| The HP StorageWorks DC SAN Backbone Director Power Pack is the most advanced B-series director-class switch and provides the backbone for evolving Storage Area Networks (SANs) in mission critical environments. It supports an intelligent, scalable, and application-centric approach to enterprise data management. It enables the merging of diverse types of networks including client/server, virtual server cluster, extension, and SANs to improve server and storage utilization, simplify management, reduce costs, and support non-disruptive growth.
DC SAN Director is the highest performing director with a 6Tb backplane providing a new class of infrastructure for the data center. It improves energy efficiency by combining higher bandwidth with lower power consumption. It facilitates server and storage expansion for open and mainframe environments, delivering scalability with up to 768 ports in a dual chassis configuration. It provides investment protection for increased ROI by supporting existing and future emerging protocols, including 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) (ready), 10 Gigabit Ethernet, iSCSI (ready), FCIP, and FICON.
DC SAN Backbone leverages B-Series FOS to centralize data center management for greater efficiency. The Power Pack set of tools monitors the network's health and performance. Adaptive Networking provides traffic management applications which deliver application aware management of fabric resources. It also integrates with HP’s Storage Essentials Management tools.
It is designed for continuous operation and supports "five-nines" availability. The director is engineered with built-in redundancy; all FRUs and components are hot-swappable, and non-disruptive hardware and software upgrades. Security capabilities built into the ASIC eliminate the threat of unauthorized SAN access and unauthorized SAN configuration changes which reduces the risk of downtime.
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- 6Tb backplane: 4x the system bandwidth then the 4/256 SAN Director.
- 8Gb/s performance: Supports 8Gb/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.
- Hot-swappable, Fully-Replaceable Units: "Five-nines” availability.
- High Scalability: Supports 384 in a single domain and 768 in dual chassis configuration.
- Ability to create a secure infrastructure: Multi-protocol and LUN-level zoning features.
- Adaptive Networking: Application based traffic management for improved performance and availability.
- ISL Trunking and Advanced Performance Monitoring to prevent fabric bottlenecks: Ability to create 64 port trunks to efficiently utilize inter switch links.
- Multi-protocol Support: Flexible options in which to scale the size of a SAN performance or density with Fibre Channel, iSCSI ready, FCIP, FICON, and FCoE ready.
- Investment protection: Fully compatible with and sharing a common code base with existing B-series switches.
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