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Overview
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HPE SN6000B Fibre Channel Switch
To remain competitive, IT organizations must keep pace with ever-increasing workloads without a similar increase in their budgets
or resources. While virtualization has provided some relief by enabling the benefits of f
tends to put additional stress on data center networks. In addition, the move toward cloud computing, which promises greater
efficiency and a more service
The
market
maximum flexibility and investment protection, the SN6000B Switch is configurable in 24, 36, or 48 ports and supports 4, 8, 1
16 Gbps speeds in an efficiently designed 1U package. It also provides a simplified deployment process and
interface
Network (SAN) technology while providing "pay
The SN6000B is available in six models:
Power Pack+ includes additional software: F
Monitor. Power Pack+ software provides the SAN administrator with the necessary tools to monitor the health and performance o
the network, while also ensuring the highest levels of security, scalability and manageability.
What's New
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aster deployment and consolidation, it also
-oriented business model, means that these networks will face even greater demands.
HPE SN6000B Fibre Channel Switch meets the demands of hyper-scale, private cloud storage environments by delivering
-leading 16 Gb Fibre Channel technology and capabilities that support highly virtualized environments. Designed to enable
a point-and-click user
-making it both powerful and easy to use. The SN6000B Switch offers low-cost access to industry-leading Storage Area
-as-you-grow" scalability to meet the needs of an evolving storage environment.
• HPE SN6000B 16Gb 48-port/48-port Active Power Pack+ Fibre Channel Switch
• HPE SN6000B 16Gb 48-port/24-port Active Power Pack+ Fibre Channel Switch
• HPE SN6000B 16Gb 48-port/48-port Active Fibre Channel Switch
• HPE SN6000B 16Gb 48-port/24-port Active Fibre Channel Switch
• HPE SN6000B 16Gb 48-port/24-port Active Port Side Air Intake Fibre Channel Switch
• HPE StoreFabric SN6000B 16Gb Bundled Fibre Channel switch
0, or
abric Vision, Fabric Watch, ISL Trunking, Extended Fabric and Advanced Performance
Updated HPE B-series Network Advisor SKUs to the next suffix (A to B) and added 3 Network Advisor E-LTU SKUs
(Suffix AE).
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Features and Benefits
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Key Features and Benefits
• Delivers 16 Gbps performance with up to 48 ports in an energy-efficient, 1U form factor, providing maximum flexibility for
diverse deployment and cooling strategies
• Features Ports on Demand (PoD) capabilities for fast, easy, and cost-effective scaling from 24 to 48 ports in 12-port
increments
• Provides a flexible, simple, and easy-to-use SAN solution with industry-leading technology
• Supports highly virtualized, private cloud storage with multi-tenancy and non-stop operations
• Offers best-in-class port density and scalability for midrange enterprise SAN switches, along with redundant, hot-
pluggable components and non-disruptive software upgrades
• Metro cloud connectivity features including integrated DWDM and dark fiber support (optional license)
• In-flight compression and encryption included providing efficient link utilization and security.
• Yields exceptional price/performance value, exceeding comparable Ethernet storage-based alternatives
• Unique Bundle model: The HPE StoreFabric SN6000B 16Gb Bundled Fibre Channel switch model facilitates ease of
ordering by offering the HPE SN6000B 48/24 Fibre channel switch along with twenty-four 16Gb optical transceivers in
one package. The HPE StoreFabric SN6000B 16Gb Bundled Fibre Channel switch model is offered at a lower price than
the sum of the list prices of the HPE SN6000B 48/24 Fibre Channel switch and the 16Gb optical transceivers
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Models
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HPE SN6000B 16Gb
HP SN6000B 16Gb 48-port/48-port Active Power Pack+ Fibre Channel Switch
QR481B
HP SN6000B 16Gb 48-port/24-port Active Power Pack+ Fibre Channel Switch
QK754B
HP SN6000B 16Gb 48-port/48-port Active Fibre Channel Switch
QR480B
HP SN6000B 16Gb 48-port/24-port Active Fibre Channel Switch
QK753B
HP StoreFabric SN6000B 16Gb 48/24 Port Side Air Intake Fibre Channel Switch
E7X99A
HP StoreFabric SN6000B 16Gb 48/24 Bundled Fibre Channel Switch
C8R08A
FC Switch Models
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Product Highlights
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SN6000B 16Gb FC
• Simplifies enterprise SAN deployment by combining higher edge switch port density with
speed data path between
* 16 Gb/s performance can be obtained between two 16 Gb/s capable devices.
