Overview; Hp Storageworks Dc San Backbone Director Power Pack; Features - HP A7990A - StorageWorks SAN Director 4/16 Blade Switch Hardware Reference Manual

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Overview

This chapter provides the following information:
• HP StorageWorks DC SAN Backbone Director Power
• Features, page 13
• Hardware
• DC Director
• High availability, page 13
• Reliability, page 18
• Serviceability, page 18
• Software features, page 18
• Security, page 19
• Network manageability, page 19
• Optional software
• Optional hardware

HP StorageWorks DC SAN Backbone Director Power Pack

The HP StorageWorks DC SAN Backbone Director Power Pack model, part number AK857A, represents
the next generation of advanced Fibre Channel (FC) enterprise-class platforms used to intelligently
interconnect storage devices, hosts, and servers in a Storage Area Network (SAN).
The HP DC SAN Backbone Director is the highest-performance and highest-scalability enterprise-class
product offered by HP. It satisfies the most demanding Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS),
performance, and scalability requirements, while delivering investment protection, interoperability, and
fabric-based intelligence advantages.
NOTE: Throughout this document, the HP StorageWorks DC SAN Backbone Director is referenced using
its abbreviated name, DC Director.

Features

Key features of the DC Director include:
• Up to 384 ports in a single chassis, providing high port density for a scalable solution to drive
high-port-count SAN configurations.
• Support for high-performance Director blades running at 1-, 2-, 4-, 8-, or 10-Gbps, enabling flexible
system configuration
• Supports 1-, 2-, 4-, and 8-Gbps auto-sensing FC ports. Trunking technology groups up to eight ports to
create high performance 64-Gbps ISL trunks between switches.
10 Gbps ports (FC10-6) are 10Gbps only.
• Dual-redundant CP blades (CP8) and core switch blades (CR8) provide high availability and enable
non-disruptive software upgrades.
• Redundant and hot-swappable CP8 and CR8 blades, power supplies, blower assemblies, and WWN
cards enable a high availability platform for mission critical SAN applications.
• Inter-chassis linking (ICL) through CR8 blades.
• Universal ports self-configure as E_ports, F_ports, FL_ports, Ex_ports, and M_ports (mirror ports).
• 10-Gbps (FC10-6) are E-Ports only.
• Ex_ports are supported only on the FR4- 1 8i application blade.
components, page 14
blades, page 17
licenses, page 20
kits, page 21
Pack, page 13
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