HPE QK711B Getting Started Guide
QuickSpecs
series SAN Director Switch Family
Overview
Page 1
Today we are witnessing continued exponential growth of mission-critical and business-critical workloads, increased server
virtualization and accelerating all
rel
demands, organizations need to deploy infrastructure that can deliver greater consistency, predictability, and performance. F
with ex
growing business demands, organizations need to deploy infrastructure that can deliver greater consistency, predictability, a
perform
rapidly increasing cost
next
Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) over Fabrics will provide even greater value through
significant performance gains. As companies redefine application performance with flash storage, they require networks that d
ultra-low latency, higher capacity bandwidth, and greater reliability.
HPE StoreFabric B-series SAN Director Switch Family
The
breakthrough pe
HPE StoreFabric SN8600B
HPE offers the most complete and comprehensive Gen 6 (32Gb)
Director
operational stability, easy manageability and redefining application performance. Breakthrough 32 Gbps performance acceler
application response time, eliminating I
based
storage.
pluggable components and a no
class director for today’s storage
infrastructure.
The HPE SN8600B SAN Director is available in two modular form factors to increase business agility
connectivity and flexible deployment offerings.
Each blade slot can be popu
The chassis connectivity leverages optical Inter-Chassis Links (ICLs), which provide 128 Gbps bandwidth through a QSFP link.
HPE StoreFabric B-
-flash storage technologies that have an ever-increasing requirement for 100% availability and
iability leading to infrastructure complexity and growing management costs. To meet these dynamic and growing business
ponential data growth, the network must evolve to enable businesses to thrive in this new era. To meet these dynamic and
ance. The newest and most exciting storage advancement today is flash-based storage. The unprecedented speed and
-effectiveness of flash-based products are dramatically accelerating data center transformation. Tomorrow,
-generation flash storage based on Non-
aced
nd
eliver
HPE StoreFabric SAN Directors are the industry's leading Fibre Channel switching infrastructure solutions, combining
rformance, scalability, simplified manageability and energy efficiency with long-term investment protection.
32Gb SAN Directors
s combines innovative hardware, software, and integrated network sensors, ensuring the industry’s highest level of
SAN Director products. The SN8600B Gen 6 (32Gb) SAN
/O bottlenecks and unleashes the full performance of flash and next generation NVMe-
They consistently deliver five-9s availability in the world’s most demanding data centers. And with non-disruptive, hot-
-single-point-of-failure design, the SN8600B is truly the enterprise-
• Built for large enterprise networks, the SN8600B 8-slot Director is a 14U chassis and has eight vertical blade slots to
provide up to 384 32 Gbps Fibre Channel device ports and 32 additional 128 Gbps Inter-Chassis Link (ICL) ports. This
provides up to 16.2 Tbps of chassis bandwidth to address next-generation I/O- and bandwidth-intensive applications.
• Built for midsize networks, the SN8600B 4-slot Director has four horizontal blade slots to provide up to 192 32 Gbps Fibre
Channel device ports and 16 additional 128 Gbps ICL ports. This provides up to 8Tbps of aggregate chassis bandwidth
and are ideal foundation for highly virtualized environments.
with seamless storage
ates
lated with two optional blades
• For device connectivity, the HPE StoreFabric 48-port Fibre Channel port blade provides 48 32 Gbps Fibre Channel ports.
This is available in 2 options - Bundled with 48 32Gb SFP+ and Standard configuration (without SFP+).
• To support disaster recovery and data protection storage solutions over long distances, the HPE StoreFabric SAN
Extension Blade provides 16-port for 32 Gbps Fibre Channel connectivity, 16-port for 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE)
connectivity, and 2-ports for 40 GbE connectivity for Fibre Channel and IP replication traffic. This is available in 2 options Bundled with (16) 32Gb SFP+ and Standard configuration (without SFP+).
QuickSpecs
HPE StoreFabric B-series SAN Director Switch Family
Product Highlights
Page 2
These links can support up to 2 kilometers and connect up to 8 SN8600B Directors, enabling flatter, faster, and simpler fabrics that
increase consolidation while reducing network complexity and costs.
ICLs enable scalable core
switch
cabling by 75 percent and free up to 25 percent of ports for servers and storage. This maximizes overall port density within
smallest amount of rack space w
The SN8600B 8
SN8600B 4
backward
(4×16).
The Power Pack+ set of tools monitors the network's health and performance. It is pre
Slot Director
and SN8
enabling infrastructure management through a single
Software)
degraded application performance at host and storage tiers, reducing time to resolution.
