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Storage systemsNonStop servers
• XP10000, XP12000 (RAID500)
• S760, S76000
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S78, S780, S7800, S78000
XP20000, XP24000 (RAID600)
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P9500
S86000, S88000
NS-series servers:
• XP7
• NS1000, NS1200
• NS14000, NS14200
• NS16000, NS16000CG, NS16200
NonStop Integrity servers:
• NS2000, NS2000T/NS2000CG
• NS2100
• NS2200, NS2200T/NS2200ST
• NS2300
• NS2400, NS2400T, NS2400ST
• NS3000AC
• NS5000T/NS5000CG
NonStop Integrity BladeSystem servers:
• NB50000c, NB50000c-cg
• NB54000c, NB54000c-cg
• NB56000c, NB56000c-cg
There are three types of I/O interfaces used to connect NonStop servers to XP disk arrays. See
Table 82 (page 181).
• FCSAs—These are the NonStop version of Fibre Channel HBAs, used to connect to XP disk
arrays. The FCSA module slides into an 11U, rack-mounted Input/Output Adapter Module
Enclosure (IOAME), which can hold up to 10 ServerNet I/O Adapters, either FCSAs or Gigabit
Ethernet 4-port ServerNet Adapters (G4SAs), for Ethernet connectivity.
• VIO—NS1000, NS1200, NS14000, and NS14200 servers use the VIO instead of the
IOAME. The VIO interface consists of two 4U VIO enclosures per system, one each for the X
and Y ServerNet fabrics. Each VIO enclosure has four embedded Fibre Channel ports in a
Fibre Channel PIC, for a total of eight embedded Fibre Channel ports in the NonStop system.
(The Fibre Channel ports provide the same functionality as the FCSAs in IOAME systems.)
Each VIO enclosure can be expanded to eight Fibre Channel ports using optional PICs in the
expansion slots, for a total of 16 Fibre Channel ports in the NonStop system. The expanded
ports can be used for FCDM or HP Enterprise Storage System (ESS) connections.
• Storage CLIM—CLIMs are rack mounted in the NonStop server cabinet and connect to one or
two X- and Y-fabric ports through fiber cables running from ServerNet PICs to ServerNet ports
on the NonStop server. CLIMs provide the physical interface to storage devices and support
SAS and FC connections. CLIMs also perform certain storage management tasks previously
done on the NonStop server. For information about differences between configuring the storage
subsystem on IOAME-based systems and on CLIM-based systems, see the NonStop Cluster
I/O Module (CLIM) Installation and Configuration Guide.
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