These switches deliver industry leading scalability, selection, performance, high availability, manageability, and security for SAN consolidation and significantly increase ROI and lower TCO for IT
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HP SN8000C Directors elevate the standard for director-class switches. Providing industry-leading availability, scalability, security, and management, the SN8000C C-series of Directors allow businesses to deploy the highest-performance SANs, with the lowest TCO in the industry. Layering a rich set of intelligent features onto a high-performance, protocol-independent switch fabric, the SN8000C directors address the stringent requirements of large data center storage environments.
The SN8000C Directors are available in 6-slot, 9-slot, and 13-slot configurations, the entire series supports 1-Gbps, 2-Gbps, 4-Gbps, 8-Gbps, and 10-Gbps Fibre Channel port speeds, up to 528 1/2/4/8-Gbps autosensing Fibre Channel ports in a single chassis, and up to 1584 Fibre Channel ports per rack. The SN8000C Directors are also ready for integration of future high-speed standards, helping ensure continued investment protection.
What's new
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New 2-2-2 warranty for MDS 9500 Series Directors increases the warranty from a 1-1-1 9x5 Next Business Day response to a 2-Year, 24x7, 4hr response warranty.
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All SN8000C Directors come pre configured with the Supervisor 2A Module for investment protection. The Supervisor 2A module "future proofs" all SN8000C Directors for FCoE support.
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Increase the rate of data transfer of your MAN or WAN with the new HP MDS 9500 or MDS 9200 I/O Accelerator (IOA) Package software licenses.
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Improve the performance of data replication with the HP MDS 9500 or MDS9200 I/O Accelerator (IOA) Package software licenses in a MAN or WAN environment.
Features
Investment and Data Protection
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Users can easily expand and deploy new technology on their SN8000C Directors as needs dictate.
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Provides embedded Fabric Manager, Optional Cisco Fabric Manager Server and integration with HP Management Essentials and CiscoWorks RME.
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Delivers embedded diagnostics (Fibre Channel ping, trace route and protocol analyzer) and “Call Home” capabilities. Offers investment protection with multiple module options, all interchangeable across MDS 9000 line.
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Provides non-disruptive software upgrades, stable process failover and hot swappable components.
Flexibility and Controlled Access are Key to Protecting your Data
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Supports VSANs, hardware-enforced zoning, role-based access control, data encryption using IPsec for IP network links and access control lists.
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Integrates Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and FCIP in one system, no separate boxes to manage.
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Introduces Virtual SANs (VSANs) and Inter-VSAN routing for consolidation of isolated SAN islands on a single physical fabric.
SAN Consolidation
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Offers 12 to 528 Fibre Channel ports; supports throughput up to 160GB in a single Port Channel ISL.
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Supplies up to 8.4 Terabits of total internal bandwidth for integrated 4, 8 and 10GB Fibre Channel switching. Optional I/O Acceleration licenses improve speed of data transfer and data replication performance in a MAN or WAN environment.
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Provides open platform for hosting third party storage applications, such as virtualization.
Fully Tested with HP IT Solutions and can be Deployed with Confidence
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Offers compatibility with a broad range of HP servers, as well as disk and tape storage devices.
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