SN8000B Extension
Supports DWDM, CWDM, and FC-SONET devices; Fibre Channel, in-flight compression and encryption (AES-
GCM-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
Control Processor
Redundant (active/standby) control processor modules; automatic failover;
non-disruptive software upgrades; dual-flash memory on each control
processor to store two software images
Modules
Hot swappable
Backplane
Fully passive
Input power
Dual or quad AC inputs
Chassis power
Dual AC-DC power supply modules, N+2 redundant, SN8000B 8-Slot and DC
SAN Backbone supports two additional power modules
Cooling
DC SAN Backbone Director: Three blower assembly modules (two operational
required)
DC04 SAN Director: Two blower assembly modules (one required for
operation)
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
SN8000B Diagnostics
D_Port offline diagnostics, including electrical/optical loopback, link traffic/latency/distance; POST and
embedded online/offline diagnostics, including environmental monitoring, FCping and Pathinfo (FC
traceroute), frame viewer, non-disruptive daemon restart port mirroring (SPAN port), optics health
monitoring, power monitoring (16 Gbps blades-only), RAStrace logging, and Rolling Reboot Detection
(RRD)
DC SAN Director
Diagnostics
POST and embedded online/offline diagnostics
Mechanical
specifications
Ports per rack
Up to 1536 ports per 42U rack
Up to 1024 DC SAN Backbone Director ports per 42U rack using Patch Panels.
NOTE:
The last 16 ports require couplers when using LC-LC Patch Panels.
QuickSpecs
HP SN8000B and DC SAN Director Family
Technical Specifications
DA - 12993 Worldwide — Version 39 — December 20, 2013
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