delivers fabric isolation in conjunction with FCIP, enabling separate fabrics to share devices without
merging across the IP network.
QuickSpecs
HPE SN4000B SAN Extension Switch
Product Highlights
Page 3
SN4000B
n
Switch
, and storage for
Configuration Support
The
directors. For complete interoperability information please check:
• http://www.hp.com/go/SANdesignguide
Simpl
Brocade Fabric Vision technology provides a breakthrough hardware and software solution that helps
simplify monitoring, maximize network availability, and dramatically reduce costs. Featuring innovative
monitoring, management, and diagnost
to avoid problems before they impact operations, helping their organizations meet SLAs. The
SN4000B Extension Switch supports the following Fabric Vision technology features for storage
e
monitoring and alerting tool that proactively monitors storage extension network health based
Hardware Based
Compression
Hardware-based compression delivers the ability to maximize throughput over lower bandwidth links in
the wide area
multiple modes to optimize compression ratios for various throughput requirements.
IPSec
mix of secure and non
connections.
SAN Extensio
• 24 Fibre Channel ports with link speeds of 4, 8, and 16 Gbps, compatible with short
wavelength (SWL), long wavelength (LWL) and extended long wavelength (ELWL) SFP+
transceivers
• Sixteen 1 GbE/10 GbE ports, compatible with copper, ultra short reach (USR), short reach (SR)
and long reach (LR) SFP/SFP+ transceivers
• Two 40 GbE ports, compatible with short reach (SR) and long reach (LR) QSFP transceivers
• Rack-mountable 2U chassis
• One RJ-45 Ethernet management port with 10/100/1000 Mbps auto negotiating capability
• One USB port that provides storage for firmware updates, switch support data
configuration uploads and downloads
HPE SN4000B SAN Extension Switch is fully compatible with the B-series FC switches and
• http://www.hp.com/go/SANdesign
ified Management
ic capabilities, Fabric Vision technology enables administrators
xtension management:
• Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS): Provides a pre-built, policy-based threshold
on a comprehensive set of metrics at tunnel, circuit, and QoS layers. Administrators can
configure multiple fabrics at one time using pre-defined or customized rules and policies for
specific ports or switch elements.
• Fabric Performance Impact (FPI) Monitoring: Uses pre-defined thresholds and alerts in
conjunction with MAPS to automatically detect and alert administrators to severe levels of
latency and identifies slow drain devices that might impact the network. This feature uses
advanced monitoring capabilities and intuitive MAPS dashboard reporting to indicate various
latency severity levels, pinpointing exactly which devices are causing or impacted by a
bottlenecked port.
• Dashboards: Provides integrated dashboards that display an overall SAN health view, along
with details on out-of-range conditions, to help administrators easily identify trends and
quickly pinpoint issues occurring on a switch or in a fabric.
HPE
network, optimizing the cost efficiencies of FCIP. The SN4000B Extension Provides
The HPE SN4000B SAN Extension Switch IPSec function is capable of supporting both Ipv4 and Ipv6,
-secure tunnels on the same GE port, jumbo frames, and VLAN tagged
QuickSpecs
HPE SN4000B SAN Extension Switch
Product Highlights
Page 4
Scalability
Refer to the guidelines described in the Heterogeneous Open SAN Design Reference Guide available
at: http://www.hp.com/go/SANdesignguide
Cabinet Support
HPE
42U, and 47U) 11000 G2 Series racks.
NOTE: To order factory integration, add 0D1 after the part number on your sales order.
Software Components, Standard
Fabric Vision
Fabric Vision offers innovative diagnostic, monitoring and management capabilities to help accelerate
new application deployments, address SAN problem
operational costs. It Includes
on: 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 later).
enabled on
ways
Fabric Watch
Fabri
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
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
Advanced Performance
Monitoring
This optional enabling technology
helps administrators monitor
and watch specific fabric metrics
tune and scale the fabric more efficiently. Plus, Advanced Performance Monitoring inc
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
(22U, 36U and 42U) 10000 G2 Series and the Intelligent Series racks and HPE (14U, 22U, 36U,
• Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite: A policy-based monitoring tool with pre-built rules and
• Flow Visi
• Health and performance dashboard: A single customizable screen displayed in HPE SAN
• 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)
s before they impact operations and reduce
automation that simplifies fabric-wide threshold configuration and monitoring.
specific application data flows without using taps to ensure optimized performance
Network Advisor that contains all critical SAN information for convenient review and analysis
HPE StoreFabric B-series Fibre Channel switches and
In all other cases, Fabric Vision can be
HPE StoreFabric B-series Fibre Channel switches and Directors in any one of the following
and Fabric Watch (FW) licenses to FOS 7.2.0a or later
c Watch is an optional license which comes bundled with the SN4000B and
-wide events, ports, SFPs, and environmental parameters permits early fault detection and
Fabric Watch has been obsoleted in FOS 7.4.0 and later. Users can migrate their Fabric
.
comes bundled with the SN4000B and
-- from a SID (Source ID) to a DID (Destination ID) -- so they can fineludes the ability
QuickSpecs
HPE SN4000B SAN Extension Switch
Product Highlights
Page 5
reconfiguration.
NOTE:
utilize the Fabric Vision licensed Flow Vision features for performance monitoring
Extended Fabric
Optional license which
and performance benefits of Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SANs) beyond the native 10 km
distance specified by the Fibre Channel standard.