Configuration Support
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/san/documentation.html
High-availability
• Two integrated redundant, hot swappable power supplies with integrated cooling fans
Advanced Fabric
• Hardware Enforced Zoning
Cabinet Support
HPE (22U, 36U, and 42U) 10000 G2 Series, the Intelligent Series racks, and HPE (14U, 22U, 36U,
NOTE: To order factory integration, add 0D1 after the part number on your sales order.
Software Components, Standard, Base Models
Frame Filtering
An ASIC based capability that enables new applications and features. The switch has the ability to
Advanced Zoning
WWN Zoning and Access Control are enforced by hardware that provides the same simple
into logical groups and prevent unauthorized access by devices outside the Zone.
Web Tools
Web Tools is an intuitive and easy-to-use graphical interface that enables organizations to monitor and
In-flight Compression
In-flight compression optimizes network performance within the data center and over long-distance
flight encryption minimizes the risk of unauthorized access for traffic within the data center and over
encrypted at the source and decrypted at the destination. Encryption and decryption are performed in
Switch
features
Services
exceptional scalability, performance and reliability
• Delivers 24, 36, or 48-ports in a 1U enclosure
• Provides 4 Gb/s, 8 Gb/s, 10 Gb/s, 16 Gb/s* performance
• Employs optional Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking to provide a high-
switches which enables a high speed data path between 16 Gb/s switches up to 128 Gb/s
• Enhanced Fault Detection Logic
• Parity protection on all data paths and system memory
• Frame Filtering
• Built-in Web browser management tools
• In-flight Compression and Encryption
• Access Gateway
• Dynamic and System Monitoring Capabilities for High Reliability
• Virtual Fabrics
• HPE B-series SAN Network Advisor software (optional)
42U, and 47U) 11000 G2 Series racks.
"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.
administration previously enforced only with software. Administrators can organize a physical fabric
manage SAN fabrics. Tasks can be performed through a Java-capable Web browser from a standard
laptop, desktop PC or workstation from any location within the enterprise.
and Encryption
links. Data is compressed at the source and uncompressed at the destination. Performance varies by
data type, but generally achieve 2:1 compression with minimal impact on performance. Compression
can be used in conjunction with in-flight encryption.
Inlong-distance links. It is switch-to-switch encryption, not device or data-at-rest encryption. Data is
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hardware using the AES-GCM-256 algorithm, minimizing any impact on performance. Encryption can
provided by the Encryption SAN Switch and the Encryption Blade for B-series SAN Directors.
Adaptive Networking
Adaptive Networking (AN) is a family of technologies which allow flexible control of traffic movement
priority, and topology.
Server Application
Server Application Optimization (SAO) improves overall application performance for physical servers
Software Components, Optional
SN6000B 16Gb Switch
The Power Pack+ Software Bundle comes with the (SN6000B16Gb 48/48 Power Pack+ Switch and
license.
be used in conjunction with in-flight compression. This is complementary to data-at-rest encryption
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:
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 (QoS):
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 Zones:
Defines paths through a fabric for some or all nodes. Failover allows a non-preferred 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,
Optimization
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
application-level, fine-grain Quality of Service (QoS) management to the HBAs and related server
applications.
Solution Requirements:
• SAO requires B-series HBA installed in the server
Power Pack+ Software
Bundle
SN6000B 16Gb 48/24 Power Pack+ Switch) or as an optional software (bundle for the SN6000B
16Gb 48/48 FC Switch, the SN6000B 48/24 FC Switch and the SN6000B Bundled Fibre Channel
switch). It includes the following:
• Fabric Vision
• Fabric Watch
• Advanced Performance Monitor
• Extended Fabric
• Ports-on-demand
NOTE: Starting with FOS 7.4.0a, Fabric Watch and Advanced Performance Monitor will be
obsolete. Fabric Watch settings can be converted to MAPS prior to upgrading and Advanced
Performance Monitor is replaced by Flow Vision. Both MAPS and Flow Vision require a Fabric Vision
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Fabric Vision
Fabric Vision offers innovative diagnostic, monitoring and management capabilities to help accelerate
NOTE: *See HPE SPOCK for Hewlett Packard Enterprise supported versions of FOS 7.2.x
Fabric Watch
Fabric Watch is an optional license which enables each switch to monitor the SAN for potential faults
SFPs, and environmental parameters permits early fault detection and isolation as well as performance
upgrading.
Advanced Performance
This optional enabling technology helps administrators monitor and watch specific fabric metrics --
utilize the Fabric Vision licensed Flow Vision features for performance monitoring.
Extended Fabric
Optional license which extends all of the scalability, reliability, and performance benefits of Fibre
Channel standard.
