SN8000B SAN Director
Highlights
HP SN8000B SAN Directors are the industry's most powerful Fibre Channel switching infrastructure
solutions, providing the most reliable, scalable, high-performance foundation for private cloud storage
and highly virtualized environments. They are designed to increase business agility while providing non-
stop access to information and reducing infrastructure and administrative costs. The SN8000B director
family:
Unleashes the full potential of private cloud storage with unmatched scalability, performance, and
reliability
Enables simpler, flatter, low-latency chassis connectivity to reduce network complexity,
management, and costs
Optimizes data center connectivity over distance with integrated high-performance metro and
global connectivity
Simplifies and centralizes end-to-end Storage Area Network (SAN) management with
comprehensive diagnostics, monitoring, and automation
Maximizes performance for I/O- and bandwidth-intensive applications with more than seven times
the performance of competitive offerings
Protects investments in existing SAN fabrics and automation tools while reducing operational costs
and minimizing business disruption
SN8000B Performance
SN8000B 8-Slot SAN Director
384 ports operating simultaneously at full 16Gb speed (maximum)
8 Tbit/sec of chassis bandwidth
2 Tbit/sec of Inter Chassis Link (ICL) bandwidth (freeing up to 128 16 Gb ports for server,
storage, and fabric connections)
SN8000B 4-Slot Director
192 ports operating simultaneously at full 16Gb speed (maximum)
4 Tbit/sec of chassis bandwidth
1 Tbit/sec of Inter Chassis Link (ICL) bandwidth (freeing up to 64 16 Gb ports for server,
storage, and fabric connections)
DC SAN Director Highlights
HP DC SAN Directors are the most advanced 8 Gbps switching platforms in the industry. They provide
leading reliability, scalability, and performance for traditional data center environments. The DC SAN
Directors family:
Consolidates data center connectivity for highly available, lossless networking between applications
and data, as well as between servers and storage networks
Provides an adaptive platform for ensuring Quality of Service (QoS) to virtualized applications and
data in server, networking, and storage complexes
Scales up to eight times more than traditional SAN directors to support virtualized applications that
leverage shared storage environments
Improves energy efficiency by combining higher bandwidth with lower power consumption than
existing solutions
QuickSpecs
HP SN8000B and DC SAN Director Family
Product Highlights
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