HPE C8R82C - DC04 San Director 16GB Core Blade

HPE StoreFabric B-series SAN Director Switch Family

The HPE SN8000B SAN Directors are the industry's leading Fibre Channel switching infrastructure solutions combining breakthrough performance scalability and energy efficiency with long-term investment protection. The SN8000B Directors were designed to unleash the full potential of private cloud storage and virtualization. With unmatched scalability and port density 16 Gbps performance reliability and functionality the SN8000B Directors are the strategic platform for transforming current SAN fabrics into cloud-optimized SANs. For SAN fabrics not requiring the performance of the 16 Gbps platforms the DC SAN Directors are the most advanced 8 Gbps switching platforms in the industry.

All B-series SAN Directors are based on the same core technology and consist of two form factors. The SN8000B 8-Slot Director is a 14U chassis and supports 8Gb and 16Gb Fibre Channel blades for large enterprises to deliver maximum scalability and port density performance and functionality. The SN8000B 4-Slot Director is a 9U chassis and also supports 8Gb and 16Gb Fibre Channel blades for mid-size enterprises as the core of their SANs.