HPE QK711C Getting Started Guide
QuickSpecs
HP SN8000B and DC SAN Director Family
Overview
The HP SN8000B and DC SAN Directors are part of the B-series portfolio and are the industry's leading Fibre Channel switching
infrastructure solutions, combining breakthrough performance, scalability, and energy efficiency with long-term investment
protection. The SN8000B Directors were designed to unleash the full potential of private cloud storage and virtualization. With
unmatched scalability, 16 Gbps performance, reliability, and functionality, the SN8000B Directors are the strategic platform for
transforming current SAN fabrics into cloud-optimized SANs. For SAN fabrics not requiring the performance of the 16 Gbps platforms,
the DC SAN Directors are the most advanced 8 Gbps switching platforms in the industry.
All B-series SAN Directors are based on the same core technology and consist of two form factors. The SN8000B 8-Slot Director and DC
SAN Backbone Director are both a 14U chassis and support 8 Fibre Channel blades for large enterprises to deliver maximum scalability,
performance, and functionality. The SN8000B 4-Slot Director and the DC04 SAN Director are both a 9U chassis and support 4 Fibre
Channel blades for mid-size enterprises as the core of their SANs.
The SN8000B SAN Directors are based on 7th generation technology and provide up to 384 16Gb or 512 8Gb FC ports. These directors
also provide up to 32 QSFP based Inter Chassis Links (ICLs) which are equivalent to 128 16Gb FC ports. They support a range of fibre
channel blade options including 32 port and 48 port 16Gb blades, 32 port and 48 port 8Gb enhanced blades and the 64 port 8Gb blade.
They provide up to 8.2Tbps of total aggregate bandwidth and 512Gbps of slot bandwidth and are the ideal foundation for private cloud
storage and highly virtualized environments.
The DC SAN Directors are based on 6th generation technology and provide up to 512 8Gb FC ports. They support several types of port
blades -16, 32, 48, and 64 port 8Gb blades. They provide up to 4.1Tbps of total aggregate bandwidth and 256Gbps of slot bandwidth
and are ideally suited to address the problems of traditional data centers
B-series SAN Directors offer multi protocol support through various blades with autosensing support, depending on model, for
16/10/8/4/2 Gbps Fibre Channel, FICON, FCIP, FCoE (not supported with SN8000B) and data at rest Encryption.
To help minimize downtime costs, all B-series SAN Directors build upon years of innovation and leverages the core B-series technology
performing at greater than 99.999 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
and DC SAN Backbone Director. It is available pre-configured or as an upgrade for every SN8000B 4-Slot Director and DC04 SAN
Director. Power Pack+ also provides the foundation for integration into HP storage management tools, enabling infrastructure
management through a single-pane-of-glass.
New features exclusively available on the SN8000B SAN Directors:
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. New, optional Enterprise ICL PODs will enable from five to nine chassis connected
together and is added to the base ICL POD.
SN8000B SAN Directors allow customers to configure a port in any 16Gb blade at 10Gb FC speed. This is required 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 Fabric Operating System (FOS) with
any 16Gb blade. There are new diagnostic features (Diagnostic-Port aka D-Port, Optic Health Monitoring) that will allow functional and
stress testing of cables and optics. They use the capabilities of FOS, Director ASIC, and B-series 16Gb optic and are available on 16Gb
port blade with 16Gb B-series optics without any additional software license.
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Overview
HP SN8000B and DC SAN Director Family
HP SN8000B 8-Slot SAN Director and DC SAN Backbone Director
(shown)
(identical chassis with different core blades and Fibre Channel
blades)
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HP SN8000B 4-Slot Director and DC04 SAN Director (shown)
(identical chassis with different core blades and Fibre Channel
blades)
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HP SN8000B and DC SAN Director Family
Overview
What's New
New Enhanced Multiprotocol Extension blade with enhanced IP Security features to replicate data across distances
New Core Blades to upgrade the 8Gb DC SAN Directors to 16Gbps capability
New 8 Gb 32-port and 48-port blades for the HP SN8000B SAN Directors, enabling an initial lower point of entry for a 16Gb Fibre
Channel core.
Enterprise ICL POD licenses enabling scalability to topologies greater than four chassis with ICLs, thus reducing cost and
complexity.
