Storage Networking

A wide range of storage area network (SAN) products and solutions that meet any customer requirements for performance, cost, scalability, manageability and investment protection.

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Unlock the untapped capability of your investment

Remove limitations on your storage investment and keep pace with storage innovations by modernising your storage network with HPE’s dynamic end-to-end solutions for all-flash storage and NVMe storage. Enable reliability, high performance and reduced human error with agile HPE Storage Networking host adapters, multi-protocol switches, highly scalable directors and Smart SAN automation software for hybrid cloud and cloud-optimised storage.

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Storage networking – redefined

Our experience in primary, secondary and hyperconverged storage, and NAS and object solutions has given us a greater understanding of your needs than single-focus vendors have. Our Storage Networking portfolio is a reliable, high-performance storage connectivity platform.

Get the full potential of flash affordably

Meet SLAs, gain visibility and reduce human error by automating and orchestrating SAN zoning.

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Transform storage fabrics with Ethernet

Leverage high-bandwidth, low-latency, NVMe-ready and industry-leading switches to connect storage systems.

Go above and beyond basic SAN connectivity

Enable SAN availability, efficiency and reliability. Automate and orchestrate end-to-end SAN zoning to reduce human error.

Modernise your storage network

HPE Smart Fabric Orchestrator delivers protocol agnostic, fabric configuration validation with Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge (SPOCK).

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Modernise your storage network

HPE Smart Fabric Orchestrator delivers protocol agnostic, fabric configuration validation with Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge (SPOCK).

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HPE Storage Networking infrastructure portfolio

Our comprehensive list of product offerings meet and exceed our customer requirements.

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HPE 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 B-series Director Switches

High availability and agility with long-term investment protection as well as NVMe-ready low-latency and high performace for all-flash and emerging NVMe storage.

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HPE C-series Fibre Channel Switches

Robust high-performance, flexible, easy-to-manage, cost-effective platforms offering high-density SAN deployments in small, medium-sized and large enterprise environments.

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HPE C-series Director Switches

A rich set of intelligent features added to a high-performance, protocol-independent switch fabric addresses the stringent requirements of large data centre storage environments.

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HPE 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 Embedded Switches

Next generation embedded Fibre Channel switches for HPE C-Class BladeSystem and HPE Synergy.

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HPE Adapters

Eliminate I/O bottlenecks where greater virtual machine density and bandwidth requirements are the norm.

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HPE Smart Fabric Orchestrator

Automation, orchestration and fabric services that empower administrators to provision storage error-free and arrange fabric services for increasing fabric resiliency.

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Storage Device Management Software

Run your storage seamlessly with our broad selection of storage networking software, including HPE SANnav Management Software, HPE B-Series Fabric Vision, HPE SAN Network Advisor, HPE C-Series Data Centre +, HPE Smart SAN for 3PAR and HPE Smart Fabric Orchestrator.

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HPE 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.

HPE Storage Networking services

Select the right kind of support option that fits your business needs.

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Storage Consulting Services

Modernise storage infrastructures, migrate data, enable end-to-end data protection and recoverability and meet your data services goals.

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HPE Proactive Care Services

Proactive IT support services that use a personalised approach to maintaining your IT infrastructure.

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HPE SAN Deployment Service

Installation and configuration of your storage area network (SAN) with three service levels based on the size and complexity of your SAN environment.

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HPE Education Services for Storage

HPE hybrid cloud storage course offerings to help expand your skills and accelerate your outcomes.

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Service Credits by HPE Pointnext Services

Flexible service delivery for planned or unplanned business needs to give you the flexibility and power to direct resources when and where you need them.

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Storage Consulting Services

Modernise storage infrastructures, migrate data, enable end-to-end data protection and recoverability and meet your data services goals.

Featured resource

ESG Lab Review: Automated SAN and federated zoning

See how to automate and simplify SAN and Federated SAN zoning configuration by using HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage and HPE Smart SAN for 3PAR Software. This ESG Lab Review documents hands-on testing on how Smart SAN for 3PAR leverages industry standards-based FCIA T11 with target-driven peer zoning to transform complex and error-prone manual zoning process into an orchestrated, rapid, automated, error-free process.

Simplify Fibre Channel zoning and storage provisioning
Little or no FC expertise required
A single command provisions storage in storage, server and FC switch

ESG Lab Review: Automated SAN and federated zoning

See how to automate and simplify SAN and Federated SAN zoning configuration by using HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage and HPE Smart SAN for 3PAR Software. This ESG Lab Review documents hands-on testing on how Smart SAN for 3PAR leverages industry standards-based FCIA T11 with target-driven peer zoning to transform complex and error-prone manual zoning process into an orchestrated, rapid, automated, error-free process.

Simplify Fibre Channel zoning and storage provisioning
Little or no FC expertise required
A single command provisions storage in storage, server and FC switch

analyst report | PDF | 745 KB

ESG Lab Review: Accelerating Time to Value: Automated SAN and Federated Zoning with HPE 3PAR and Smart SAN for 3PAR

This ESG Lab Review documents hands-on testing of HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage and HPE Smart SAN for 3PAR Software solution to verify its ability to automate and simplify SAN and Federated SAN zoning configuration.

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Read the analyst report

analyst report | PDF | 745 KB