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HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B QuickSpecs
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With the world’s embrace of digital business, data has become more valuable than ever. Expectations for that data to be accessible from anywhere, at any time, on any device are pushing infrastructures to the limit.
The HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B addresses these challenges by providing a modern replication connectivity solution that cost-effectively and quickly replicates data across sites for fast, continuous data protection. With powerful performance, non-stop reliability, and strong security, the HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B can handle the unrelenting transfer of data between data centers, minimize the impact of disruptions to maintain service-level agreements (SLAs), and secure data-in-flight between data centers.
Overview
IT organizations are under pressure to keep pace with the growing avalanche of data and ensure their valuable information is protected from a disaster. The loss of any crucial data could lead directly to lost revenue or damage to the company’s brand reputation. To safeguard data from a disaster, storage administrators need a way to achieve sufficient replication performance over distance, keep data flowing over unreliable WAN connections, and secure data-in-flight while containing costs for equipment and long-distance connections.
The HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B addresses these challenges by providing a modern replication connectivity solution that cost-effectively and quickly replicates data across sites for fast, continuous data protection. With powerful performance, non-stop reliability, and strong security, the HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B can handle the unrelenting transfer of data between data centers, minimize the impact of disruptions to maintain service-level agreements (SLAs), and secure data-in-flight between data centers. The switch has built-in technology that overcomes the inherent challenges of latency and packet loss over long distance. It dramatically speeds up replication performance and enables organizations to substantially reduce costs by deploying less-expensive WAN connections.
The HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B is a cost-effective solution that securely moves data faster over distance for continuous data protection. This powerful, reliable, and secure platform is purpose built to handle the unrelenting growth of data traffic between data centers in Fibre Channel and IP storage environments.
The HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B is a robust platform for medium scale, multi-site data center environments implementing disk and tape data protection solutions. HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B is ideal for:
- – Multi-site synchronous and asynchronous storage replication
- – Centralized tape backup, recovery, and archiving
The HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B base configuration provides four 32 Gb/s-capable Fibre Channel ports and two 1GbE Ethernet ports with Adaptive Rate Limiting (ARL) and encryption (IPsec). The on-demand upgrade license enables all 12 Fibre Channel ports, 10Gb FCIP/FC, Fabric Vision technology, Extension Trunking, Fibre Channel Trunking, and Integrated Routing (FCR). The full configuration is a comprehensive bundle enabling all ports and includes Brocade Fabric Vision technology, Extension Trunking, Fibre Channel Trunking, ARL, IPsec, and Integrated Routing.
Standard Features
Key Features
Maximize the Value of SANs
- – FCIP Extension of Fibre Channel SANs provides connectivity over longer distances that would otherwise be technologically not possible, impractical, and too expensive with native Fibre Channel or when dark fiber resources are unavailable.
- – Achieve bandwidth savings and higher bandwidth utilization via data compression by compressing FC frames before they are encapsulated into FCIP packets.
- – Extensive diagnostics, system-monitoring capabilities, and performance monitoring (including extensive and granular TCP statistics graphing in Webtools).
Superior Performance
- – TCP acceleration helps to overcome latency between source and target locations by adjusting the TCPM window size and performing selective acknowledgements.
- – Advanced Quality of Service (QoS) techniques can be used to prioritize traffic and guarantee that necessary bandwidth requirements are met.
- – Key protocol features are enabled in the FCIP implementation to optimize performance of SAN extension over IP networks, including Storage-Optimized TCP.
Outstanding Scalability and operational flexibility
- – Adaptive Rate Limiting feature meets minimum bandwidth guarantee for each tunnel while allowing full utilization of the available network bandwidth without adverse impact to throughput performance during high traffic loads.
- – Optional FCIP Trunking feature allows multiple IP source and destination address pairs (defined as FCIP circuits) to provide high bandwidth FCIP tunnel and failover resiliency.
- – Optional FC Routing delivers fabric isolation in conjunction with FCIP, enabling separate fabrics to share devices without merging across the IP network.
HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B
- – 12 Fibre Channel ports with link speeds of 4, 8, 16 and 32 Gbps, compatible with short wavelength (SWL) and long wavelength (LWL) a SFP+ transceivers
- – Six 1 GbE/10 GbE ports, compatible with copper, ultra-short reach (USR), short reach (SR) and long reach (LR) SFP/SFP+ transceivers
- – Two 1 GbE copper (RJ-45) ports
- – One RJ-45 Ethernet management port with 10/100/1000 Mbps auto negotiating capability
- – One RJ-45 serial management port
- – One USB port that provides storage for firmware updates, switch support data, and storage for configuration uploads and downloads
- – Rack-mountable 1U chassis
Configuration Options – Functionality
| HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B Model | Base | Full or Base w/ Upgrade |
|---|---|---|
| FC Port Limits | 4 | 12 |
| VE Port Limits | 2 | 4 |
| GE WAN Port Limits | 2 | 6 |
| GE LAN Port LImits | 4 | 4 |
| GE Port Speed Limit | 10 Gb/s | 10 Gb/s |
| WAN Bandwidth Limit | 1 Gb/s | 2.5 Gb/s |
| Max IP Extension flows (LAN TCP connections) | 256 | 256 |
| Max UDP Connections | 32 | 32 |
Configuration Support
The HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B is fully compatible with the B-series FC switches and directors. For complete interoperability information please check:
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=c00403562
Simplified Management
Fabric Vision technology provides a breakthrough hardware and software solution that helps simplify monitoring, maximize network availability, and dramatically reduce costs. Featuring innovative monitoring, management, and diagnostic capabilities, Fabric Vision technology enables administrators to avoid problems before they impact operations, helping their organizations meet SLAs.
The HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B supports the following Fabric Vision technology features for storage extension management:
- – Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS): Provides a pre-built, policy-based threshold monitoring and alerting tool that proactively monitors storage extension network health based on a comprehensive set of metrics at tunnel, circuit, and QoS layers. Administrators can configure multiple fabrics at one time using pre-defined or customized rules and policies for specific ports or switch elements.
- – Fabric Performance Impact (FPI) Monitoring: Uses pre-defined thresholds and alerts in conjunction with MAPS to automatically detect and alert administrators to severe levels of latency and identifies slow drain devices that might impact the network. This feature uses advanced monitoring capabilities and intuitive MAPS dashboard reporting to indicate various latency severity levels, pinpointing exactly which devices are causing or impacted by a bottlenecked port.
- – Dashboards: Provides integrated dashboards that display an overall SAN health view, along with details on out-of-range conditions, to help administrators easily identify trends and quickly pinpoint issues occurring on a switch or in a fabric.
- – Configuration and Operational Monitoring Policy Automation Services Suite (COMPASS): Simplifies deployment, safeguards consistency, and increases operational efficiencies of larger environments with automated switch and fabric configuration services. Administrators can configure a template or adopt an existing configuration as a template and seamlessly scale the configuration across the fabric. In addition, they can ensure settings do not drift over time with COMPASS configuration and policy violation monitoring within dashboards.
- – ClearLink Diagnostics: Ensures optical and signal integrity for Fibre Channel optics and cables, simplifying deployment and support of high-performance fabrics. ClearLink Diagnostic Port (D_Port) is an advanced capability of Fibre Channel platforms.
- – Flow Vision: Enables administrators to identify, monitor, and analyze specific application flows in order to simplify troubleshooting, maximize performance, avoid congestion, and optimize resources.
- – Flow Vision includes:
- Flow Learning: Enables administrators to non-disruptively discover all flows that go to or come from a specific host port or a storage port, or traverse Inter-Switch Links/Inter-Fabric Links (ISLs/IFLs) or FCIP tunnels to monitor fabric wide application performance. In addition, administrators can discover top and bottom bandwidth-consuming devices and manage capacity planning.
- Flow Monitor: Provides comprehensive visibility into flows across a storage extension network, including the ability to automatically learn flows and non-disruptively monitor flow performance. Administrators can monitor all flows from a specific storage device that are writing to or reading from a destination storage device/LUNs, or across a storage extension network. Additionally, they can perform LUN-level monitoring of specific frame types to identify resource contention or congestion that is impacting application performance.
- Flow Generator: Provides a built-in traffic generator for pretesting and validating storage extension infrastructure including route verification, QoS zone setup, extension trunking configuration, WAN access, IPsec policy setting, and integrity of optics, cables, and ports-for robustness before deploying applications.
- – Forward Error Correction (FEC): Enables recovery from bit errors in Fibre Channel ISLs, enhancing transmission reliability and performance.
- – Credit Loss Recovery: Helps overcome performance degradation and congestion due to buffer credit loss in Fibre Channel links.
Hardware Based Compression
Hardware-based compression delivers the ability to maximize throughput over lower bandwidth links in the wide area network, optimizing the cost efficiencies of FCIP. The HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B Provides multiple modes to optimize compression ratios for various throughput requirements
IPSec
The HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B IPSec function is capable of supporting both Ipv4 and Ipv6, mix of secure and non-secure tunnels on the same GE port, jumbo frames, and VLAN tagged connections.
Scalability
Refer to the guidelines described in the Heterogeneous Open SAN Design Reference Guide available at:
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=c00403562
Cabinet Support
HPE (22U, 36U and 42U) 10000 G2 Series and the Intelligent Series racks and HPE (14U, 22U, 36U, 42U, and 47U) 11000 G2 Series racks.
Notes: To order factory integration, add 0D1 after the part number on your sales order.
Software Options
| HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B Model | Base | Full or Base w/ Upgrade |
|---|---|---|
| IPsec Support | Yes | Yes |
| Compression Support | Yes | Yes |
| FC Trunking | No | Yes |
| Extension Trunking | No | Yes |
| Fabric Vision | No | Yes |
| Adaptive Rate Limiting | Yes | Yes |
| FICON Support | No | No |
| FC Routing | No | Yes |
| Extended Fabrics | No | Yes |
Software Components, Standard
Encryption (IPsec)
IPsec support: Ensures secure transport over IP WAN links by encrypting data-in-flight with a standard 256-bit AES algorithm.
Adaptive Rate Limiting (ARL)
Adaptive Rate Limiting (ARL): Dynamically adjusts bandwidth limits to ensure efficient utilization and sharing of available bandwidth.
Software Components, Optional
Fabric Vision
Fabric Vision offers innovative diagnostic, monitoring and management capabilities to help accelerate new application deployments, address SAN problems before they impact operations and reduce operational costs. It Includes:
- – Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite: A policy-based monitoring tool with pre-built rules and automation that simplifies fabric-wide threshold configuration and monitoring
- – Flow Vision: A comprehensive tool that enables administrators to identify, monitor, and analyze specific application data flows without using taps to ensure optimized performance
- – Health and performance dashboard: A single customizable screen displayed in HPE SANnav Management Portal that contains all critical SAN information for convenient review and analysis.
Extension Trunking
Extension Trunking: Combines multiple WAN connections into a single, logical, high-bandwidth trunk, providing active load balancing and network resilience to protect against WAN link failures.
Integrated Routing (FCR)
Integrated Routing (FCR) is an optional licensed feature that leverages the latest ASIC technology to provide Fibre Channel routing on a per-port basis. Because a Fibre Channel E_Port can be made into an EX_Port, data can be communicated between fabrics while maintaining remote fabric isolation. Integrated Routing (FCR) eliminates the need for a dedicated router or consumption of chassis slots with special routing blades-thereby reducing cost, complexity, and management overhead.
HPE SANnav Management Software
HPE SANnav Management Software is the next-generation SAN management application suite for HPE B-series SAN environments.
- – SANnav Management Portal is a next-generation SAN management application with a simple browser-based user interface (UI) streamlining common workflows, such as configuration, zoning, deployment, troubleshooting, and reporting.
- – SANnav Global View helps administrators visualize the health, performance and inventory of multiple SANnav Management Portal instances at data centers across the globe or a single multi-tenant data center using a simple, intelligent dashboard.
SANnav Management Portal not only transforms SAN telemetry data into useful insights, such as health and performance scores, but also enable administrators to quickly associate real-time data with historical metrics and logs for in-depth analysis. This can help with spotting trends, establishing baselines, and identifying any behavioral changes over time.
HPE SANnav Management Software is available as a term-license for 1-year, 3-years and 5-years period as both – physical and electronic License-to-Use (LTU). It supports 8Gb, 16Gb and 32Gb FC Switches and Directors.
