Overview; Hardware Components; Hardware Configuration - HP P4000 Maintenance Manual

1 Overview

The HP P4800 G2 SAN Solution for BladeSystem (HP P4800 G2 solution) base configuration is
a 2-node SAN consisting of two HP P4460sb G2 storage blades and one disk enclosure. The
storage blades run the SAN/iQ software, and the disk enclosure contains 70 disks. Up to six
storage blades and three disk enclosures can be added, for a total of eight blades and four disk
enclosures in an 8-node SAN.
Multiple HP P4800 G2 solutions can be combined into clusters or management groups as part of
the same SAN.
NOTE: In this solution, storage system corresponds to an HP P4460sb G2 storage blade. There
are up to eight storage systems in the HP P4800 G2 solution.

Hardware components

The HP P4800 G2 solution comprises the following components:
HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure (1)
HP P4460sb G2 storage blades (2 to 8)
HP 3G SAS BL Switches (2, pass-through modules between the blade enclosure and the disk
enclosures)
HP disk enclosures (1 per pair of HP P4460sb G2 storage blades)
HP Smart Array P700m controller cards (one on each HP P4460sb G2 storage blade)
HP VC Flex- 1 0 modules (2, these modules connect to your network)

Hardware configuration

Figure 1 (page 7)
through Figure 4 (page 10)
6 Overview
shows the base configuration of the HP P4800 G2 solution.
show additional configurations of the HP P4800 G2 solution.
Figure 2 (page 8)