QuickSpecs

Combo controller
with FC and iSCSI
ports
This ingenious dual-protocol "combo" controller supports a full FC SAN through the 8Gb FC ports, while
designating the two 1 GbE iSCSI ports to enable remote replication over iSCSI protocol and perform as
an iSCSI target. This allows economical sharing of the storage resource (the P2000 G3 array) with one
department needing the performance afforded by the 8 Gb FC ports while simultaneously supporting
another department with lesser performance needs and a budget only allowing a 1GbE iSCSI network.
6Gb SAS
controller
Four 4x host ports per 6Gb SAS controller.
10GbE iSCSI
controller
Two 10GbE ports per G3 10GbE iSCSI controller. Ports are ready for the choice of SFP (none included)
Supports the ProCurve and ISS versions of the following 10GbE parts for use in the controllers:
HP 10Gb Cables
HP SFP+ 10GbE Copper Cable
HP ProCurve 10-GbE SFP+-SFP+ Direct Attach Cable
HP SFP+ Transceivers
HP BladeSystem 10Gb SR SFP+ and HP BladeSystem 10Gb LRM SFP+
HP ProCurve 10-GbE SFP+ SR Transceiver and HP ProCurve 10-GbE SFP+ LRM Transceiver
No SFP+ LR Transceiver support
1 Gb iSCSI
controller
Four 1 Gb Ethernet iSCSI ports per G3 iSCSI controller
Modular Chassis 2U rack height. 12 Large Form Factor or 24 Small Form Factor drive bays, accommodating SAS and
SATA. Comes with space for one or two controllers, or P2000 3.5-inch disk Enclosure I/O modules (LFF
chassis only)
Drives available The P2000 G3 controllers support both the P2000 3.5-inch Large Form Factor (LFF) drives, and the HP
ProLiant 2.5-inch Small Form Factor (SFF) drives.
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) enterprise-class drives are designed for high demand, 24x7 usage.
SAS Midline and SATA Midline are usually reserved for archival of data as they are both relatively
inexpensive and are available in very large capacities.
The HP entry-level family of arrays can accommodate both SAS and SATA drives within the same
enclosure making it ideal to have both business-critical, high activity files on SAS drives while using
Snapshot, clone, or Remote Snap capability to keep back-up or archival data on the less expensive
drives.
For investment protection, the controllers will support single and dual port SAS & SATA drives in a
legacy single - or dual - domain MSA70. This support allows current owners of MSA70s to migrate their
single port drives (in their MSA70 only, not into the array head) to be attached to a P2000 G3 FC or
SAS. They can only cascade to another single I/O MSA70. This is not a data-in-place transition, and
overall performance could be impacted.
SAS drive performance can be approximately 30% greater than SATA performance on sequential host
I/O. SAS performance excels in sequential lower latency response time and random I/O per second
transaction performance due to higher rpm disk speeds yielding lower seek times. SAS drive random
performance is generally twice that of SATA drives.
NOTE: P2000 and MSA2 3.5-inch Large Form Factor (LFF) drives are for use only in the P2000 G3 or
MSA2000 models. The 2.5-inch Small Form Factor (SFF) drives are supported only with the P2000 G3
or the MSA2300 G2 controllers and are common with and are the same part numbers as the ProLiant
hot-plug 2.5-inch drives.
Optional Disk
enclosures
Just as the user has a choice of chassis for the array head (LFF and SFF drive bays, AC or DC
powered), so also do they have a choice of expansion disk enclosures accommodating either drive size.
Both the P2000 and the D2700 disk enclosures can be hot-added to an operating array.
( NOTE: these are not supported as part of a NEBS-certified configuration with the MSA Carrier Grade
Chassis. There is a certified JBOD listed in the Carrier-grade section )
QuickSpecs
HP MSA P2000 G3 Modular Smart Array System
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