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StorageWorks 8/24 SAN Switch

Part Number:
AM868B

Introduction

The HP 8/24 SAN switch addresses the needs of SMB organizations as well as large enterprises by functioning as a standalone core switch or as lower-cost edge switch in large core-to-edge tiered storage networks. The 8/24 SAN switches provides unprecedented investment protection. Auto-sensing ports that support backward compatibility with 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gbit/sec devices significantly reduce deployment complexity and costs, while providing compatibility with installed devices.

Organizations that do not require 8 Gbit/sec interfaces can populate the new switches with 4 Gbit/sec SFPs, while preserving their ability to easily upgrade to 8 Gbit/sec SFPs in the future. The 8/24 SAN Switch with 24 enabled ports may be deployed as a full-fabric switch or in Access Gateway mode, which provides connectivity into any SAN (the default mode setting is a switch). Access Gateway mode utilizes NPIV switch standards to present Fibre Channel connections as logical devices to SAN fabrics.

High Performance
Includes simultaneous wire-speed support for all ports to provide a high-performance system with aggregate bandwidth of up to 384 Gbit/sec full duplex.
Provides the highest performance available, with complete backward and forward investment protection.
Simplifies SAN management, negating the need to map application performance requirements to port speeds.

High Scalability
Comes with 16 enabled ports and supports “pay-as-you-grow” scalability to 24 enabled ports.
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 and load balancing

Improved TCO
Optimizes fabric-wide performance and load balancing by automatically routing data to all available paths in the fabric.
Remove/avoid performance bottlenecks in high-density virtualized server environments.
Advanced fabric services to optimize SAN performance and resource utilization.

Investment Protection
Delivers low latency, power efficiency, and high reliability while providing a highly scalable and flexible platform for advanced fabric services.

Management features

Switch type

Managed

Ports & interfaces

Basic switching RJ-45 Ethernet ports quantity

6

Basic switching RJ-45 Ethernet ports type

Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000)

Network

10G support

N

Full duplex

Y

Data transmission

Supported data transfer rates

8 Gb/s

Switching capacity

384 Gbit/s

Design

Rack mounting

Y

Form factor

1U

Product colour

Grey

Power

Power supply included

Y

AC input voltage

100 - 240 V

AC input frequency

47/63 Hz

Power consumption (typical)

48 W

Operational conditions

Operating temperature (T-T)

0 - 40 °C

Storage temperature (T-T)

-25 - 70 °C

Operating relative humidity (H-H)

10 - 85%

Storage relative humidity (H-H)

10 - 90%

Operating altitude

0 - 3000 m

Weight & dimensions

Width

428.8 mm

Depth

306.6 mm

Height

42.9 mm

Weight

4.22 kg

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