ISL Trunking
For high performance enhanced Trunking this optional license
SN
16
bandwidth resource (up to 128Gb) when routing connections between 16G switches.
SAN Network Advisor
Professional
HPE
comes
with B
It is targeted for SMB customers that use FOS based SAN fabrics and require a management sol
for smaller SAN based 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
Professional+ or SAN Networ
complexity, and as they start to uptake more enterprise
Routing, FCIP, etc.). A non
or Professional
to SAN Network Advisor Professional+ or SAN Network Advisor Enterprise.
SAN Network Advisor
Enterprise and
Professional+
HPE SAN Network Advisor Enterprise and Professional+ are the enterprise
FOS products. S
management including enterprise
FCIP, adaptive networking, etc while HPE SAN Network Advisor Professional+ provides th
feature set except for support for the SN8000B 8
HPE SAN Network Advisor Enterprise delivers unprecedented scalability, up to 100 fabrics and 15,000
switch ports, while HPE SAN Network Advisor Pro
ports. To accommodate growth, there is an upgrade available to SAN Network Advisor Enterprise from
SAN Network Advisor Professional Plus.
WebTools
Web Tools is an intuitive and easy
and manage SAN fabrics.
standard laptop, desktop PC or workstation from any location within the enterprise.
Software Components, Optional
Integrated Routing
Integrated Routing is an optional license which provides native Fibre Channel Routing (FCR) 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
Advanced Performance Monitoring has been obsoleted in FOS 7.4.0 and later. Users can
.
comes bundled with the SN4000B and extends all of the scalability, reliability,
, which comes bundled with the
4000B, logically aggregates E-ports to provide a high bandwidth trunk between two switches. Each
Gb switch needs its own license. The switch operating system views the trunk as a single, high
SAN Network Advisor Professional is a management application available at no-charge and
-series SAN Switches and:
• Allows management of 2 Fabric OS (FOS) fabrics (up to a 300 switch ports and 1000 devices)
• Performs group switch management beyond the scope of Web Tools
• Does not offer management of the SN8000B 8-Slot or DC SAN Backbone Directors
ution
s.
-class product (SAN Network Advisor
k Advisor Enterprise) as their environments start to grow in size and
-class functionality (such as Fibre Channel
-disruptive upgrade path is available from SAN Network Advis
AN Network Advisor Enterprise provides complete SN8000B 8-Slot Director
-class features/environments such as FICON, Fibre Channel Routing,
-Slot Director, DC SAN Backbone Director, and FICON.
Tasks can be performed through a Java-capable Web browser from a
-to-use graphical interface that enables organizations to monitor
fessional+ scales to 36 SAN Fabrics and 2560 switch
-class products that support
e same
QuickSpecs
HPE SN4000B SAN Extension Switch
Product Highlights
Page 6
selective device sharing while maintaining remote fabric isolation. Integrated Routing provides
architecture flexibility to route on a port
HPE
SN4000B 10Gb WAN
Rate
StoreFabric SN4000B
40Gb WAN Rate
Upgrade Licenses
HPE
optional license
increase the maximum available aggregate bandwidth for all tunnels to 10Gbps while the 40Gb WAN
Rate Upgrade license will increase the maximum available aggregate bandwidth for all tunne
4
FICON
Optional software allows FICON Switching to provide Fibre Channel and FICON intermix, FICON Control
Unit Port (CUP), and FICON cascading for more than one B
environments. The license feature provides
designed to allow mainframe applications to perform configuration, monitoring, management and
statistics collection. These applications include System Automation for OS/390 (SA/390), Dynamic
Channel Mana
FICON and FCP port zoning enhances separation with intermix operation.
HPE Smart SAN for
3PAR
HPE Smart SAN, optional software for HP 3PAR, makes end
management simple and reduces the probability of errors through automation. It is an application
embedded in SAN components (array, hosts and switches) that enables 3PAR arrays to orchestrate
configuration, settings and policies across the SAN. Sma
Switches, HPE Storefabric Fibre Channel Adapters (HBAs) and 3PAR storage. HPE Smart SAN for
3PAR through its Target Driven Peer Zoning (TDPZ) feature enables customers to automate peer
zoning, resulting in the creatio
in hours. Through automation, it reduces the probability of errors and potential downtime. Additional
information can be found here:
detail.html?oid=8295863#!tab=features
NOTE:
NOTE:
https://h20272.www2.hp.com/spock/
NOTE:
3PAR StoreServ storage.
-by-port basis, enabling increased scalability and fault isolation.
StoreFabric
Upgrade and HPE
StoreFabric SN4000B 10Gb WAN Rate and HPE StoreFabric SN4000B 40Gb WAN Rate are
s which enable additional WAN throughput. The 10Gb WAN Rate Upgrade license will
ls to
0Gbps.
-Series SAN Director in XP Storage Array
Control Unit Port (CUP) in-band management function
gement Facility (DCM) and Resource Management Facility (RMF). Hardware- enforced
-to-end SAN configuration and
rt SAN is only supported with B-series
n of fewer zones and enables configuration of zones in minutes and not
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
Supports 3PAR StoreServ storage with 3.2.2 or later with only 16Gb target ports on HPE
Loading...