HP XP

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The HP Storageworks XP is an enterprise storage disk array sold by Hewlett-Packard. It is similar to the Hitachi Lightning and Sun StorEdge 9900 and targeted towards enabling large scale consolidation, large database, Oracle, SAP, Exchange, and online transaction processing (OLTP) environments.

Contents 1 The XP Disk Array family 1.1 XP 48 1.2 XP 128 1.3 XP 256 1.4 XP 512 1.5 XP 1024 1.6 XP 10000 1.7 XP 12000

[edit] The XP Disk Array family

[edit] XP 48

• RAID 0/1 and RAID 5 support
• 18 GB 15,000 RPM, 73 GB 10,000 RPM and 181 GB 7,200 RPM Fibre Channel drives
• Crossbar Architecture (3.2 MB/s)
• High capacity scalability -- up to 48 disks, 8.7 TB and 24 host connectivity ports
• up to 16 GB of battery-protected (48 hours minimum), mirrored write cache

[edit] XP 128

• a mixture of disk drives configured as RAID 1 (2D+2D and 4D+4D) and RAID 5 (3D+1P and 7D+1P).
• from 5 drives to 128 for up to 36 TB of usable storage capacity, 4 drives at a time
• heterogeneous connectivity via Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FICON and ESCON
• all the software functionality of the larger XP 1024 with a smaller footprint.
• up to 64 GB of battery-protected (48 hours minimum), mirrored write cache

[edit] XP 256

• RAID 0/1 and RAID 5 support
• from 17 GB to 9 TB of storage space
• connectivity via SCSI (8 to 32 ports) or Fibre Channel (4 to 16 ports)
• up to 16 GB of battery-protected (48 hours minimum), mirrored write cache

[edit] XP 512

• RAID 0/1 and RAID 5 support
• 18 GB, 15,000 RPM, 73 GB 10,000 RPM and 181 GB 7,200 RPM Fibre Channel drives
• High capacity scalability -- up to 512 disks, 93 TB and 32 host connections
• up to 32 GB battery-protected, mirrored write cache

[edit] XP 1024

• a mixture of disk drives configured as RAID 1 (2D+2D and 4D+4D) and RAID 5 (3D+1P and 7D+1P).
• up to 1024 disk drives for 288 GB to 149 TB raw and 144 TB to 129 TB of usable storage capacity in a single array
• heterogeneous connectivity via Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FICON and ESCON
• up to 128 GB battery-protected (48 hours minimum), mirrored write cache

[edit] XP 10000

• a mixture of disk drives configured as RAID 1 (2D+2D and 4D+4D), RAID 5 (3D+1P) and RAID 6 (6D2P)
• up to 240 disk drives for 69 TB of capacity
• virtualization technology provides external storage device support to enable tiered storage up to 16 Petabyte

[edit] XP 12000

• OEM product from Hitachi Tagmastore USP 1100
• a mixture of disk drives configured as RAID 1 (2D+2D and 4D+4D), RAID 5 (3D+1P and 7D+1P) and RAID 6 (6D2P)
• from 9 to 1152 disk drives for 576 GB to over 332 TB of internal capacity
• virtualization technology provides external storage device support to enable tiered storage up to 30 Petabyte
• up to 128 GB battery-protected (48 hours minimum), mirrored write cache
• double the internal performance of the XP1024

The currently available models are the XP 128, XP 1024, XP 10000, and XP 12000.