HP StorageWorks B-series Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise Software - Overview & Features

Overview

With unique asset tracking and reporting capabilities, HP Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise and Professional Plus provide detailed visibility into performance utilization of hardware and network bandwidth. They maximizes the ROI of hardware purchases by better utilizing existing infrastructure resources and identify new network requirements.

What's new

• New Data Center Fabric Manager Professional Plus version manages (4) SANs and up to 2,560 ports
• Entry price point for a subset of Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise edition features
• Includes support for Brocade HBAs and virtualization and enhanced GUI with wizard driven operations for automating tasks
• Delivers real time and historical performance monitoring and configures Quality of Service (QoS) priorities for improved utilization of virtual machines
• Unlike Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise version, HP Data Center Fabric Manager Professional Plus does not support the Brocade DCX Backbone or FICON
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Features and Benefits

• Manage and secure data across multiple fabrics: Provide comprehensive management, monitoring, troubleshooting, diagnostics, and proactive event notification of both B-series Fabric OS (FOS) SAN fabrics as well as fabrics in interop mode with M-series M-EOS and B-series FOS. Seamless management of multiple data center fabrics improves performance.
• Measure and show real-time network performance: Collect and display performance statistics in real time and historical views to enable proactive problem diagnosis, raising resource utilization, and facilitate capacity planning.
• Features easy-to-use administration tools: Provide time saving tools which streamline or automate repetitive tasks through an intuitive wizard driven approach for unprecedented levels of productivity and efficiency.

• Improve the ROI of hardware purchases: Prevent the purchase of additional switch and storage equipment by better utilizing existing infrastructure resources.
• Support server virtualization: Visualizing and setting Quality of Service (QoS) levels of applications running on virtual machines.
• Provide high performance scalability: HP Data Center Fabric Manager Professional Plus scales to (4) SANs and 2,560 switch ports while Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise scales to (24) SANs and 9,000 switch reports.

• Non-disruptive software upgrade: Upgrading from HAFM and Fabric Manager 5.x is non-disruptive.
• Non-disruptive path: The Data Center Fabric Manager Professional Software application is included free of charge with all B-series switches which contains a subset of Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise Software features.
• Integrates with HP Storage Essentials: Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise Software integrates with HP Storage Essentials to deliver unified SAN fabric, server, and storage management, improving efficiency via shared services like security administration, asset management, reporting, and discovery.
• Multi-HBA Management: Unified management of fabric and server connectivity resources from a central management point.