IO Insight proactively monitors IO performance and behavior through integrated network sensors, providing deep insight into
problems
device port, which feeds a monitoring policy that measures thresholds and generates alerts. Integrated application
IO latency and IOPS monitoring provides the ability to baseline application performance and detect degraded performance.
Integrated network sensors provide IO performance management that is designed to avoid dependence on invasive and disruptive
physical t
For investment protection, HPE SN8600B Directors offer three generations of backward
8, and 16 Gbps Fibre Channel products. Furthermore, the SN8600B Directors supports future Fibre Channel generations as a
ready storage networking platform and allows for current Gen 6 and future generation switch blade modules to be added within
chassis
-edge and active-active mesh chassis topologies. These high-density chassis topologies reduce inter-
-slot Director supports 32 ICL ports, providing the equivalent of 128 32 Gbps ports (4.096 Tbps), and the
-slot Director supports 16 ICL ports, providing the equivalent of 64 32 Gbps ports (2.048 Tbps). SN86000B ICLs are
-compatible and can connect to SN8000B ICL ports, including connectivity with 2 km QSFPs at Gen 5 speeds of 16 Gbps
hile freeing up front-facing device ports for server and storage connectivity.
Also, SN8600B ICLs allow multi-director connectivity without the Enterprise ICL license anymore.
600B 4-Slot Director. Power Pack+ also provides the foundation for integration into HPE storage management tools,
-pane-of-glass. The Fabric Vision technology (Included in HPE PowerPack+
-configured on every SN8600B 8-
now includes IO Insight Software, which provides deeper visibility into the performance enabling quick identification of
and helping to ensure service levels. This capability non-disruptively and non-intrusively gathers IO statistics from any
- and device-level
aps.
-compatibility support for connectivity to 4,
.
the
Gen 7
the
QuickSpecs
HPE StoreFabric B-series SAN Director Switch Family
Product Highlights
Page 3
HPE StoreFabric SN8600B 8-slot 32Gb SAN Director
HPE StoreFabric SN8600B 4-slot 32Gb SAN Director
HPE StoreFabric SN8000B 16Gb SAN Director
The SN8000B Directors were designed to unleash the full potential of private cloud storage and virtualization. With
scalability
and port density
transforming current SAN fabrics into cloud
HPE SN8000B
Director
is
,
performance, and functionality. The SN8000B 4
8Gb and 16Gb Fibre Channel blades
for mid
The SN8000B SAN Directors provide up to
provide up to 32 QSFP based Inter Chassis Links (ICLs) which are equivalent to 128 16Gb FC ports
C
1024
HPE
for 16/10/8/4/2 Gbps Fibre Channel, FICON, FCIP
To help
percent uptime in the world's most demanding data centers.
The Power Pack+ set of tools monitors the network's health and performance. It is pre-configured on every SN8000B 8-Slot Director
a 14U chassis and supports 8Gb and 16Gb Fibre Channel blades for large enterprises to deliver higher scalability and port density
-size enterprises as the core of their SANs.
hannel blade options including 32, 48 and 64 port 16Gb blades. They provide up to 10.2Tbps of total aggregate bandwidth and
Gbps of slot bandwidth and are the ideal foundation for private cloud storage and highly virtualized environments.
SN8000B SAN Directors offer multi-protocol support through various blades with autosensing support, depending on model,
reduce downtime costs, SN8000B SAN Directors leverage the core B-series technology performing at greater than 99.999
, 16 Gbps performance, reliability, and functionality, the SN8000B Directors are the strategic platform for
-optimized SANs.
SAN Directors are based on the same core technology and consist of two form factors. The SN8000B 8-Slot
-Slot Director is a 9U chassis and also supports
512 16Gb FC ports using the 64-port 16Gb Fibre Channel Blade. These directors also
and FCoE.
. They support a range of Fibre
higher
QuickSpecs
HPE StoreFabric B-series SAN Director Switch Family
Product Highlights
Page 4
and is available pre-configured or as an upgrade for every SN8000B 4-Slot Director. Power Pack+ also provides the foundation for
integration into
Features exclusively available on the SN8000B SAN Directors:
The following features are available on HPE SN8000B
c Operating System
functional and stress testing of
HPE SN8000B 8-Slot SAN Director
HPE SN8000B 4-Slot Director
HPE storage management tools, enabling infrastructure management through a single-pane-of-glass.
-
• A 64-port 16Gb FC High Density Blade for the SN8000B is available offering high density port counts. It scales up to 512
16Gbps ports with a total system bandwidth of 10.2 Tbps. Compared to the 64 port 8Gb FC blade, the new 64-port 16Gb
FC blade increases port density by 33%, reduces cabling by 75% and lowers TCO by providing the lowest Watts/Gb.
