HP Store Fabric 8/24 8 Gb Bundled Fibre Channel Switch
- Switch
- Managed
- 16 x 8 Gb Fibre Channel SFP+
- rack-mountable The HP 8/24 SAN switch addresses the needs of SMB organizations as well as large enterprises by functioning as a standalone core switch or as lower-cost edge switch in large core-to-edge tiered storage networks. The 8/24 SAN switches provides unprecedented investment protection. The 8/24 SAN switch with 24 enabled ports may be deployed as a full-fabric switch or in Access Gateway mode, which provides connectivity into any SAN (the default mode setting is a switch). Access Gateway mode utilizes NPIV switch standards to present Fiber Channel connections as logical devices to SAN fabrics.