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Configuration Information
Step 1 – Base Configuration (Select one) | |
| HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B Base | |
| Description | SKU |
| HPE SN2600B 32Gb 12/4 4-port 16Gb Short Wave SFP+ SAN Extension Switch | R6W20A |
| 4 ports 32 Gbps Fibre Channel ports (loaded w/ 4 - 16Gb SW SFP+ optics) and 2 1GbE Ethernet WAN ports with Adaptive Rate Limiting (ARL) and IPsec. All 6 Ethernet ports are active and can be used as ingress ports for IP Extension. | |
| Notes: – Optional Fibre Channel transceivers are listed below. Ethernet ports require optical or copper transceivers listed below. – Some HPE B-series software licenses are now available through the Electronic Delivery (E-Delivery) mechanism. The E-Delivery software licenses with new part numbers listed in this document are functionally equivalent to the corresponding physical licenses with different part numbers. Some software licenses in this document are represented by two part numbers, the first of which is the E-Delivery version (ending with AE) and the second is the physical version. | |
| HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B Full | |
| HPE SN2600B 32Gb 12/12 Power Pack+ 12-port 16Gb Short Wave SFP+ SAN Extension Switch | R6W21A |
| 12 ports 32Gbps Fibre Channel ports (loaded w/ 12 -16Gb SW SFP+ optics), enables 4 additional ports 1/10GbE Ethernet WAN ports and Power Pack Plus (includes Fabric Vision technology, Extension Trunking, Fibre Channel Trunking, ARL, IPsec, and Integrated Routing) | |
| Notes: – Optional Fibre Channel transceivers are listed below. Ethernet ports require optical or copper transceivers listed below. – Some HPE B-series software licenses are now available through the Electronic Delivery (E-Delivery) mechanism. The E-Delivery software licenses with new part numbers listed in this document are functionally equivalent to the corresponding physical licenses with different part numbers. Some software licenses in this document are represented by two part numbers, the first of which is the E-Delivery version (ending with AE) and the second is the physical version. | |
Step 2 – Optional Upgrade Kit (Software Upgrade License & Optics Included) | |
| HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B Upgrade License with Optics Kit | |
| HPE SN2600B 8-port POD Power Pack+ Upgrade License w/16Gb SFP+ Short Wave Transceiver Kit | R6W30A |
| 8-port Port On Demand (POD) Power Pack Plus Upgrade License with 8 - 16Gb SFP+ Short Wave Transceiver Kit, enables 4 additional 1/10GbE ports andPower Pack Plus including Fabric Vision technology, Extension Trunking, Fibre Channel Trunking, ARL, IPsec, and Integrated Routing. | |
Step 3 – Options | |
| 32 Gb Transceivers | |
| Description | SKU |
| HPE B-series 32Gb SFP28 Short Wave 1-pack Secure Transceiver | R6B12A |
| HPE B-series 32Gb SFP28 Long Wave 10km 1-pack Secure Transceiver | R6B13A |
| 16 Gb Transceivers | |
| HPE B-series 16Gb SFP+ Short Wave 1-pack Secure Transceiver | R6B10A |
| 1 GbE Transceivers | |
| HPE B-series 1GbE SFP RJ45 CAT5 1-pack Transceiver | R6W22A |
| HPE B-series 1GbE SFP 1-pack Transceiver | R6W25A |
| 10 GbE Transceivers | |
| HPE B-series 10GbE SFP+ Short Wave 1-pack Transceiver | R6W23A |
| HPE B-series 10GbE SFP+ Long Wave 10km 1-pack Transceiver | R6W24A |
| Optical Cables | |
| Description | SKU |
| HPE PremierFlex OM4+ Fiber Optic Cables | |
| HPE Premier Flex LC/LC Multi-mode OM4 2 Fiber 1m Cable | QK732A |
| HPE Premier Flex LC/LC Multi-mode OM4 2 Fiber 2m Cable | QK733A |
| HPE Premier Flex LC/LC Multi-mode OM4 2 Fiber 5m Cable | QK734A |
| HPE Premier Flex LC/LC Multi-mode OM4 2 Fiber 15m Cable | QK735A |
| HPE Premier Flex LC/LC Multi-mode OM4 2 Fiber 30m Cable | QK736A |
| HPE Premier Flex LC/LC Multi-mode OM4 2 Fiber 50m Cable | QK737A |
| OM3 LC-LC type cables | |
| HPE LC to LC Multi-mode OM3 2-Fiber 0.5m 1-Pack Fiber Optic Cable | AJ833A |
| HPE LC to LC Multi-mode OM3 2-Fiber 1.0m 1-Pack Fiber Optic Cable | AJ834A |
| HPE LC to LC Multi-mode OM3 2-Fiber 2.0m 1-Pack Fiber Optic Cable | AJ835A |
| HPE LC to LC Multi-mode OM3 2-Fiber 5.0m 1-Pack Fiber Optic Cable | AJ836A |
| HPE LC to LC Multi-mode OM3 2-Fiber 15.0m 1-Pack Fiber Optic Cable | AJ837A |
| HPE LC to LC Multi-mode OM3 2-Fiber 30.0m 1-Pack Fiber Optic Cable | AJ838A |
| HPE LC to LC Multi-mode OM3 2-Fiber 50.0m 1-Pack Fiber Optic Cable | AJ839A |
Step 4 - Optional Software | |
| Notes: * For Fabric OS (FOS) minimum requirements, please refer to: https://h20272.www2.hpe.com/spock/ | |
| Optional Software SANnav Software Licenses: | |
| Notes: – For users purchasing SANnav licenses for the first time, one of the following SKUs should be purchased. – For users wanted to renew a SANnav license, a renewal license should be selected from the SANnav Renewal Software License in the next section. | |
| Description | SKU |
| HPE SANnav Management Portal Base 1yr E-LTU | R3P45AAE |
| HPE SANnav Management Portal Enterprise 1yr E-LTU | R3P46AAE |
| HPE SANnav Global View 1yr E-LTU | R3P47AAE |
| HPE SANnav Management Portal Base 3yr E-LTU | R3P48AAE |
| HPE SANnav Management Portal Enterprise 3yr E-LTU | R3P49AAE |
| HPE SANnav Global View 3yr E-LTU | R3P50AAE |
| HPE SANnav Management Portal Base 5yr E-LTU | R4P29AAE |
| HPE SANnav Management Portal Enterprise 5yr E-LTU | R4P30AAE |
| HPE SANnav Global View 5yr E-LTU | R4P31AAE |
| Notes: – The Base edition of HPE SANnav Management Portal does not support management of director class switches. – HPE SANnav Management Software License-to-Use (LTU/E-LTU) includes maintenance and support for the duration of the license. At the end of the license period, customers have the option to renew the license, maintaining the same license key, by selecting from the SANnav Renewal Software License section below Software renewal via HPE Services is not allowed/supported. – Trial Licenses: depending on the version of SANnav license, the trial period is different.