HP SN8000B SAN Directors with 32-port and 48-port 16 Gbps and 64-port 8Gbps director blades which provide up to 8.2 Tbps of
total aggregate bandwidth making them the ideal foundation for private cloud storage and highly virtualized environments.
HP SAN Network Advisor provides comprehensive management of data center SAN fabrics, including configuration, monitoring,
diagnostics, best-practices validation, and management of B-series SAN Directors, SAN Switches, and Host Bus Adapters (HBAs).
New RoHS compliant HP B-series directors and director components.
NOTE:
Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive or RoHS is a directive adopted by the European Union that restricts 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.
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HP SN8000B and DC SAN Director Family
SN8000B SAN Director
Highlights
SN8000B Performance
HP SN8000B SAN Directors are the industry's most powerful Fibre Channel switching infrastructure
solutions, providing the most reliable, scalable, high-performance foundation for private cloud storage
and highly virtualized environments. They are designed to increase business agility while providing nonstop access to information and reducing infrastructure and administrative costs. The SN8000B director
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-performance metro and
global connectivity
Simplifies and centralizes end-to-end Storage Area Network (SAN) management with
comprehensive diagnostics, monitoring, and automation
Maximizes performance for I/O- and bandwidth-intensive applications with more than seven times
the performance of competitive offerings
Protects investments in existing SAN fabrics and automation tools while reducing operational costs
and minimizing business disruption
SN8000B 8-Slot SAN Director
384 ports operating simultaneously at full 16Gb speed (maximum)
8 Tbit/sec of chassis bandwidth
2 Tbit/sec of Inter Chassis Link (ICL) bandwidth (freeing up to 128 16 Gb ports for server,
storage, and fabric connections)
SN8000B 4-Slot Director
192 ports operating simultaneously at full 16Gb speed (maximum)
4 Tbit/sec of chassis bandwidth
1 Tbit/sec of Inter Chassis Link (ICL) bandwidth (freeing up to 64 16 Gb ports for server,
storage, and fabric connections)
DC SAN Director Highlights
HP DC SAN Directors are the most advanced 8 Gbps switching platforms in the industry. They provide
leading reliability, scalability, and performance for traditional data center environments. The DC SAN
Directors family:
Consolidates data center connectivity for highly available, lossless networking between applications
and data, as well as between servers and storage networks
Provides an adaptive platform for ensuring Quality of Service (QoS) to virtualized applications and
data in server, networking, and storage complexes
Scales up to eight times more than traditional SAN directors to support virtualized applications that
leverage shared storage environments
Improves energy efficiency by combining higher bandwidth with lower power consumption than
existing solutions
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HP SN8000B and DC SAN Director Family
DC SAN Director
Performance
SAN scalability
High-availability features
DC SAN Backbone Director
512 ports at 8Gb speed
4 Tbit/sec of chassis bandwidth
512 Gbit/sec of Inter Chassis Link (ICL) bandwidth (freeing up to 64 8Gb ports for server,
storage, and fabric connections)
DC04 SAN Director
256 ports at 8Gb speed
2 Tbit/sec of chassis bandwidth
256 Gbit/sec of Inter Chassis Link (ICL) bandwidth (freeing up to 32 8Gb ports for server,
storage, and fabric connections)
The SN8000B 8-Slot Director scales up to 384 16 Gbps ports or 512 8Gbps ports in a single switch domain.
The SN8000B 4-Slot Director scales up to 192 16 Gbps ports or 256 8 Gbps ports in a single switch domain.
The DC SAN Backbone Director scales up to 512 8Gbps ports in a single switch domain.
The DC04 SAN Director scales up to 256 8 Gbps ports in a single switch domain.
Please see the following web site for SAN configuration support information:
http://www.hp.com/go/sandesignguide
Redundant, hot-swappable components
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
.
Advanced Fabric Services
ISL Trunking
Hardware Enforced Zoning
Frame Filtering
Web Tools
Enhanced Group Management (EGM)
End-to-End Performance Analysis
Extended Fabrics
Fabric Watch
Adaptive Networking
Server Application Optimization (SAO)
SAN Network Advisor
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HP SN8000B and DC SAN Director Family
Cabinet Support
22U, 36U, and 42U 5000, 9,000, 10,000, 10,000 G2 series Cabinets and Intelligent Series racks are
supported.
