Designed with needs of rapidly changing distributed data center environments in mind
In a quickly changing distributed data center environment where wholesale server consolidation is rapidly occurring and where storage capacity is out of control, IT administrators need to be able to rely on infrastructure solutions that are scalable and adaptable to change and that save them money, improve reliability and increase their productivity.
The HP SN6000 line of 8GB Fibre Channel Stackable Switches, OEM’ed from QLogic, the only vendor of stackable Fibre Channel switches, does exactly that – they are scalable and stackable – they don’t require extra ports for inter-switch links (ISL) that other fixed port Fibre Channel switches do, they have less cables to manage and their use of 20Gb ISLs offer future-proofing for organizations without reconfiguring topology or ripping and replacing technology.
The HP SN6000 switches are designed with the needs of changing data centers in mind. Intended for use with HP servers and storage systems — HP BladeSystem Virtual Connect, HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array (MSA) and HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) systems.
As many as six switches can be stacked for 120 device ports using 20Gb ISLs.
With HP’s Simple SAN Connection Manager software, IT can manage their HP StorageWorks SN6000 and StorageWorks 8/20q switches, their 8Gb, 4Gb, PCI-e and PCI-X HBAs and their StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array and Modular Smart Array storage systems.
The Dell’Oro Group estimates that the market for Fibre Channel edge switches will be over 1 billion by 2011 from 818 million this year.
