Connecting Storage Enclosures - HP xw8600 Workstation Hardware Setup Manual

The fibre channel adapter is equipped with four ports, called loops. You can connect your storage enclosure
to the fibre channel cards using either 2 loops or 4 loops. A 2-loop device can be connected to either the
inner pair of ports or the outer pair of ports. A 4-loop device requires both the inner pair and the outer pair.
FC Adapter
NOTE If you are not using all the ports of a fibre channel adapter, terminate the two unused ports with the FC
loopback couplers that shipped with your system. Terminating these ports significantly decreases the time required
to boot the system.

Connecting Storage Enclosures

Autodesk Stone Direct XR-series disk arrays provide two types of enclosures: a RAID enclosure (also called
an XR enclosure), and an EBOD enclosure (also called an XE enclosure). XR RAID enclosures contain two
RAID controllers.
Autodesk Stone Direct uses hardware RAID to provide high performance, reliability, and protection against
data loss.
The following table outlines the drive sizes, maximum number of enclosures, and filesystem type supported
by each model of Autodesk Stone Direct XR-series storage arrays.
Storage model
XR146
(XR 5402 or XR 5412)
XR300
(XR 5412)
XR 6412
XR 6500
XR 6500 and XR 6412 arrays require a single XR RAID enclosure for 2-loop or 4-loop hardware RAID storage
configurations.
XR 5412 and XR 5402 arrays require a single XR RAID enclosure for 2-loop configurations, or two RAID
enclosures for 4-loop configurations.
These configurations may include additional XE expansion enclosures, up to the maximum number supported.
You can increase storage capacity by adding disk arrays.
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FC loop 2
To storage assembly
FC loop 3
FC loop 4
To archiving device or SAN
FC loop 1
Max XE enc. per XR
4
4
7
7
Disk size Supported Filesystem type
146GB
Stone FS, or
Standard FS
300 GB
Stone FS, or
Standard FS
300 GB or 450 GB
Stone FS, or
Standard FS
450 GB Standard FS only