HPE SN8700B 4-slot Power Pack+ Director Switch

HPE SN8700B 4-slot Power Pack+ Director Switch

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SN8700B 4-slot Power Pack+ Director Switch

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Reasons To Buy

Improved Performance

The director features up to 128Gbps FC performance and up to 62Tbps chassis bandwidth to address I/O and bandwidth-intensive applications for private cloud storage and highly virtualized environments.
Supports switching capacity of up to 1,133M frames per second, enabling more than 2.7 billion IOPS. [1]
To further maximize utilization, up to 128 UltraScale ICL links allow the director to scale efficiently with fewer chassis by preserving device ports for device connectivity.
The director delivers higher chassis, slot-to-slot, and port performance, enabling faster application deployment.
The director provides local switching to verify that data traffic within the same port group does not consume slot bandwidth, thereby increasing the number of line-rate ports.

Simplified Management

The director offers a comprehensive suite of features that maximize network uptime, simplify SAN management, and provide unprecedented visibility and insight across the storage network, dramatically reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO).
Equipped with embedded SAN AI technology, which automates application infrastructure management that reduces the need for manual administration, ensuring a resilient network that remains stable and efficient even as workloads and infrastructure complexity continue to grow.
Self-optimizing technology uses actionable intelligence and real-time health monitoring to prioritize traffic, manage congestion, and notify issues—ensuring optimal performance for applications and storage.
Adaptive Traffic Optimizer guarantees critical application performance by automatically prioritizing traffic. When traffic characteristics in the fabric change, the performance groups dynamically adapt to provide the optimal performance group configuration for the individual fabric.

Improves Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Solutions

The director delivers high bandwidth, port density, and throughput required for application performance over WAN connections addressing demanding disaster recovery (DR) requirements through 128Gb, 64Gb, 32Gb FC, and 1GbE/10GbE/40GbE ports.
Reduces bandwidth costs with in-flight data compression at wire speed and increases security with in-flight data encryption.

Lower TCO

The SN8800B and SN8700B directors seamlessly integrate with NVMe throughout the fabric.
The UltraScale ICLs enable scalable core-edge and active-active full-mesh chassis topologies, reducing interswitch cabling by 75% to 87.5%. [1] [2]
HPE B-series directors use optical inter-chassis links (ICLs) to connect up to 12 directors, enabling flatter, faster, scalable fabrics that boost consolidation while reducing network complexity and costs. [1]
To meet ever-increasing demands for faster, more reliable data access, it is essential for organizations to deploy a modernized infrastructure that reduces latency, increases bandwidth, and helps ensure near-continuous availability. Unprecedented performance is not enough on its own.

Description

Are you seeking to modernize storage networking amid the explosion of data, AI demands, rising costs, and growing cyber threats? The HPE Storage SAN Director Switch is a modular platform with high bandwidth and ultra-low latency, purpose-built to power and secure large-scale next-generation storage environments. This director provides a stable, scalable, and high-performance foundation that supports growth, workload consolidation, and reliable operations, making it ideal for fueling and scaling mission-critical and enterprise AI workloads. It provides a high-performance foundation for enterprise data centers with private and hybrid-cloud deployments and highly virtualized environments. The HPE Storage SAN Director Switch portfolio contains the SN8800B and SN8700B directors. The HPE Storage SAN Director Switch is offered in 8-slot and 4-slot chassis.

What is new supporting point:
Integrated security featuring quantum-resistant 256-bit encryption and advanced cryptographic algorithms safeguards SAN fabrics against cybersecurity threats in the era of quantum computing.
The SN8800B director blades are fully-integrated with 48 128Gb short wave, 48 64Gb short wave or 48 64Gb long wave transceivers.
The director offers flexibility of both Non-port side Intake (NPI) and Non-port side Exhaust (NPE).
Embedded SAN AI technology modernizes SAN management, enabling the SAN to operate autonomously with faster decision making, improves operational efficiency, and maintains high levels of resiliency.
The SN8800B director with 128Gb performance, quantum-safe security, and AI-powered autonomy to enable the most robust foundation for modern data center architectures.

Specifications

Protocols
Supported protocolsFibre Channel
Design
Form factor9U
Performance
Media types supportedSupports 64Gb, 32Gb SFP and 64Gb DD transceivers
Power
Redundant power supply (RPS) supportYes
Other features
Performance managementB-series SAN Network Advisor; Integration with Storage Essentials, HPE OneView 1.2, HPE Intelligent Infrastructure Analyzer Software, PowerPack+ Software, Fabric Vision Software, ClearLink diagnostics.
Upgrade typeThe HPE Storage Fibre Channel Switch SN8700B is upgradable with 64Gb and 32Gb capable FC port blades. The HPE SN8600B SAN Extension Blade is supported on the HPE SN8700B SAN Directors providing FC extension (16×32Gb/s FC ports) and IP extension over IP networks (16×1GbE/10GbE and 2×40GbE ports).
Technical featuresHigh availability with redundant hot swappable components, redundant power and cooling subsystems, automatic control processor failover non-disruptive “hot” software code loads, and activation concurrent hardware upgrades.
Port speed rating64Gb
Optional softwareSANnav, Includes Fabric Vision, ISL Trunking, Extended Fabric, Integrated Routing, and FICON CUP
Supported protocolsFibre Channel
Technical details
Form factor9U
Upgrade typeThe HPE Storage Fibre Channel Switch SN8700B is upgradable with 64Gb and 32Gb capable FC port blades. The HPE SN8600B SAN Extension Blade is supported on the HPE SN8700B SAN Directors providing FC extension (16×32Gb/s FC ports) and IP extension over IP networks (16×1GbE/10GbE and 2×40GbE ports).
Technical featuresHigh availability with redundant hot swappable components, redundant power and cooling subsystems, automatic control processor failover non-disruptive “hot” software code loads, and activation concurrent hardware upgrades.
Supported protocolsFibre Channel
Port speed rating64Gb
Optional softwareSANnav, Includes Fabric Vision, ISL Trunking, Extended Fabric, Integrated Routing, and FICON CUP
System requirements
Media types supportedSupports 64Gb, 32Gb SFP and 64Gb DD transceivers