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Business Value |
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Integrated Fibre Channel switch within the HP BladeSystem c-Class increases flexibility and performance while reducing costs through rack consolidation, reduced cabling and fewer SFPs. |
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Overview |
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The Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem delivers an easy to manage embedded Fibre Channel switch solution with 4Gbps performance to HP BladeSystem c-Class customers deploying a small SAN or expanding their current SAN. The Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch hot-plugs into the back of the HP BladeSystem c-Class Enclosure, freeing up rack space. Server and switch interconnects internal to the BladeSystem reduce cabling, SFPs and associated costs while improving reliability. Shared power and cooling resources further reduce costs and additional points of failure. Trunking between the SAN facing ports and external Brocade or HP StorageWorks B-series switches provides a higher bandwidth solution. External facing ports auto-sense lower bandwidth components for flexibility and investment protection. IT managers have the ability to consolidate multiple HP servers, Fibre Channel switches, and Ethernet switches into a single platform for connectivity to the networked infrastructure at a lower cost than ever before. Multiple switches coupled with redundant server connections ensure a highly available solution. This integration of technology results in space and cost savings due to a reduction of physical components, significant simplification of the SAN environment, outstanding performance, and easier deployment.
Providing the best value and performance-enhancing features in a 12- or 24-port embedded SAN switch with the option to scale to larger fabrics on a “pay-as-you-grow” basis, the Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch enables increased productivity and substantial cost savings. The new Access Gateway feature enables fabric interoperability, greater scalability and simplified management while the Dynamic Ports on Demand (DPOD) feature enables flexibility in switch port allocation without constraining server slot population.
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Enable seamless connectivity to any SAN fabric, enhance scalability, and simplify manageability with Brocade Access Gateway, a powerful Brocade Fabric OS® (v5.2.1b and higher) feature for Brocade SAN switches for HP BladeSystem. |
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Features |
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Agility: Integrated 4Gb Auto-sensing SAN connectivity: Employs high speed technology for storage networking. Trunking of the SAN facing ports and external Brocade or HP StorageWorks B-series switches provides a high bandwidth solution. External facing ports auto-sense lower bandwidth components for flexibility and investment protection (4Gb, 2Gb or 1Gb).
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Fabric interoperability and scalability: Employs N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV), an ANSI T11 standard, to enable interoperability with any SAN fabric and eliminate domain considerations while improving SAN scalability.
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Broad range of management tools: Integrates with HP Onboard Administrator for BladeSystem, HP Systems Insight Manager, and HP Storage Essentials and leverages HP B-series SAN Switch management and monitoring tools. It also provides interfaces for other SAN management applications, and is SMI compliant.
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Available in three models for greater flexibility : Integrates with HP Onboard Administrator for BladeSystem, HP Systems Insight Manager, and HP Storage Essentials and leverages HP B-series SAN Switch management and monitoring tools. It also provides interfaces for other SAN management applications, and is SMI compliant.
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Dynamic Ports on Demand (DPOD): Automatically discovers ‘online’ ports and assigns an available license in any combination, including external ports. Enables the flexibility to connect server blades to switch ports without regard for the server slot populated – the associated switch ports will be automatically activated as the server ports are deployed.
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Scalable licensing: Supports instant non-disruptive scaling for the 12-port switch by provisioning 12 additional ports via a license key upgrade. Enables ‘pay as you grow’ scalability for easy, scalable growth in highly dynamic business environments.
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Non-blocking architecture: The non-blocking architecture includes connection speed support for all ports to provide a high-performance system with aggregate bandwidth of up to 192Gbps (24 ports x 4Gbps x 2 for full duplex)
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Dynamic Path Selection (DPS): Improves performance by dynamically routing data traffic across multiple links and trunk groups.
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Support for long distances : Enables deployment of high-performance distance solutions of up to 166 km for disaster recovery/business continuance or data center consolidation. Improves application uptime, productivity, and investment protection.
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SMI-s Conformance: Provides an SMI-S standards-based API that enables administrators and software developers to use industry standard interfaces to integrate management for the Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem with other applications in their storage environments.
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