HPE StoreFabric SN8500C 8-slot 16Gb Fibre Channel Director Switch - Switch - rack-mountable - remarketed
The HPE StoreFabric SN8500C 16 Gb FC Director Switch elevates the standard for director-class switches. Layering a rich set of intelligent features onto a high-performance, protocol-independent switch fabric, the HPE StoreFabric SN8500C Director Switch addresses the stringent requirements of large data center storage environments. It is ready for integration of future high-speed standards, helping to ensure continued investment protection.
- Outstanding SAN performance
- Provides 16 Gb/s line-rate, non-blocking, predictable performance across all traffic conditions for every port in the chassis
- Achieve seamless deployment of unified fabrics with high-performance FC connectivity to achieve low TCO
- Designed for deployment in large-scale storage networks to enable enterprise clouds and business transformation
- Fully redundant components, including fabric cards, supervisors, and power supplies
- Grid redundancy on power supply and 1+1 redundant supervisors
- Combines stateful process restart and failover, and full redundancy of all major components
- VSAN technology, ACLs for hardware-based intelligent frame processing, and fabric-wide QoS enable migration from SAN islands to enterprise-wide storage networks
