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Overview

HP StorageWorks v5 Fabric Manager

 
HP StorageWorks v5 Fabric Manager is a powerful, secure, and highly scalable management platform for configuring and administrating multiple B-Series Storage Area Network (SAN) fabrics. The software is a host application (not switch based). A Fabric Manger license allows operation from one server only. Fabric Manager v5 is a pure JAVA application. The software is fulfilled on a CD-ROM with an application license key. It leverages many B-Series Fabric OS services such as web tools and zoning. Fabric Manager is not tied to a specific B-Series Fabric OS firmware or switch hardware release. This current edition includes the following enhancements: improved user interface, firmware management, and tool integration. Also, enhancements have been made for a device diagnostics wizard, improved reporting and centralized RADIUS management.
 
Models
HP StorageWorks base edition v5 Fabric Manager Software(supports up to 10 domains/switches) T4270A
HP StorageWorks enterprise edition v5 Fabric Manager Software(supports unlimited domains from 1 server) T4269A
HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager v.4x to v.5x enterprise license upgrade T4272A
HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager v5.x base to v5.x enterprise license upgrade T4273A
HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager v4.x base to v5.x base license upgrade T4271A

Feature List
  • Ease of management: Point and click GUI which now includes linking devices across fabrics (LSANs), and wizards for the deployment of the B-series Multi-protocol Router
  • At a glance view: View consolidated SAN, Fabric, Group, Switch and Multi-protocol Router Information.
  • Enhanced SAN visibility: Fabric Manager can globally capture and present reliable status for all SAN objects. Status is projected throughout the entire SAN management environment. This context-sensitive feature enables organizations to dynamically discover and control the status of all SAN components.
  • Change/Alert Management: Automated monitoring and notification of changes in the fabric and call home.
  • Multiple Topology Views to choose from: Core/Edge, Circular and Tree.
  • Change Management: Provides a fabric snapshot/compare feature that tracks changes to fabric objects and fabric membership.
  • Fabric, switch and port naming: enables the assignment of specific names to SAN objects.
  • Profiling, backup and cloning: enables administrators to capture a switch configuration profile, backup the snapshot and compare the backup to current switch configurations
  • End-to-End Performance Monitoring. Shows how much traffic a particular
    target/initiator is generating on the fabric over time. Identifies the devices that creating the most traffic, and which ports are the most congested

Highlights
  • Configure and manage B-Series fabrics with greater efficiency.
  • Intelligently group multiple B-Series switch elements and SAN management functions.
  • Identify, isolate and manage SAN events across multiple switches and fabrics.
  • Drill-down to individual SAN components through tightly coupled WebTools functions.
  • Discover in real-time all SANs in the enterprise and represent the true state of all B-Series fabrics.
  • Efficiently perform SAN management tasks by using functions and tools that intelligently manage an unlimited number of domains with the Enterprise edition.
  • Single console, allowing intuitive iconic and explorer tree operations.
  • Provides the object status of critical fabric elements such as Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking and fabric events, capturing this information in real-time across multiple fabrics and fabric security levels.
  • Supports Windows or Sun Solaris platforms as both client and server.
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SAN Management Tool

HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager is a highly scalable, Java-based application that manages multiple B-Series switches and fabrics in real-time. In particular, Fabric Manager provides the essential functions for efficiently configuring, monitoring, dynamically provisioning, and managing SAN fabrics on a daily basis.
Through its single-point SAN management platform, Fabric Manager enables the global integration and execution of processes across multiple fabrics. Moreover, Fabric Manager helps to lower the cost of SAN ownership by intuitively facilitating a variety of SAN management tasks. As a result, Fabric Manager provides a flexible and powerful tool optimized to provide organizations with rapid access to critical SAN information across multiple fabrics. This latest indention, introduces full support for the B-series Multi-protocol router for easy deployment of this new technology.

Basic Management Features For Highly Efficient Management of Multiple SANs HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager increases the efficiency levels of administrators who are responsible for managing multiple B-Series SANs. With the unique ability to provide real-time information and streamline SAN management tasks.

