Installing a Fibre Channel SAN solution in complex, requiring time and experience. Often, SAN users need to invest a good deal of time getting trained on FC technology and familiarizing themselves with configuring multiple FC infrastructure components and storage subsystems. To ease that learning curve, this report compares the performance HP's 8Gb FC solution alone versus it's performance in conjunction with the Simple SAN Connection Manager. The results are remarkable! The Simple SAN Connection Manager took half the time to configure and 2/3rd fewer configuration step to deploy a FC SAN compared with configuring each component separately.