HP 8/80 SAN series Specifications page 4

QuickSpecs
Product Highlights
EGM
Adaptive Networking
Server Application
Optimization
Enhanced Group Management (EGM) is a FOS license that is included with all B-Series switches and enables
multi-switch operations. It helps automate operations across multiple switches to save time and
streamline repetitive operations, which are typically prone to error. EGM drives consistency across fabrics,
while minimizing the risk associated with potential downtime due to configuration mismatches. EGM
provides streamlined troubleshooting for more effective fabric monitoring and diagnosis.
Both Data Center Fabric Manager Professional and Enterprise enable EGM functionality. Customers have
EGM functionality enabled within the hardware product and need only to make the decision around which
management application is right for them - Data Center Fabric Manager Professional, Professional Plus or
Enterprise.
Adaptive Networking (AN) is an optional family of technologies which allow flexible control of traffic
movement within the fabric which deliver application aware management of fabric resources. Applications
may be used with multiple protocols and multiple classes of service. It includes the following features:
Ingress Rate Limiting:
Allows the ingress bandwidth of a port to be throttled to a rate lower than negotiated with the SAN node.
This could be very useful for enterprises offering stepped levels of service and enforcing SLAs.
Quality of Service (QoS):
Enables zones with high, medium, and low priorities within a fabric on a zone by zone basis. This can be
very useful for prioritizing array replication over MANs and WANs over less critical traffic.
Traffic Isolation Zones:
Defines paths through a fabric for some or all nodes. Failover allows a non-preferred path to be used if the
preferred fails. TIZs use failover by default but it can be disabled if traffic should stop if a preferred path
fails. TIZ can be used to manually map out traffic flows within a fabric based on application, priority, and
topology.
Server Application Optimization (SAO) license improves overall application performance for physical
servers and virtual machines. SAO, when deployed with B-Series Fibre Channel HBAs, extends B-Series
Adaptive Networking from the B-series SAN fabric to the server infrastructure. This delivers application-
level, fine-grain Quality of Service (QoS) management to the HBAs and related server applications.
Solution Requirements:
SAO license must be installed on the edge (server connected) switch
Adaptive Networking (AN) license must be installed on the edge (server connected) switch
SAO requires B-series HBA installed in the server
DA - 12995 Worldwide — Version 20 — December 9, 2013
HP 8/80 SAN Switch & 8/80 SAN Switch Power Pack+ /B-
Series Family
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