Physical Layout Of The Storage System; Fibre Channel Drive Enclosure; Storage System Hardware Components - HP StorageWorks 6100 - Enterprise Virtual Array User Manual

• Fibre Channel loop switches — Provides twelve-port central interconnect for Fibre Channel drive
enclosure FC Arbitrated Loops. The loop switches are required for EVA6000/6100 and
EVA8000/8100 configurations with more than four disk enclosures.
• HSV controller — Manages all aspects of storage system operation, including communications
between host systems and other devices. A pair of HSV controllers is included in the Enterprise
Virtual Array.
• Rack — A variety of free-standing racks are available.

Physical layout of the storage system

The basic physical components are shown in
enclosures, which connect to Fibre Channel loop switches, except on the EVA4000/4100 which
does not use switches. The controller pair also connects to the loop switches.
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Figure 1 Storage system hardware components
1. controllers
2. loop switches
3. drive enclosures
The hardware components shown in
"Storage System Hardware

Fibre Channel drive enclosure

Each Fibre Channel drive enclosure includes the following features. For additional information, see
"Fibre Channel drive
• 3U enclosure
• Dual-redundant, active-to-active, 2-Gbps FC loops
• Fourteen bays for 1-inch FC disks
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Components" on page 53.
enclosures" on page 53.
Figure 1. The disk drives are installed in the disk
are discussed in the following sections and in