25U, 33U, 41U HP system/e cabs are supported.
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
Frame Filtering
Advanced Zoning
WebTools
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-Fibre Channel FCIP physical
interfaces.
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-bytes of the Fibre Channel frame. At this time,
Frame Filtering enables advanced capabilities such as Advanced Zoning and Advanced Performance
Monitoring.
WWN Zoning and Access Control are included in the DC SAN Directors' hardware. Administrators can
organize a physical fabric into logical groups and prevent unauthorized access by devices outside the Zone.
WebTools is an intuitive and easy-to-use graphical interface that enables organizations to install and
configure an SN8000B or DC SAN Director. SAN administrators can perform the initial configuration and
basic management tasks by using a Java-capable Web browser from standard laptops, desktop PCs, or
workstations from any location within the enterprise.
EGM
Enhanced Group Management (EGM) is a FOS license that is included with all B-Series switches and enables
multi-switch operations. It helps automate operations across multiple 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 troubleshooting for more effective fabric monitoring and diagnosis.
HP 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 - SAN Network Advisor Professional,
Professional Plus, or Enterprise.
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HP SN8000B and DC SAN Director Family
SAN Director Power Pack+
Software Bundle
Fabric Vision
The SAN Director Power Pack+ Software bundle includes:
Fabric Vision
Extended Fabric
ISL Trunking
Advanced Performance Monitoring
Fabric Watch
NOTE:
Optional software for the SN8000B 4-Slot (QK712A, QK712B) and DC04 Base SAN Director (AR478A,
AR478B)
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
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 Vision: A comprehensive tool that enables administrators to identify, monitor, and analyze
specific application data flows without using taps to ensure optimized performance
Health and performance dashboard: A single customizable screen displayed in HP SAN Network
Advisor that contains all critical SAN information for convenient review and analysis
Fabric Vision will be included by default in all HP StoreFabric B-series Fibre Channel switches and Directors
bundled with Power Pack+ (with FOS 7.2.0a and later). In all other cases, Fabric Vision can be enabled on
HP StoreFabric B-series Fibre Channel switches and Directors in any one of the following ways
Extended Fabric
FICON Support
ISL Trunking
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
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.
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.
For high performance enhanced Trunking, this license logically groups up to eight E-ports to provide a high
bandwidth trunk between two switches. Each 8 Gb or 16 Gb slot needs its own license. The switch
operating system views the trunk as a single, high bandwidth resource (up to 64 Gb/s for 8 Gb, or up to 128
Gb/s for 16Gb) when routing connections between switches. Connections are load-balanced across the
individual links, which comprise the logical trunk group.
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HP SN8000B and DC SAN Director Family
Adaptive Networking
Advanced Performance
Monitor
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
Quality of Service
(QoS)
Traffic Isolation
Zones
This enabling technology helps administrators monitor and watch specific fabric metrics -- from a SID
(Source ID) to a DID (Destination ID) -- so they can fine-tune and scale the fabric more efficiently. Plus,
Advanced Performance Monitoring includes the ability 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
reconfiguration.
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.
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.
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 map out traffic flows within a fabric based on application, priority,
and topology.
Fabric Watch
Server Application
Optimization (SAO)
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. Monitoring fabric-wide events, ports, SFPs, and environmental parameters permits
early fault detection and isolation as well as performance measurement. Each switch in the SAN needs its
own Fabric Watch license.
Server Application Optimization (SAO) license improves overall application performance for physical
servers and virtual machines. SAO, when deployed with B-Series Fibre Channel HBAs, extends B-Series
Adaptive Networking from the B-series SAN fabric to the server infrastructure. This delivers applicationlevel, fine-grain Quality of Service (QoS) management to the HBAs and related server applications.
Solution Requirements:
SAO license must be installed on the edge (server connected) switch
Adaptive networking (AN) license must be installed on the edge (server connected) switch
SAO requires B-series HBA installed in the server
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HP SN8000B and DC SAN Director Family
SAN Network Advisor
Professional
SAN Network Advisor
Enterprise and
Professional+
HP SAN Network Advisor Professional is a management application available at no-charge and comes with
B-series SAN Switches and:
Allows management of a single Fabric OS (FOS) fabric (up to a 1,000 switch ports)
Performs group switch management beyond the scope of Web Tools
Does not offer management of the SN8000B 8-Slot, DC SAN Backbone Directors, or FICON.
