Hewlett Packard Enterprise BladeSystem 4/16 Managed 1U Silver

- High performance, availability and scalability: superior ROI and investment protection - 4Gb/s performance: provides ability to configure a more efficient SAN configuration by reducing total number of ISLs. You will require the number of 2 Gb/s ISLs - Power pack software: ensure health and performance of the network, while also ensuring the highest levels of security, scalability and manageability - Faster backup: reduces LAN traffic and delivers a more reliable backup and restore solution - Advanced non-blocking architecture with intelligent routing and faster fabric services to provide a high performance storage network: high performance interconnect to handle the most demanding applications - Multi-protocol and LUN-level Zoning features. Full support for optional Secure Fabric OS: ability to create a secure infrastructure - Multi-switch fabric tools for easy configuration and monitoring convenient power pack options: flexible management tools to manage large SANs - ISL Trunking and Advanced Performance Monitoring to prevent fabric bottlenecks: ability to create 32 port trunks to efficiently utilise inter switch links - Simple Web tools software: removes some of the complexity when installing and managing a SAN - Fully compatible with and sharing a common code base with existing B-series switches: investment protection Technical Features - Flexible storage connectivity: The only SAN solutions providing the complete HP SAN Switch functionality from Embedded to Enterprise. The HP B-series line of products allows the capability to apply the complete SAN Switch functionality to an affordable entry level SAN deployment and then to grow that deployment to the largest SAN fabric solutions supported by HP - Reduced Total Cost of Ownership for SAN Infrastructure: Enables storage consolidation, simplified management of data center SAN environment - Broadest range of compatibility with SAN products: Multi-vendor server and storage environment; Widest range of HP SAN solutions; Backward compatible with previously installed 1Gb, 2Gb and 4Gb SAN Switches; Interoperability with more than 2 Million HP SAN Switch installed base - HP Power Pack Software Bundle (Optional) - highest supported modular functionality: Trunking - highest throughput between switches (32Gb/sec); Proactive threshold monitor (Fabric Watch); Advanced Performance Monitor; Extended Fabric - Broadest Range of HP Packaged SAN Services: Mission critical SAN Services SAN-ES; Assessment and installation services for security - Highest integration with Storage Essentials via: SAN Switch API; SAN Switch element managers; HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager