HP DC04 SAN Director Switch
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Overview:
The HP SN8000B and DC SAN Directors are part of the B-series portfolio and are the industry's leading Fibre Channel switching infrastructure solutions, combining breakthrough performance, scalability, and energy efficiency with long-term investment protection. The SN8000B Directors were designed to unleash the full potential of private cloud storage and virtualization. With unmatched scalability, 16 Gbps performance, reliability, and functionality, the SN8000B Directors are the strategic platform for transforming current SAN fabrics into cloud-optimized SANs. For SAN fabrics not requiring the performance of the 16 Gbps platforms, the DC SAN Directors are the most advanced 8 Gbps switching platforms in the industry.
All B-series SAN Directors are based on the same core technology and consist of two form factors. The SN8000B 8-Slot Director and DC SAN Backbone Director are both a 14U chassis and support 8 Fibre Channel blades for large enterprises to deliver maximum scalability, performance, and functionality. The SN8000B 4-Slot Director and the DC04 SAN Director are both a 9U chassis and support 4 Fibre Channel blades for mid-size enterprises as the core of their SANs.
The SN8000B SAN Directors are based on 7th generation technology and provide up to 384 16Gb or 512 8Gb FC ports. These directors also provide up to 32 QSFP based Inter Chassis Links (ICLs) which are equivalent to 128 16Gb FC ports. They support a range of fibre channel blade options including 32 port and 48 port 16Gb blades, 32 port and 48 port 8Gb enhanced blades and the 64 port 8Gb blade. They provide up to 8.2Tbps of total aggregate bandwidth and 512Gbps of slot bandwidth and are the ideal foundation for private cloud storage and highly virtualized environments.
B-series SAN Directors offer multi protocol support through various blades with autosensing support, depending on model, for 16/10/8/4/2 Gbps Fibre Channel, FICON, FCIP, FCoE (not supported with SN8000B) and data at rest Encryption.
To help minimize downtime costs, all B-series SAN Directors build upon years of innovation and leverages the core B-series technology performing at greater than 99.999 percent uptime in the world's most demanding data centers.
The Power Pack+ set of tools monitors the network's health and performance. It is pre-configured on every SN8000B 8-Slot Director and DC SAN Backbone Director. It is available pre-configured or as an upgrade for every SN8000B 4-Slot Director and DC04 SAN Director. Power Pack+ also provides the foundation for integration into HP storage management tools, enabling infrastructure management through a single-pane-of-glass. Adaptive Networking is a new feature of the Power Pack+ tools which helps improve fabric behavior and ensures ample bandwidth for critical applications.
Features and Benefits:
Industry Leading Performance
- DC SAN Director Switches are the most advanced 8Gb switching platform in the industry and offer up to 4.1 Tb/s chassis bandwidth to address traditional data center requirements.
- All B-series SAN Director Switches offer local switching capabilities to ensure data traffic within the same port group does not consume slot bandwidth, maximizing the number of line-rate ports.
Simplifies Scale Out Network Design
- Enables flatter, any-to-any low-latency chassis connectivity that reduces complexity and cost.
- Reduces inter-switch cables by 75 percent, reducing complexity and management tasks.
- Preserves up to 33 percent of ports for servers and storage, maximizing overall port density in the lowest amount of rack space.
Optimizes Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Solutions
- Enables flexible, high-speed replication solutions over metro or WAN links with native 10 Gb/s Fibre Channel or 10GbE FCIP extension support.
- Minimizes the risk of unauthorized access with in-flight data encryption at wire speed.
- Reduces bandwidth costs with in-flight data compression at wire speed.
Simplifies Deployment and Reduces Costs
- SN8000B SAN Director Switches accelerate deployment and troubleshooting tasks with new inline port diagnostics and advanced monitoring.
- Simplifies and centralizes management of server connectivity and network resources through HP SAN Network Advisor.
- SN8000B SAN Director Switches centralize fabric-wide power monitoring to support more efficient operations.
