Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................6
P9500 overview.......................................................................................................................6
Hardware overview...................................................................................................................6
Controller chassis.................................................................................................................7
Drive chassis.......................................................................................................................8
Features..................................................................................................................................9
Scalability...........................................................................................................................9
High performance..............................................................................................................10
High capacity...................................................................................................................10
Connectivity......................................................................................................................11
P9500.........................................................................................................................11
Remote Web Console....................................................................................................11
High reliability...................................................................................................................11
Economical and quiet.........................................................................................................11
Specifications.........................................................................................................................12
Hardware architecture.............................................................................................................17
Sequential data striping......................................................................................................19
CU images.......................................................................................................................20
Logical Volume images.......................................................................................................21
Logical Units.....................................................................................................................21
Mainframe operations.............................................................................................................21
Mainframe configuration.....................................................................................................22
System option modes..........................................................................................................22
Open systems operations.........................................................................................................51
Remote Web Console.............................................................................................................53
3 System components..................................................................................54
Controller chassis...................................................................................................................54
System control panel...............................................................................................................56
Drive chassis..........................................................................................................................57
Cache memory......................................................................................................................59
Memory operation..................................................................................................................60
Data protection......................................................................................................................60
Shared memory......................................................................................................................61
Flash storage chassis...............................................................................................................61
P9000 flash module...........................................................................................................61
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