Introduction; Overview; Required Operating Environment; Operating Systems - HP AJ878A - StorageWorks 320 GB Hard Drive User Manual

1 Introduction

Included:

• Overview

• Required operating environment

This document includes information on installing and maintaining your HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator
(also referenced as an IO Accelerator).
Overview
Designed around a revolutionary silicon-based storage architecture known as ioMemory, the HP
StorageWorks IO Accelerator is the world's most advanced NAND flash storage device. With
performance comparable to DRAM and storage capacity on par with today's hard disks, it improves
storage performance by orders of magnitude. The IO Accelerator dramatically increases performance
so that every server can contain internal storage that exceeds the I/O performance of an enterprise
SAN.
The IO Accelerator is the world's first data accelerator designed specifically to improve the bandwidth
for I/O-bound applications. The IO Accelerator is a no-compromise solution for the toughest
computational challenges faced by data centers today, putting it in a league of its own.
Required operating environment
The HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator is supported for use in the following operating environments:

Operating systems

• SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 (AMD64/EM64T)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (AMD64/EM64T)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (AMD64/EM64T)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (x86_64-bit only) SP2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (x86_64-bit only) SP1
IMPORTANT:
All operating systems must be 64-bit architecture.

Hardware

The adapter is provided in a c-Class Type 1 Mezzanine card form factor. It can be installed in both
Type 1 and Type 2 mezzanine slots within the c-Class blade servers, allowing a total of 2 cards in a
half-height server blade, and 3 cards in a full-height server blade.
IO Accelerator for BladeSystem c-Class user guide 9