• There is a common ICL POD (Ports on Demand) license between SN8000B 8-Slot and 4-Slot chassis. A single ICL POD
license will enable 16 QSFP ICLs or 1Tbps of bandwidth in both SN8000B 8-Slot and 4-Slot Director. A subsequent ICL
POD license will enable an additional 16 QSFP ICLs or 1Tbps in SN8000B 8-Slot Director. The optional Enterprise ICL POD
license allows you to connect four or more other SN8000B Director Chassis using ICLs.
SN8000B SAN Directors allow customers to configure a port on the 16Gb 32-port and 48-port blades at 10Gb FC speed.
•
The 10Gb port speed setting is not supported on the 16Gb 64-port blade. This is available for DWDM metro connectivity
and will be enabled by a slot based 10GE license.
• SN8000B SAN Directors provide features like in-flight encryption and compression as part of base Fabri
(FOS) with any 16Gb blade. The Diagnostic Port (D-Port) Optic Health Monitoring provides
cables and optics. They use the capabilities of FOS, Director ASIC, and B-series 16Gb optics and are available on 16Gb port
blades with 16Gb B-series optics without any additional software license.
QuickSpecs
HPE StoreFabric B-series SAN Director Switch Family
Product Highlights
Page 5
What's New
• Introducing HPE StoreFabric SN8600B 32Gb SAN Director with Gen 6 (32Gb) capabilities to redefine application
HPE StoreFabric SAN
Director Highlights
HPE SN8600B 32Gb SAN Director
They are purpose
application demands.
performance and
capacity, greater throughput, and higher levels of resiliency.
HPE
cloud storage and highly virtualized environments. They are designed to increase business agility while
providing non
SN8000B direct
performance metro and
comprehensive diagnostics, monitoring, and automation
performance with simplified manageability and greater reliability
-built for Enterprise deployments to meet relentless growth and mission-critical
SN8600B With Gen 6 (32Gb) Fibre Channel, delivers unmatched 32Gb
• Enhances operational stability, maximizes application performance, and increases business
agility with enterprise-class Gen 6 directors
• Consolidates infrastructure with 128 Gbps ICL connectivity for simpler, flatter, low-latency
fabrics
• Simplifies end-to-end management of large-scale environments by automating monitoring
and diagnostics
• Automatically detects degraded application or device performance through integrated
network sensors
• Extends replication over distance with a highly scalable extension solution for Fibre Channel,
IP, and FICON
• Simplifies configuration automation and enables integrated advanced services across the
Fabric with standard REST APIs
• Seamlessly integrates next-generation NVMe over Fabrics with Gen 6 Fibre Channel networks
without a disruptive rip and replace
• Mitigates risk with backward-compatibility while further protecting future investments with
Gen 7-ready support
are the right platform for large enterprise environments that require increased
The SN8600B SAN Director.
SN8000B 16Gb SAN Director
They provide a reliable, scalable, high-performance Fibre Channel switching foundation for private
-stop access to information and reducing infrastructure and administrative costs. The
or family:
• Unleashes the full potential of private cloud storage with unmatched scalability, performance,
and reliability
• Enables simpler, flatter, low-latency chassis connectivity to reduce network complexity,
management, and costs
• Optimizes data center connectivity over distance with integrated high-
global connectivity
• Simplifies and centralizes end-to-end Storage Area Network (SAN) management with
QuickSpecs
HPE StoreFabric B-series SAN Director Switch Family
Product Highlights
Page 6
• Maximizes performance for I/O- and bandwidth-intensive applications with more than seven
Performance
• SN8600B 32Gb 8-slot SAN Director
of Inter Chassis Link (ICL) bandwidth (freeing up to 128 16 Gb ports for server,
SAN scalability
The SN8600B 8-Slot Director scales up to 384 32 Gbps ports or a 512-port equivalent with 128 Gbps
(4×32 Gbps) ICL ports (32 Gbps× 4 QSFP ports)
The SN8600B 4
(4×32 Gbps) ICL ports (32
The SN8000B 8
The SN8000B 4
Please see the following web sit
http://www.hp.com/go/sandesignguide
High-availability features
• Redundant, hot-swappable components
Advanced Fabric
•
times the performance of competitive offerings
•
- Up to 384 ports (equivalent to 512 with ICLs) at 32 Gb speed
- 16 Tbps aggregate chassis bandwidth
- 32 ICL ports, providing the equivalent of 128 32 Gbps ports (4.096 Tbps),
- 1.5 Tbps bandwidth per slot, providing line-rate performance for the HPE SN8600B
48-port blade
• SN8600B 32Gb 4-Slot SAN Director
- Up to 192 ports (equivalent to 256 with ICLs) at 32 Gb speed
- 8 Tbit/s aggregate chassis bandwidth
- 16 ICL ports, providing the equivalent of 64 32 Gbps ports (2.048 Tbps)
- 1.5 Tbps bandwidth per slot, providing line-rate performance for the HPE SN8600B
48-port blade
• SN8000B 16Gb 8-Slot SAN Director
- 512 ports operating simultaneously at full 16Gb speed (maximum)
- 10.2 Tbps of chassis bandwidth
- 2 Tbps
storage, and fabric connections)
• SN8000B 16Gb 4-Slot Director
- 256 ports operating simultaneously at full 16Gb speed (maximum)
- 5.1 Tbps of chassis bandwidth
- 1 Tbps of Inter Chassis Link (ICL) bandwidth (freeing up to 64 16 Gb ports for server,
storage, and fabric connections)
in a single switch domain.
