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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.

HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B

HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B

With the world's embrace of digital business, data has become more valuable than ever. Expectations for that data to be accessible from anywhere, at any time, on any device are pushing infrastructures to the limit. IT organizations are under pressure to keep pace with the growing avalanche of data and ensure their valuable information is protected from a disaster. The loss of any crucial data could lead directly to lost revenue or damage to the company's brand reputation. To safeguard data from a disaster, storage administrators need a way to achieve sufficient replication performance over distance, keep data flowing over unreliable WAN connections, and secure data-in-flight while containing costs for equipment and long-distance connections.

The HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B addresses these challenges by providing a modern replication connectivity solution that cost-effectively and quickly replicates data across sites for fast, continuous data protection. With powerful performance, non-stop reliability, and strong security, the HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B can handle the unrelenting transfer of data between data centers, minimize the impact of disruptions to maintain service-level agreements (SLAs), and secure data-in-flight between data centers. The switch has built-in technology that overcomes the inherent challenges of latency and packet loss over long distance. It dramatically speeds up replication performance and enables organizations to substantially reduce costs by deploying less-expensive WAN connections.  

The HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B is a cost-effective solution that securely moves data faster over distance for continuous data protection. This powerful, reliable, and secure platform is purpose built to handle the unrelenting growth of data traffic between data centers in Fibre Channel and IP storage environments.

The HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B is a robust platform for medium scale, multi-site data center environments implementing disk and tape data protection solutions. HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B is ideal for:

Multi-site synchronous and asynchronous storage replication
Centralized tape backup, recovery, and archiving

The HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN2600B base configuration provides four 32 Gb/s-capable Fibre Channel ports and two 1GbE Ethernet ports with Adaptive Rate Limiting (ARL) and encryption (IPsec). The on-demand upgrade license enables all 12 Fibre Channel ports, 10Gb FCIP/FC, Fabric Vision technology, Extension Trunking, Fibre Channel Trunking, and Integrated Routing (FCR). The full configuration is a comprehensive bundle enabling all ports and includes Brocade Fabric Vision technology, Extension Trunking, Fibre Channel Trunking, ARL, IPsec, and Integrated Routing.