HP XP7 Owner Guide (H6F56-96006)

• Hard Disk drive capacities of 300 GB, 600 GB, 900 GB , 1.2 TB, and 4 TB.
• Solid State Disk Drive capacities of 400 GB, 800 GB.
• Channel ports: 80 for one module, 176 for two modules.
High performance
The XP7 includes several new features that improve the performance over previous models. These
include:
• 8 GBps only Fibre Channel for CHAs without the limitation of microprocessors on each board.
• SSD flash drives with ultra high speed response.
• High speed data transfer between the DKA and HDDs at a rate of 6 GBps with the SAS
interface.
• High speed quad core CPUs that provide three times the performance of an XP24000/XP20000
Disk Array.
High capacity
The XP7 supports the following high capacity features:
• HDD (disk) drives with capacities of 300 GB, 600 GB, 900 GB , 1.2 TB, and 4 TB. See
Table 2 (page 19).
• SSD (flash) drives with capacity of 400 GB and 800 GB. See Table 2 (page 19).
• Controls up to 65,280 logical volumes and up to 2,304 disk drives, and provides a maximum
raw physical disk capacity of approximately 4511 TB using 4 TB drives.
Connectivity
XP7
XP7 Storage supports most major IBM Mainframe operating systems and Open System operating
systems, such as Microsoft Windows, Oracle Solaris, IBM AIX, Linux, HP-UX, and VMware. For
more complete information on the supported operating systems, contact HP Technical Support.
XP7 supports the following host interfaces. They can mix within the disk array.
• Mainframe: Fibre Channel (FICON)
• Open system: Fibre Channel
Remote Web Console
The required features for the Remote Web Console computer include operating system, available
disk space, screen resolution, CD drive, network connection, USB port, CPU, memory, browser,
Flash, and Java environment. These features are described in Chapter 1 of the HP XP7 Remote
Web Console User Guide.
High reliability
XP7 Storage includes the following features that make the system extremely reliable:
• Support for RAID6 (6D+2P), RAID5 (3D+1P/7D+1P), and RAID1 (2D+2D/4D+4D) See
“Functional and operational characteristics” (page 23) for more information on RAID levels.
• All main system components are configured in redundant pairs. If one of the components in
a pair fails, the other component performs the function alone until the failed component is
replaced. Meanwhile, the disk array continues normal operation.
• The XP7 is designed so that it cannot lose data or configuration information if the power fails.
This is explained in “Battery backup operations” (page 72).
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