HPE Storage Fibre Channel Switch B-series SN3700B

In today's data-driven world, where both the value and protection of data are paramount, IT organizations face increasing pressure to ensure their systems are secure, reliable, and efficient. The challenge lies not only in securing continuous, non-stop access to data but also in optimizing critical applications and resources to improve productivity. To address these demands, a simple and always-on infrastructure is essential-one that supports high throughput and low-latency requirements for critical applications. HPE B-series 64Gb Gen7 Fibre Channel is key to helping organizations meet these challenges. By integrating this robust, high-performance network into their storage ecosystem, small and mid-sized businesses can effectively handle large volumes of data with minimal overhead. This enables faster decision making, improved operational efficiency, and a competitive edge, all without the complexity or cost typically associated with large enterprise-level solutions.

Faced with explosive data growth, the all-flash data centers need more IO capacity to accommodate the massive amounts of data, applications, and workloads. At the same time 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 SN3700B meets the demands of hyper-scale virtualization, larger cloud infrastructures, and growing all-flash-based storage environments by delivering market-leading 64Gb 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 mid-sized enterprise infrastructures. It is built for maximum affordability and flexibility, performance, and ease of use.

The HPE Storage Fibre Channel Switch B-series SN3700B is an affordable entry-level 8-24-port 64Gb Fibre Channel switch that doesn't compromise on 64Gb functionality offering 24 x 64 Gigabyte per second (Gbps) SFP+ ports in a 1U form-factor. You can start small with as little as 8-ports and select 32Gb FC or 64Gb FC optics to meet your budget requirements. And for low-cost deployments, it is available preconfigured with 8 Short Wave 32Gb SFP+ for customers transitioning to next gen IT technology. Each of the twenty-four (24) SFP+ ports support 8, 16, 32 and 64 Gbps Fibre Channel speeds. The HPE Storage Fibre Channel Switch B-series SN3700B 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 SN3700B 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 SN3700B 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 SN3700B 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 included in the base models for optimal SAN health, and it supports HPE Smart SAN for Alletra 9000 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.

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HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN4000B

Today's IT organizations are under pressure to keep pace with the growing avalanche of data traffic between data centers and the changes driven by virtualized application workloads. Faced with this challenge, coupled with rising Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements and recovery expectations, enterprise data centers need their disaster recovery plans to enable fast, continuous, and easy access to mission-critical data from anywhere in the world. Ultimately, storage administrators want to replicate large amounts of data quickly, reliably, and simply while minimizing operational and capital expenses. To address this challenge, the HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN4000B with Brocade Fabric Vision technology delivers unprecedented performance, continuous availability, and simplified management to handle the unrelenting growth of data traffic between data centers. The HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN4000B is a purpose-built data center extension solution that maximizes performance and scalability for large, complex environments, allowing IT organizations to future-proof their storage extension infrastructure by adding more throughput capacity as their needs grow. The HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN4000B Data Center is a robust platform for large scale, multi-site data center environments implementing disk and tape data protection solutions. HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN4000B Data Center is ideal for:

Data protection for open systems and mainframe

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The HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN4000B configuration is a bundle including a comprehensive set of advanced services: Fabric Vision, Extension Trunking, Adaptive Rate Limiting, ISL Trunking, IPsec, Compression, Open Systems Tape Pipelining (OSTP), Fast Write, Adaptive Networking and Extended Fabric. Optional value-add licenses for Integrated Routing, FICON CUP, and Advanced FICON® Accelerator are available to address challenging extension and storage networking requirements in open system and mainframe environments. The HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN4000B is fully compatible with the entire B-Series family of FC switching platforms, delivering advanced 16 Gbit/sec fabric services end-to-end over distance and providing investment protection for hardware as well as the ability to leverage expertise and training across the data center staff.