HP 8/80 SAN series Specifications page 6

QuickSpecs
Product Highlights
Extended Fabric
FICON Support
SAN Network Advisor
Professional
SAN Network Advisor
Enterprise and
Professional+
ISL Trunking
Integrated Routing
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.
Optional license which enable host control of switches in mainframe environments
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.
HP SAN Network Advisor Enterprise and Professional+ are the enterprise-class products that support FOS
products as well as FOS and M-EOS products together. SAN Network Advisor Enterprise provides complete
SN8000B 8-Slot Director and DC SAN Backbone Director management including enterprise-class
features/environments such as FICON, Fibre Channel Routing, FCIP, adaptive networking, etc while HP SAN
Network Advisor Professional+ provides the same feature set except for support for the SN8000B 8-Slot
Director, DC SAN Backbone Director, and FICON.
HP SAN Network Advisor Enterprise delivers unprecedented scalability, up to 24 fabrics and 9,000 switch
ports, while HP SAN Network Advisor Professional+ scales to 4 SAN Fabrics and 2560 switch ports. To
accommodate growth, there is an upgrade available to SAN Network Advisor Enterprise from SAN Network
Advisor Professional Plus.
Both offerings provide brand-new features including Adaptive Networking features for quality of service,
ingress rate limiting and traffic isolation zones.
For high performance enhanced Trunking, this optional license logically groups up to four 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 Gb) when routing
connections between 8Gb switches. Connections are load-balanced across the individual links, which
comprise the logical trunk group.
Integrated Routing is an optional license which provides native Fibre Channel Routing (FRC) on a per-port
basis, rather than limiting routing ports to those on a dedicated routing blade or switch. Just like traditional
FCR, Integrated Routing uses EX_Ports to import/export devices between fabrics, enabling selective device
sharing while maintaining remote fabric isolation. Integrated Routing provides architecture flexibility to
route on a port-by-port basis, enabling increased scalability and fault isolation.
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HP 8/80 SAN Switch & 8/80 SAN Switch Power Pack+ /B-
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