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Delivers direct attached and shared storage within a c-Class BladeSystem half-height enclosure including support for up to 6 hot-plug Small Form Factor SAS or SATA hard disk drives |
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Overview |
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Do you need a direct attached or shared storage solution within your BladeSystem enclosure?
The StorageWorks SB40c Storage Blade delivers direct attached and shared storage for c-Class enclosures, with support for up to six hot-plug small form factor (SFF) SAS or SATA hard disk drives. The enclosure backplane provides a PCI Express connection to the adjacent c-Class server blade and enables high performance storage access without any additional cables. The SB40c Storage Blade features an onboard Smart Array P400 controller with 256 MB battery-backed write cache, for increased performance and data protection.
Use HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA) software to turn the SB40c into an iSCSI SAN inside the BladeSystem enclosure. The P4000 VSA provides a scalable iSCSI SAN based on a clustered storage architecture, and includes remote replication capabilities, thin provisioning, and snapshots. Expand capacity within the same enclosure or additional enclosures. |
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What's new |
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Specially priced bundled sku for the SB40c Storage Blade that includes HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA) software with 1 year 9x5 support.
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Features & Benefits |
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High performance direct attached storage
- High speed PCI Express: High speed PCI Express connection to adjacent c-Class server blade ensures optimum DAS performance.
- High performance Smart Array with BBWC: Includes a HP Smart Array P400 controller with 256 MB battery backed write cache (BBWC) allowing for increased performance and data protection.
- Expanded spindle count for blade servers: Six universal small form factor hot-plug SAS or SATA hard disk drives expands the spindle count for the adjacent blade server.
Internal iSCSI SAN with HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA)
- Shared storage inside the enclosure: Use HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA) software to turn the SB40c into an iSCSI SAN inside the BladeSystem enclosure. Expand capacity within the same enclosure or additional enclosures.
- Full-featured iSCSI SAN: HP LeftHand P4000 VSA provides a scalable iSCSI SAN based on a clustered storage architecture, and includes remote replication capabilities, thin provisioning, and snapshots.
- Easy capacity expansion: Expand capacity by adding SB40c and HP LeftHand P4000 VSA within the same enclosure or to additional enclosures.
Compact yet flexible
- Simple deployment into an enclosure: The half-height SB40c storage blade plugs right into any c-Class enclosure with no additional cabling needed, providing dedicated storage for the adjacent server blade.
- Smart Array data protection: Smart Array P400 controller supports RAID 0, 1, 1+0, 5, 6 (ADG) for a choice of RAID options.
- Six drive bays with SAS technology: Choose from a range of SAS or SATA universal small form factor drives.
Familiar ProLiant management
- Simple configuration: Use the browser-based Array Configuration Utility (http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/software-management/acumatrix/index.html) (ACU) to configure your array, add additional disk drives to an existing configuration, or completely reconfigure your disk drive array.
- Receive hard drive pre-failure alerts: Manage the SB40c and receive hard drive pre-failure alerts through
HP Systems Insight Manager.
- Manage storage remotely: Manage your SB40c remotely using the adjacent blade server’s integrated Light’s Out (iLO) technology.
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