Adaptive Networking
Adaptive Networking (AN) is a family of technologies which allow flexible control of traffic movement
within the fabric which deliver application aware management of fabric resources. Applications may be
used with multiple protocols and multiple classes of service. It includes the following features:
Ingress Rate Limiting Allows the ingress bandwidth of a port to be throttled to a rate lower than
negotiated with the SAN node. This could be very useful for enterprises
offering stepped levels of service and enforcing SLAs.
Quality of Service
(QoS)
Enables zones with high, medium, and low priorities within a fabric on a zone
by zone basis. This can be very useful for prioritizing array replication over
MANs and WANs over less critical traffic.
Traffic Isolation
Zones
Defines paths through a fabric for some or all nodes. Failover allows a non-
preferred path to be used if the preferred fails. TIZs use failover by default but
it can be disabled if traffic should stop if a preferred path fails. TIZ can be used
to manually map out traffic flows within a fabric based on application, priority,
and topology.
Advanced Performance
Monitor
This enabling technology helps administrators monitor and watch specific fabric metrics -- from a SID
(Source ID) to a DID (Destination ID) -- so they can fine-tune and scale the fabric more efficiently. Plus,
Advanced Performance Monitoring includes the ability for early warning detection of hot spots within the
fabric, a powerful tool for maintaining overall balanced performance.
Top Talkers is a component of Advanced Performance Monitoring and tracks the top traffic flows for hosts
and targets for a switch port or a switch. Top Talkers can help identify the ports that need certain Quality
of Service (QoS) attributes or it can help determine portions of the physical topology that need
reconfiguration.
Fabric Watch
Fabric Watch enables each switch to monitor the SAN for potential faults and automatically alert network
managers to problems before they become failures. Fabric Watch tracks a variety of SAN fabric elements,
events, and counters. Monitoring fabric-wide events, ports, SFPs, and environmental parameters permits
early fault detection and isolation as well as performance measurement. Each switch in the SAN needs its
own Fabric Watch license.
Server Application
Optimization (SAO)
Server Application Optimization (SAO) license improves overall application performance for physical
servers and virtual machines. SAO, when deployed with B-Series Fibre Channel HBAs, extends B-Series
Adaptive Networking from the B-series SAN fabric to the server infrastructure. This delivers application-
level, fine-grain Quality of Service (QoS) management to the HBAs and related server applications.
Solution Requirements:
SAO license must be installed on the edge (server connected) switch
Adaptive networking (AN) license must be installed on the edge (server connected) switch
SAO requires B-series HBA installed in the server
QuickSpecs
HP SN8000B and DC SAN Director Family
Product Highlights
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