QuickSpecs

Key Hardware Features
Highly efficient consolidation and sharing of storage geared to departmental and small to medium business
requirements
Cost efficient plus high-availability choices
Choice of controllers: two port 8Gb Fibre Channel or a Combo controller with two 8Gb FC ports and two 1GbE iSCSI
ports
Flexibility in drives: LFF P2000 LFF 3.5-inch or HP ProLiant SFF 2.5-inch drives
Enterprise-class SAS, SAS Midline, and archival-class SATA Midline drives as the need and budget dictates
Dual-ported SAS drives for enterprise needs
Large capacity SATA drives for inexpensive archival storage
Able to mix SAS and SATA drives within the same drive enclosure
Supports mixing LFF and SFF JBODs behind the same array. Limited by 8 enclosures total (max: 7 LFF or 5 SFF, 96
LFF drives, 149 SFF drives. No combination producing more than149 drive maximum.
Choose either single or dual controller array models to fit the budget
Customer Benefits
The HP StorageWorks 2000 Modular Smart Array family (P2000 G3, MSA2000 G2) manages growing storage
requirements across multiple HP ProLiant and Integrity servers for customers who need a centralized dedicated
storage solution for applications (check model for specific server support). SANs allow for controlled, cost-effective
growth and increased protection of data.
Its ease of management allows a department or small company to effectively handle growing storage requirements
with a minimum of complexity.
The HP StorageWorks P2000 G3 FC/iSCSI Combo Modular Smart Array Controller offers both FC and iSCSI
functionalities built into a single array controller thus allowing customers to get both performance storage thru FC and
extend their SAN investment with low-cost iSCSI. It also offers remote replication feature for data protection.
Depending on the model chosen, the modular design allows the user to start relatively small but supports future
growth to hundreds of users and up to 57.6 TB SAS or 192 TB SATA (LFF drives) with the addition of the maximum
number of P2000 LFF drive enclosures (7). Choosing SFF drives, the array can grow up to 44.7 TB SAS or 74.5 TB of
SAS MDL or SATA MDL with the maximum number of D2700 SFF enclosures (5).
The P2000 G3 FC array comes standard with 64 controller-based snapshots and clone capability, allowing the smaller
departmental user or company to implement functionality once only available to much larger firms with expensive
arrays. The P2000 G3 FC also supports an optional 512 snaps.
Also available is the optional controller-based Remote Snap capability (available only with the new P2000 G3 models),
allowing the entry-level array user the ability to replicate their data to another P2000 G3 array, be it across campus or
across the net. This can be accomplished over FC or iSCSI.
Unequalled flexibility: upgradable by design. Owners of the original MSA2000 array or the second generation
MSA2000 G2 series are able to do data-in-place controller upgrades to the P2000 G3 FC. Cross protocol upgrades
are also supported between the FC, the SAS, and the iSCSI controllers. This unique ability protects the earlier
investments in chassis, drives, and JBODs. Refer to
QuickSpecs
HP StorageWorks P2000 G3 FC Modular Smart Array
System
Features and Benefits
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