-Slot Director scales up to 192 32 Gbps ports or a 256-port equivalent with 128 Gbps
Gbps × 2 QSFP ports) in a single switch domain.
-Slot Director scales up to 512 16 Gbps ports in a single switch domain.
-Slot Director scales up to 256 16 Gbps ports in a single switch domain.
e for SAN configuration support information:
.
• Separate Control Processor (CP) and Core (CR) switching blades
• No active components on the backplane
• Redundant hot swappable power and cooling subsystems
• Enhanced data integrity on all data paths
• Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF) rerouting around failed links
• Integration with SNMP managers
• Automatic Control Processor fail over
• Non-disruptive "hot" software code loads and activation
• Easy configuration, save and restore
Fabric Vision (Includes IO Insight Software for SN8600B Gen 6 Director)
QuickSpecs
HPE StoreFabric B-series SAN Director Switch Family
Product Highlights
Page 7
Services
• ISL Trunking
NOTE:
unctionality and
SAO
no longer required at or
after this version.
Cabinet Support
HPE (22U, 36U, and 42U) 10000 G2 Series, the Intelligent Series racks and HPE (14U, 22U, 36U,
42U, and 47U) 11000 G2 Series racks.
NOTE: To order factory integration, add 0D1 after the part number on your sales order.
NOTE: A maximum of two B-series SAN Director switches currently are supported to ship configured
to order from the factory in a 42U, 10000 (10KG2) and Intelligent Series cabinet. However, 220V
PDUs must be configured because 110V PDUs are not supported.
Software Components, Standard
Remote Switch
The Remote Switch fabric functions with the aid of a bridging device, or network bridge. The network
bridge supports Fibre Channel physical interfaces, as well as secondary non
physical interfaces.
Frame Filtering
An ASIC based capability in the 4 Gb, 8 Gb, and 16 Gb family of SAN switches that enables new
applications and features. The switch has the ability to "view" the first 64
frame. At this time, Frame Filtering enables advanced capabilities such as Advanced Zoning.
Advanced Zoning
WWN Zoning and Access Control are included in the SN8600B and SN8000B SAN Directors hardware.
Administrators can organize a physical fabric into logical groups and prevent unauthorized access by
devices outside the Zone.
WebTools
WebTools is an intuitive and easy-to-use graphical interface that enables organizations to install and
configure an
configuration and basic management tasks by using a Java
laptops, desktop PCs, or workstations from any location within the enterprise.
SAN Director Power
Pack+ Software Bundle
The SAN Director Power Pack+ Software bundle includes:
• Fabric Vision
NOTE:
MAPS and Flow Vision respectively. Both are included in Fabric Vision
NOTE:
Base SAN Director (AR478A, AR478B, AR478C)
• Hardware Enforced Zoning
• Frame Filtering
• Web Tools
• Enhanced Group Management (EGM)
• End-to-End Performance Analysis
• Extended Fabrics
• Adaptive Networking
• SAN Network Advisor
• HPE Intelligent Infrastructure Analyzer Software (IIAS)
Fabric Watch is superseded by Fabric Vision in FOS 7.4. Adaptive Networking f
functionality became part of the base FOS in version 7.2 and licenses are
-Fibre Channel FCIP
-bytes of the Fibre Channel
SN8600B or SN8000B SAN Director. SAN administrators can perform the initial
-capable Web browser from standard
• Extended Fabric
• ISL Trunking
Starting with FOS 7.4.0a, Fabric Watch and Advanced Performance Monitor are replaced by
Optional software for the SN8000B 4-Slot (QK712A, QK712B, QK712C, QK712D) and DC04
QuickSpecs
HPE StoreFabric B-series SAN Director Switch Family
Product Highlights
Page 8
Fabric Vision
Fabric Vision offers innovative diagnostic, monitoring and management capabilities to help accelerate
new application deployments, address SAN problems before they impact operations and reduce
operational costs. It Includes
built rules
:
Fabric Vision will be included by default in all
Directors bundled with Power Pack+ (with FOS 7.2.0a and later). In all other cases, Fabric Vision can
enabled on
ways
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.
