Installation guide

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Figure 3 depicts the direct connectivity to the server.
Figure 3. Depicts the direct connections between the VMA units and the DL980 server
Note:
Factory Integration and racking is supported for DL980 servers ordered
with VMA-series Memory Array and PCIe-direct options.
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Additional external storage requirements
A typical data center will have some sort of shared conventional storage for the various applications
based on performance needs and business storage requirements. Most business solutions will have
requirements for multiple environments besides the primary production storage requirements such as
development, test, quality, training, sandbox and backup. Each of these additional environments
typically will require their own storage solution. Many of these non-production environments do not
require the extreme performance of the production solutions and therefore can be hosted on lower
cost, higher capacity storage solutions. The HP P6000/Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) disk array could
make a great backup solution for the VMA units.
There are at least three options to hosting the storage for these other environment requirements:
 Use the same storage architecture as production
 Use existing conventional storage in the current data center such as a storage area network (SAN)
 Add additional disk array storage