HPE SAN Switch (Storage Area Networking)

HPE storage area network (SAN) products and solutions provide high level of performance, scalability, and manageability while lowering costs and protecting investments for your business which save you time.

HPE SAN Switches enable you to remove your limitation on your storage infrastructure and help you to follow with storage innovation by leveraging HPE’s dynamic end-to-end solutions to upgrade with the newest technologies and tools for your storage area network. Enable worry-free reliability, enterprise performance, and lower risk due to fast HPE Storage Networking host adapters, switches that have so many different protocols, highly scalable directors, and Smart SAN automation software for hybrid cloud and cloud-optimized storage.

HPE San Switches enable the process of configuring, monitoring, and managing data center SAN fabrics with HPE Network Orchestrator faster with more flexibility. Making configuration of switches, ports, fabrics, and containers via a single dashboard, self-healing, fabric interoperability, naming zones, and predefined templates simpler and less complex than even is possible. And also you can enjoy protocol-agnostic fabric configuration validation with Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge.

HPE SAN Switches features and services

HPE SAN switches has so many different capabilities and services which provides customer with wide range of options for solving their questions. HPE company ensures customers with lowering the prices and costs in addition of keeping up their investments. These features help customers to omit their limitation on their storage and get involve with the newest high-tech technologies that are available. To activate various port functions on the HPE storage servers, specific HPE License types would be required.

Now let’s list some of these features and services that we have mentioned in up:

Storage Consulting Services

HPE company always consult their customers with best solutions for their problem which can be efficient that reduce costs and threats of the investments. Consultors team analysis your situation and depends on what customers like, design, support and deploy solution that is the key for you questions. HPE consultors try to change and simplify the complicated movements for customers mean while all their data is safe.

Here in HPE the goal is to modernize your storage infrastructure in all platform which keep you up-to-date while your components can’t be better than you. There is an Advisory based services Which helps you in analogizing your data that helps you to understand and realize your data profile and capabilities.

License for using HPE SAN Switches

HP company helps customers to use technology to reduce the time it takes to turn ideas into value. In turn, they send industries, markets and lives. Some of the IT environments are still traditional but they are HPE customers. Most are looking for a secure, cloud-enabled, mobile friendly infrastructure. Many depend on a mixture of both. Wherever they are in that journey, HP provides the technology and solutions to help them succeed.

FICON License

The FICON CUP license allows you to control the host switches in the main environments. FICON upgrade it into a faster optional software license that speeds up reading and writing to FICON disks and tapes while maintaining command accuracy.

ISL Trunking License

To use ISL and support eight ports and create high bandwidth between two switches, an ISL license must be obtained. HPE SANnav management software with short term up to long term licenses usually provides 1, 3 and 5-year access.

ICL Optional License

The optional license for HPE switches is the Inter Chassis Link (ICL) license for standard optical cables up to 100 meters or up to 2 kilometers QSFP + which Supports and reduces costs.