HP PCIe IO Accelerator for ProLiant Servers

Introduction 5
Introduction
Overview
Congratulations on your purchase of an HP solid state storage device. This guide
explains how to install, troubleshoot and maintain your PCIe IO Accelerator or PCIe
IO Accelerator Duo.
NOTE: Throughout this manual, when you see a reference to a PCIe IO Accelerator, you may
substitute your device if you are using a different product from the PCIe IO Accelerator line
(such as an PCIe IO Accelerator Duo).
Designed around a revolutionary silicon-based storage architecture, the PCIe IO
Accelerator is the world’s most advanced NAND flash storage device, with
performance comparable to DRAM and storage capacity on par with today’s hard
disks—giving you the power to improve storage performance by orders of magnitude.
The PCIe IO Accelerator allows every server to exceed the I/O performance of an
enterprise SAN.
The PCIe IO Accelerator is a data accelerator designed specifically to improve the
bandwidth for I/O-bound applications. The PCIe IO Accelerator is a no-compromise
solution for the toughest computational challenges faced by data centers today,
putting it in a league of its own.
Performance Attributes
 700 MB/s read
 600 MB/s write
 100,000 I/O Operations per Second (IOPS)
 50µs read access latencies
 Enterprise Data Integrity
 Field upgradeability
 Green footprint, 7.5 watts nominal per device
System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems
The PCIe IO Accelerator supports the following:
 Microsoft Windows 2003 Server 64-Bit (with SP2 or higher)