A large customer has a SAN infrastructure with six HP 8/40 SAN switches in each redundant
fabric. To accommodate growing workload’s and expected growth on the SAN, the customer
wants to replace their switches. They also want to reduce associated costs for power,
cooling, and management. The IT Director wants additional capabilities for monitoring and
alerting in the new environment.
Which SAN infrastructure solution should you recommend in your proposal?

A.
HP SN8000C Director with Cisco Fabric Manager Server

B.
HP SN8000B 8-Slot Power Pack + SAN Director

C.
HP SN8000B 8-Slot SAN Director

D.
HP SN8000B 4-Slot Power Pack + SAN Director

Explanation:
HP 8/24 SAN Switch: Consolidates data center connectivity for small to medium sized
enterprises delivering 8Gb/s highly available, lossless networking between applications and
data, as well as between servers and storage networks.
HP SN8000C Director: 13-Slot Supervisor 2A Fabric 2 Director Switch (AJ905C)
Cisco Fabric Manager:
The Cisco Fabric Manager is a set of network management tools that supports
SecureSimple Network Management Protocol version 3 (SNMPv3) and legacy versions.SAN
Director: Is the name and category of switch SAN, not software with capabilities for
monitoring and alerting