HPE Composable Fabric FM 3032Q Front-to-Back Module - Switch - L3 - managed - 32 x 100 Gigabit QSFP28 - front to back

HPE Composable Fabric FM 3032Q Front-to-Back Module - Switch - L3 - managed - 32 x 100 Gigabit QSFP28 - front to back airflow - rack-mountable

• Each HPE Composable Fabric FM 3032Q switch features 32 QSFP28 optical interfaces delivering up to 1.6 Tbps full-duplex, bandwidth-creating, programmable, scalable meshed networks.
• The full potential of optical switching is unleashed by the HPE Composable Fabric FM 3032Q switch and its multi-layered network architecture that delivers efficient layer 1, layer 2, and layer 3 network topologies to critical application workloads.
• In conjunction with the centralized HPE Composable Fabric Manager platform, the HPE Composable Fabric FM 3032Q switch provides intelligent and adaptive technology that ensures workloads always have access to the most optimal network paths.
• The HPE Composable Fabric FM 3032Q switch physically interconnects using QSFP28 ports to create a very dense, full or partial mesh between connectivity modules, yielding a more cost-effective and power-efficient network architecture than traditional tree or leaf-and-spine hierarchical networks.

The HPE Composable Fabric FM 3032Q switch is a top-of-rack (TOR) connectivity module that empowers IT to support cloud-native workloads with high-performance east/west traffic needs. With flat, wire-once, top-of-rack 25GbE and 100GbE server connectivity, programmatic control, easy rack-to-rack scaling, and broad compatibility with existing data center networks, the HPE Composable Fabric FM 3032Q helps minimize complexity and operational overhead. The HPE Composable Fabric FM 3032Q is an integral part of the HPE Composable Fabric networking solution, is built on industry standards, and provides a cost effective 1U solution for intensive big data and agile IT workload environments. The complete solution scales easily and nondisruptively within and across racks, and between data centers. In addition, it supports multiple, mixed workloads securely on a single network fabric to support better performance while also reducing costs.

• The Fabric Advantage
  Each HPE Composable Fabric FM 3032Q switch features 32 QSFP28 optical interfaces delivering up to 1.6 Tbps full-duplex, bandwidth-creating, programmable, scalable meshed networks.
  The HPE Composable Fabric FM 3032Q uses QSFP28 optics combined with a passive connectivity device (the HPE Composable Fabric FM 1006 Switch) to create an optical mesh between connectivity modules that is completely controllable by software through HPE Composable Fabric Manager.
• Multi-Layered Network Architecture
  The full potential of optical switching is unleashed by the HPE Composable Fabric FM 3032Q switch and its multi-layered network architecture that delivers efficient layer 1, layer 2, and layer 3 network topologies to critical application workloads.
  The HPE Composable Fabric FM 3032Q provides layer 2 and layer 3 network topologies as part of the HPE Composable Fabric network architecture. The optical interfaces create a highly meshed, multipath network fabric with multiple direct and indirect paths between modules.
  HPE Composable Fabric Manager software, which understands the physical and logical network topology, as well as the application and data workload requirements, establishes a network where individual workloads receive their own portion of the network at each network layer.
• Dynamic Topologies
  In conjunction with the centralized HPE Composable Fabric Manager platform, the HPE Composable Fabric FM 3032Q switch provides intelligent and adaptive technology that ensures workloads always have access to the most optimal network paths.
  HPE Composable Fabric Manager provides both the integration platform, as well as a set of Hewlett Packard Enterprise-developed API level integrations that automate workflows based on the included sensors, actions, and triggers for 3rd party orchestration systems.
  HPE Composable Fabric switches intelligently select the best network paths for workloads that have resource requirements or explicit constraints defined by the integrations.
  Less sensitive workloads without explicitly defined constraints are efficiently forwarded across the available direct and indirect paths created by the network fabric. Based on Hewlett Packard Enterprise residual fit algorithms, HPE Composable Fabric Manager dynamically fits non-affinitized traffic.
  Unlike typical multi-path networks, which might utilize a maximum of 16 or 32 IP based equal cost paths between switch ports, HPE Composable Fabric Manager can intelligently select from hundreds of non-interfering, non-equal paths across the highly diverse HPE Composable Fabric at layer 1, 2, or 3.
• Scale Out, Not Up
  The HPE Composable Fabric FM 3032Q switch physically interconnects using QSFP28 ports to create a very dense, full or partial mesh between connectivity modules, yielding a more cost-effective and power-efficient network architecture than traditional tree or leaf-and-spine hierarchical networks.
  The mesh architecture enables linear scaling, with each additional switch adding fabric capacity, resiliency, and multi-path options. HPE Composable Fabric connectivity modules create network fabrics ranging from a few server racks in size to a large capacity cloud data center.
  The linear build-out offers predictable economics and capacity growth in true scale-out fashion.