Specifications - HP XP P9500 Owner's Manual

generates less heat, the fan speed is reduced, saving energy and reducing the noise level of the
system.
When the disk array is in standby mode, the disk drives spin down and the controller and drive
chassis use significantly less power. For example, a system that consumes 100 amps during normal
operation, uses only 70 amps while in standby mode.

Specifications

The following tables provide general specifications of the P9500. Additional specifications are
located in "Specifications" (page
Table 1 P9500 specifications
Item
Maximum Capacity (based
on 900GB HDDs)
Maximum number of
volumes
Supported drives
Cache memory capacity
Cache flash memory
capacity
RAID Level
RAID GroupConfiguration
Internal Path
Back-end Path
Number of ports per
installation unit
Device I/F
Channel I/F
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Size
Internal
External
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RAID1
RAID5
RAID6
Architecture
Maximum Bandwidth
SAS 6G
FC 2/4/8G
Controller chassis
drive chassis
Interface
Data transfer rate
Maximum number
of HDD per SAS I/F
Maximum number of CHAs
Mainframe
Open systems
Single Module
294 TB
247 PB
64k
Min 64 GB
Max 512 GB
Min 64 GB
Max 1028 GB
RAID1, RAID5, RAID6
2D+2D, 4D+4D
3D+1P, 7D+1P
6D+2P
Hierarchical Star Net
Cache Path = 128 GB/s
Control Path = 64 GB/s
32 (2WL*6)
80 /16,8
SAS/Dual Port
Max. 6 GBps
256 (2.5 inch HDD)
4 if drives installed
6 if diskless
1/2/4 GBps Fibre Channel: 16MFS/16MFL
2/4/8 GBps Fibre Channel: 16MUS/16MUL
2/4/8 GBps Fibre Shortwave:
Dual Module
589 TB
247 PB
64k
Min 128 GB
Max 1024 GB
64 (2WL*32)
160/16,8
8 if drives installed
12 if diskless