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| Overview & Features |
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| The HP StorageWorks Power Pack option provides the SAN administrator with the necessary tools to monitor the health and performance of the network, while also ensuring the highest levels of security, scalability and manageability. Power pack software features are available preconfigured on the switch or as an upgrade to existing 2 Gb switches. Components of the power pack may also be purchased separately.
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Power Pack provides a SAN administrator the capability to manage their entire environment through a single pane-of-glass. Whether for small/medium business or enterprise SAN customers, Power Pack gives you the functionality to create the most adaptive storage infrastructure possible.
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Advanced Performance Monitoring
Advanced Performance Monitoring allows for end-to-end performance monitoring of traffic between a server and a storage device, assessing resource utilization on a fabric-wide basis. This enabling technology provides the ability to monitor and watch specific fabric metrics from a SID (Source ID) to a DID (Destination ID), creating a method to be able to fine-tune and scale your fabric more efficiently. Performance Monitoring also allows the ability to have an early warning detection of hot spots within the fabric providing a powerful tool for maintaining overall balanced performance. This results in improved performance tuning that maximizes fabric resource optimization and simplifies SAN capacity planning.
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Extended Fabrics
Extended Fabrics delivers all of the scalability, reliability and performance benefits of Fibre Channel SANs beyond the native 10 km distance specified by the Fibre Channel standard. With Extended Fabrics, SAN fabric coverage can be increased to 100 kilometers at full bandwidth to campuses, Metropolitan Area Networks, and backup sites. It also increases high availability by providing long-distance backup support to ensure business continuance and disaster recovery. This component is required with the use of Very Long Distance SFPs and/or wavelength division multiplexing (WDM or DWDM). |
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Fabric Watch
Fabric Watch is a real-time health monitoring service that proactively monitors the health of the switches and fabric and performance settings. 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. Benefits include improved high availability from proactive notification, detailed information that can be used to conduct root cause analysis and reduced troubleshooting time.
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ISL Trunking
ISL Trunking delivers high performance enhanced trunking capabilities by aggregating up to four ISLs into a single logical 8 Gb Fibre Channel link. This license logically groups up to four e-ports to provide a high bandwidth Trunk between two switches. The switch operating system views the Trunk as a single, high bandwidth resource (up to 8 Gb) when routing connections between switches. Connections are load-balanced across the individual links, which comprise the logical trunk group. Each 16-port switch can have four separate 4-port Trunk groups. The result is improved performance, increased high availability, and simplified network design and management. |
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Controllable: |
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Configurable: allows the administrator to customize the switch to the specific requirements of their enterprise environment |
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Optimal Performance: enable 8Gb pipes with ISL Trunking. Potential network congestion is mitigated by the additional bandwidth |
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Adaptable: API Access through PERL scripting capabilities, the administrator can simply automate management tasks, which are unique to each environment |
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Resilient: |
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Proactive SAN Health: The Fabric Watch and Advanced Performance Monitoring features provide the capability to monitor, diagnose and alert the administrator of environmental and performance hot spots. Advance warning to potential problems is critical to maximizing uptime of mission critical environments. |
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Extensible: |
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Business Continuance: SAN Extension solutions such as Extended Fabrics provide data center co-location connectivity. The customer now has the flexibility to choose native FC (up to 100km) or best-in-class products for DWDM, FC over IP and FC over SONET. |
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Investment Protection: Compatible with market leading SAN installed base currently running mission critical storage environments. |
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