HPE SN3600B 32Gb 24/24 Fibre Channel Switch - Q1H71B

HPE B-series SN3600B Fibre Channel Switch
Today’s mission-critical storage environments require greater consistency, predictability, and performance to keep pace with growing business demands. Faced with explosive data growth, the all-flash data centers need more IO capacity to accommodate the massive amounts of data, applications, and workloads. In addition to this surge in data, the collective expectations for availability continue to rise. Users expect applications to be available and accessible from anywhere, at any time, on any device. To meet these dynamic and growing business demands, organizations need to deploy and scale up applications quickly. As a result, many are moving to higher Virtual Machine (VM) densities to enable rapid deployment of new applications and deploying all-flash storage to help those applications that demand more performance and reduced latency, scaling to support thousands of users. To increase agility, reduce expenses, and realize the full benefits of these architectures, organizations need the storage network to deliver the performance required by today’s server and all-flash storage environments. In addition, storage networks are becoming increasingly important to application performance, which means that they also must become easier to administer and manage. By treating the network as a strategic part of a highly virtualized environment, organizations can increase optimization and efficiency even as they rapidly scale their environments.

The HPE SN3600B Fibre Channel Switch meets the demands of hyper-scale virtualization, larger cloud infrastructures, and growing all-flash-based storage environments by delivering market-leading 32Gb Fibre Channel technology and capabilities. It provides a high-density building block for increased scalability, designed to support growth, demanding workloads, and data center consolidation in small to large-scale enterprise infrastructures. It is built for maximum affordability and flexibility, performance, and ease of use.
The HPE SN3600B is an affordable entry-level 8-24-port 32Gb Fibre Channel switch that doesn’t compromise on 32Gb functionality offering 24 x 32 Gigabyte per second (Gbps) SFP+ ports in a 1U form-factor. You can start small with as little as 8- ports and select 16Gb FC or 32Gb FC optics to meet your budget requirements. And for low cost deployments, it is available preconfigured with 8 Short Wave 16Gb SFP+ for customers transitioning to next gen IT technology. Each of the twenty-four (24) SFP+ ports supports 4, 8, 16 and 32 Gbps Fibre Channel speeds. The HPE SN3600B is designed to support the SAN requirements of a small to medium-sized workgroup as well as customers who demand enterprise SAN switch capabilities. With industry leading highest FC port density in a slim 1U height, the HPE SN3600B enables the creation of very dense fabrics in a relatively small space for tighter budgets. With its flexible Ports on Demand (PoD) capability, the HPE SN3600B provides excellent overall value as the foundation of a SAN with the ability to grow with an organization’s SAN needs. Even as an entry-level switch, the HPE SN3600B delivers operational simplicity as it can be configured in as little as 3-steps. The switch provides excellent SAN management and SAN health tools with HPE PowerPack+ Software for optimal SAN health, and it supports HPE Network Orchestrator and HPE Smart SAN for 3PAR all– flash fabric deployments (SAN zoning) in just a few click of a mouse all centralized from the array. It also delivers high IOPs, high bandwidth and low-latency with flash-ready performance and always on reliability, while delivering seamless interoperability and ease of use advantages found only in the HPE B-series product family

1. Switch ID pull-out tab

2. System status LED

3. System power LED

4. System RS232 console port (RJ-45)

5. Ethernet port with two Ethernet status LEDs

6. USB port

7. SFP+ FC port 8 (upper) status LED

8. SFP+ FC port 12 (lower) status LED

9. AC power receptacle

10. Trunk port group 2 (SFP+ FC ports 16-23)

11. Trunk port group 1 (SFP+ FC ports 8-15)

12. Trunk port group 0 (SFP+ FC ports 0-7) 

Key Features and Benefits

• Delivers 32 Gb flash ready-performance, affordability, in as little as 8-ports with no compromise in 32Gb functionality, with up to 24 ports in an energy-efficient 1U form factor, providing maximum flexibility for diverse deployment and tighter budgets.
•  Industry-leading reliability and quality with an unprecedented lifetime warranty*
• Investment protection SAN interoperability as the SN3600B is capable of replacing two generations of entry-level FC switches, including the 8/24 8 Gb FC SAN Switch and SN3000B 16 Gb FC Switch.
• Features dynamic Ports on Demand (PoD) capabilities for fast, easy, and cost-effective scaling in small 8-port Port on Demand (PoD) increments. PoD upgrades are available in 8-port upgrade kits, including both the license and 8 optics under one part number or, the PoD licenses and optics can be purchased separately.
• HPE SN3600B supports 32Gb FC SFP+ and the more affordable 16 Gb SFP+ optics providing flexibility for users to accommodate their budgets and slower FC speeds such as 8Gb FC
• NVMe over Fabric Ready support – available support when the SAN infrastructure supports it and demands it for all-flash environments that are latency sensitive
• Virtual Machine Identity (VMID) support via VM Insight – provides granular visibility of virtualized applications which allows storage admins to obtain granular performance stats which helps them troubleshoot and classify VM IO flows to the fabric for better performance outcomes.
• Fibre Channel SAN deployments, simplifying traditional SAN zoning from hours to minutes.
• Support high-density server virtualization, cloud architectures and flash-based storage environments.
• Supports F/E/M_Port and D_Port types on the SFP+ ports with FOS v8.1.0
• Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking allows up to eight ports between a pair of switches to be combined to form a single
• logical ISL with a speed of up to 256 Gbps (512 Gbps full duplex) for optimal bandwidth utilization, high availability and load balancing.
• Port-to-port latency is minimized to <900 nanoseconds with no contention (destination port is free) through the use of
• cut-through frame switching at 32 Gbps for latency sensitive applications and 768 end-to-end full duplex aggregate bandwidth for all-flash storage SANs.
• Real time power monitoring enables users to monitor the power usage of the switch in real time.
• Supports only Back-to-front (non port-side intake) airflow.