HP helps Alfa-Bank to transfer storage network to 16-gigabit Fiber Channel
Recently, HP, together with its OEM partner, the largest manufacturer of network equipment Fiber Channel, Brocade Communications, presented in Moscow a joint project to upgrade the IT infrastructure of one of the largest Russian banks.
Alfa-Bank has been an HP customer since the 1990s, and its Moscow data centers have been using various server models and storage systems for over a decade, and HP’s HP B-Series directors “directors »And Brocade Fiber Channel switches. Altogether, several thousand Fiber Channel ports have been installed in the storage network of Alfa-Bank.
Due to the growing business, Alfa-Bank is currently building a new data center, which will be located outside of Central Russia. The territorial distribution of the infrastructure of data centers will ensure the continued operation of the bank’s critical applications, even in the event of a major catastrophe that could disrupt its Moscow data centers.
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In the new data center will be installed sixteen gigabit directors of HP B-Series. Each switch supports up to 512 16 Gbit / sec FC ports and provides a throughput of 8.2 Tbit / s. Already installed in the existing data centers, the HP B-Series “directors”, which form the core of the bank’s storage network, will be transparently transferred for critical banking applications to use the 16 Gbit / s interface from the eight-gigabit one. The new data center will be integrated into the SAN of the bank using FC-FC routing.
Using 16 Gb Fiber Channel in a SAN will allow the bank to double the storage network bandwidth without increasing the number of ports and cables, which is necessary to introduce new business applications, expand the virtual server infrastructure and deploy more powerful HP servers of the new generation, which create additional traffic between servers and storage systems.
At the next stage of this project, Alfa-Bank plans using HP to implement WDM traffic compression technology in separate segments of its storage network and organize a dedicated Fiber Channel factory to back up and restore data between data centers.
Alfa-Bank has been an HP customer since the 1990s, and its Moscow data centers have been using various server models and storage systems for over a decade, and HP’s HP B-Series directors “directors »And Brocade Fiber Channel switches. Altogether, several thousand Fiber Channel ports have been installed in the storage network of Alfa-Bank.
Due to the growing business, Alfa-Bank is currently building a new data center, which will be located outside of Central Russia. The territorial distribution of the infrastructure of data centers will ensure the continued operation of the bank’s critical applications, even in the event of a major catastrophe that could disrupt its Moscow data centers.
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In the new data center will be installed sixteen gigabit directors of HP B-Series. Each switch supports up to 512 16 Gbit / sec FC ports and provides a throughput of 8.2 Tbit / s. Already installed in the existing data centers, the HP B-Series “directors”, which form the core of the bank’s storage network, will be transparently transferred for critical banking applications to use the 16 Gbit / s interface from the eight-gigabit one. The new data center will be integrated into the SAN of the bank using FC-FC routing.
Using 16 Gb Fiber Channel in a SAN will allow the bank to double the storage network bandwidth without increasing the number of ports and cables, which is necessary to introduce new business applications, expand the virtual server infrastructure and deploy more powerful HP servers of the new generation, which create additional traffic between servers and storage systems.
At the next stage of this project, Alfa-Bank plans using HP to implement WDM traffic compression technology in separate segments of its storage network and organize a dedicated Fiber Channel factory to back up and restore data between data centers.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/142297/
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