Features And Benefits; Key Features - HP D6000 Quickspecs

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Features and Benefits

Key Features

High density, low cost SAS
storage for BladeSystem
and ProLiant DL/ML
servers
Build BladeSystem server
storage on the fly
HP reliability
Product Technology
70 LFF Universal SAS or SAS MDL drives in 5U
Two pull-out drive drawers support hot plug large form factor dual-ported SAS or SAS MDL drives in
just 5U of rack space
Each pull-out drive drawer is supported by a redundant set of hot plug power supplies and
redundant hot plug fans. Straight forward SAS architecture provides zoned direct attach storage for
BladeSystem servers; just a Smart Array P721m controller in the blade server, a dual or single 6
Gb/s SAS BL switches in the chassis connected to an D6000.
Connect directly to selected ProLiant Gen8 servers with the Smart Array P421 and P822 Controllers
using a standard 2M SAS cable; Single and Dual Domain environments. Only P822 supports Dual
Domain. No zoning.
D6000 drive bays are assigned or 'zoned' to individual blade bays using SAS 2.0 zoning capabilities.
Use the Virtual SAS Manager (VSM) in the 6 Gb/s SAS BL switch to dynamically assign up to 100
drives to specific BladeSystem servers, without complex configuration or re-cabling. Drives zoned
to each server appear as local storage to that server. This allows complete flexibility to reconfigure
quickly and easily without moving cables
With zoned direct attached storage capabilities; server administrators can build local storage on the
fly according to their configuration requirements.
Quickly deploy and expand capacity by configuring additional drive bays to a P721m Smart Array
Controller without moving a single cable.
Familiar Smart Array technology of the Smart Array Controllers enables support for RAID levels
Keeps data available and server running while a failed drive is being replaced; two fault tolerance
configurations are supported for the internal connections including:
RAID 0 (striping) provides no extra data protection
RAID 1 (mirroring) protects against failure of one drive
RAID 1+0 (mirroring and striping) protects against failure of one drive (and failure of particular
multiple drives)
RAID 5 (distributed data guarding) protects against failure of one drive
RAID 6 with ADG (Advanced Data Guarding): This is the highest level of fault tolerance
RAID 50 (RAID 5+0) protects against failure of one drive (and failure of particular multiple drives)
RAID 60 (RAID 6+0) allows administrators to split the RAID 6 storage across multiple external boxes
RAID 1 ADM (Advanced Data Mirroring) allows customers to create mirrored RAID set using 3
identical hard drives
SAS
Modular Chassis
Drives available
DA - 14419 Worldwide — Version 3 — February 15, 2013
6 Gb/s SAS
5U, 70 Large Form Factor Universal SAS or SAS MDL drive bays
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) enterprise-class drives designed for high volume
24x7 usage. SAS Midline (MDL) are usually reserved for archival of data as
they are both relatively inexpensive and are available in very large capacities.
The D6000 can accommodate both SAS and SAS MDL drives within the same
enclosure. SAS drive performance can be approximately 30% greater than SAS
MDL performance on sequential host IO. SAS performance excels in sequential
lower latency response time and random IO per second transaction
performance due to higher rpm disk speeds yielding lower seek times.
HP D6000 Disk Enclosure
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