HPE StorageWorks SAN Director 48-port 8Gb Fibre Channel Blade - Switch - 48 x SFP - plug-in module - for StorageWorks DC SAN Backbone Director Power Pack+ Switch, DC04
- Provides a highly robust 8 GB platform in two modular form factors for enterprise data centers supporting open system and mainframe environments
- Delivers breakthrough performance to meet data growth and access demands, expand virtualization, and consolidate resources
- "Five-nines" availability and reliability
- Delivers ten times the energy efficiency of competitive offerings, enabling data centers to support more server and storage equipment
- Security capabilities built into the ASIC eliminate the threat of unauthorized SAN access and unauthorized SAN configuration changes
- Enables logical partitioning of platforms and fabrics into virtual data and management domains without sacrificing performance, scalability, security, or reliability
The HPE StorageWorks DC SAN Directors are the most advanced B-Series director-class switches that combine breakthrough performance, scalability, and energy efficiency with long-term investment protection. Supporting open systems and mainframe environments, HPE StorageWorks DC SAN Directors are designed to address the data growth and application demands of next generation data centers; enable server, SAN, and data center consolidation; and reduce infrastructure and administrative costs.
This model features ultra-high-speed Inter-Chassis Link (ICL) ports to connect two SAN directors, providing extensive scalability and flexibility at the network core. At the network edge, organizations can utilize B-series 8GB switches, 4/256 SAN Director, or-for complete enterprise class capabilities-the DC04 SAN Director.
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Outstanding scalability and performance
Adaptive networking improves traffic management and resource utilization and is ideal for virtualized environments.
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State of the art reliability
Meet ultra-high availability requirements with redundant, hot-pluggable components, no single point of failure, and non-disruptive software upgrades.
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Multi-protocol connectivity
FCIP trunking combines multiple IP source and destination address pairs into a logical high-bandwidth FCIP trunk. Adaptive rate limiting provides a minimum bandwidth guarantee for each tunnel with full utilization of the available network bandwidth.
