HP Brocade 8Gb SAN Quickspecs page 5

QuickSpecs
Product Highlights
Power Pack+ Software
Bundle
Fabric Vision
ISL Trunking
Fabric Watch
Advanced Performance
Monitoring
The Power Pack+ Software Bundle includes:
• Fabric Vision
•
Fabric Watch**
• Advanced Performance Monitoring**
•
Extended Fabrics*
• ISL Trunking
* Not supported in Access Gateway mode
**Partial support in Access Gateway mode (See the Access Gateway Administrator´s guide for full
details)
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 SAN
Network Advisor that contains all critical SAN information for convenient review and analysis
Fabric Vision will be included by default in all HPE StoreFabric B-series Fibre Channel switches and
Directors bundled with Power Pack+ (with FOS 7.2.0a and later). In all other cases, Fabric Vision can be
enabled on HPE StoreFabric B-series Fibre Channel switches and Directors in any one of the following
ways
• Application of the Fabric Vision LTU (FOS 7.2.0a and later)
• Application of the Power Pack+ LTU (FOS 7.2.0a and later)
•
Upgrading existing Switch/Director loaded with Power Pack+ to FOS 7.2.0a or later
• Upgrading existing Switch/Director loaded with both Advanced Performance Monitor (APM)
and Fabric Watch (FW) licenses to FOS 7.2.0a or later
For high performance and seamless failover, this optional license logically groups up to eight E-ports
(switch mode) or F-ports (Access Gateway mode) to provide a high bandwidth trunk between two
Brocade or HPE B-Series switches. Each switch needs its own license. The fabric operating system
views the trunk as a single, high bandwidth ISL resource (up to 64 Gbps when routing connections
between 8 Gbps capable switches). Connections are load-balanced across the individual links, which
comprise the logical trunk group.
Fabric Watch enables each switch to monitor the health of the SAN for potential faults-and
automatically alert network managers to problems before they become failures. Fabric Watch tracks a
variety of SAN fabric elements, events, and counters. Monitoring fabric-wide events, ports, SFPs, and
environmental parameters permits early fault detection and isolation as well as performance
measurement. Each switch in the SAN needs its own Fabric Watch license.
This enabling technology helps administrators monitor application data traffic 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
Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch for HPE BladeSystem c-Class
Page 5