The SN6000B 16Gb FC Switch provides 48 ports in a single (1U) height switch that enables the creation
of very dense fabrics in a relatively small space.
The SN6000B 16Gb FC Switch also offers POD licensing. Base models of the switch contain 24 ports,
and up to two additional 12-port POD licenses can be purchased. The switch provides excellent value as
the foundation of a SAN, and can grow to meet an organization’s SAN needs.
The SN6000B 16Gb FC Switch can be configured in AG mode, which enables configuring the enterprise
fabric to handle additional N_Ports instead of domains. Reducing the number of domain IDs and ports
simplifies configuration and management in a large fabric. Switches in AG mode are logically transparent
to the host and fabric. You can increase the number of hosts that have access to the fabric without
increasing the number of switches.
Platform capabilities
The SN6000B 16Gb FC Switch offers the following features and capabilities:
• Up to 48 autosensing ports of high-performance 16 Gb/s technology in a single domain.
• POD scaling from 24 to 36 or 48 ports.
• 4, 8, and 16 Gb/s autosensing FC switch and router ports.
◦ 4 and 8 Gb/s performance is enabled by 8 Gb/s SFP+ transceivers.
◦ 4, 8, and 16 Gb/s performance is enabled by 16 Gb/s SFP+ transceivers.
• 10 Gb/s manual set capability on FC ports (requires the optional 10 Gb FC-IP/FC license).
◦ 10 Gb/s performance is enabled by 10 Gb/s SFP+ transceivers.
◦ The first eight ports can be configured for 10 Gb/s for metro connectivity.
• Universal ports self-configure as E, F, M, or D ports. EX_Ports can be activated on a per port basis
with the optional Integrated Routing license. The D_Port feature provides physical media diagnostic,
troubleshooting, and verification services.
• In-flight data compression and encryption on up to two ports provides efficient link utilization and
security.
• VF support improves isolation between VFs.
• FCR service, available with the optional Integrated Routing license, provides improved scalability and
fault isolation.
• FICON, FICON Cascading, and FICON CUP ready.
• ISL Trunking (licensable), which allows up to eight ports (at 4, 8, or 16 Gb/s) between a pair of
switches combined to form a single, logical ISL with a speed of up to 128 Gb/s (256 Gb/s full duplex)
for optimal bandwidth utilization and load balancing.
• DPS, which optimizes fabric-wide performance and load balancing by automatically routing data to the
most efficient available path in the fabric.
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise-branded SFP+ optical transceivers that support any combination of SWL,
LWL and ELWL optical media among the switch ports.
• Support for unicast, multicast (255 groups), and broadcast data traffic types.
• Fabric OS delivers distributed intelligence throughout the network, and enables a wide range of value-
added applications such as Advanced Web Tools and Zoning. Optional Fabric Services include
Adaptive Networking with QoS, Extended Fabrics, Enhanced Group Management, Fabric Watch, ISL
Trunking, and APM.
• Support for AG configuration where server ports connected to the fabric core are virtualized.
• Hardware zoning is accomplished at the port level of the switch and by WWN. Hardware zoning
permits or denies delivery of frames to any destination port address.
• Extensive diagnostics and system-monitoring capabilities for enhanced RAS.
• 10 Gb/s FC integration on the same port provides DWDM metro connectivity on the same switch (can
be done on the first eight ports only).
• Real-time power monitoring enables monitoring the fabric power usage at a switch level.
• Port-to-port latency minimized to 800 nanoseconds through cut-through frame routing at 16 Gb/s.
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