Brocade has unveiled data centre products available from OEM HP that are designed to support next-generation Fibre Channel rollouts anchored to optimsing application performance and scaling virtual machines.
The products include a Fibre Channel mezzanine host bus adapter card for HP's BladeSystem c-Class servers; a virtualization SAN starter kit that bundles storage arrays, Host bus adapters (HBA) and storage-area network (SAN) switches for pre-integrated deployment; and a 64-port 8Gbps Fibre Channel module for HP/Brocade SAN switches that boosts FibreChannel port density.
The mezzanine card is an 8Gbps Fibre Channel HBA for HP's BladeSystem c-Class servers. It connects the HP blade servers to the data center Fibre Channel switching fabric at 8Gbps, and supports Brocade's Server Application Optimisation technology for increasing application performance and VM scalability.
The HBA also provides storage connections for all HP ProLiant server blades, and is compatible with Brocade's 8Gbps SAN switch and HP's Virtual Connect Fibre Channel modules.
The SAN starter kit is called the HP StorageWorks P2000 G3 Modular Smart Array (MSA) Virtualisation kit. It bundles together an 8Gbps Fibre Channel storage array, six 8Gbps HP StorageWorks B-series HBAs, two 8Gbps HP StrageWorks B-series Fibre Channel switches, and two Brocade-based software licenses per switch.