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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
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 new 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.
( NOTE: these are not supported as part of a NEBS-certified with the MSA Carrier Grade Chassis.
There is a certified JBOD listed in the Carrier-grade section )
P2000 3.5-inch drive enclosure . This 2U unit has twelve LFF (3.5-inch) drive bays and accepts for
P2000 dual-ported SAS and SATA drives. The pre-configured HP StorageWorks P2000 Dual I/O
LFF Drive Enclosure (AP843A) has two I/O modules and supports both single and dual controller
arrays. If a single I/O disk enclosure model is desired, the appropriate chassis should be purchased
along with a single I/O module (AP844A).
This 3.5-inch drive enclosure can be attached to either the P2000 G3 FC or SAS LFF or SFF
array head.
Each configured model ships standard with two .5m mini-SAS to mini-SAS cables for
cascading to other P2000 drive enclosures
Up to seven P2000 3.5-inch enclosures can be attached to a P2000 G3 FC, FC/iSCSI
Combo, or SAS controller in the array head.
D2700 2.5-inch drive enclosure . This 2U storage enclosure (AJ941A) is designed to support
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