HP StorageWorks director 2/64 - QuickSpecs

QuickSpecs
hp StorageWorks
Director 2/64
PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS
Business continuance
The hp StorageWorks Director 2/64 ensures continuous data access with 99.999% availability, meaning approx. 5 minutes of
downtime a year. It provides:
• Redundancy of all major hardware components
• Automatic failover of active components
• Fully hot swappable components
• Non-disruptive code load/code activation
• Call home capabilities with hp StorageWorks HA-Fabric Manager
• Lowest service impact in the industry at only 4 ports per card
Outstanding Performance
The hp StorageWorks Director 2/64 provides leading industry performance with less than 2 ms latency, and 64 non-blocking G-
ports (self configuring ports).
• Delivers consistently high performance at 2Gbps
• Offers 64 non-blocking ports for the highest throughput possible
• Provides low, uniform latency across all ports
• Delivers consistent high performance to meet peek demands
• Offers a protocol-independent architecture that delivers an open platform for tomorrow’s emerging technologies
Scalable Infrastructure
Customers can configure the hp StorageWorks Director 2/64 to meet their specific needs:
• Configurations start at 32 ports increasing up to 64 ports, in eight port increments.
• Long distance support up to 100Km (with repeaters; distance depends on fiber-optic cable and port speed)
• Three different types of optical transceivers to accommodate specific distance requirements
• Full interoperability with hp StorageWorks Edge Switches
Configuration support:
For SAN level configuration support of HA fabric products, please check the Heterogeneous Open SAN Design Guide at:
http://www.compaq.com/products/storageworks/san/documentation.html
Centralized Management
The hp StorageWorks HA-Fabric Manager offers a complete fabric management solution for high availability environments. It
provides:
• Full fabric view
• User friendly graphical interface
• Centralized configuration management
• Real time interactive display of operational status and performance statistics
• Automatic audit logging of all systems events
• Access security with passwords, valid users, and local and remote access rights
• Call-home
• Event management and notification
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