Specification:
| HP DC04 SAN Director Switch | |
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| Specifications | |
| Fibre Channel ports | 16 port, 32 port, 48 port, and 64 port 8Gb Fibre Channel port blade options for the DC SAN Directors |
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| Performance | Fibre Channel: 1.063 Gbps line speed, full duplex; 2.125 Gbps line speed, full duplex ; 4.25 Gbps line speed, full duplex; 8.5 Gbps line speed, full duplex; auto-sensing of 2 Gb, 4 Gb, and 8 Gb port speeds; optionally programmable to fixed port speed; speed matching between 2 Gb, 4 Gb, and 8 Gb ports |
| Aggregate switch bandwidth | 1.5 Tb/s |
| Encryption capability | AES 256-bit; Data-at-rest |
| Protocol supported | Fibre Channel, FCIP, FICON, and FCoE |
| ISL Trunking | Up to eight 8 Gbit/sec ports per ISL trunk; up to 64 Gbit/sec per ISL trunk. Up to two 8-port trunk groups supported on 16-port blades, four 8-port trunk groups supported on 32-port blades, eight 8-port trunk groups supported on 48-port and 64-port blades. ISL Trunking at 2 Gbit/sec for compatibility with B-Series legacy switches and director |
| Chassis Bandwidth | 4 Tbit/sec (DC SAN Backbone Director) or 2 Tbit/sec (DC04 SAN Director) |
| Slot bandwidth | 256 Gbps (data rate) |
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| Maximum frame size | 2112-byte payload |
| Frame buffers | 2048 per 16-port group on the 16,32, and 64-port blades and up to 2048 per 24-port group on the 48-port blade, dynamically allocated |
| Classes of service | Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames) |
| DC San Director Port Types |
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| Data traffic types | Fabric Switches supporting unicast, multicast (255 groups), and broadcast |
| USB | 1 USB port for firmware download and for Supportsave |
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| Fabric services | Advanced Performance Monitoring (APM) (including Top Talkers for E_Ports, F_Ports, and Fabric mode); Adaptive Networking (Ingress Rate Limiting, Traffic Isolation, QoS); Bottleneck Detection; Advanced Zoning (default zoning, port/WWN zoning, broadcast zoning); Dynamic Fabric Provisioning (DFP); Dynamic Path Selection (DPS); Extended Fabrics; Enhanced BB credit recovery; Fabric Watch; FDMI; Frame Redirection; Frame-based Trunking; FSPF; Integrated Routing; IPoFC; ISL Trunking; Management Server; NPIV; NTP v3; Port Fencing; Registered State Change Notification (RSCN); Reliable Commit Service (RCS); Server Application Optimization (SAO); Simple Name Server (SNS); Virtual Fabrics (Logical Switch, Logical Fabric) |
| Extension | Supports DWDM, CWDM, and FC-SONET devices; Fibre Channel, in-flight compression and encryption (AESGCM- 256) BB credit recovery; FCIP, Adaptive Rate Limiting (ARL), data compression, Fast Write, read/write Tape Pipelining, QoS |
| FICON | FICON cascading; support for lossless DLS; FICON CUP; Advanced Accelerator for FICON (FICON Global Mirror and XRC emulation and read/write Tape Pipelining). |
| High availability |
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| Availability features | Support “five nines” availability (i.e. 99.999%); Redundant hot swappable components; Redundant power and cooling subsystems; Automatic Control Processor failover; Non-disruptive “hot” software code loads and activation concurrent hardware upgrades |
| Management | |
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| Management | HTTP, SNMP v1/v3 (FE MIB, FC Management MIB), SSH; Auditing, Syslog; Web Tools, APM, Fabric Watch; SAN Network Advisor SAN Enterprise (SN8000B and DC SAN Directors) or SAN Network Advisor SAN Professional/Professional Plus (SN8000B 4-Slot and DC04 SAN Director); Command Line Interface (CLI); SMI-S compliant; Administrative Domains; trial licenses for add-on capabilities |
| Security | AES-GCM-256 encryption on ISLs; DH-CHAP (between switches and end devices), FCAP switch authentication; FIPS 140-2 L2-compliant, HTTPS, IPsec, IP filtering, LDAP with IPv6, Port Binding, RADIUS, User-defined Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Secure Copy (SCP), Secure RPC, SFTP, SSH v2, SSL, Switch Binding, Trusted Switch |
| Management access | 10/100/1000 Ethernet (RJ-45), in-band over Fibre Channel; serial ports (RJ-45) and one USB per Control Processor blade |
| Diagnostics | POST and embedded online/offline diagnostics |
| Software (required) | Power Pack+ is required for the DC SAN Backbone Director and SN8000B 8-slot Director |
| Software (optional) |
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| Dimensions and Weight | |
| Ports per rack | Up to 1024 DC SAN Backbone Director ports per 42U rack using Patch Panels. |
