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HPE Storage Director Switch C-series SN8700C

HPE Storage Director Switch C-series SN8700C (MDS 9700 "V2" & "V3" Directors), HPE C-series Family



Today's mission-critical storage environments require greater consistency, predictability, and performance to keep pace with growing business demands. Faced with explosive data growth, data centers need more IO capacity to accommodate the massive amounts of data, applications, and workloads. In addition to this surge in data, 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 flash storage to help those applications scale to support thousands of users.  



These developments of next-gen, more capable servers, increased server virtualization, adoption of Flash-based Storage and emerging technologies like NVMe, could cause the existing networking infrastructure to bottleneck. 



To increase agility, reduce expenses, and realize the full benefits of flash-based architectures, organizations need the network to deliver the performance required by today's server and 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.



Data Center modernization requires faster Fabric infrastructure. We have it now with 64Gb Directors. 



The HPE Storage Director Switch C-series SN8700C is the next-gen MDS 9700 V2/V3 Directors that delivers many unique innovations for constructing powerful, large scale storage networks. With these innovations, users can build highly scalable, always available, high performance storage network solutions with comprehensive security and unified management. The HPE Storage Director Switch C-series SN8700C supports 4/8/16/32/64 Gb FC and delivers industry-leading scalability and performance (up to 48-Tbps front panel FC switching bandwidth), high port density (up to 768-ports in an SN8700C 16-Slot Director) and high availability to lower TCO and enable integrated SAN infrastructures. HPE delivers the C-series SN8700C 16-slot FC Director with high availability features inherent in the design. All the major components, Supervisor-4, Fabric-3 and Power Supplies are redundant.

The HPE Storage Director Switch C-series SN8700C provides redundancy on all major hardware components, including the supervisor and fabric modules as well as the power supplies. The 16-slot chassis comes with 2 hot swappable redundant Supervisor-4 Modules, and 8 hot swappable redundant 3000W Power Supplies and 6 hot swappable Fabric-3 Modules. The 8-slot chassis comes with 2 hot swappable redundant Supervisor-4 Modules, and 4 hot swappable redundant 3000W Power Supplies and 3 hot swappable Fabric-3 Modules. The 4-slot chassis comes with 2 hot swappable redundant Supervisor-4 Modules, and 4 hot swappable redundant 3000W Power Supplies and 3 hot swappable Fabric-3 Modules. The open expansion slots of the HPE Storage Director Switch C-series SN8700C can be filled by HPE C-series FC Modules, which include a 48-port 32Gb or 64Gb FC Modules.