HPE SN4700B 64Gb 16/16 16-port 64Gb Short Wave SFP56 SAN Extension Fibre Channel 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 infrastructure to ensure fast, continuous, and secure replication of mission-critical data anywhere in the world. HPE Storage SAN Extension Switch B-series SN4700B addresses these challenges by providing a powerful, reliable, secure solution for disaster recovery of large complex environments. This cyber-resilient replication connectivity solution for enterprise storage securely moves more data, faster, over distance for continuous data protection. HPE Storage B-series SN4700B delivers unprecedented performance, continuous availability, and simplified management to handle the unrelenting growth of data traffic between data centers.

What is new supporting point:
Optimizes replication traffic utilizing modern 25GbE/100GbE WAN connections.
Consolidates high-speed Fibre Channel and IP storage replication workloads.
Secures data flows over distance with strong AES 256-bit hardware encryption without a performance penalty.
Provides load balancing and failover across multiple WAN connections, protecting against WAN link failures.
Helps ensure consistent storage replication with non-disruptive firmware and security updates.
Pre-validates the WAN infrastructure with a built-in WAN Test Tool (Wtool) to help ensure a worry-free deployment and detects WAN anomalies to avoid unplanned downtime with proactive monitoring.