Software Raid; Networking Technologies - HP DL370 - ProLiant - G6 Performance Introduction Manual

SAAP requires a license key for activation. After activation, administrators can use several standard
capabilities:
• RAID 6 with Advanced Data Guarding (ADG) protects against failure of any two drives. It requires
a minimum of four drives, but only two would be available.
• RAID 60 allows administrators to split the RAID storage across multiple external boxes. It is
supported with a minimum of eight drives, but only four would be available.
• Advanced Capacity Expansion allows users to automate the process of migrating old drives to a
new array of drives.
• Mirror Splitting and Recombining in Offline Model breaks a RAID 1 configuration into two RAID 0
configurations. This is similar to a scaled down rollback functionality which requires two disk drives.
• Drive Erase erases physical disks or logical volumes. This capability is useful to decommission,
redeploy, or return hard drives.
• Video On Demand Performance Optimization optimizes video on demand performance and
improves latency while video streaming.
More information about SAAP is available at
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HP has developed a software RAID solution based on the Smart Array firmware. The B110i SATA
Software RAID supports the Array Configuration Utility (ACU), ACU-CLI (command line tool), Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agents, and Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM)
providers.
The B110i features an OS-specific driver from HP that uses the embedded ICH10R controller. It can
utilize RAID 0, 1, and 1+0 and supports a maximum of two logical drives. The B110i supports up to
four 1.5G or 3G SATA drives. Administrators can migrate drives to a Smart Array controller in a
seamless procedure that maintains the user data and RAID configuration.
The ProLiant DL320 G6 server supports the B110i. For a listing of the complete feature set and
support information for the B110i SATA Software RAID, download the B110i user guide at
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01706551/c01706551.pdf

Networking technologies

The NC522SFP and NC524SFP Dual Port 10GbE Modules are eight lane (x8) PCI Express (PCIe)
10 Gigabit network solutions. Both the NC522SFP and NC524SFP NICs include two SFP+ (small
form-factor pluggable) connector cages for connectivity in copper or fiber optic environments.
While all ProLiant G6 servers support the NC522SFP, the HP NC524SFP is an exclusive upgrade
module for ProLiant ML370 G6 and DL 370 G6 servers. The NC524SFP converts two of the 1GbE
embedded ports to 10GbE ports. For complete specifications about HP network adapter products, go
to www.hp.com/go/ProLiantNICs.
www.hp.com/go/SAAP
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