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| SANnav Renewal Software Licenses: | |
| Notes: For users who currently have a SANnav license and want to renew their software license, one of the following licenses should be selected. The SANnav license must align with the current type of software license i.e. in order to renew a Base license, the Base renewal licenses will need to be selected. | |
| Description | SKU |
| HPE SANnav Management Portal Base 1-year Renewal E-LTU | S1S52AAE |
| HPE SANnav Management Portal Enterprise 1-year Renewal E-LTU | S1S55AAE |
| HPE SANnav Global View 1-year Renewal E-LTU | S1S58AAE |
| Notes: – The Base edition of HPE SANnav Management Portal does not support management of director class switches. – HPE SANnav Management Software License-to-Use (LTU/E-LTU) includes maintenance and support for the duration of the license. – Trial Licenses – depending on the version of SANnav license, the trial period is different.
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Technical Specifications
Family Information
| Features | 8/8 SAN Switch Base and 8/8 SAN Switch | 8/24 SAN Switch Base | SN3000B 16Gb FC Switch | SN3600B 32Gb FC Switch and SN3600B 32Gb FC Power Pack+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Targeted Environment | Workgroups, Departments | Workgroups, Departments | Workgroups, Departments | Workgroups, Departments |
| Fibre Channel Port Bandwidth | 8Gbps | 8Gbps | 16Gbps | 32Gbps |
| Aggregate device bandwidth | 6 4-192 Gbps | 1 28-192 Gbps | 1 92-384 Gbps | 768 Gbps |
| OS Support | Notes: Please Refer to SPOCK https://h20272.www2.hpe.com/spock/ | |||
| Storage system support | Primera, 3PAR StoreServ, Nimble, StoreVirtual , P9500/XP, MSA | |||
| FC Ports | 8 Enabled 24 Max | 16 Enabled 24 Max | 12 or 24 Enabled 24 Max | 8 or 24 Enabled 24 Max |
| SFP | B-series | B-series | B-series | B-series |
| Advanced Trunking | Optional Upgrade | Included with Power Pack+ or Optional Upgrade | Included with Power Pack+ Upgrade | Included with Power Pack+ or Optional Upgrade |
| Adaptive Networking | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Form factor | 1U | 1U | 1U | 1U |
| Zoning Software | Yes (Included) | Yes (Included) | Yes (Included) | Yes (Included) |
| Hot plug, redundant power supplies | No | No | Optional | No |
| Hot plug fans | No | No | Yes (integrated with power supply) | Yes (integrated with power supply) |
| Features | SN6000B 16 Gb FC Switch and SN6000B 16 Gb FC Power Pack+ | SN6600B 32 Gb FC Switch and SN6600B 32 Gb FC Power Pack+ | SN6600B 32 Gb Bundled (SFP+) FC Switch and SN6600B 32 Gb Power Pack+ Bundled (SFP+) FC Switch | SN6700B 64Gb with 24 32Gb Integrated Secure SFP28 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Targeted Environment | Workgroups, Departments | Workgroups, Departments | Workgroups, Departments | Workgroups, Departments |
| Fibre Channel Port Bandwidth | 16 Gbps | 32 Gbps | 32 Gbps | 64Gb |
| Aggregate device bandwidth | 384- 768 Gbps | 2 Tbps | 2 Tbps | 3.5 Tbps |
| OS Support | Notes: Please Refer to SPOCK https://h20272.www2.hpe.com/spock/ | |||
| Storage system support | Primera, 3PAR StoreServ, Nimble, StoreVirtual, P9500/XP, MSA | |||
| FC Ports | 24 or 48 Enabled 48 Max | 24 or 48 enabled 64 Max | 24 or 48 Enabled 64 Max | 24 Enabled 56 Max |
| SFP | B-series | B-series (16 Gb or 32 Gb) | B-series, 24 or 48 32 Gb SFP+ included in the box | B-series Secure 24 32Gb SFP28 included |
| Advanced Trunking | Included with Power Pack+ or Optional Upgrade | Included with Power Pack+ or Optional Upgrade | Included with Power Pack+ or Optional Upgrade | Included in Power Pack+ on all switches |
| Adaptive Networking | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Form factor | 1U | 1U | 1U | 1U |
