HP SN8000B and DC SAN Director Family - Hewlett-Packard
HP SN8000B and DC SAN Director Family - Hewlett-Packard
HP SN8000B and DC SAN Director Family - Hewlett-Packard
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QuickSpecs<strong>HP</strong> <strong>SN8000B</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>DC</strong> <strong>SAN</strong> <strong>Director</strong> <strong>Family</strong>Product Highlights<strong>SN8000B</strong> <strong>SAN</strong> <strong>Director</strong>Highlights<strong>HP</strong> <strong>SN8000B</strong> <strong>SAN</strong> <strong>Director</strong>s are the industry's most powerful Fibre Channel switching infrastructuresolutions, providing the most reliable, scalable, high-performance foundation for private cloud storage<strong>and</strong> highly virtualized environments. They are designed to increase business agility while providing nonstopaccess to information <strong>and</strong> reducing infrastructure <strong>and</strong> administrative costs. The <strong>SN8000B</strong> directorfamily:Unleashes the full potential of private cloud storage with unmatched scalability, performance, <strong>and</strong>reliabilityEnables simpler, flatter, low-latency chassis connectivity to reduce network complexity,management, <strong>and</strong> costsOptimizes data center connectivity over distance with integrated high-performance metro <strong>and</strong>global connectivitySimplifies <strong>and</strong> centralizes end-to-end Storage Area Network (<strong>SAN</strong>) management withcomprehensive diagnostics, monitoring, <strong>and</strong> automationMaximizes performance for I/O- <strong>and</strong> b<strong>and</strong>width-intensive applications with more than seven timesthe performance of competitive offeringsProtects investments in existing <strong>SAN</strong> fabrics <strong>and</strong> automation tools while reducing operational costs<strong>and</strong> minimizing business disruption<strong>SN8000B</strong> Performance<strong>SN8000B</strong> 8-Slot <strong>SAN</strong> <strong>Director</strong>384 ports operating simultaneously at full 16Gb speed (maximum)8 Tbit/sec of chassis b<strong>and</strong>width2 Tbit/sec of Inter Chassis Link (ICL) b<strong>and</strong>width (freeing up to 128 16 Gb ports for server,storage, <strong>and</strong> fabric connections)<strong>SN8000B</strong> 4-Slot <strong>Director</strong>192 ports operating simultaneously at full 16Gb speed (maximum)4 Tbit/sec of chassis b<strong>and</strong>width1 Tbit/sec of Inter Chassis Link (ICL) b<strong>and</strong>width (freeing up to 64 16 Gb ports for server,storage, <strong>and</strong> fabric connections)<strong>DC</strong> <strong>SAN</strong> <strong>Director</strong> Highlights <strong>HP</strong> <strong>DC</strong> <strong>SAN</strong> <strong>Director</strong>s are the most advanced 8 Gbps switching platforms in the industry. They provideleading reliability, scalability, <strong>and</strong> performance for traditional data center environments. The <strong>DC</strong> <strong>SAN</strong><strong>Director</strong>s family:Consolidates data center connectivity for highly available, lossless networking between applications<strong>and</strong> data, as well as between servers <strong>and</strong> storage networksProvides an adaptive platform for ensuring Quality of Service (QoS) to virtualized applications <strong>and</strong>data in server, networking, <strong>and</strong> storage complexesScales up to eight times more than traditional <strong>SAN</strong> directors to support virtualized applications thatleverage shared storage environmentsImproves energy efficiency by combining higher b<strong>and</strong>width with lower power consumption thanexisting solutionsDA - 12993 Worldwide — Version 35 — May 1, 2013 Page 4
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