HP XP7 Owner Guide (H6F56-96006)

2 Functional and operational characteristics
System architecture overview
This section briefly describes the architecture of XP7 Storage.
Hardware architecture
The basic system architecture is shown in the following diagram.
Figure 12 XP7 architecture overview
The system consists of two main hardware assemblies:
• A controller chassis that contains the logic and processing components
• A drive chassis that contains the disk drives or solid state drives.
These assemblies are explained briefly in “Introduction” (page 6), and in detail in “System
components” (page 60).
RAID implementation overview
This section provides an overview of the implementation of RAID technology on XP7 Storage.
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