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.

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[edit] The XP Disk Array family

[edit] XP 48

  • RAID 0/1 and RAID 5 support
  • 18 GB [1] 15,000 RPM, 73 GB 10,000 rpm and 181 GB 7,200 rpm Fibre Channel drives
  • Crossbar Architecture (3.2 GB/s)
  • High capacity scalability -- up to 48 disks, 8.7 TB [2] and 24 host connectivity ports
  • up to 16 GB (16 GiB) 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 7D+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 32 Petabyte
  • up to 128 GB battery-protected (48 hours minimum), mirrored write cache
  • double the internal performance of the XP1024

[edit] XP 20000

  • a mixture of disk drives configured as RAID 1 (2D+2D and 4D+4D), RAID 5 (3D+1P, 7D+1P, 14D+2P and 28D+4P) and RAID 6 (6D+2P)
  • up to 240 disk drives for 177 TB of raw capacity
  • up to 64 GB battery-protected (48 hours minimum), mirrored write cache
  • virtualization technology provides external storage device support to enable tiered storage up to 96 Petabyte

[edit] XP 24000

  • a mixture of disk drives configured as RAID 1 (2D+2D and 4D+4D), RAID 5 (3D+1P, 7D+1P, 14D+2P and 28D+4P) and RAID 6 (6D+2P)
  • from 9 - 1152 disk drives for 851 TB of raw capacity
  • up to 256 GB battery-protected (48 hours minimum), mirrored write cache
  • virtualization technology provides external storage device support to enable tiered storage up to 247 Petabyte

The currently available models are the XP 10000, XP 12000, XP 20000 and XP24000.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ One gigabyte (1 GB) is defined here as a billion bytes (109 B)
  2. ^ One terabyte (1 TB) is defined here as a thousand billion bytes (1012 B)