Datasheet
Adaptive Networking
Adaptive NetworkingAdaptive Networking
Adaptive Networking
Adaptive Networking (AN) is an optional family of technologies which allow flexible control of traffic
movement within the fabric which deliver application aware management of fabric resources.
Applications may be used with multiple protocols and multiple classes of service. It includes the following
features:
Ingress Rate Limiting:
Allows the ingress bandwidth of a port to be throttled to a rate lower than negotiated with the SAN node.
This could be very useful for enterprises offering stepped levels of service and enforcing SLAs.
Quality of Service (QoS):
Enables zones with high, medium, and low priorities within a fabric on a zone by zone basis. This can be
very useful for prioritizing array replication over MANs and WANs over less critical traffic.
Traffic Isolation Zones:
Defines paths through a fabric for some or all nodes. Failover allows a non-preferred path to be used if
the preferred fails. TIZs use failover by default but it can be disabled if traffic should stop if a preferred
path fails. TIZ can be used to manually map out traffic flows within a fabric based on application,
priority, and topology.
Fabric Watch
Fabric WatchFabric Watch
Fabric Watch
Fabric Watch is an optional license which enables each switch to monitor the SAN for potential faults
and automatically alert network managers to problems before they become failures. Fabric Watch tracks
a variety of SAN fabric elements, events, and counters. Monitoring fabric-wide events, ports, SFPs, and
environmental parameters permits early fault detection and isolation as well as performance
measurement. Each switch in the SAN needs its own Fabric Watch license.
Advanced Performance
Advanced PerformanceAdvanced Performance
Advanced Performance
Monitor
MonitorMonitor
Monitor
This optional enabling technology helps administrators monitor and watch specific fabric metrics -- from
a SID (Source ID) to a DID (Destination ID) -- so they can fine-tune and scale the fabric more efficiently.
Plus, Advanced Performance Monitoring includes the ability for early warning detection of hot spots
within the fabric, a powerful tool for maintaining overall balanced performance.
Top Talkers is a component of Advanced Performance Monitoring and tracks the top traffic flows for
hosts and targets for a switch port or a switch. Top Talkers can help identify the ports that need certain
Quality of Service (QoS) attributes or it can help determine portions of the physical topology that need
reconfiguration.
Extended Fabric
Extended FabricExtended Fabric
Extended Fabric
Optional license which extends all of the scalability, reliability, and performance benefits of Fibre
Channel Storage Area Networks (SANs) beyond the native 10 km distance specified by the Fibre
Channel standard.
QuickSpecs
HP SN6000B Fibre Channel Switch
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Product Highlights
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