| Enclosure | Rear panel-to-door airflow; SN8000B 4-Slot and DC04 SAN Director ships with 1U exhaust shelf |
| Form factor | 9U |
| Minimum Dimensions (W x D x H) |
17.2 x 28.8 x 15.4 in |
| Weight | 150 lbs |
| Environment | |
| Temperature | Operating: 32° to 104° F (0° to 40° C ) Non-operating: -25° to 70° C (-13° to 158° F) |
| Humidity | Operating: 5% to 85% non-condensing at 104° F (40° C) Non-Operating: 0% to 93% non-condensing |
| Altitude | Up to 3000 meters (9,800 feet) |
| Shock | 20 g, 6 ms half-sine |
| Vibration | Operating: 0.5 g p-p, 5 to 500 to 5 Hz Non-operating: 2.0 g, 5 to 500 Hz |
| Heat Dissipation | Min: 16-port configuration - 363 W, 1239 BTU/hr Max: 192-port configuration - 753 W, 2570 BTU/hr |
| Power | |
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| Maximum output power | 2000 watts |
| AC inrush current | 20A maximum, peak |
| What's Included | |
| Differentiator | 8Gb 256-port capable Dir., (2)control processors, (2)power supplies, (1)USB, rackrail, cable comb, Zoning, Webtools, EGM, BNA Ent. 90 day trial DVD. Does not include Port blades/SFPs. RoHS2 Compliant |
| Warranty - year(s) (parts/labor/onsite) | 2/2/2 |
| What's in the box | 256-port capable Fibre Channel Director with 8 Gb capable performance, (2) control processors, (2) power supplies, (1) 2 GB USB Device, rack rails, cable comb Zoning, Web tools, Enhanced Group Management, SAN Network Advisor Professional Software (separate DVD), and Data Center Enterprise Software 90 day trial kit (separate DVD). Does not include Port blades or SFPs. |
HP Technology Services:
Tap into the HP support services advantage, to make the most of your investments. Depending on your individual support requirements, choose from three levels of support that cover your storage lifecycle.
Optimized Care: delivers best performance and stability through deployment and proactive management practices
- HP Proactive Care 24x7 - for a higher return on your storage investment, Proactive Care delivers hardware and software support services designed specifically for your technology; rapid access to Advanced Solution Center Specialists plus, Firmware/Software management and best practice advice. Customers can optimize the return on their IT investment and realize the advantage of running their business critical applications on virtualized/x86 infrastructure.
- Plus, 40 credits per year, select from an extensive menu of consultancy and technical services, such as onsite firmware upgrades, health checks, assessments, and education.
Standard Care: Maintains high level of uptime, along with expert help to cut the cost and complexity of implementation and support
- HP Proactive Care 24x7 - for a higher return on your storage investment, Proactive Care delivers hardware and software support services designed specifically for your technology; rapid access to Advanced Solution Center Specialists plus, Firmware/Software management and best practice advice. Customers can optimize the return on their IT investment and realize the advantage of running their business critical applications on virtualized/x86 infrastructure. Plus, 30 credits per year, select from an extensive menu of consultancy and technical services, such as onsite firmware upgrades, health checks, assessments, and education.
Basic Care: Delivers the minimum recommended support
- 3-Year Support Plus 24 - For a higher return on your server and storage investment, HP Support Plus 24 provides integrated hardware and software support services designed specifically for your technology. Available 24x7, this 3-year combined reactive support option delivers onsite hardware support and overthe- phone software support around-the-clock. Leverage the full strength of HP Technology Services - customers can trust the services professionals at HP to work collaboratively with them, putting our strategic and technical know-how to work across their entire infrastructure. Plus, 10 credits per year, select from an extensive menu of consultancy and technical services, such as onsite firmware upgrades, health checks, assessments, and education. Plus, 10 credits per year, select from an extensive menu of consultancy and technical services, such as onsite firmware upgrades, health checks, assessments, and education
If none of our support recommendations meet your needs, we can tailor a service solution for your unique support requirements. HP brings together deep expertise, proactive and business critical support, and a strong partner network—plus, a full set of infrastructure services designed to power a converged infrastructure.
Documentation:
Download the HP SN8000B and DC SAN Director Family QuickSpecs (PDF).