HP AM866B Specification page 6

QuickSpecs
Product Highlights
Server Application
Optimization
Software Components, Optional
SAN Switch Power Pack+
Software Bundle
Fabric Vision
ISL Trunking
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
Includes bundled license for:
Fabric Vision
ISL Trunking
Advanced Performance Monitoring
Fabric Watch
Extended Fabric
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 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 7.2.0a 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
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 enhanced Trunking, this optional license logically groups up to eight E-ports to
provide a high bandwidth trunk between two switches. Each 8 Gb switch needs its own license. The switch
operating system views the trunk as a single, high bandwidth resource (up to 64 Gbit/s) when routing
connections between switches. Connections are load-balanced across the individual links, which comprise
the logical trunk group.
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