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What is the advantage of the XP12000 over other high end arrays on the market? |
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The XP12000 leads the market in reliability, high availability, scalability, and performance. The availability features of the XP12000 such as fully mirrored cache and redundant hot replaceable everything is unsurpassed. No other array can scale from 576 Gigabytes to 454 Terabytes of capacity in a single system without ever shutting it down. The XP12000’s cache centric architecture provides outstanding IOP and sequential throughput in a broad range of real-world applications including online transaction processing (OLTP) and data warehousing. The ability of the XP12000 to perform very well in a diversity of applications and to support every major operating system make it an excellent solution for storage consolidation. |
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| Q2. |
What is different between an XP12000 and an XP1024? |
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Significantly improved performance, scalable to1152 disk drives with 128 drives in the center DKC cabinet, external storage capability, and online firmware update with no host port interruption. Future improvements planned are enhanced Continuous Access with journaling, enhanced multi-site disaster tolerance with 2:1 fanout, enhanced performance monitoring, and storage and cache partitioning. |
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| Q3. |
What is different between an XP10000 and an XP12000? |
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Maximum capacity, performance, and cost. The XP10000 scales from 0 to 240 disks with 48 host ports; the XP12000 scales from 9 to 1152 disks and 224 host ports. The XP10000 is lower in both cost and performance compared to the XP12000. The XP10000 and XP12000 run the same firmware and have the same functional features. |
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The XP disk arrays have been described as a “monolithic,” or “mainframe,” or “frame-based” disk array. EVA arrays have been described as a “modular” or “rack-based” disk arrays. What are the proper descriptions for these arrays? |
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The XP disk arrays (including the XP12000) are not “monolithic” or “mainframe”. The XP is more modular and flexible than EMC’s “monolithic” DMX. For instance with the XP you can add disks, processors, cache, disk racks, and host interfaces as you like while it is running with no application downtime—that’s pretty powerful for today’s mission-critical, 24x7 applications. Compare that to EMC’s DMX, to scale from their lowest to their highest configuration requires swapping through several different models. Each EMC DMX only covers half the solution space the XP12000 covers with just one model. To differentiate the XP disk arrays from monolithic, ‘fork-lift’ upgrade solutions like EMC’s DMX, we describe the XP disk arrays as “frame-based”. The XP12000 is NOT a monolithic array. |
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| Q5. |
Who will perform the installation of the XP12000 components? |
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HP Global Services perform the physical installation of XP12000 components. The experience and expertise of the HP Global Services professional ensures a supportable hardware configuration and assures that the factory warranty attached to the XP12000 components will be honored in future service calls. |
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| Q6. |
How much does it cost to have HP Services install XP12000 components? |
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Nothing! There is no additional fee. HP Global Service will perform the physical configuration of the XP12000 free of charge. Basic installation and start up services are included in the purchase price. |
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