HP H-series SN6000 and 8/20q Fibre Channel Switch Release Notes

The HP SN6000 Stackable 8-Gb Fibre Channel Switch is designed to make Enterprise SANs

affordable and easy to use, especially as the network expands. Each SN6000 Fibre Channel

Switch features the following:

• 20 device ports supporting 8/4/2 Gb/s speeds

• 4 high-speed 10/20 Gb/s stacking ports for linking SN6000 Fibre Channel Switches

• Included SCM software enables network management and storage provisioning from a single

screen

• Transparent Router functionality that provides seamless, non-disruptive access to servers and

storage on HP B-series and HP C-series SANs

You can begin with 20 device ports for an affordable solution, add new switches for up to 120

usable device ports per stack (single manageable unit), or 500+ ports in multi-stack topologies.

Included 10-Gb/s stacking ports can be upgraded to 20-Gb/s speed at any time, extending the

solution lifespan while preserving current investments.

The HP 8/20q Fibre Channel Switch is an 8-Gb switch featuring 8 to 20 ports that are activated

in license-keyed increments of four ports each.

The 8-Gb Simple SAN Connection Kit includes the following items and quantities:

• A documentation kit

• One HP 8/20q Fibre Channel Switch (8 ports active)

• One HP Fibre Channel Rack-Mount Kit

• Four rubber mounting feet for the HP 8/20q Fibre Channel Switch (for desktop placement, if

you are not using the rack-mount kit)

• Ten 8-Gb shortwave fiber optic transceivers

• Six 5-m LC–LC Multi-Mode Fibre Channel (FC) cables

• Four 8-Gb HP 81Q PCI Express HBAs (PCI-e x8 physical connector)

• Four low-profile HBA mounting brackets

• One standard power cord

• One HP Power Distribution Unit (PDU) power cable

• One serial cable

Products supported

H-series switches support the following storage arrays:

• HP MSA2000fc

• HP MSA2000fc G2 (with MSA23xxfc G2 controllers)

• HP P2000 G3 FC Modular Smart Array System

• HP MSA 2040 SAN Storage (FC)

• HP EVA4100, EVA6100, EVA8100 (only switch firmware before 8.0.14.08.00)

• HP EVA4400

• HP EVA6400, EVA8400

• HP XP20000/24000

• HP XP10000/12000

• HP P6300/P6500, P6350/P6550

• HP P9500