Key Features
High density, low cost SAS
storage for BladeSystem
and ProLiant DL/ML
servers
70 LFF Universal SAS or SAS MDL drives in 5U
Two pull-out drive drawers support hot plug large form factor dual-ported SAS or SAS MDL drives in
just 5U of rack space
Each pull-out drive drawer is supported by a redundant set of hot plug power supplies and
redundant hot plug fans. Straight forward SAS architecture provides zoned direct attach storage for
BladeSystem servers; just a Smart Array P721m or the P731m controllers in the Blade server, a dual
or single 6 Gb/s SAS BL switches in the chassis connected to an D6000.
Connect directly to selected ProLiant Gen8 servers with the Smart Array P421 and P822 Controllers
using a standard 2M SAS cable; Single and Dual Domain environments. Only P822 supports Dual
Domain. No zoning.
HP HBAs H221 and H222 are also supported.
Build BladeSystem server
storage on the fly
D6000 drive bays are assigned or 'zoned' to individual blade bays using SAS 2.0 zoning capabilities.
Use the Virtual SAS Manager (VSM) in the 6 Gb/s SAS BL switch to dynamically assign up to 100
drives to specific BladeSystem servers, without complex configuration or re-cabling. Drives zoned
to each server appear as local storage to that server. This allows complete flexibility to reconfigure
quickly and easily without moving cables
With zoned direct attached storage capabilities; server administrators can build local storage on the
fly according to their configuration requirements.
Quickly deploy and expand capacity by configuring additional drive bays to a P721m or the P731m
Smart Array Controllers without moving a single cable.
HP reliability
Familiar Smart Array technology of the Smart Array Controllers enables support for RAID levels
Keeps data available and server running while a failed drive is being replaced; two fault tolerance
configurations are supported for the internal connections including:
RAID 0 (striping) provides no extra data protection
RAID 1 (mirroring) protects against failure of one drive
RAID 1+0 (mirroring and striping) protects against failure of one drive (and failure of particular
multiple drives)
RAID 5 (distributed data guarding) protects against failure of one drive
RAID 6 with ADG (Advanced Data Guarding): This is the highest level of fault tolerance
RAID 50 (RAID 5+0) protects against failure of one drive (and failure of particular multiple drives)
RAID 60 (RAID 6+0) allows administrators to split the RAID 6 storage across multiple external boxes
RAID 1 ADM (Advanced Data Mirroring) allows customers to create mirrored RAID set using 3
identical hard drives
Product Technology
SAS
6 Gb/s SAS
Modular Chassis
5U, 70 Large Form Factor Universal SAS or SAS MDL drive bays
Drives available
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) enterprise-class drives designed for high volume
24x7 usage. SAS Midline (MDL) are usually reserved for archival of data as
they are both relatively inexpensive and are available in very large capacities.
The D6000 can accommodate both SAS and SAS MDL drives within the same
enclosure. SAS drive performance can be approximately 30% greater than SAS
MDL performance on sequential host IO. SAS performance excels in sequential
lower latency response time and random IO per second transaction
QuickSpecs
HP D6000 Disk Enclosure
Features and Benefits
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