SN4000B Power Pack+ SAN Extension Switch

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. 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 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.

What is new supporting point:
Twenty-four 16Gbps Fibre Channel ports, sixteen 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports, and two 40GbE ports.
Hardware-based capabilities to optimize data transfers over the IP link.
Provides multiple modes to optimize compression ratios for various throughput requirements.
Addresses growing requirement for high availability/disaster recovery with demands for increased performance/throughput, manageability, and “always on” reliability.
Supports Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS) compliant requirements for RoHS 2016.