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HP StorageWorks DC SAN Backbone Director

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Consolidates data center connectivity for high available, lossless networking between applications and data, as well as between servers and storage networks.
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Adaptive Networking Adaptive Networking (AN) is a family of technologies for the DC SAN Backbone Director which allow flexible control of traffic movement within the fabric which deliver application aware management of fabric resources.  AN applications may be used with multiple protocols and multiple classes of service.  

The DC SAN Backbone Director knows where an application is and what it’s assigned fabric resources are.  As an application moves or it’s network resources become degraded the DC SAN Backbone Director can adjust the fabric based on preset polices to ensure the highest level SLAs

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HP B-series SFP Transceivers HP recommends using only HP high-quality fibre channel transceivers (SFPs) in HP SAN environments. HP SFPs are tested with HP hardware products to maximize performance, compatibility and reliability

Please visit www.hpsancompat.com

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HP B-series Cables Please visit www.hpsancompat.com for all optics compatibility information, including Fibre Channel SFPs, Cables, and Port License Upgrades. Optional

B-series Software

HP StorageWorks Power Pack+ Bundle The Power Pack+ set of tools monitors the network's health and performance. It includes Fabric Watch, Extended Fabric, ISL Trunking, Adaptive Networking, and Advance Performance Monitoring. Required
FICON CUP Optional software allows Ficon Director Switching to provide Fibre Channel and FICON intermix, FICON Control Unit Port (CUP), and FICON cascading for more then one B-Series SAN Director in XP Storage Array environments. The license feature provides Control Unit Port (CUP) in-and management function designed to allow mainframe applications to perform configuration, monitoring, management and statistics collection. Optional
MP Blade Perf Extens LTU Optional software license to activate the high performance extension services. The HP MPR Blade provides two types of SAN Services:

FC-FC Subnet Routing Service for SAN island consolidation: Logically connect devices in multiple SAN fabrics to share storage resources-from any fabric regardless of distance-with the administration and fault isolation benefits of separately managed fabrics.

FCIP and FC Tunneling Service for SAN extension over distance: Either seamlessly and reliably extend HP B-Series SANs across MAN and WAN IP networks or dark fiber and xWDM Fire Channel networks with high performance extension services, fully integrated with HP CA solutions for EVA and XP. FC and FCIP extension services are mutually exclusive.

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B-series Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise Software HP StorageWorks Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise Software builds upon the recognized capabilities of the previous EFCM and Fabric Manager products and extends it from roots in SAN management to the data center fabric supporting enhanced scalability, multi-protocol fabrics (Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FCIP) and policy-based service management including adaptive networking with Quality of Service features. http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/dc_fabricmgr/index.html Optional
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