Advanced Management Features for Even Greater Management Capabilities HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager provides unique and intuitive methods for managing SANs, including:
User-controlled SAN object grouping Fabric Manager enables fabric switches to be placed into any logical, user-defined groups-which are then dynamically and intelligently propagated throughout Fabric Manager. The groups can be utilized at any time to simplify global management tasks, reducing execution time and ultimately lowering SAN management costs.
  Efficient management of B-Series Secure Fabrics
Fabric Manager enables easier management of B-Series Secure Fabric OS which provides change management and policy-based SAN security parameters such as management, switch and device controls.
  GUI based inter-fabric device linkage
Fabric Manager provides an easy-to-use management tool for linking SAN objects across fabrics via the B-Series Multi-protocol Router.

Advanced License Key Management

HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager manages B-Series license keys across all B-Series SAN fabrics under its control.

  • Post-installation cross-checking of license keys. License management is fully integrated with security, group, and password control.
  • Profiling, backup, and cloning: Fabric Manager enables organizations to capture a profile of a switch within any fabric, back up the snapshot to a safe place, and compare the backup to the original fabric device. Cloning facilitates the distribution of profiles to switches within the fabric.
  • Highly flexible firmware download: This feature is dynamically configurable and scalable across logical groups, password controls, multiple fabrics, and SAN infrastructures with multiple security levels. When utilized with sequenced reboot, Fabric Manager provides a fully configurable environment for controlling the B-Series Fabric OS firmware download process

Tight integration with the B-Series SAN management family HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager is tightly integrated with the entire family and can extend those products' capabilities (such as Web Tools and Fabric Watch). This unique ability to work tightly with all B-Series management tools effectively reduces the time and costs of managing B-Series fabrics.
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Additional Features

Software Pre-Requisites Firmware versions defined in SAN Design Guide: Http://www.hp.com/go/SANDesignGuide

Hardware Prerequisites B-Series 1 Gb/s ,2 Gb/s, and 4Gb/s Switches listed in the SAN Design Guide. Also, refer to: Http://www.hp.com/go/SANDesignGuide.

Software Licensing
  • HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager Enterprise Edition supports an unlimited number of domains from a single server.
  • HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager Base Edition supports up to 10 switches/domains from a single server.
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Service and Support, HP Care Pack, and Warranty Information

Software Product Services HP Care Pack Services offer upgraded service levels to extend and expand your standard product warranty with easy-to-buy, easy-to-use support packages that help you make the most of your hardware and software investments. They let you choose the support levels that meet your business requirements, from basic to mission-critical. They help you contain TCO.

HP Care Pack warranty extensions can be purchased along with HP products to cost-effectively upgrade or extend your warranty. For many products, post-warranty HP Care Pack Services are available when your original warranty has expired.

HP Care Pack availability may vary by country and product.

Product Warranty HP warrants only that the Software media will be free of physical defects for a period of ninety (90) days from delivery.
EXCLUSIVE REMEDY. The entire liability of HP and its suppliers and your exclusive remedy for Software that does not conform to this Limited Warranty shall be the repair or replacement of the defective media. This warranty and remedy are subject to your returning the defective media during the warranty period to HP in the country in which you obtained the Software.

Services Included with Product Purchase One year of HP 24/7 Software Support (includes software technical support and software product and documentation updates).

Recommended Services

Three years of HP Software 24/7 Support

  • Improve the productivity of system managers and operators
  • Improve system performance and reduce downtime due to software defects
  • Expedite problem resolution through expert-level technical resources
  • Enjoy consistent service coverage across geographically dispersed sites
  • Update HP and selected third-party software at a predictable cost
  • Take advantage of subscription savings on software updates
  • Keep your license compliancy up-to-date

Services Available at the time of Product Order Extend your product warranty with a wide choice of cost-saving support packages.

Flexible HP Care Pack Services are generally sold by HP and HP authorized enterprise resellers. These services are quoted using HP order configuration tools. Additional information about HP Care Pack Service features and benefits is available at http://www.hp.com/hps/carepack/services/.
 
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Additional Services Information

HP Services is the vendor best equipped to provide the precise type and level of storage support you require. We deliver leadership lifecycle services to help you design, build, integrate, manage, and evolve network storage solutions that will stand you in good stead today and tomorrow.

