Simple and elegant scalability: Provides industry-leading port density with 128 FC ports in a compact 2U form factor forgreater scalability while optimizing space utilization. With ninety-six 32Gb SFP+ ports and eight 4x32Gb Q-Flex ports,data centers can scale 48-128 ports with this compact design to deliver more connectivity with fewer switches.

Features Ports on Demand (PoD) capabilities for fast, easy, and cost-effective scaling from 48 to 128 ports. PoDs areavailable in 24-port increments scaling up to 96 ports along with a 32-port QSFP PoD for full 128 port support. PoDupgrades are available in 24-port upgrade kits, including both the license and 24 optics under one part number or thePoD licenses and optics can be purchased separately.

Flexible, high-speed connectivity: QSFP ports offer ISL and devices connectivity with industry-leading 128Gb or 32Gbspeeds. These ports are designed to support single QSFP or fan out to 4 standard SFP+ connections, enablingadministrators to simplify cabling infrastructure.

Handle more workloads faster: Handles more workloads faster with up to 4.096 Tbps total system bandwidth for highintensity mission-critical workloads while providing low-latency for flash and NVMe storage and 2X the speed of 16GbpsFC with high speed data reliability using forward error correction (FEC).

Accelerate deployment and configuration times by automating management procedures: Available with New automationtools simplify and automate operations to increase productivity with open automation enabling DevOps resources toautomate and orchestrate SAN resources through open APIs and the Ansible automation engine. Repetitive and timeconsuming configuration tasks are simplified reducing human error by automating management operations.

Predefined, pretested templates: Leverages a library of templates and scripts for integration into third party tools. RESTAPIs and a library of pre-tested operational scripts reduce command errors and help deploy applications faster.

Simplify operations by enabling visibility across the entire infrastructure: Provides operational consistency across diversefabrics and VM applications using powerful ASIC data collection and Fabric Vision tools to provide deep visibility andactionable insights to ensure operational efficiency and data reliability.

Optimize performance and ensure reliability with enhanced monitoring for NVMe: New NVMe over Fibre Channelenhanced monitoring offers integrated non-intrusive, real-time monitoring and alerting for network performance. Thisproactive monitoring of the health and performance of NVMe traffic and virtual machines provides deep diagnostics andvisibility to maintain optimal network health and performance.

Integrate NVMe ready solutions without a rip and replace: Integrates NVMe ready solutions without a rip and replace. Byleveraging the efficiency of NVMe, combined with the high performance and low latency of 32Gb Fibre Channel,enterprises can accelerate IOPS to deliver the performance, application response time, and scale needed for nextgeneration data centers while making the transition NVMe seamless.

Simplified low risk migration of SCSI based storage to NVMe storage: Provides an elegant coexistence strategy forexisting SCSI-based FC SANs and NVMe storage. Allowing enterprises to facilitate a simplified and gradual SCSI datamigration path to NVMe FC as business demands it.

Provides the tools to optimize NVMe storage and automate SAN management tasks.

It is a high port density building block with a management platform designed to support application, data, and storagegrowth with 33% more port capacity than the HPE SN6500B 16Gb FC switch.

Delivers 48, 72, 80, 96, 104 or 128-ports in a 2U enclosure.

As an NVMe-ready switch, the SN6650B allows organizations to seamlessly integrate HPE B-series 32GbFibre Channelnetworks with the next generation of flash storage.

Features Integrated network sensors for advanced monitoring of NVMe workloads, helping to ensure optimalperformance.

Delivers new automation capabilities that enable DevOps resources to automate and orchestrate SAN resources throughopen APIs and the Ansible automation engine.

Two integrated redundant, hot swappable power supplies with integrated cooling fans.

Forward Error Correction (FEC): Enables recovery from bit errors in a data stream, enhancing transmission reliability andperformance and FEC is mandatory in 32Gb links with more robust error recovery to support 32Gb performance.

Enhanced Fault Detection Logic

Parity protection on all data paths and system memory

Hardware Enforced Zoning

Frame Filtering

Built-in Web browser management tools

In-flight Compression

Dynamic and System Monitoring Capabilities for High Reliability

Virtual Fabrics