FICON Support
Optional FICON CUP license which enables host control of switches in mainframe environments. FICON
Accelerator is an optional software license that increases the speed of FICON disk and tape read and
writes, while maintaining the integrity of command and acknowledgement sequences.
ISL Trunking
For high performance enhanced ISL connectivity, this license logically groups up to eight E-ports to
provide a high bandwidth trunk between two switches. Each
The switch operating system views the trunk as a single, high bandwidth resource (up to 64 Gb
Gb, or up to 128 Gb
switches. Connections are load
group.
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:
• Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS): A policy-based monitoring tool with pre-
and automation that simplifies fabric-wide threshold configuration and monitoring. In addition,
administrators can include IO Insight (Available on SN8600B) metrics in MAPS policies to
understand the IO profile as well as to be notified of storage IO performance degradation.
• Configuration and Operational Monitoring Policy Automation Services Suite (COMPASS):
Simplifies deployment, safeguards consistency, and increases operational efficiencies of larger
environments with automated switch and fabric configuration services. Administrators can
configure a template or adopt an existing configuration to seamlessly deploy a configuration
across the fabric.
• ClearLink® Diagnostics
cables, simplifying deployment and support of high-performance fabrics. ClearLink Diagnostic
Port (D_Port) is an advanced capability of Fibre Channel platforms.
• Flow Vision: A comprehensive tool that enables administrators to identify, monitor, and analyze
specific application data flows in order to simplify troubleshooting, maximize performance, and
avoid congestion 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
• Forward Error Correction (FEC):
ISLs, enhancing transmission reliability and performance.
HPE StoreFabric B-series Fibre Channel switches and Directors in any one of the following
Ensures optical and signal integrity for Fibre Channel optics and
Enables recovery from bit errors in device connections and
HPE StoreFabric B-series Fibre Channel switches and
be
• 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
4 or 8-slot director needs its own license.
ps for 16Gb or up to 256 Gbps for 32Gb) when routing connections between
-balanced across the individual links, which comprise the logical trunk
ps for 8
QuickSpecs
HPE StoreFabric B-series SAN Director Switch Family
Product Highlights
Page 9
• Ingress Rate
Allows the ingress bandwidth of a port to be throttled to a rate lower than
negotiated with the SAN node. This could be very useful for enterprises
offering stepped levels of service and enforcing SLAs.
• Quality of Service
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
Defines paths through a fabric for some or all nodes. Failover allows a nonpreferred path to be used if 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 ma
priority, and topology.
SAN Network Advisor
Professional
HPE SAN Network Advisor Professional is a management application available at no-charge and comes
with B
It is targeted for SMB customers that use FOS based SAN fabrics and require a management solution for
smaller SANs based on a single 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
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. SAN Network Advisor Enterprise provides complete
management including enterprise
FCIP, adaptive networking etc
SAN Network Advisor Professional+ provides the same feature
set except for support for the
HPE
switch ports, while
ports. To accommodate growth, there is an upgrade available to SAN Network Advisor Enterprise from
SAN Network Ad
HPE Smart SAN for 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
componen
and policies across the SAN. Smart SAN is supported with B
Channel adapters (HBAs) and 3PAR storage. HPE Smart SAN for 3PA
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 probability of err
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/storage
Limiting
(QoS)
Zones
p out traffic flows within a fabric based on application,
-series SAN Switches and:
• Allows management of two Fabric OS (FOS) fabrics (up to 300 switch ports and 1000 devices)
• Performs group switch management beyond the scope of Web Tools
• Does not offer management of the SN8600B 8-slot, SN8000B 8-Slot, DC SAN Backbone
Directors, or FICON.
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
-disruptive upgrade path is available from SAN Network Advisor Professional
Professional+ or SAN Network Advisor Enterprise
SN8600B and SN8000B 8-Slot Director
-class features/environments such as FICON, Fibre Channel Routing,
. while HPE
SN8600B 8-slot, SN8000B 8-Slot Director and FICON.
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
visor Professional Plus.
ts (array, hosts and switches) that enables 3PAR arrays to orchestrate configuration, settings
-series Switches, HPE StoreFabric Fibre
ors and potential downtime. Additional information can be found here:
-software/product-
R through its Target Driven Peer
QuickSpecs
HPE StoreFabric B-series SAN Director Switch Family
Product Highlights
Page 10
detail.html?oid=8295863#!tab=features
NOTE:
NOTE:
NO
3PAR StoreServ storage.