| Zoning Software | Yes (Included) | Yes (Included) | Yes (Included) | Yes (Included |
| Hot plug, redundant power supplies | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hot plug fans | Yes (integrated with power supply) | Yes (integrated with power supply) | Yes (integrated with power supply) | Yes (integrated with power supply) |
| Features | SN6500B 16Gb FC Switch and SN6500B 16Gb FC Power Pack+ | SN4000B Power Pack+ SAN Extension Switch | SN2600B SAN Extension Switch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Targeted Environment | Workgroups, Departments | Data Centers; long distance replication, multiprotocol SAN Fabrics | Data Centers; long distance replication, multiprotocol SAN Fabrics |
| Fibre Channel Port Bandwidth | 16Gbps | 16Gbps | 32Gbps |
| Ethernet | N/A | 1/10/40 Gbps Ethernet | 1/10Gbps Ethernet |
| Aggregate device bandwidth | 768-1536 Gbps | | |
| OS Support | Notes: Please Refer to SPOCK https://h20272.www2.hpe.com/spock/ | ||
| Storage system support | Primera, 3PAR StoreServ, Nimble, StoreVirtual, P9500/XP, MSA | ||
| FC Ports | 48 or 96 Enabled 96 Max | 24 FC Ports Enabled 24 Max | 4 or 12 FC Enabled 12 Max |
| Ethernet Ports | N/A | 16 Enabled | 2 or 6 Enabled 6 Max |
| SFP | B-series | B-series | B-series |
| Advanced Trunking | Included with Power Pack+ or Optional Upgrade | Included | Included with Optional Upgrade |
| Adaptive Networking | Included | Included | NA |
| Form factor | 2U | 2U | 1U |
| Zoning Software | Yes (Included) | Yes (Included) | Yes (Included) |
| Hot plug, redundant power supplies | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hot plug fans | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Features | SN8000B 8-Slot SAN Director Power Pack+ | SN8600B 8-Slot SAN Director Power Pack+ | SN8700B 8-Slot SAN Director Power Pack+ |
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| Targeted Environment | Cloud Optimized Data Centers | Cloud Optimized Data Centers | Cloud Optimized Data Centers |
| Port Bandwidth | Up to 16Gbps | Up to 32 Gbps | Up to 64Gbps |
| Aggregate device bandwidth | 1 0.2Tbps | 20.48 Tbps | 31 Tbps |
| OS Support | Notes: Please Refer to SPOCK https://h20272.www2.hpe.com/spock/ | ||
| Storage system support | Primera, 3PAR StoreServ, Nimble, StoreVirtua, P9500/XP, MSA | ||
| Ports | Up to 512 SFP | 512 32 Gbps ports or a 640- port equivalent with 128 Gbps (32 Gbps×4 QSFP ports) | 512 ports - 384 device ports with a 64Gb/s data rate plus 32 4xGen7 ICLs or 640 ports - 512 device ports with a 32Gb/s data rate plus 32 4xGen7 ICLs |
| SFP | B-series | B-series | B-series Secure |
| Advanced Trunking | Included with Power Pack | Included with Power Pack | Included with Power Pack |
| Adaptive Networking | Included | Included | Yes (included) |
| Form factor | 14U | 14U | 14U |
| Zoning Software | Yes (included) | Yes (included) | Yes (included) |
| Hot plug, redundant power supplies | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hot plug fans | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Features | SN8000B 4-Slot SAN Director and 4-Slot SAN Director Power Pack+ | SN8600B 4-slot SAN Director Power Pack | SN8700B 8-Slot SAN Director Power Pack+ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Targeted Environment | Cloud Optimized Data Centers | Cloud Optimized Data Centers | Cloud Optimized Data Centers |
| Port Bandwidth | Up to 16Gbps | Up to 32Gbps | Up to 64Gbps |
| Aggregate device bandwidth | 5.1 Tbps | 10.24 Tbps | 31 Tbps |
| OS Support | Notes: Please Refer to SPOCK https://h20272.www2.hpe.com/spock/ | ||
| Storage system support | Primera, 3PAR StoreServ, Nimble, StoreVirtual , P5000/XP, MSA | ||
