Software Features And Functions - HP XP P9500 Owner's Manual

Table 1 P9500 specifications (continued)
Item
Management Processor
Cores
Micro Processor Blade
configuration
Minimum/maximum
Notes:
1. All CHA configuration, no DKAs (diskless system).
Table 2 Drive specifications
Drive Type
HDD (SAS)
SSD (Flash)
Drive Type
HDD, 2 1/2 inch
SSD (Flash)
Notes.
1. SSD drives can be mounted all in one drive chassis or spread out among all of the chassis in the storage system.
2. Recommended maximum number.
The drives must be added four at a time to create RAID groups, unless they are spare drives.

Software features and functions

The P9500 disk array provides advanced software features and functions that increase data
accessibility and deliver enterprise wide coverage of online data copy/relocation, data
access/protection, and storage resource management. HP software products and solutions provide
a full set of industry leading copy, availability, resource management, and exchange software to
support business continuity, database backup and restore, application testing, and data mining.
The following tables describe the software that is available on the P9500 disk array.
Table 3 Virtualization features and functions
Feature
Cache Partition
Cache Residency
Size
Quantity
CHAs
DKAs
Cache
Switches /CSW
Size
2 1/2 inch
2 1/2 inch
Drive Chassis
128
1
128
Description
Provides logical partitioning of the cache which allows you to divide the cache
into multiple virtual cache memories to reduce I/O contention.
Supports the virtualization of external disk arrays. Users can connect other disk
arrays to the P9500 disk array and access the data on the external disk array via
virtual devices created on the P9500 disk array. Functions such as Continuous
Access Synchronous and Cache Residency can be performed on external data
through the virtual devices.
Single Module
8UFC/16UFC
16 cores
1
6
0 or 2 / 42
2 / 8
2 / 4
Drive Capacity
300 GB
300, 600, and 900 GB
500 GB and 1 TB
200, 400, and 800 GB
Single Module
(3 rack system)
1024
2
128
Software features and functions
Dual Module
32 cores
1
6
2 / 8
2 / 16
4 / 8
Speed (RPM)
15,000
10,000
7,200
n/a
Dual Module
(6 rack system)
2048
2
256
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