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Modernise your storage network and get a superior storage networking experience from a broad selection of trusted HPE StoreFabric products focused on performance, SAN automation and resiliency solutions.
Unlock the untapped capability of your investment
Remove limitations on your storage investment by modernising your storage network. HPE provides dynamic end-to-end solutions for all-flash storage and emerging NVMe storage, which require a modern storage network that can keep up with the pace of storage innovations. Ensure reliability, high performance and reduced human error with agile HPE StoreFabric host adapters, multi-protocol switches, highly scalable directors and Smart SAN automation software for Hybrid IT and cloud-optimised storage.
Modernise your SAN fabric affordably and get the full potential of flash
Modernise your storage network with lower cost NVMe-Ready performance. Meet SLAs, gain visibility and reduce human error by automating and orchestrating SAN zoning. Our 32 Gb/s Fibre Channel reduces latency and improves application efficiency.
Transform storage fabrics with Ethernet
Leverage high-bandwidth, low latency, NVMe-Ready and industry-leading Ethernet HPE StoreFabric M-series switches to connect primary, secondary, hyperconverged, NAS and object storage systems.
HPE StoreFabric storage infrastructure portfolio
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HPE StoreFabric M-series Ethernet Switches
Ethernet switch family designed and optimised for flash ready performance, flexibility, and value – supporting standard Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols.
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HPE StoreFabric B-series Fibre Channel Switches
Leverage all-flash performance and reduce human error by automating and orchestrating SAN zoning with cost effective NVMe-Ready 16 Gb (Gen5) and 32 Gb (Gen6) Fibre channel reliability.
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HPE StoreFabric B-series Director Switches
Our Gen5 and Gen6 director-class switches provide high availability and agility with long-term investment protection as well as NVMe-Ready low-latency and high performance for all-flash and emerging NVMe storage.
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HPE StoreFabric C-series Fibre Channel Switches
Provides a robust, high-performance, flexible, easy-to-manage, cost-effective platform offering high-density SAN deployments in small, medium-sized and large enterprise environments.
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HPE StoreFabric C-series Director Switches
Layering a rich set of intelligent features onto a high-performance, protocol-independent switch fabric addresses the stringent requirements of large data centre storage environments.
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HPE StoreFabric Embedded Switches
Take advantage of the next generation of embedded Fibre Channel switches for HPE C-Class BladeSystem and HPE Synergy.
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HPE StoreFabric Adapters
Eliminate I/O bottlenecks where greater virtual machine density and bandwidth requirements are the norm.
Cables, transceivers & SAN software
Flexible fiber optic cable for data centre designs
Meet your most challenging cabling needs using our comprehensive portfolio of fiber-optic cables, which include an OM3 portfolio for standard cabling requirements and a PremierFlex OM4 line for customers that demand the highest quality and are looking for enhanced performance or have extreme cabling environments.
Transceivers for networking and storage interfaces
HPE StoreFabric Transceivers offer maximum performance, reliability and compatibility for HPE storage and computing products across multiple protocols.
HPE StoreFabric converged transceivers offer innovative and wire-once transceiver simplicity for storage networking and storage interfaces. Eliminate the guesswork of which transceiver to use with a single converged transceiver for LAN and SAN traffic supporting 10GbE, FCoE, iSCSI and 16 Gb FC.
HPE StoreFabric SAN software options
Leverage our extensive SAN management software portfolio to ensure SAN availability, efficiency and reliability. HPE Smart SAN for 3PAR software enables innovation into the SAN for HPE 3PAR all-flash storage SAN deployments by automating and orchestrating end-to-end SAN zoning using HPE 3PAR SSMC or CLI interfaces thereby eliminating human error. HPE StoreFabric Power Pack+ Software provides deep storage network visibility with actionable insights for an efficient SAN with HPE StoreFabric B-series FC switches. Speak with your HPE Representative to make sure you are getting all you can out of your StoreFabric experience.
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Resources
White Paper : Enabling high-performance Ethernet storage connectivity
White Paper
Discover how the Ethernet Storage Fabric (ESF) allows customers to build a converged network that can simultaneously handle compute and storage traffic in this whitepaper.
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Video : HPE StoreFabric SN3600B FC Switch
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Affordability without compromising functionality of the 32 Gb speed. Replace three generations at the price of 16 Gb.
Family Guide : HPE StoreFabric SAN Infrastructure
Family Guide
Providing you with scalability, flexibility, performance, security, and interoperability that your storage networking environment’s mission-critical data and applications demand.
White Paper : HPE StoreFabric Gen6 Fibre Channel Server and Storage Solution
White Paper
Evaluation by Demartek
White Paper : Get the most out of the all-flash data centre with HPE Gen6 Fibre Channel
White Paper
How enhanced monitoring and diagnostics capabilities provide visibility into network latency levels and IOPS to the Virtual Machine (VM) level.
White Paper : Data centre modernisation with HPE Gen6 Fibre Channel Networking
White Paper
How to reap the full benefit of data centre transformation initiatives such as the shift to all-flash storage.
White Paper : HPE Smart SAN for 3PAR StoreServ Storage
White Paper
Simplify SAN zoning across the fabric in minutes, not hours.
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451 Research – Market Monitor, 2012.