HP SN3000B Quickspecs page 6

QuickSpecs
Product Highlights
Fabric Watch
Advanced Performance
Monitor
Extended Fabric
ISL Trunking
SAN Network Advisor
Professional
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Health and performance dashboard: A single customizable screen displayed in HP SAN
Network Advisor that contains all critical SAN information for convenient review and analysis
Fabric Vision will be included by default in all HP StoreFabric B-series Fibre Channel switches and
Directors bundled with Power Pack+ (with FOS 7.2.x and later*). In all other cases, Fabric Vision can be
enabled on HP StoreFabric B-series Fibre Channel switches and Directors in any one of the following
ways
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Application of the Fabric Vision LTU (FOS 7.2.x and later*)
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Application of the Power Pack+ LTU (FOS 7.2.x and later*)
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Upgrading existing Switch/Director loaded with Power Pack+ to FOS 7.2.x or
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Upgrading existing Switch/Director loaded with both Advanced Performance Monitor (APM)
and Fabric Watch (FW) licenses to FOS 7.2.x or
* See HP Spock for HP supported versions of FOS 7.2.x
Fabric Watch is an optional license which enables each switch to monitor 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 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:
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Allows management of a single Fabric OS (FOS) fabric (up to a 1,000 B-Series switch ports)
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Performs group switch management beyond the scope of Web Tools
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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
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