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HPE StoreFabric SN1600

32Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter

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HPE StoreFabric SN1600 32Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter

capabilities make 32Gb Fibre Channel adapters well suited for to deliver on SLA requirements and application performance.

What's New

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Key Features and Benefits

Performance

Up to two ports of Gen6 FC delivers 1.6 million1 IOPS and 12,800MBps bandwidth across two 32GFC

fabrics to speed SAN deployment

application and database transactions per second, enables faster large block transfers and increases the
number of VMs that can be supported per server.

Reduced power

Latest generation technology saves power by pausing the SFP when activity is not present Gbps per

Channel adapters.

Support for greater

Higher bandwidth and ability to virtualize physical ports with QoS in the adapter, make these adapters

a higher return on IT investment.

Connectivity to HPE
Server and Storage

Provides an HPE-branded HBA solution which has undergone extensive HPE interoperability testing

NOTE: The HPE SN1600E delivers 1.6 million IOPS on a single port or in aggregate across both ports.

ExpressLane LUN

The SN1600E HBAs enable I/O prioritization of physical or virtual server to a LUN or a group of LUNs

OneCommand management software downloadable from HPE Software Downloads.

NVMe over Fibre

HPE 32Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters are NVMe-enabled to support emerging NVM Express

The HPE StoreFabric 32Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters are designed to support ProLiant Servers with PCI-Express I/O slots
to connect to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Storage Arrays using the 32/16/8 Gb Fibre Channel protocol.

The HPE 32GFC Host Bus Adapters bring datacenter infrastructure components to a higher level of performance and efficiency
with the ability to deliver twice the bandwidth performance of 16Gb HBAs at lower latency. A 32GFC HBA purchased today is
backward compatible with 16Gb and 8Gb storage networks and will protect future investments. When using storage intensive
applications, such as backup/restore, database transactions, virtualization, and rich media, the increased performance of the 32GFC
infrastructure enables rapid storage and retrieval of critical information. Designed for environments with greater virtual machine
density and bandwidth requirements, the 32GFC HBAs enable more applications and VMs to run on a single host server and Fibre
Channel port, resulting in reduced cabling and a higher return on IT investment. Enhanced diagnostics and orchestration

HPE ProLiant Gen10 Servers support

ports. Enhanced reliability, diagnostics, and accelerated deployment powered by Gen 6 Fibre Channel
ASIC.

Advanced integration with HPE StoreFabric B-series Gen 5 and Gen 6
and configuration, speed and simplify SAN diagnostics, improve SAN resiliency and Quality of Service.

Best combination of Fibre Channel IOPS, latency and throughput performance enables increased

consumption

Server Virtualization

watt increased 100% providing better power consumption compared to previous generations of Fibre

ideal for high density server virtualization environments for increased scalability. Enables more

applications and VMs to run on a single server and Fibre Channel port, resulting in reduced cabling and

for connecting HPE ProLiant servers into HPE Storage and networking environments.

Prioritization

ensuring priority delivery in high-traffic or congested storage networks. Managed with the Emulex

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HPE StoreFabric SN1600 32Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter

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Channel Ready

(NVMe) over Fibre Channel storage networks.

Active Health System

All HPE 32GFC adapters support HPE ProLiant Active Health System integration. This helps
administrators accurately troubleshoot and resolves problem within the server faster.

Smart SAN support

Smart SAN is a protocol agnostic application embedded in SAN components that enables the 3PAR to

the near future.

Secure Firmware
download

The SN1600E delivers enhanced security via the new secure firmware update feature which protects

T10 Protection
Information (T10-PI)

HPE 32GFC adapters support T10-PI for enhanced data integrity when connected to T10-PI enabled

Forward error
correction (FEC)

FEC is enabled and improved at 32GFC as required by the FC Specification, automatically correcting

Class-specific Control
(CS_CTL)

QoS capability that enables administrators to prioritize storage traffic to meet the needs of critical VM

Link cable beaconing
(LCB)

LED beaconing for ports on both ends of a physical link simplifies cable identification and management.

D-Port Diagnostics

Quickly run automated diagnostic tests in a single step, across multiple adapters, servers, and fabric
components to assess connectivity. Optics and cable problems are identified and resolved.

FDMI,FC Ping, FC Trace
Route

Quickly check connectivity to SAN devices and query the switch management server for in-depth

Read Diagnostic
Parameters (RDP)

Identify the source of network and media errors like cyclic redundancy check (CRC) and loss of sync

Fabric-assigned Port

(FA_WWN)

Using SN1600Q, administrators can preconfigure WWN settings at the switch port allowing Fibre

abric. This allows

Fabric-based Boot LUN
(F_BLD)

Allows SN1600Q to acquire Boot-LUN information directly from Gen 5 16Gb or Gen 6 32GFCswitch,

orchestrate configuration, settings and policies in a SAN. HPE Smart SAN’s Target Driven Zoning
enables you to configure zones accurately in minutes and not in hours and its automatic discovery
mechanism creates a powerful platform which would enable real-time diagnostics with self-healing in

and ensures the authenticity of device firmware.

arrays like HPE 3PAR StoreServ.

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transmission errors and improving network performance and resiliency.

workloads.

details on connected devices. Trace Route capability supported on SN1600Q.

(LOS) by remotely accessing diagnostic information from anywhere in the fabric.

Channel adapter to acquire port WWN address from the Gen 5 16Gb or Gen 6 32GFCf
SAN administrator to configure SAN zoning without need for servers to be present.

speeding up deployment of new servers in a SAN environment.

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