HP XP
Encyclopedia
The HP Storageworks XP is an enterprise storage
disk array
sold by Hewlett-Packard
using Hitachi hardware and adding their own software to it. 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.
The currently available models are the XP 10000, XP 12000, XP 20000 and XP24000.
Enterprise storage
In computing, an enterprise storage is the computer storage designed for large-scale, high-technology environments of the modern enterprises. When comparing to the consumer storage, it has higher scalability, higher reliability, better fault tolerance, and much higher initial price.From the...
disk array
Disk array
A disk array is a disk storage system which contains multiple disk drives. It is differentiated from a disk enclosure, in that an array has cache memory and advanced functionality, like RAID and virtualization.Components of a typical disk array include:...
sold by Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...
using Hitachi hardware and adding their own software to it. It is similar to the Hitachi
Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems is a company providing mid-range and high-end storage systems, software and services. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. and part of the Hitachi Information Systems & Telecommunications Division....
Lightning and Sun StorEdge 9900 and targeted towards enabling large scale consolidation, large database, Oracle, SAP, Exchange, and online transaction processing (OLTP) environments.
XP 48
- RAID 0/1 and RAID 5 support
- 18 GBGigabyteThe gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units , therefore 1 gigabyte is...
15,000 RPMRevolutions per minuteRevolutions per minute is a measure of the frequency of a rotation. It annotates the number of full rotations completed in one minute around a fixed axis...
, 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 TBTerabyteThe terabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix tera means 1012 in the International System of Units , and therefore 1 terabyte is , or 1 trillion bytes, or 1000 gigabytes. 1 terabyte in binary prefixes is 0.9095 tebibytes, or 931.32 gibibytes...
and 24 host connectivity ports - up to 16 GB (16 GiBGibibyteThe gibibyte is a standards-based binary multiple of the byte, a unit of digital information storage. The gibibyte unit symbol is GiB....
) of battery-protected (48 hours minimum), mirrored write cache
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 ChannelFibre ChannelFibre Channel, or FC, is a gigabit-speed network technology primarily used for storage networking. Fibre Channel is standardized in the T11 Technical Committee of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards , an American National Standards Institute –accredited standards...
, iSCSIISCSIIn computing, iSCSI , is an abbreviation of Internet Small Computer System Interface, an Internet Protocol -based storage networking standard for linking data storage facilities. By carrying SCSI commands over IP networks, iSCSI is used to facilitate data transfers over intranets and to manage...
, FICONFICONFICON is the IBM proprietary name for the ANSI FC-SB-3 Single-Byte Command Code Sets-3 Mapping Protocol for Fibre Channel protocol. It is a FC layer 4 protocol used to map both IBM’s antecedent channel-to-control-unit cabling infrastructure and protocol onto standard FC services and infrastructure...
and ESCONESCONESCON is a data connection created by IBM, and is commonly used to connect their mainframe computers to peripheral devices such as disk storage and tape drives. ESCON is an optical fiber, half-duplex, serial interface. It originally operated at a rate of 10 Mbyte/s, which was later increased to... - 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
XP 256
- RAID 0/1 and RAID 5 support
- from 17 GB to 9 TB of storage space
- connectivity via SCSISCSISmall Computer System Interface is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices. The SCSI standards define commands, protocols, and electrical and optical interfaces. SCSI is most commonly used for hard disks and tape drives, but it...
(8 to 32 ports) or Fibre ChannelFibre ChannelFibre Channel, or FC, is a gigabit-speed network technology primarily used for storage networking. Fibre Channel is standardized in the T11 Technical Committee of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards , an American National Standards Institute –accredited standards...
(4 to 16 ports) - up to 16 GB of battery-protected (48 hours minimum), mirrored write cache
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
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 ChannelFibre ChannelFibre Channel, or FC, is a gigabit-speed network technology primarily used for storage networking. Fibre Channel is standardized in the T11 Technical Committee of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards , an American National Standards Institute –accredited standards...
, iSCSIISCSIIn computing, iSCSI , is an abbreviation of Internet Small Computer System Interface, an Internet Protocol -based storage networking standard for linking data storage facilities. By carrying SCSI commands over IP networks, iSCSI is used to facilitate data transfers over intranets and to manage...
, FICONFICONFICON is the IBM proprietary name for the ANSI FC-SB-3 Single-Byte Command Code Sets-3 Mapping Protocol for Fibre Channel protocol. It is a FC layer 4 protocol used to map both IBM’s antecedent channel-to-control-unit cabling infrastructure and protocol onto standard FC services and infrastructure...
and ESCONESCONESCON is a data connection created by IBM, and is commonly used to connect their mainframe computers to peripheral devices such as disk storage and tape drives. ESCON is an optical fiber, half-duplex, serial interface. It originally operated at a rate of 10 Mbyte/s, which was later increased to... - up to 128 GB battery-protected (48 hours minimum), mirrored write cache
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 TBTerabyteThe terabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix tera means 1012 in the International System of Units , and therefore 1 terabyte is , or 1 trillion bytes, or 1000 gigabytes. 1 terabyte in binary prefixes is 0.9095 tebibytes, or 931.32 gibibytes...
of capacity - virtualization technology provides external storage device support to enable tiered storage up to 16 PetabytePetabyteA petabyte is a unit of information equal to one quadrillion bytes, or 1000 terabytes. The unit symbol for the petabyte is PB...
XP 12000
- OEM product from HitachiHitachi Data SystemsHitachi Data Systems is a company providing mid-range and high-end storage systems, software and services. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. and part of the Hitachi Information Systems & Telecommunications Division....
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 GBGigabyteThe gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units , therefore 1 gigabyte is...
to over 332 TB of internal capacity - virtualization technology provides external storage device support to enable tiered storage up to 32 PetabytePetabyteA petabyte is a unit of information equal to one quadrillion bytes, or 1000 terabytes. The unit symbol for the petabyte is PB...
- up to 128 GB battery-protected (48 hours minimum), mirrored write cache
- double the internal performance of the XP1024
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 TBTerabyteThe terabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix tera means 1012 in the International System of Units , and therefore 1 terabyte is , or 1 trillion bytes, or 1000 gigabytes. 1 terabyte in binary prefixes is 0.9095 tebibytes, or 931.32 gibibytes...
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 PetabytePetabyteA petabyte is a unit of information equal to one quadrillion bytes, or 1000 terabytes. The unit symbol for the petabyte is PB...
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 TBTerabyteThe terabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix tera means 1012 in the International System of Units , and therefore 1 terabyte is , or 1 trillion bytes, or 1000 gigabytes. 1 terabyte in binary prefixes is 0.9095 tebibytes, or 931.32 gibibytes...
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 PetabytePetabyteA petabyte is a unit of information equal to one quadrillion bytes, or 1000 terabytes. The unit symbol for the petabyte is PB...
The currently available models are the XP 10000, XP 12000, XP 20000 and XP24000.