SAN Designer

SAN Designer is a powerful application to help you design a customized SAN. Configure and design your SAN based on the following attributes: performance, cost, and future growth requirements. SAN Designer helps you select the fabric characteristics as well as the SAN elements allowing for a complete SAN Design. The reporting feature of SAN Designer generates topology diagrams, required SAN components, and additional recommendations for your SAN Design. SAN Designer is a complementary software utility for HP customers and runs on a Windows desktop or laptop.

Features

• Easy to navigate interface simplifies the configuration process as SAN Designer guides you through your SAN Design process.
• Wizard Format helps you design a SAN for your current and future storage requirements.
• San Designer provides you multiple choices. Design a SAN based on either performance or cost.
• San Designer eliminates risk by utilizing the configuration knowledge base of the SAN Design Guide.
• San Designer delivers helpful recommendations to increase the efficiency of your SAN configuration and design.

What’s new in V1.4

• Support for Brocade and Cisco FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) switches
• Supports HP StorageWorks 6400 and 8400 Enterprise Virtual Arrays

HP Values feedback from its customers. We would like to hear about your experience using the SAN Designer tool and any feedback you have for improvements or requests for new features you would like added to the tool. Please click here to provide feedback directly to our SAN Designer engineering team.

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