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| Manufacturer | Hewlett Packard Enterprise |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer Part Number | C8S71B |
| Manufacturer Website Address | http://www.hpe.com |
| Brand Name | HPE |
| Product Series | C |
| Product Model | SN8500C |
| Product Name | SN8500C 8-slot 16/32Gb Fibre Channel Director Switch |
| Product Type | Fibre Channel Switch |
| Total Number of Ports | 384 |
|---|---|
| Number of Fibre Channel Ports | 384 |
| Data Transfer Rate | 32 Gbit/s |
|---|---|
| Ethernet Technology | 10 Gigabit Ethernet |
| Maximum Power Supply Wattage | 3 kW |
|---|---|
| Redundant Power Supply | Yes |
| Compatible Rack Unit | 14U |
|---|---|
| Form Factor | Rack-mountable |
| Height | 618.5 mm |
| Width | 439.4 mm |
| Depth | 863.6 mm |
| Weight (Approximate) | 84.20 kg |
Key Features
Industry-leading Scalability
The HPE C-series SN8500C Director Switch are designed for deployment in large-scale data center storage networks to deliver enterprise cloud capabilities while supporting business transformation.
The HPE C-series SN8500C Director Switch provide up to 24 terabits per second (Tb/s) of Fibre Channel (FC) system bandwidth and 384 (8 slots) or 192 (4 slots) 4/8/16/32 Gb/s, 10 Gb/s full line rate FC ports or 384 (8 slots) or 192 (4 slots) 10 GbE FCoE ports in a single chassis.
Existing 16 Gbps customers can transparently move to 32 Gbps speeds without the need for a major equipment upgrade as the 48-port 32 Gbps Fibre Channel Switching module can easily be inserted into existing HPE C-series SN8500C Directors.
Outstanding SAN Performance
The HPE C-series SN8500C Director Switch enables seamless deployment of unified fabrics while delivering high-performance Fibre Channel connectivity, which achieves low total cost of ownership (TCO).
Provides support for 16/32 Gb/s Fibre Channel and 1.5 Tb/s throughput per slot.
Provides a 16/32 Gb/s line-rate, non-blocking, with predictable performance across all traffic conditions for every port in the chassis.
Delivers full-duplex aggregate performance of 1536 Gbps, making it well suited for high-speed 32 Gbps storage subsystems, 32 Gbps Inter-Switch Links (ISLs), high-performance virtualized servers, and all-flash and NVMe arrays.
Supports 10 GbE FCoE for unified storage and data networking.
High Availability
The HPE C-series SN8500C Director Switch offers fully redundant components, including fabric cards, supervisors, and power supplies.
The HPE C-series SN8500C Director Switch provides grid redundancy on the power supply and 1+1 redundant supervisors.
With the HPE C-series SN8500C Director Switch, users can add additional Fabric-1 Crossbar switching modules to enable N+1 fabric redundancy with no loss of performance.
Intelligent Network Features
The HPE C-series SN8500C Director Switch offer VSAN technology, access control lists (ACLs) for hardware-based intelligent frame processing, and fabric wide quality of service (QoS) enable migration from SAN islands to enterprise wide storage networks.
The HPE C-series SN8500C Director Switch combines non-disruptive software upgrades, stateful process restart and failover, and full redundancy of all major components for best-in class.
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