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 time feel the need for an enterprise-class product (SAN Network Advisor Enterprise)
as their environments start to grow in size and complexity, and as they start to uptake more enterpriseclass functionality (such as Fibre Channel Routing, FCIP, etc.). A non-disruptive upgrade path is available
from SAN Network Advisor Professional to SAN Network Advisor Enterprise
HP SAN Network Advisor Enterprise and Professional+ are the enterprise-class products that support FOSt.
SAN Network Advisor Enterprise provides complete SN8000B 8-Slot Director and DC SAN Backbone
Director management including enterprise-class features/environments such as FICON, Fibre Channel
Routing, FCIP, adaptive networking, etc while HP SAN Network Advisor Professional+ provides the same
feature set except for support for the SN8000B 8-Slot Director, DC SAN Backbone Director, and FICON.
HP SAN Network Advisor Enterprise delivers unprecedented scalability, up to 24 fabrics and 9,000 switch
ports, while HP SAN Network Advisor Professional+ scales to 4 SAN Fabrics and 2560 switch ports. To
accommodate growth, there is an upgrade available to SAN Network Advisor Enterprise from SAN Network
Advisor Professional Plus.
Optional Software:
HP SN8000B Inter Chassis
Link License
Inter Chassis Links (ICLs) harness unused ports to connect the switching backplane of SAN Directors. The
SN8000B SAN Directors offer Second-generation ICL technology which includes new optical ports, higher
port density, and support for standard optical cables up to 100 meters. Base ICL support can connect up to
four SN8000B Directors, enabling flatter, faster, and simpler fabrics that increase consolidation while
reducing network complexity and costs.
ICLs enable scalable core edge and active-active mesh chassis topologies. These high-density chassis
topologies reduce inter-switch cabling by 75 percent and free up to 33 percent of ports for server and
storage. This maximizes overall port density in the lowest amount of rack space.
The SN8000B 8-Slot Director has a total of 32 ICL ports (16 per core switching blade) that deliver 2.1 Tbps
of bandwidth. This is equivalent to 128 16 Gbps ISLs. The SN8000B 4-Slot Director 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.
There is a common ICL POD (Ports on Demand) license between SN8000 8-Slot and 4-Slot chassis. A single
ICL POD license will enable 16 QSFP ICLs or 1Tbps of bandwidth in both SN8000 8-Slot and 4-Slot SAN
Director. A subsequent ICL POD license will enable an additional 16 QSFP ICLs or 1Tbps in a SN8000B 8-Slot
Director.
NOTE:
ICL licenses are required for each SN8000B SAN Director. ICL QSFPs and optical cables are required
for connectivity.
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HP SN8000B and DC SAN Director Family
HP DC SAN Director 16
Inter-Chassis Link LTU
HP DC SAN Director 8
Inter-Chassis Link LTU
Inter Chassis Links (ICLs) harness unused ports to connect the switching backplane of one DC SAN Director
to the switching backplane of a second DC SAN Director.
The DC SAN Backbone Director has a total of 16 ICL ports (8 per core switching blade) that deliver 1 Tbps of
bandwidth. This is equivalent to 64 8 Gbps ISLs. The DC04 SAN Director has a total of 8 ICL ports (four per
core switching blade) that deliver 512 Gbps of bandwidth. This is equivalent to 32 16 Gbps ISLs.
The 16 Inter Chassis Link LTU enables 1Tbps of bandwidth in the DC SAN Backbone Director.
NOTE:
Two ICL licenses are required for ICL connectivity (one license required for each DC SAN Director). HP
DC SAN Backbone Director Switch Inter-Chassis Link LTU (T4641) is only valid for DC SAN Backbone
Directors. AR480A required for ICL copper cable connectivity.
Inter Chassis Links (ICLs) harness unused ports to connect the switching backplane of one DC SAN Director
to the switching backplane of a second DC SAN Director.
The DC SAN Backbone Director has a total of 16 ICL ports (8 per core switching blade) that deliver 1 Tbps of
bandwidth. This is equivalent to 64 8 Gbps ISLs. The DC04 SAN Director has a total of 8 ICL ports (four per
core switching blade) that deliver 512 Gbps of bandwidth. This is equivalent to 328Gbps ISLs.
