The HP FlexFabric 5900CP Switch Series provides a converged, top-of-rack, data center switch architecture that offers wire once for FCoE converged environments. With 48 converged ports that support 1/10GbE and 4/8 FC, the FlexFabric 5900CP delivers versatile convergence for connecting FC, iSCSI and FC SANs.

Resilience and ease of management come hand–in-hand with the FlexFabric 5900CP. While IRF reduces management complexities by up to 88%, it also delivers <50 msec convergence time.

You can rely on the FlexFabric 5900CP to lower TCO, while delivering business resilience and high availability.
Features
Wire Once Data Center Convergence with FCoE
The HP FlexFabric 5900CP Switch Series provides 48 converged ports supporting 1/10GbE and 4/8Gbps FC for increased flexibility of deployment.
All 48 ports support LAN, iSCSI, NAS, FC and FC SANs, so that you can support diverse storage choices.
Converged transceiver supporting 1/10GbE and 4/8/16Gbps FC allowing for future growth as well as backward compatibility.
High-Performance Data Center Switching
The HP FlexFabric 5900CP Switch Series delivers 1.28Tbps switching capacity for the most demanding applications.
Supports up to 952 MPPS throughput for data intensive environments.
Low latency, under a 1.5us 10GbE latency, provides business agility.
Four 40GbE QSFP+ ports for blazing fast uplinks.
Business Agility and Resilience with Comware 7
The HP FlexFabric 5900CP Switch Series delivers IRF <50msec convergence time enabling faster applications response time.
In Service Software Update (ISSU) enables high availability with updates accomplished without a reboot or power cycle, in the background.
Simplicity and Lower TCO
The HP FlexFabric 5900CP Switch Series simplifies switch management by up to 88% with IRF.
No extra hidden cost with simple one license per switch for all OS features.
All switch ports are active and ready to use without need for activation licenses.
Automate tedious tasks with SDN and reclaim wasted resources.
Differentiator
The HP 5900CP-48XG-4QSFP+ Switch has 48 1GbE/10GbE/4Gbps FC/8Gbps FC SFP+ and 4 QSFP+-ports, dual hot-pluggable power supplies and fan trays. It is ideally suited for deployment at the server access layer in Medium or large enterprise data centers
Ports
48 SFP+ dual-personality ports
4 QSFP+ 40-GbE ports
Memory and processor
512 MB flash
Packet buffer size: 9 MB
2 GB SDRAM
Latency
10 Gbps Latency: < 1.5 µs
Throughput
up to 952 million pps
Routing/switching capacity
1280 Gbps
Switching capacity
IRF
9 switches
Management features
IMC - Intelligent Management Center
Command-line interface
Out-of-band management
SNMP manager
Telnet
FTP
Dimensions and weight
Dimensions (W x D x H)
17.32 x 25.98 x 1.72 in (43.99 x 65.99 x 4.37 cm)
Weight
28.66 lb (13 kg)
What's included
What's in the box
(1) HP 5900CP-48XG-4QSFP+ Switch