HPE SN4000B

Today’s IT organizations are under pressure to keep pace with the growing avalanche of data traffic between data centers and the changes driven by virtualized application workloads.  Faced with this challenge, coupled with rising Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements and recovery expectations, enterprise data centers need their disaster recovery plans to enable fast, continuous, and easy access to mission-critical data from anywhere in the world. Ultimately, storage administrators want to replicate large amounts of data quickly, reliably, and simply while minimizing operational and capital expenses. To address this challenge, the HPE SN4000B Extension Switch with Brocade Fabric Vision technology delivers unprecedented performance, continuous availability, and simplified management to handle the unrelenting growth of data traffic between data centers. The HPE SN4000B is a purpose-built data center extension solution that maximizes performance and scalability for large, complex environments, allowing IT organizations to future-proof their storage extension infrastructure by adding more throughput capacity as their needs grow. The HPE SN4000B Data Center Extension Switch is a robust platform for large scale, multi-site data center environments implementing disk and tape data protection solutions. HPE B-series SN4000B SAN Extension Switch Data Center Extension Switch is ideal for:

• Data protection for open systems and mainframe
• Multi-site synchronous and asynchronous storage replication
• Centralized tape backup, recovery, and archiving

The HPE SN4000B configuration is a bundle including a comprehensive set of advanced services: Fabric Vision, Extension Trunking, Adaptive Rate Limiting, ISL Trunking, IPsec, Compression, Open Systems Tape Pipelining (OSTP), Fast Write, Adaptive Networking and Extended Fabric. Optional value-add licenses for Integrated Routing, FICON CUP, and Advanced FICON® Accelerator are available to address challenging extension and storage networking requirements in open system and mainframe environments. The SN4000B SAN Extension Switch is fully compatible with the entire B-Series family of FC switching platforms, delivering advanced 16 Gbit/sec fabric services end-to-end over distance and providing investment protection for hardware as well as the ability to leverage expertise and training across the data center staff.