| Ports | Up to 256 SFP | Up to 256 32 Gbps ports or a 320-port equivalent with 16 ICL ports. | 512 ports - 384 device ports with a 64Gb/s data rate plus 32 4xGen7 ICLs or 640 ports - 512 device ports with a 32Gb/s data rate plus 32 4xGen7 ICLs |
| SFP | B-series | B-Series | B-series Secure |
| Advanced Trunking | Included with Power Pack or Optional Upgrade | Included with Power Pack | Included with Power Pack |
| Adaptive Networking | Included | Included | Yes (included) |
| Form factor | 9U | 9U | 14U |
| Zoning Software | Yes (included) | Yes (Included) | Yes (included) |
| Hot plug, redundant power supplies | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hot plug fans | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Features | Brocade 16Gb SAN Switch for HPE c-Class BladeSystem | Brocade 16Gb SAN Switch for HPE c-Class BladeSystem | Brocade 16Gb Fibre Channel SAN Switch Module for HPE Synergy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Targeted Environment | Enterprise, Datacenters, Workgroups, Departments | Workgroups, Departments | Enterprise, Datacenters, Workgroups, Departments |
| Port Bandwidth | 16 Gbit/sec | 8 Gbit/sec | 16 Gbit/sec |
| Aggregate device bandwidth | 4 48 Gbit/sec | 1 92 Gbit/sec | 576 Gb/s (36 ports x 16 Gb/s) |
| OS Support | Notes: Please Refer to SPOCK https://h20272.www2.hpe.com/spock/ | ||
| Storage system Support | Primera, 3PAR StoreServ, Nimble, StoreVirtual, P9500/XP, MSA | ||
| Ports | 12 external /16 internal | 4 or 8 external / 8 or 16 internal | 8 SFP+ external, 4 QSFP external /12 internal |
| SFP | B-series | B-series | B-series |
| Advanced Trunking | Included with Power Pack+ or Optional Upgrade | Included with Power Pack+ or Optional Upgrade | Included with Power Pack+ or Optional Upgrade |
| Adaptive Networking | Included | Included | Included |
| Form factor | Embedded | Embedded | Embedded |
| Zoning Software | Yes (Included) | Yes (Included) | Yes (Included) |
| Hot plug, redundant power supplies | Yes, in BladeSystem Enclosure | Yes, in BladeSystem Enclosure | Yes, in Synergy Frame |
| Hot plug fans | Yes, in BladeSystem Enclosure | Yes, in BladeSystem Enclosure | Yes, in Synergy Frame |
System Architecture
| Ports | 12 ports 32 Gb/s Fibre Channel capable, universal (E, F, M, D, and EX ports), 6 ports 1GbE/10GbE for LAN and WAN connectivity, two 1GE copper ports for WAN/LAN connectivity, one 10/100/1000 Ethernet (RJ-45); one serial port (RJ-45) and one USB port | |
| B-series switch interoperability |
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| Performance | Auto-sensing of 8, 16 and 32 Gbps port speeds. FCIP Performance: 1/10 line speed | |
| ISL Trunking | Up to eight 32 Gb/s links aggregating to 256 Gb/s per trunk. There is no limit to how many trunk groups can be configured per switch. | |
| Maximum Fibre Channel replication throughput | 10 Gb/s | |
| FCIP aggregate bandwidth | 2.5 Gbps | |
| Fabric latency | Non-blocking shared memory, 900 ns with no contention, cut-through switching at 32 Gb/s | |
| Maximum frame size | 2112-byte payload | |
| Maximum MTU size | Ethernet Jumbo Frames 1280 bytes to 9216 bytes | |
| Classes of service | Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames) | |
| Port types | F_Port, E_Port, EX_Port (FCR E_Port), D_Port (Diagnostic), M_Port (Mirror), and self-discovery based on switch type (U_Port); VE_Port (FCIP and IP extension) | |
| Data traffic types | Fibre Channel, FCIP, and IP extension | |
| USB | One USB port for system log file downloads or firmware upgrades | |
| Media types | Fibre Channel: B-series hot-pluggable Small Form Factor (SFP) and SFP+, short wavelength (SWL) and long wavelength (LWL), a (available wavelength options vary for 16 Gbps and 32Gb SFPs) Ethernet : B-series hot-pluggable Small Form Factor (SFP) and SFP+, short reach wavelength (SRWL), long reach wavelength (LRWL), and copper SFP/SFP+ transceivers (available reach options vary from 1 GbE and 10 GbE) | |