The 8 Inter Chassis Link LTU enables 512 Gbps of bandwidth in the DC SAN Backbone Director and the DC04
SAN Director.
HP SN8000B Enterprise
Inter Chassis Link Licenses
HP B-Series SAN Director
FICON CUP Active License
HP DC SAN Director Switch
Multiprotocol Ext Blade
FICON Accelerator
Upgrade LTU
HP B-series SAN Backbone
Director Integrated
Routing LTU
NOTE:
Two ICL licenses are required for ICL connectivity (one license required for each DC SAN Director).
AR480A required for ICL copper cable connectivity.
Increased core-edge and active-active mesh topologies of up to nine (9) chassis can be supported with the
addition of SN8000B 8-slot or 4-slot Enterprise Inter-Chassis Link licenses (FOS v7.0.1 or greater required).
A license specific to the chassis is required for each chassis in the ICL-connected fabric. Fabric topologies
with fewer than five (5) SN8000B chassis do not require this 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 applications include System Automation for OS/390 (SA/390), Dynamic Channel Management
Facility (DCM) and Resource Management Facility (RMF). Hardware- enforced FICON and FCP port zoning
enhances separation with intermix operation.
NOTE:
Supported for all B-series SAN Directors.
The FICON Accelerator software license increases the speed of FICON disk and tape read and writes, while
maintaining the integrity of command and acknowledgement sequences
NOTE:
Supported for the MP Extension Blade (AP865A, AP865B) and Enhanced MP Extension Blade
(C8R46A) for all B-series SAN Directors.
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 selective device
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sharing while maintaining remote fabric isolation. Integrated Routing provides architecture flexibility to
route on a port-by-port basis, enabling increased scalability and fault isolation.
NOTE:
HP SN8000B and DC SAN Director Family
Supported for all B-series SAN Directors.
HP MP Blade Performance
Extension LTU
10GbE and 10Gb FC
Performance Upgrade
Optional software license to activate the high performance extension services. The HP MPR Blade provides
two types of SAN Services: FC-FC Subnet Routing Service for SAN island consolidation: Logically connect
devices in multiple SAN fabrics to share storage resources-from any fabric regardless of distance-with the
administration and fault isolation benefits of separately managed fabrics.
FCIP and FC Tunneling Service for SAN extension over distance: Either seamlessly and reliably extends HP
B-Series SANs across MAN and WAN IP networks or dark fiber and xWDM Fibre Channel networks with high
performance extension services, fully integrated with HP CA solutions for EVA and XP. FC and FCIP
extension services are mutually exclusive.
NOTE:
HP MP Blade Performance Extension LTU (T4427A) is an optional license for HP Multi-Protocol
Router blade (AG461B) for the DC SAN Directors.
Optional software license to activate high performance for either 10GbE or 10Gb Fibre Channel
connectivity.
10GbE Performance Upgrade LTU for MP Extension Blade and Enhanced MP Extension Blade (C8R46A)
Enables10 Gigabit Ethernet ports for the MP Extension Blade and Enhanced MP Extension Blade (C8R46A).
Options for available Ethernet connectivity are:
(10) 1 GbE ports and (1) 10 GbE port or
(2) 10 GbE ports
10Gb Performance Upgrade LTU for 16Gb Fibre Channel Blades
Enables customers to configure the first 8 ports of a 16Gb Fibre Channel blade at 10Gb Fibre Channel
speed. This is required for DWDM and dark fiber metro connectivity.
NOTE:
The optional 10GbE and 10Gb Fibre Channel performance upgrade features can be applied to a
mixture of 16Gb FC blades and the MP Extension Blade or Enhanced MP Extension Blade. The license is
available on an individual SAN Director slot basis based on the particular blade installed. The 10GbE
Performance upgrade feature is available for the MP Extension Blade (AP865A, AP865B) and Enhanced MP
Extension Blade (C8R46A) for all B-series SAN Directors. The 10Gb Performance Upgrade feature is
available for 16Gb Fibre Channel Blades for the SN8000B Directors. Requires 10Gb optics (QK726A and/or
QK727A).
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