performance due to higher rpm disk speeds yielding lower seek times.
Scalability
Up to 70 SAS or SAS MDL 3.5" hot plug hard drives per D6000
A single BladeSystem enclosure supports up to six D6000 's externally.
RAID
RAID is provided by the Smart Array P721m, P731m, P421, and P822
Controllers
Power supplies
Includes four redundant 1200W 12V hot plug power supplies.
Fans
Includes four redundant hot plug fan
Configuration and
Management Tools
SAS BL switch for use with BladeSystem servers: Use the Virtual SAS Manager
(VSM) to dynamically assign drive bays in the D6000 to each BladeSystem
server bay, without complex configuration or re-cabling. This allows complete
flexibility to reconfigure quickly and easily without moving cables.
Smart Array Controller: Array Configuration Utility (ACU) provides
configuration and management of hard drives, and supports online array
capacity expansion, logical drive extension, assignment of online spares and
RAID or stripe size migration.
Management/Health
Utilities
Active hardware management using HP SIM: Manage the array with the highly
refined HP Systems Insight Manager. Smart Components are available to
easily update firmware. A convenient Integrated Management Log records
hundreds of events and stores them in an easy-to-view format.
QuickSpecs
HP D6000 Disk Enclosure
Features and Benefits
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