Eva6400/8400 Hardware; M6412A Disk Enclosures; Enclosure Layout; Disk Drive Bay Numbering - HP StorageWorks 6400/8400 - Enterprise Virtual Array User Manual

1 EVA6400/8400 hardware

The EVA6400/8400 contains the following hardware components:
• HSV controllers — Contains power supplies, cache batteries, fans, and an operator control panel
(OCP)
• Fibre Channel disk enclosure — Contains disk drives, power supplies, fans, midplane, and I/O
modules
• Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop cables — Provides connectivity to the HSV controllers and the Fibre
Channel disk enclosures
• Rack — Several free standing racks are available

M6412A disk enclosures

The M6412A disk enclosure contains the disk drives used for data storage; a storage system contains
multiple disk enclosures. The major components of the enclosure are:
• 12-bay enclosure
• Dual-loop, Fibre Channel drive enclosure I/O modules
• Copper Fibre Channel cables
• Fibre Channel disk drives and drive blanks
• Power supplies
• Fan modules

Enclosure layout

The disk drives mount in
top to bottom and left to right. A drive is referred to by its bay number (see
indicators are located at the right of each disk.
view of the disk enclosure.
Figure 1 Disk drive bay numbering
.
bays in the front of the enclosure. The bays are numbered sequentially from
Figure 2
HP StorageWorks 6400/8400 Enterprise Virtual Array user guide
Figure
shows the front and Figure 3
1). Enclosure status
shows the rear
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