Storage Services information is available at http://www.hp.com/hps/storage/
Storage HP Care Pack Services information is available at http://www.hp.com/hps/carepack/storage/cp_networked.html
Information about storage software updates is available at http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/sanworks/secure-path/index.html
If you have specific questions contact your local HP representative. Contact information for the representative in your area can be found at "Contact HP" at http://www.hp.com


About Care Packs
  • Software Support (Stand-alone software advisory and remedial software telephone support)
  • Software Product Subscription (New version license rights, and Media and documentation distribution service)
  • Installation services

These software product services are sold under HP's Care Pack Services program.

  • HP Care Pack is defined as an upgrade to the product warranty attribute, available for a specific duration and hours of coverage.
  • HP Care Pack is available for sale anytime during the warranty period for most products, but the commencement date will be the same as the Warranty Start Date (delivery date to end user customer). Proof of purchase may be required.
  • HP Care Pack services are prepaid.

For additional information on Software Product Services and HP Care Pack, as well as orderable part numbers, please refer to the following URL: http://www.hp.com/hps/carepack/

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Configuration Information

Step 1 – Base Configuration
Select one:    
Model Number Model Description
Part Number
  HP StorageWorks Base edition v5 Fabric Manager (10 domains limit from a single server)
T4270A

Step 2 - Enterprise Configuration
Select one:    
Model Number Model Description
Part Number
HP StorageWorks Enterprise edition v5 Fabric Manager (unlimited number of domains from a single server)
T4269A
HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager v5 base to v5 enterprise license upgrade T4273A

Step 3 – Required Options
Select each required option with quantities specified:
  Description with Parts Shipped
Quantity
Part Number
  HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager v.4 to v.5 enterprise license upgrade
(for Enterprise v. 4 users who wish to migrate to Enterprise version 5)
1 per version 4.x license
T4272A
HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager v.4 to v.5 Base license upgrade
(for Base v. 4 users who wish to migrate to Base version 5)
1 per version 4.x license
T4271A

Step 4 – Additional Options
SAN Switch power pack Bundle
Includes bundled license for ISL Trunking, Advanced Performance Monitor, Remote Switch, Extended Fabric and Fabric Watch.

Fabric Watch
Fabric Watch enables each switch to monitor the SAN for potential faults-and automatically alert network managers to problems before they become failures. Fabric Watch tracks a variety of SAN fabric elements, events, and counters. Monitoring fabric-wide events, ports, SFPs, and environmental parameters permits early fault detection and isolation as well as performance measurement. Each switch in the SAN needs its' own Fabric Watch license.

ISL Trunking
High performance enhanced trunking: Optional license logically groups up to four E-ports to provide a high bandwidth trunk between two switches. Each 2 Gb switch needs its own license. The switch operating system views the trunk as a single, high bandwidth resource (up to 8 Gb) when routing connections between switches. Connections are load-balanced across the individual links, which comprise the logical trunk group. Each 16-port switch can have a total of four separate 4-port trunk groups.

Performance Monitoring
This enabling technology provides the ability to monitor and watch specific fabric metrics from a SID (Source ID) to a DID (Destination ID), creating a method to be able to fine-tune and scale your fabric more efficiently. Performance Monitoring also allows the ability to have an early warning detection of hot-spots within the fabric providing a powerful tool for maintaining overall balanced performance.

Extended Fabric
Extends all of the scalability, reliability, and performance benefits of Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SANs) beyond the native 10 km distance specified by the Fibre Channel standard.

Secure Fabric OS
Secure Fabric OS™ is a comprehensive security solution for SAN fabrics providing policy-based security protection for more predictable change management, assured configuration integrity and reduced risk of downtime. Secure Fabric OS protects the network by using the strongest, enterprise-class security methods available, including digital certificates and digital signatures, multiple levels of password protection, strong password encryption and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)-based authentication, and 128-bit encryption of the switch's private key used for digital signatures. With its flexible design, Secure Fabric OS enables organizations to customize SAN security to meet specific policy requirements. In addition, Secure Fabric OS works in conjunction with Advanced Zoning to further secure access to the SAN, simplify storage management, and reduce provisioning time.

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