HP XP7 Owner Guide (H6F56-96006)

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................6
XP7 Storage overview...............................................................................................................6
Hardware overview...................................................................................................................6
Controller chassis.................................................................................................................9
Drive chassis.....................................................................................................................12
Features................................................................................................................................14
Scalability.........................................................................................................................15
High performance..............................................................................................................17
High capacity...................................................................................................................17
Connectivity......................................................................................................................17
XP7.............................................................................................................................17
Remote Web Console....................................................................................................17
High reliability...................................................................................................................17
Non disruptive service and upgrades....................................................................................18
Economical and quiet.........................................................................................................18
Specifications.........................................................................................................................18
Software features and functions................................................................................................20
2 Functional and operational characteristics....................................................23
System architecture overview....................................................................................................23
Hardware architecture.............................................................................................................23
RAID implementation overview.................................................................................................23
Array groups and RAID levels..............................................................................................24
Sequential data striping......................................................................................................25
LDEV striping across array groups........................................................................................25
CU Images, LVIs, and Logical Units...........................................................................................26
CU images.......................................................................................................................26
Logical Volume images.......................................................................................................27
Logical Units.....................................................................................................................27
Mainframe operations.............................................................................................................27
Mainframe compatibility and functionality.............................................................................27
Mainframe operating system support....................................................................................28
Mainframe configuration.....................................................................................................28
System option modes, host modes, and host mode options...........................................................28
System option modes..........................................................................................................28
Host modes and host mode options......................................................................................57
Open systems operations.........................................................................................................57
Open systems compatibility and functionality.........................................................................57
Open systems host platform support.....................................................................................58
Open systems configuration.................................................................................................58
Remote Web Console.............................................................................................................59
3 System components..................................................................................60
Controller chassis...................................................................................................................60
System control panel...............................................................................................................62
DKC Panel Jumpers............................................................................................................63
Memory operation..................................................................................................................64
Data protection......................................................................................................................65
Shared memory......................................................................................................................65
Flash storage chassis...............................................................................................................65
XP7 flash module...............................................................................................................65
Flash module unit...................................................................................................................66
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