HP B-series SAN Network Advisor Enterprise
- Licence
- 9000 SAN ports, 24 SAN fabrics
- for HP 8/24, 8/8, SAN Switch 8/80, SN3000B 16, SN6000B 16; Store Fabric 8/24 8 Gb Most IT organizations are facing tighter budgets, ever-increasing network traffic, & greater management complexity. Managing Service Level Agreements (SLAs) in today's dynamic network environments requires seamless coordination across a wide range of elements. Often, organizations end up dealing with numerous network management tools in order to provide uninterrupted services. Although every network type has unique management requirements, most organizations face the same challenges managing these networks-such as minimizing network downtime, reducing operational expenses, managing application SLAs, & providing robust security. Several tools exist to handle these requirements for different types of networks, yet no single tool provides cohesive management across all of them. The HP B-series portfolio offers the HP SAN Network Advisor Software for the management of B-series directors, routers, switches, Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) & FCo E devices. HP B-series SAN Network Advisor
Includes:: the same level of support for management of FC SANs as its predecessor, HP B-series Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM), & introduces management support of 16 Gb FC SANs. SAN Network Advisor offers management of data center fabrics including configuration, monitoring, & diagnostics. HP B-series SAN Network Advisor provides comprehensive management of data center fabrics-including configuration, monitoring, & management of all B-series Directors, Switches, & HBAs. It provides support for FC SANs with configuration, zoning, & visualization capabilities, including HBA, storage, SAN fabric, & Layer 2 switch topology views. SAN diagnostics help meet SLAs via proactive alerting & advanced SAN diagnostic capabilities, including SAN port diagnostics, bottleneck detection, & best-practices validation of SAN configurations.