Optional Software:
Inter Chassis Link (ICL)
License
Inter Chassis Links (ICLs) harness unused ports to connect the switching backplane of SAN Directors.
The
higher port density, and support for standard optical cables up to 100 meters
QSFP+
network complexity and costs.
ICLs enable scalable core edge and active
topologies reduce inter
This maximizes overall port density in the lowest amount of rack space
device ports for server and storage connectivity.
HPE SN8600B SAN Director
The SN8600B 8
(4.096 Tbps). The SN8600B 4
Gbps ports (2.048 Tbps). Gen 6 ICLs are backward
including connectivity with 2 km QSFPs at Gen 5 speeds of 16 Gbps (4×16).
HPE SN8600B chassis connectivity leverages optical Inter-Chassis Links (ICLs), which provide 128 Gbps
bandwidth through a QSFP link. These links can support up to 2 kil
SN8600B Directors.
HPE SN8000B SAN Director
switching blade) that deliver 2.1 Tbps of bandwidth. This is equivalent to 128 16 Gbps ISLs. The
SN8000B 4
rector has a total of 16 ICL ports (eight per core switching blade) that deliver 1 Tbps
of bandwidth. This is equivalent to 64 16 Gbps ISLs.
Base ICL support can connect up to four SN8000B Directors.
There is a common ICL POD (Ports on Demand) license be
single ICL POD license will enable 16 QSFP ICLs or 1Tbps of bandwidth in both SN8000 8
Slot SAN Director. A subsequent ICL POD license will enable an additional 16 QSFP ICLs or 1Tbps in a
SN8000B 8
NOTE:
optical cables are required for connectivity.
HPE SN8000B Enterprise
Inter Chassis Link
Licenses
Increased core-edge and active-active mesh topologies of up to nine (9) chassis can be supported with
the addition of SN8000B 8
required).
Director chassis using ICLs. For each SN8000B Director chassis, you can connect up to three SN8000B
Director chassis via ICLs without this license. This license is required only on the SN8000B Director
chassis that is connected to four or more SN8000B Director chassis. This license requirement does not
Supports B-series 32Gb, 16Gb and 8Gb FC switches with FOS 7.4.0a or later.
A list of supported HPE FC Adapters can be found at https://h20272.www2.hp.com/spock/
TE: Supports 3PAR StoreServ storage with 3.2.2 or later with only 16Gb target ports on HPE
HPE StoreFabric SAN Directors offer the latest ICL technology which includes new optical ports,
. ICL support enables flatter, faster, and simpler fabrics that increase consolidation while reducing
-active mesh chassis topologies. These high-density chassis
-switch cabling by 75 percent and free up to 25% of ports for server and storage.
-slot Director supports 32 ICL ports, providing the equivalent of 128 32 Gbps ports
-slot Director supports 16 ICL ports, providing the equivalent of 64 32
The SN8000B 8-Slot Director has a total of 32 ICL ports (16 per core
-Slot Di
-Slot Director.
ICL licenses are required for each SN8600B and SN8000B SAN Director. ICL QSFPs and
-slot or 4-slot Enterprise Inter-Chassis Link licenses (FOS v7.0.1 or greater
The Enterprise ICL POD license allows you to connect four or more chassis to an SN8000B
-compatible and can connect to Gen 5 ICL ports,
ometers and connect up to 12
tween SN8000 8-Slot and 4-Slot chassis. A
or up to 2km with 2km
while freeing up front-facing
-Slot and 4-
QuickSpecs
HPE StoreFabric B-series SAN Director Switch Family
Product Highlights
Page 11
depend upon the total number of SN8000B Director chassis that exist in a fabric, but only on the
number of chassis connected directly to an SN8000B Director via ICLs. You must also have an ICL POD
licen
connection of more than four chassis using ICLs; it does not enable the ICL ports on a chassis. This
applies to the SN8000B Directors only
HPE B-Series SAN
Director FICON CUP
Active License
Optional license feature provides Control Unit Port (CUP) in-band management function designed to
allow mainframe applications to perform configuration, monitoring, management and statistics collection.
These application
Facility (DCM) and Resource Management Facility (RMF). Hardware
zoning enhances separation with intermix operation.
NOTE: Supported for all B-series SAN Directors.
HPE DC SAN Director
Switch Multiprotocol Ext
Blade FICON Accelerator
Upgrade
The FICON Accelerator software license increases the speed of FICON disk and tape read and writes,
while maintaining the integrity of command and ackno
NOTE:
(C8R46A, C8R46B, C8R46C) for all B-series SAN Directors.
HPE B-series SAN
Backbone Director
Integrated Routing
License
Integrated Routing is an optional license which provides native Fibre Channel Routing (FCR) on a perport 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
selective device sharing while maintaining remote fabric isolation. Integrated Routing provides
architecture flexibility to route on a port
NOTE:
product.
HPE MP Blade
Performance Extension
License
Optional software license to activate the high performance extension services. The HPE MPR Blade
provides two type
Logically connect devices in multiple SAN fabrics to share storage resources
of distance
FCIP and FC Tunneling Service for SAN extension over distance: Either seamlessly and reliably extends
HPE
Series SANs across MAN and WAN IP networks or dark fiber and xWDM Fibre Channel networks
with high performance extension serv
and FCIP extension services are mutually exclusive.
NOTE:
license for HPE Multi-Protocol Router blade (AG461B) for the DC SAN Directors.
10GbE and 10Gb FC
Performance Upgrade
Optional software license to activate high performance for either 10GbE or 10Gb Fibre Channel
connectivity.
10GbE Performance Upgrade LTU for MP Extension
Extension Blade (C8R46A
Enables10 Gigabit Ethernet ports for the MP Extension Blade
Extension Blade (
• (10) 1 GbE ports and (1) 10 GbE port or
se on each SN8000B Director to activate the ICL ports. The Enterprise ICL license only allows
.
License
s include System Automation for OS/390 (SA/390), Dynamic Channel Management
- enforced FICON and FCP port
wledgement sequences
Supported for the MP Extension Blade (AP865A, AP865B) and Enhanced MP Extension Blade
devices between fabrics, enabling
-by-port basis, enabling increased scalability and fault isolation.
Supported for all B-series SAN Directors. Separate LTU are available for each generation of
s of SAN Services: FC-FC Subnet Routing Service for SAN island consolidation:
-from any fabric regardless
-with the administration and fault isolation benefits of separately managed fabrics.
B-
ices, fully integrated with HPE CA solutions for EVA and XP. FC
HPE MP Blade Performance Extension LTU/E-LTU (T4427A/T4427AAE) is an optional
Blade (AP865A, AP865B) and Enhanced MP
, C8R46B, C8R46C).
(AP865A, AP865B) and Enhanced MP
C8R46A, C8R46B, C8R46C). Options for available Ethernet connectivity are:
QuickSpecs
HPE StoreFabric B-series SAN Director Switch Family
Product Highlights
Page 12
• (2) 10 GbE ports
10Gb Performance Upgrade LTU for 16Gb Fibre Channel Blades
Enables customers to configure the first 8 ports
16Gb Fibre Channel blade at 10Gb Fibre Channel speed. This
metro connectivity.
NOTE:
a mixture of 16Gb FC blades and the MP Extension Blade or Enhanced MP Extension Blade. The
license is a
The 10GbE Performance upgrade feature is available for the MP Extension Blade (AP865A, AP865B)
and Enhanced MP Extension Blade (C8R46A
The 10Gb Performance Upgrade feature is available for 16Gb Fibre Channel Blades for the SN8000B
Directors. Requires 10Gb optics (QK726A and/or QK727A).
For SN8600B 32Gb SAN Director, 10GbE is support
(Q0U85A, Q0U87A) and SN8600
to enable 10 Gbps support on SN8600B.
HPE MP Extension Blade
Advanced Upgrade
HPE
Infrastructure Analyzer
Software (IIAS)
Optional software license for the MP Extension Blade and Enhanced MP Extension Blade which enables
two advanced extension features: FCIP Trunking and Adaptive Rate Limiting.
FCIP Trunking:
FCIP Trunking feature allows multiple IP source and destination addr
via multiple of the 1 GE and 10 GE interfaces to provide high bandwidth FCIP tunnel and failover
resiliency. In addition, each FCIP circuit supports four QoS classes (Class-F, Hi, Medium and Low Priority),
each as a TCP
Adaptive Rate Limiting:
An FCIP tunnel can be configured a minimum (guaranteed) committed rate as well as a maximum
committed rate. FCIP tunnel will run at least the minimum rate. If additional bandwidth is needed, the
committed rate will gr
reached, or the throughput capabilities of the network are reached.
NOTE:
(C8R46A
The
solution intended to manage the physical layer of a Storage Area Network (SAN) consisting of
StoreFabric B
3PAR StoreServ Storage
and
monitor the physical layer across the SAN and to diagnose changes/even
Pluggable (SFP) transceiver states/characteristics. It also presents the SAN topology, inventory and
diagnostic information to the user in real
SAN for root cause analysi
enterprise SANs, where SAN management becomes cumbersome and tedious.
center quality experience by predicting switch optical link failures before they are rep
reduce the cost incurred due to application downtime.
in FOS 7.0 and 7.1, any port in FOS 7.2 or later of a
is required for DWDM and dark fiber
The optional 10GbE and 10Gb Fibre Channel performance upgrade features can be applied to
vailable on an individual SAN Director slot basis based on the particular blade installed.
