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QuickSpecs
Product Highlights
Advanced Performance
Monitoring
Fabric Watch
Extended Fabric
SAN Network Advisor
Professional
This 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.
Fabric Watch 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.
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.
HP SAN Network Advisor Professional is a management application available at no-charge and comes with
B-series SAN Switches and:
Allows management of a single Fabric OS (FOS) fabric (up to a 1,000 switch ports) at a time
Performs group switch management beyond the scope of Web Tools
Does not offer management of the SN8000B 8-Slot or DC SAN Backbone Directors
It is targeted for SMB customers that use FOS based SAN fabrics and require a management solution for
smaller SANs based on a single fabric.
SMB customers that initially start off with SAN Network Advisor Professional and have a small SAN
environment may over time feel the need for an enterprise-class product (SAN Network Advisor Enterprise)
as their environments start to grow in size and complexity, and as they start to uptake more enterprise-
class functionality (such as Fibre Channel Routing, FCIP, etc.). A non-disruptive upgrade path is available
from SAN Network Advisor Professional to SAN Network Advisor Enterprise.
DA - 13042 Worldwide — Version 21 — December 9, 2013
HP 8/8 Base SAN Switch and 8/8 SAN Switch Family
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