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QuickSpecs
Product Highlights
Advanced Performance
Monitor
Extended Fabric
ISL Trunking
SAN Network Advisor
Professional
SAN Network Advisor
Enterprise and
Professional+
performance measurement. Each switch in the SAN needs its own Fabric Watch license.
This optional 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.
Optional license which extends all of the scalability, reliability, and performance benefits of Fibre
Channel Storage Area Networks (SANs) beyond the native 10 km distance specified by the Fibre
Channel standard.
For high performance enhanced Trunking, this optional license logically groups up to eight E-ports to
provide a high bandwidth trunk between two switches. Each 16Gb switch needs its own license. The
switch operating system views the trunk as a single, high bandwidth resource (up to 128Gb) when
routing connections between 16Gb switches. Connections are load-balanced across the individual
links, which comprise the logical trunk group.
HP SAN Network Advisor Professional is a server based management application available at no-
charge that comes with B-series SAN Switches and includes the following features:
 Allows management of a single Fabric OS (FOS) fabric (up to a 1,000 B-Series switch ports)
 Performs group switch management beyond the scope of Web Tools
 Does not offer management for the DC SAN Backbone Director, the SN8000B Director, or
FICON
It is targeted for SMB customers that use FOS based SAN fabrics and require a management solution
for smaller SANs based on a single fabric.
SMB customers that initially start off with SAN Network Advisor Professional and have a small SAN
environment may over time feel the need for an enterprise-class product (SAN Network Advisor
Enterprise) as their environments start to grow in size and complexity, and as they start to uptake
more enterprise-class functionality (such as Fibre Channel Routing, FCIP, etc.). A non-disruptive
upgrade path is available from SAN Network Advisor Professional to SAN Network Advisor Enterprise.
HP SAN Network Advisor Enterprise and Professional+ are the enterprise-class products that support
FOS products. SAN Network Advisor Enterprise provides complete B-series Directors Management
including enterprise-class features/environments such as FICON, Fibre Channel Routing, FCIP, adaptive
networking, etc. while SAN Network Advisor Professional+ provides the same feature set except for
support for the DC SAN Backbone Director, SN8000B 8-Slot Director, and FICON.
SAN Network Advisor Enterprise delivers unprecedented scalability, up to 24 fabrics and 9,000 switch
ports, while SAN Network Advisor Professional+ scales to 4 SAN Fabrics and 2560 switch ports. There
is an upgrade available from SAN Network Advisor Professional Plus to SAN Network Advisor
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