ISL Trunking
For high performance enhanced Trunking, this optional license logically groups up to eight E-ports to
balanced across the individual links,
which comprise the logical trunk group.
new application deployments, address SAN problems before they impact operations and reduce
operational costs. It Includes
• Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS): 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 HPE SAN
Network Advisor that contains all critical SAN information for convenient review and analysis
Fabric Vision will be included by default in all HPE StoreFabric B-series Fibre Channel switches and
Directors bundled with Power Pack+ (with FOS 7.2.x and later*). In all other cases, Fabric Vision can be
enabled on HPE StoreFabric B-series Fibre Channel switches and Directors in any one of the following
ways
• Application of the Fabric Vision LTU (FOS 7.2.x and later*)
• Application of the Power Pack+ LTU (FOS 7.2.x and later*)
• Upgrading existing Switch/Director loaded with Power Pack+ to FOS 7.2.x or later
• Upgrading existing Switch/Director loaded with both Advanced Performance Monitor (APM)
and Fabric Watch (FW) licenses to FOS 7.2.x or later*
*
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,
measurement. Each switch in the SAN needs its own Fabric Watch license.
NOTE: Fabric Watch has been obsoleted in FOS 7.4.0 and later. Users can migrate their Fabric
Watch settings to the Fabric Vison licensed Monitoring and Performance Suite (MAPS) prior to
Monitor
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.
NOTE: Advanced Performance Monitoring has been obsoleted in FOS 7.4.0 and later. Users can
Channel Storage Area Networks (SANs) beyond the native 10 km distance specified by the Fibre
provide a high bandwidth trunk between two switches. Each 16Gb switch needs its own license. The
switch operating system views the trunk as a single, high bandwidth resource (up to 128Gb) when
routing connections between 16Gb switches. Connections are load-
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SAN Network Advisor
HPE SAN Network Advisor Professional is a server based management application available at no-
is available from SAN Network Advisor Professional
to SAN Network Advisor Professional+ or SAN Network Advisor Enterprise.
SAN Network Advisor
HPE SAN Network Advisor Enterprise and Professional+ are the enterprise-class products that support
class features/environments such as FICON, Fibre Channel Routing, FCIP, adaptive
to SAN Network Advisor Enterprise from
Integrated Routing
Integrated Routing is an optional license which provides native Fibre Channel Routing (FCR) on a per-
port basis, enabling increased scalability and fault isolation.
HPE Smart SAN for
HPE Smart SAN, optional software for HP 3PAR, makes end-to-end SAN configuration and
HPE StoreFabric Fibre Channel adapters (HBAs) and 3PAR storage. HPE Smart SAN for 3PAR through
DPZ) feature enables customers to automate peer zoning, resulting in
Professional
Enterprise and
Professional+
charge that comes with B-series SAN Switches and includes the following features:
• Allows management of up to two SAN Fabric OS (FOS) fabrics (up to 300 B-Series 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,
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
Professional+ or SAN Network Advisor Enterprise) as their environments start to grow in size and
complexity, and as they start to uptake more enterprise-class functionality (such as Fibre Channel
Routing, FCIP, etc.). A non-disruptive upgrade path
FOS products. SAN Network Advisor Enterprise provides complete B-series Directors Management
including enterprisenetworking, etc. while SAN Network Advisor Professional+ provides the same feature set except for
support for the DC SAN Backbone Director, SN8000B 8-Slot Director, and FICON.
SAN Network Advisor Enterprise delivers unprecedented scalability, up to 100 fabrics and 15,000
switch ports, while SAN Network Advisor Professional+ scales to 36 SAN Fabrics and 2560 switch
ports. To accommodate growth, there is an upgrade available
SAN Network Advisor Professional Plus.
port basis, rather than limiting routing ports to those on a dedicated routing switch or blade. Just like
traditional FCR, Integrated Routing uses EX_Ports to import/export devices between fabrics, enabling
selective device sharing while maintaining remote fabric isolation. Integrated Routing provides
architecture flexibility to route on a port-by-
3PAR
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. Smart SAN is supported with B-series Switches,
its Target Driven Peer Zoning (T
the creation of fewer zones and enables configuration of zones in minutes and not in hours. Through
automation, it reduces the probability of errors and potential downtime. Additional information can be
found here:
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/storage-software/productdetail.html?oid=8295863#!tab=features
NOTE: Supports B-series 16Gb and 8Gb FC switches with FOS 7.4.0a or later.
NOTE: A list of supported HPE FC Adapters can be found at https://h20272.www2.hp.com/spock/
NOTE: Supports 3PAR StoreServ storage with 3.2.2 or later with only 16Gb target ports on HPE
3PAR StoreServ storage.
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