HPE SN8700C 4-slot 16/32/64Gb Fibre Channel Director Switch - Switch - Managed - rack-mountable - with 2 x HPE Supervisor-4 Modules, 3 x HPE Fabric-3 Modules, firmware

Today's mission-critical storage environments require greater consistency, predictability, and performance to keep pace with growing business demands. Faced with explosive data growth, data centers need more I/O capacity to accommodate the massive amounts of data, applications, and workloads. The HPE SN8700C switch is a director-class SAN switch designed for deployment in small to medium-sized storage networks to support enterprise clouds and business transformation. It layers a comprehensive set of intelligent features onto a high-performance, protocol-independent switch fabric.

• Lower TCO with SAN consolidation
• High availability
• Easy manageability
• Fully integrated SAN analytics

• Lower TCO with SAN consolidation
  The HPE SN8700C switch lets you easily consolidate data assets into fewer, larger, and more manageable SANs to reduce your hardware footprint and associated CAPEX and OPEX. It offers VSAN technology, access control lists (ACLs) for hardware-based intelligent frame processing, and fabric-wide quality of service (QoS) enable migration from SAN islands to enterprise wide storage networks.
• High availability
  The SN8700C switch offers fully redundant components, including fabric cards, supervisors, and power supplies. It provides grid redundancy on the power supply and 1+1 redundant supervisors. The port-channel capability allows you aggregate up to 16 physical links into one logical bundle. The bundle can consist of any speed-matched ports in the chassis, helping ensure that the bundle can remain active in the event of a port or module failure. It provides outstanding high availability, helping ensure that solutions exceed the maximum uptime requirements of today's demanding environments.
• Easy manageability
  The HPE SN8700C supports enhanced diagnostic features such as inter-switch link (ISL) and host-bus-adapter (HBA) diagnostics, read diagnostic parameters, link cable beacon, and advanced reliability features such as forward error correction (FEC) with HBA ports.
• Fully integrated SAN analytics
  The HPE SN8700C offers SAN analytics and telemetry capabilities that have been built into this advanced hardware platform. It inspects I/O flows to bring out a unified view of the infrastructure irrespective of the architecture or vendor of storage arrays, servers, or operating systems.

Today's mission-critical storage environments require greater consistency, predictability, and performance to keep pace with growing business demands. Faced with explosive data growth, data centers need more I/O capacity to accommodate the massive amounts of data, applications, and workloads. The HPE SN8700C switch is a director-class SAN switch designed for deployment in small to medium-sized storage networks to support enterprise clouds and business transformation. It layers a comprehensive set of intelligent features onto a high-performance, protocol-independent switch fabric.