Today’s mission-critical storage environments require greater consistency, predictability, and performance to keep pace with growing business demands. Faced with explosive data growth, the all-flash data centers need more IO capacity to accommodate the massive amounts of data, applications, and workloads. In addition to this surge in data, the collective expectations for availability continue to rise. Users expect applications to be available and accessible from anywhere, at any time, on any device.
To meet these dynamic and growing business demands, organizations need to deploy and scale up applications quickly. As a result, many are moving to higher Virtual Machine (VM) densities to enable rapid deployment of new applications and deploying all-flash storage to help those applications that demand more performance and reduced latency, scaling to support thousands of users. To increase agility, reduce expenses, and realize the full benefits of these architectures, organizations need the storage network to deliver the performance required by today’s server and all-flash storage environments. In addition, storage networks are becoming increasingly important to application performance, which means that they also must become easier to administer and manage. By treating the network as a strategic part of a highly virtualized environment, organizations can increase optimization and efficiency even as they rapidly scale their environments.
The HPE Storage Fibre Channel Switch B-series SN3600B meets the demands of hyper-scale virtualization, larger cloud infrastructures, and growing all-flash-based storage environments by delivering market-leading 32Gb Fibre Channel technology and capabilities. It provides a high-density building block for increased scalability, designed to support growth, demanding workloads, and data center consolidation in small to large-scale enterprise infrastructures. It is built for maximum affordability and flexibility, performance, and ease of use.
The HPE Storage Fibre Channel Switch B-series SN3600B is an affordable entry-level 8-24-port 32Gb Fibre Channel switch that doesn’t compromise on 32Gb functionality offering 24 x 32 Gigabyte per second (Gbps) SFP+ ports in a 1U form-factor. You can start small with as little as 8-ports and select 16Gb FC or 32Gb FC optics to meet your budget requirements. And for low cost deployments, it is available preconfigured with 8 Short Wave 16Gb SFP+ for customers transitioning to next gen IT technology. Each of the twenty-four (24) SFP+ ports supports 4, 8, 16 and 32 Gbps Fibre Channel speeds. The HPE Storage Fibre Channel Switch B-series SN3600B is designed to support the SAN requirements of a small to medium-sized workgroup as well as customers who demand enterprise SAN switch capabilities. With industry leading highest FC port density in a slim 1U height, the HPE Storage Fibre Channel Switch B-series SN3600B enables the creation of very dense fabrics in a relatively small space for tighter budgets.
With its flexible Ports on Demand (PoD) capability, the HPE Storage Fibre Channel Switch B-series SN3600B provides excellent overall value as the foundation of a SAN with the ability to grow with an organization’s SAN needs. Even as an entry-level switch, the HPE Storage Fibre Channel Switch B-series SN3600B delivers operational simplicity as it can be configured in as little as 3-steps. The switch provides excellent SAN management and SAN health tools with HPE PowerPack + Software for optimal SAN health, and it supports HPE Smart SAN for 3PAR all–flash fabric deployments (SAN zoning) in just a few click of a mouse all centralized from the array. It also delivers high IOPs, high bandwidth and low-latency with flash-ready performance and always on reliability, while delivering seamless interoperability and ease of use advantages found only in the HPE B-series product family.
The HPE Storage Fibre Channel Switch B-series SN3600B is available in the following models
- HPE SN3600B 16Gb 24/8 8-port 16Gb Short Wave SFP+ Fibre Channel Switch
- HPE SN3600B 32Gb 24/8 8-port 32Gb Short Wave SFP28 Fibre Channel Switch
- HPE SN3600B 32Gb 24/24 24-port 16Gb Short Wave SFP28 Power Pack+ Fibre Channel Switch
- HPE SN3600B 32Gb 24/24 24-port 32Gb Short Wave SFP28 Power Pack+ Fibre Channel Switch
HPE Power Pack+ Software includes additional software: Fabric Vision, ISL Trunking, and Extended Fabric. HPE Power Pack+ Software provides the SAN administrator with the necessary tools to monitor the health and performance of the network, while also ensuring the highest levels of security, scalability and manageability.
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