HP SN3000B Specifications page 7

QuickSpecs
Product Highlights
Advanced Performance
Monitor
Extended Fabric
ISL Trunking
SAN Network Advisor
Professional
SAN Network Advisor
Enterprise and
Professional+
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:
Allows management of a single Fabric OS (FOS) fabric (up to a 1,000 B-Series switch ports)
Performs group switch management beyond the scope of Web Tools
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 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.
HP SAN Network Advisor Enterprise and Professional+ are the enterprise-class products that support FOS
products. SAN Network Advisor Enterprise provides complete B-series Directors Management including
enterprise-class features/environments such as FICON, Fibre Channel Routing, FCIP, adaptive networking,
etc while SAN Network Advisor Professional+ provides the same feature set except for support for the DC
SAN Backbone Director, SN8000B 8-Slot Director, and FICON.
SAN Network Advisor Enterprise delivers unprecedented scalability, up to 24 fabrics and 9,000 switch
ports, while SAN Network Advisor Professional+ scales to 4 SAN Fabrics and 2560 switch ports. There is an
upgrade available from SAN Network Advisor Professional Plus to SAN Network Advisor Enterprise.
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