Features; Scalability - HP XP P9500 Owner's Manual

Figure 3 Disk Unit

Features

This section describes the main features of the P9500 disk array.

Scalability

The P9500 disk array is highly scalable and can be configured in several ways as needed to meet
customer requirements:
The minimum configuration is a single rack containing one controller chassis and two drive
chassis.
One to three racks containing one controller chassis and up to eight drive chassis. A drive
chassis can contain up to 128 2 1/2 disk drives or 128 SSDs. Drives can be intermixed. See
Table 2 (page 13)
The maximum configuration is a six rack twin version of the above that contains two controller
chassis and up to 16 drive chassis containing up to 2048 2 1/2 inch disk drives. The total
internal storage space of this configuration is 1770 TB physical capacity (based on 900GB
HDDs).
for details.
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