HPE 8/8 (8) Full Fabric Ports Enabled SAN Switch - switch - 8 ports - Managed - rack-mountable
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HP 8/8 SAN Switch is targeted for SMB enterprises and is ideal for entry-level SANs, and as an edge switch for core-to-edge SAN environments. The 8/8 SAN Switch provides SAN connectivity that improves system performance, maximizes the value of virtual server deployments, and reduces overall storage costs.
- Compliance with the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS2) directive
- HP 8G long wave B-series 10 km FC SFP+, recommended for FICON installations and connectivity of SAN islands to corporate central SANs over 150 m
- Server application optimization, when deployed with B-Series HBAs, improves overall application performance for physical servers and virtual machines
- Remove/avoid performance bottlenecks in high-density virtualized server environments
- Enables rapid deployment with minimal configuration in existing environments; provides the highest performance available, with complete backward and forward investment protection
- Enables "pay-as-you-grow" 8-port scalability for easy, non-disruptive growth in highly dynamic business environment
- Includes simultaneous wire-speed support for all ports to provide a high-performance system with aggregate bandwidth of up to 384 Gbit/sec full
- Provides seamless server connectivity to multi-vendor fabric environments, and allows a great number of servers to connect to a SAN fabric without increasing switch domain count
- Allows up to eight ports (at 2, 4, or 8 Gbit/sec speeds) between a pair of switches to be combined to form a single logical ISL with a speed of up to 64 Gbit/sec (128 Gbit/sec full duplex) for optimal bandwidth utilization
- Optimizes fabric-wide performance and load balancing by automatically routing data to all available paths in the fabric
- Simplifies SAN management, negating the need to map application performance requirements to port speeds
- Advanced fabric services to optimize SAN performance and resource
- Delivers low latency, power efficiency, and high reliability while providing a highly scalable and flexible platform for advanced fabric services
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