Enables ‘pay as you grow’ scalability for easy, scalable growth in highly dynamic business environments. Scalable licensing: Supports instant non-disruptive scaling for the 12-port switch by provisioning 12 additional ports via a license key upgrade.Enables the flexibility to connect server blades to switch ports without regard for the server slot populated – the associated switch ports will be automatically activated as the server ports are deployed. Dynamic Ports on Demand (DPOD): Automatically discovers ‘online’ ports and assigns an available license in any combination, including external ports.

Choose the features and management options that makes sense for your BladeSystem and SAN needs. Available in three models for greater flexibility: Available in 12-port Full Fabric, 24-port Full Fabric and 24-port Power Pack models.It also provides interfaces for other SAN management applications, and is SMI compliant. Broad range of management tools: Integrates with HP Onboard Administrator for BladeSystem, HP Systems Insight Manager, and HP Storage Essentials and leverages HP B-series SAN Switch management and monitoring tools.Fabric interoperability and scalability: Employs N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV), an ANSI T11 standard, to enable interoperability with any SAN fabric and eliminate domain considerations while improving SAN scalability.External facing ports auto-sense lower bandwidth components for flexibility and investment protection (4Gb, 2Gb or 1Gb). Trunking of the SAN facing ports and external Brocade or HP StorageWorks B-series switches provides a high bandwidth solution. Agility: Integrated 4Gb Auto-sensing SAN connectivity: Employs high speed technology for storage networking.

The Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem delivers an easy to manage Fibre Channel embedded switch solution with 4 Gbps performance to HP c-Class BladeSystem customers. Brocade BladeSystem 4/24 SAN Switch Power Pack

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