, C8R46B, and C8R46C) for all B-series SAN Directors.
ed on the SN8600B SAN Extension Blade
B 32Gb 48-port blade (Q0U84A, Q0U86A). No license is required
ess pairs (defined as FCIP circuits)
Intelligent
Supported for the MP Extension Blade (AP865A, AP865B) and Enhanced MP Extension Blade
HPE Intelligent Infrastructure Analyzer Software (IIAS) v2 is an online monitoring and diagnostic
HPE StoreFabric FC HBAs. It uses industry-standard protocols (such as SNMP, SMI-S, Telnet) to
connection.
ow until the channel traffic demand is satisfied, maximum committed rate is
, C8R46B, C8R46C) for the SN8000B and DC SAN Directors
-series and/or H-series Fibre Channel switches and directors, HPE
-time. The product is used to detect potential failures in the
s and failure impact assessment and is therefore highly beneficial for
HPE
ts in Small Form-factor
It improves the total data
orted and aims to
QuickSpecs
HPE StoreFabric B-series SAN Director Switch Family
HPE Support Services and Warranty Information
Page 13
Warranty
SN8600B 8-Slot SAN
Director
(3-3-3) Hardware Warranty - Three-year NBD on-site warranty, 24x7, 4hour remote response, installation not included.
SN8600B 4-Slot SAN
Director
(3-3-3) Hardware Warranty - Three-year NBD on-site warranty, 24x7, 4hour remote response, installation not included.
SN8000B 8-Slot SAN
Director
(3-3-3) Hardware Warranty - Three-year NBD on-site warranty, 24x7, 4hour remote response, installati
SN8000B 4-Slot SAN
Director
(3-3-3) Hardware Warranty - Three-year NBD on-site warranty, 24x7, 4hour remote response, installation not included.
NOTE: The hardware warranty covers firmware and embedded non-saleable software.
Salea
Software Warranty
physical defects for a period of ninety (90) days from delivery.
NOTE:
bility of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and its suppliers and
your exclusive remedy for software that does not conform to this Limited Warranty shall be the
repair or replacement of the defective media. This warranty and remedy are subject to your
returning t
country in which you obtained the software.
Protect your business beyond warranty with HPE Support Services
HPE Technology Services delivers confidence, reduces risk
portfolio of Services for storage help customers reduce costs, optimize data, streamline storage management, and improve back
and recovery. HPE Support Services enable you to choose the ri
purchase your new storage solution, giving you full entitlement for the support for need for your IT and business.
Connect your devices:
Unlock all of the benefits of your technology invest
to 77%
connecting, you will receive 24x7monitoring, pre
Care Service and HPE Datacenter Care Service customers will also benefit from proactive activities to help prevent issues and
increase optimization. All of these benefits are already av
connected
1
2
Optimized Care
HPE Proactive Care Advanced*
This services helps achieve a higher return on your product investment with personalized support from
a local assigned Account Support Manager who will share best practice advice and personalized
recommendations designed to help improve availability and perf
reduce unplanned downtime.
for
service offers c
provides 24x7 coverage with four
two
independent software vendors unless you have your software support from Hewlett Packard Enterprise
where
http://www.hpe.com/h20195/V2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4AA5-3259ENW&cc=us&lc=en
on not included.
ble software carries its own warranty, see below.
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise warrants only that the software media will be free of
EXCLUSIVE REMEDY: The entire lia
he defective media during the warranty period to Hewlett Packard Enterprise in the
and helps customers realize agility and stability. Our integrated
up
ght service level, length of coverage and response time as you
1
reduction in down time, near 100%2 diagnostic accuracy and a single consolidated view of your environment. By
-failure alerts, automatic call logging, and automatic parts dispatch. HPE Proactive
ment by connecting your products to Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Achieve up
- IDC
– HP CSC reports 2014 - 2015
to Hewlett Packard Enterprise support.
ailable to you with your server storage and networking products, securely
- 24x7 coverage, three year Support Service
pre-failure alerts, automatic call logging and parts dispatch. For business critical incidents, this
ritical event management to reduce mean time to resolution. This recommendation
-hour callback for supported software issues. Collaborative software management is included with
we own all cases from start through to resolution.
Leverage your system’s ability to connect to Hewlett Packard Enterprise
-hour response for hardware and collaborative support that offers
ormance to increase stability and
Loading...