Overview

The HP StorageWorks XP12000 Disk Array delivers always-on availability for mission-critical applications where downtime is not an option. The XP12000 is designed for organizations that demand the most from their storage. No single-point-of-failure and non-disruptive online upgrades ensure that data is always available.

The scalable design allows you to meet your capacity, performance, and heterogeneous connectivity needs today and tomorrow, without ever requiring a forklift upgrade. Outstanding levels of random and sequential performance are ideal for database, OLTP, Oracle, SAP, and Exchange workloads. Array-to-array local and remote data copying enables multi-site disaster tolerance. World-class service and support meets your most demanding needs.

In a world where every business decision triggers an IT event, the XP12000 enables an adaptive enterprise--one that can quickly capitalize on and manage change. The breadth of XP12000 capabilities allow you to demand more agility to adapt to real-time business needs, more value by ensuring your information is protected and available, and more simplicity by reducing costs through consolidation and management efficiency.

Features & benefits

• Reliable: Provides extreme reliability with no single-point-of-failure and redundant hot-swappable components. The XP12000 is constantly being monitored by HP for any potential issues, so they can be proactively addressed before they can cause a problem.

• Available: All components are redundant and hot-swappable to provide extreme reliability and availability, including: disk drives, processors, I/O interfaces, power supplies, batteries, fans, and control processors.

• Scalable: Scalable from 9 to 1152 disk drives for over 165 TB of internal capacity, 14 PB of external capacity, 128 GB of cache, and to more than double the internal performance of the XP1024--all online with no interruptions to applications and without requiring a forklift upgrade.

• Performance: Uses an advanced crossbar fault tolerant architecture resulting in outstanding levels of random and sequential I/O operations for database, OLTP, Oracle, SAP, and Exchange workloads.

• Heterogeneous: Supports multiple operating systems, including HP-UX, Windows, Linux, OVMS, Mainframe, Tru64, AIX, and Solaris.

• Open Connectivity: Fibre Channel, FICON, and ESCON connectivity

• Flexible: Supports a mixture of disk drives configured as RAID 1 (2D+2D and 4D+4D) and RAID 5 (3D+1P, 7D+1P).

• Manageable: Multiple arrays and hundreds of terabytes can be managed from a single station, by existing staff, with no increase in staffing.

• Value: Excellent price/performance ratio, increased productivity via higher throughput speeds and zero downtime, compact footprint to conserve floor space, and easy management.

Overview

HP StorageWorks XP1024 Disk Array is a state-of-the-art storage solution that delivers outstanding scalability, availability, reliability, and performance. The Scalable design allows organizations with high storage capacity and continuing growth expectations to meet needs today and tomorrow. The XP1024 supports the highest number of disk drives of any available disk array (up to 1024) in a remarkably small footprint, providing up to 149 TB of storage capacity. No single-point-of-failure and non-disruptive online upgrades ensure that data is always available. The XP1024 uses an advanced crossbar fault tolerant architecture resulting in outstanding levels of random and sequential I/O operations for database, OLTP, SAP, Oracle, and messaging workloads.

The XP1024 Disk Array supports heterogeneous connectivity via Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FICON and ESCON. The XP1024 also supports array-to-array local and remote copying of data. When one array becomes unavailable due to a disaster, the data is still available from the other array in a remote location. World-class service and support offerings meet the most demanding storage needs including storage consolidation and disaster recovery applications.

What's new

• 8 port iSCSI Client-Host Interface Processor (CHIP) pair that adds gigabit iSCSI connectivity to XP1024 and XP128 disk arrays

Key features & benefits

• Scalable: Scales from 9 drives to 1024 or over 129 TB of usable storage capacity, 4 drives at a time, and up to 128 GB of cache, online with no interruptions to applications or hosts, to accommodate growing storage needs.

• Available: All critical components are redundant and hot-replaceable to provide extreme reliability and availability, including: processors, I/O interfaces, power supplies, batteries and control processors.

• Performance: Uses an advanced crossbar fault tolerant architecture resulting in outstanding levels of random and sequential I/O operations for database, OLTP, SAP, Oracle, and messaging workloads.

• Heterogeneous: Supports multiple operating systems, including HP-UX, Windows, Linux, OVMS, Mainframe, Tru64, Netware, Solaris, AIX, and IRIX.

• Open Connectivity: iSCSI, Fibre Channel, FICON, and ESCON connectivity.

• Flexible: Supports a mixture of disk drives configured as RAID 1 (2D+2D and 4D+4D) and RAID 5 (3D+1P and 7D+1P).

• Manageable: Multiple arrays and hundreds of terabytes can be managed from a single station, by existing staff, with no increase in staffing.

• Low Cost of Ownership: Great price/performance ratio, increased productivity via higher throughput speeds and zero downtime, compact footprint to conserve floor space, and ease of management.