HP StorageWorks 200 Storage Virtualization System owner's guide (AE071-96004, October 2006)

One Controller for multiple storage systems
One control unit and GUI for unified storage management:
• Controls multiple heterogeneous arrays
• Manages multi
ple SAN fabrics with large port counts located on multiple sites
• Allows continued storage growth managed by a single storage virtua lization
system, saving training and administration c osts
• Enables opt
imum use of tiered storage, allowing automated placement of critical
data on premium, highly available storage, less critical data on low cost storage,
and migration of data from legacy systems to newer systems
• Simplifies management of virtual volumes, dynamically reallocating capacity
and poolin
g heterogeneous volumes into a single reservoir to increase capacity
utilization
• Provides local and remote heterogeneous data replication for data distribution,
data mini
ng, backup and restore, and data validation testing
Connectivity
The system can be configured to provide the following types of host connections:
• Fibre Channel: Open Systems; FC-AL or Fabric; 1, 2, or 4 Gbps, sing le or
multimode; LC-Duplex
Scalability
The HP SVS200 scales to fit your current and future storage capacity needs. The system
consists of one primary 19-inch equipment rack containing one or two factory-installed
controller units.
The co
ntroller can be equipped with the following hardware and software bundles
based on the m aximum storage to be managed:
• 1TBBundle: Hardware to control up to 1 TB of storage, including controller and
rack, CH I P pair, 4 GB cache, and 2 GB shared memory. Software to control
up t
o1TBofstorage,includingHPSVS200LUNConfiguration and Security
Manager, HP Command View XP Advanced Edition, HP SVS200 Tiered Storage
Manager, HP D ata Integrity Check, HP SVS200 External Storage, and HP
Disk/Cache Partition.
• 6T
BBundle: Hardware to control up to 6 TB of storage, including controller and
r
ack, CHIP p air, 12 GB c ache, and 2 GB shared memor y. Software to control
up to 6 TB of storage, including HP SVS200 LUN Configuration and Security
Manager, HP Command View XP Advanced Edition, HP SVS200 Tiered Storage
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