| Fabric services | Simple Name Server (SNS); Registered State Change Notification (RSCN), NTP, RADIUS, RCS (Reliable Commit Service), Dynamic Path Selection (DPS), Exchange-based routing, device-based routing, portbased routing, lossless, Advanced Zoning, Web Tools, Trunking, Extended Fabrics, Fabric Vision, SDDQ | |
| Management | Supported management software | Serial port (9600, 8, 1, no parity, no flow), Command Line Interface (CLI): SSHv2 or Telnet, Web Tools: HTTP/HTTPS, SNMPv1/v3 (FE MIB, FC Management MIB), SANnav Management Portal and SANnav Global View (optional), SMI-S, RADIUS, LDAP |
| Security | DH-CHAP (between switch and end-device), FCAP switch authentication; FIPS 140-2 L2-compliant, HTTPS, IP filtering, LDAP with IPv6, OpenLDAP, Port Binding, RADIUS, TACACS+, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Secure Copy (SCP), SFTP, SSHv2, SSL, Switch Binding, Trusted Switch | |
| Extension security | Encryption: AES-GCM-256 IPsec on tunnel (VE_Port), Authentication: ECDSA-P384, Diffie-Hellman: ECDH-P384, PRF: PRF-HMAC-384, Integrity: HMAC-384-192, ESP, Suite B, Connected pWWN FCIP checking | |
| Management access | 10/100/1000 Ethernet (RJ-45); serial port (RJ-45) and one USB port | |
| Diagnostics | POST and embedded online/offline diagnostics, including D_Port, WAN Test Tool, FCIP ping, FCIP traceroute, FCping, Pathinfo (FCtraceroute), SupportSave, RAS Log, Syslog, MAPS, SDDQ, Flow Vision, and Ftrace | |
| Mechanical | Enclosure | Back-to-front airflow/non-port-side air intake and power, 1 RU, 19-in., EIA-compliant |
| Size | Width: 44.0 cm (17.32 in.) Height: 4.4 cm (1.73 in.) Depth: 45.7 cm (17.74 in.) | |
| System weight | 7.98 kg (17.6 lb.) empty 8.35 kg (18.4 lb.) fully loaded | |
| Environmental | Temperature | Operating: 0°C to 40°C (32°F to 104°F) Non-operating: −25°C to 70°C (−13°F to 158°F) |
| Humidity | Operating: 10% to 85% at 40°C (104°F) Non-operating: 10% to 90% | |
| Altitude | Operating: 0 to 3000m (9842 ft) Storage: 0 to 12 km (39,370 ft) | |
| Shock | Operating: 10G, 10 ms, half-sine wave Non-operating: 33G, 11 ms, half-sine wave, 3G Axis | |
| Vibration | Operating: 0.25g sine, 0.4 grms random, 5 Hz to 500 Hz Non-operating: 5 Hz at 0.5 grms, 10 Hz to 500 Hz at 1.0 grms (sine vibration), 3 Hz to 500 Hz at 1.12 grms (random vibration) | |
| Airflow | Maximum: 45.0 CFM Nominal: 22.4 CFM | |
| Power | Power supply | Dual, hot-swappable, redundant, AC input power supplies with integrated system cooling fans |
| Power inlet | C14; requires C13 plug | |
| Input voltage | 100 VAC to 240 VAC (nominal), 90 VAC to 264 VAC (range) | |
| Input line frequency | 50/60 Hz (nominal), 47 Hz to 63 Hz (range) | |
| Inrush current | 50A peak at 240 VAC for 150 ms | |
| Power | 100 VAC: 1.29A, 130W, 444 BTU/hr, 135 VA (max config) 200 VAC: 0.65A, 132W, 449 BTU/hr, 146 VA (max config) | |
Summary of Changes
| Date | Version History | Action | Description of Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02-Feb-2026 | Changed | HPE Rebranding applied | |
| 03-Sep-2024 | Changed | Service and Support section was updated | |
| 15-Apr-2024 | Changed | Rebranding Series Name applied | |
| 13-Nov-2023 | Changed | HPE Services Rebranding | |
| 05-Jun-2023 | Changed | Overview, Configuration Information and Technical Specifications sections were updated. Added SANnav renewal licenses | |
| 04-Oct-2021 | Changed | Service and Support section was updated | |
| 02-Aug-2021 | Changed | Service and Support and Configuration Information sections were updated. | |
| 01-Feb-2021 | New | New QuickSpecs |
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