HP 8/24 SAN Specification page 6

QuickSpecs
Product Highlights
Software Components, Optional
Power Pack+ Software
Bundle
Fabric Vision
ISL Trunking
Advanced Performance
Monitor
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 8Gb 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 switches. Connections are load-balanced across the individual links, which comprise
the logical trunk group.
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.
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HP 8/24 SAN Switch
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