HP Direct-Connect External SAS Storage for HP BladeSystem Solutions Depoyment Guide

Contents
10 Introduction............................................................................................83
11 Device SAS port information.....................................................................85
HP 3Gb SAS BL Switch port information....................................................................................85
MDS600 disk enclosure port information...................................................................................86
MSA2000sa G2 controller enclosure port information.................................................................87
MSA2000sa controller enclosure port information.......................................................................88
MSA2000 drive enclosure port information................................................................................89
MSA70 drive enclosure port information....................................................................................90
12 External SAS device, controller, drive, and cabling support matrices..............91
External SAS device, controller, and drive support matrix.............................................................91
Cabling method support matrix................................................................................................91
13 Deployment examples..............................................................................92
MDS600 single domain, standard cabling.................................................................................93
MDS600 single domain, high-performance cabling....................................................................94
MDS600 single domain, high-performance cabling, max performance with SATA drives..................95
MDS600 dual domain, standard cabling...................................................................................97
MDS600 dual domain, high-performance cabling......................................................................98
MDS600 with two c-Class enclosures........................................................................................99
MDS600 maximum capacity..................................................................................................100
MDS600 with double-density servers......................................................................................102
MSA2000 single controller, standard cabling...........................................................................104
MSA2000 dual controller, standard cabling.............................................................................105
MSA2000 dual controller, dual domain optimal cabling............................................................106
MSA2000sa G2 dual controller, optimal cabling......................................................................107
MSA2000 with cascaded drive enclosures...............................................................................108
MSA2000sa G2 with two c-Class enclosures, ..........................................................................109
MSA2000 maximum capacity................................................................................................110
MSA2000 with double-density servers....................................................................................111
MDS600 and MSA2000 G2 to the same c-Class enclosure.......................................................113
Tape library standard cabling................................................................................................115
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