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Business Value
Price leader for high scalability, performance, availability, manageability, and security for SAN consolidation and significantly increases ROI and lowers TCO for IT.
The HP StorageWorks 4/256 SAN Director and the HP StorageWorks 4/256 SAN Director Power Pack provide a high performance, highly reliable, and flexible connectivity platform supporting the most demanding mission critical data center applications. With up to 384 ports of connectivity in a single domain, the 4/256 SAN Director offers flexible scalability for large core-to-edge SAN architectures. The accelerated 4Gb/s redundant processors and new advance routing enable the 4/256 SAN director to deliver next generation performance with faster fabric services and unique investment protection. The 4/256 SAN Director hardware and software architectures support “five nines” availability with hot-swappable FRUs and redundant central processors. Reliability and availability features ensure non-disruption when upgrading hardware and software.
The 4/256 SAN Director Power Pack includes the 4/256 Director switch with value added management software. The new director lowers the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of deploying and operating SAN infrastructures. With more than twice the port density of previous directors, the 4/256 delivers more efficient use of expensive data center floor space. The director is 1, 2, or 4Gb/s auto-sensing capable and protects customer investment by being fully backward compatible with the entire B-series family of fabric switches and director switches.
What's New
New 2-2-2 warranty for HP DC SAN Directors increases the warranty from a 1-1-1 9x5 Next Business Day response to a 2 Year, 24x7, 4hr remote response warranty
HP StorageWorks Data Center Fabric Manager Software
Features & Benefits
High Performance and Scalability
Up to 384 ports: With more than twice the port density of previous B-series Directors, the 4/256 delivers more efficient use of expensive data center floor space.
4Gb/s performance: Supports 4Gb/s end to end storage direction
Ports on demand, pay as you grow: Ability to add more ports when needed. Pay for connectivity you use
High performance interconnect: Advanced architecture with intelligent routing and faster fabric services for higher performance to handle the most demanding applications
Ability to create a secure infrastructure: Multi-protocol and LUN-level zoning features. Full support for optional Secure Fabric OS
High Flexibility
Flexible management tools to manage large SANs: Multi-switch fabric tools for easy configuration and monitoring, convenient power pack options
ISL Trunking and Advanced Performance Monitoring: Ability to create 32-port trunks to efficiently utilize inter switch links to prevent fabric bottlenecks
16, 32, 48 Fibre Channel 4Gb, MP Router, or iSCSI blade: Flexible options in which to scale the size of a SAN performance or density with Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and/or FCIP intermix support
Simplicity
Investment protection: Fully compatible with and sharing a common code base with existing B-series switches
