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Business Value
Delivers high performance, high density connectivity and superior investment protection while satisfying the most demanding SAN availability, performance and scalability requirements.
The HP StorageWorks 4/256 SAN Director and the HP StorageWorks 4/256 SAN Director Power Pack provide a high performance, highly reliability, 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
The 10/6 FC Blade enables organizations to fully utilize 10Gbit/sec links via dark fiber or DWDM.
In most cases today, a leased 10Gbit/sec link is underutilized because organizations can transmit only 4Gbit/sec Fibre Channel traffic over 10Gbit/sec connection.
The 8/16 FC Blade provides local switching at 8Gb performance for enhanced business continuity across metro distances.
The iSCSI blade extends the reach of Fibre Channel SANs across the enterprise to attach iSCSI servers in a seamless and cost effective way to the 4/256 SAN Director.
Features & Benefits
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.
Advanced architecture with intelligent routing and faster fabric services for higher performance: High performance interconnect 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.
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 to prevent fabric bottlenecks: Ability to create 32 port trunks to efficiently utilize inter switch links.
16, 32, 48 Fibre Channel 4Gb blade, MP Router blade, 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.
Investment protection: Fully compatible with and sharing a common code base with existing B-series switches.
