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2 System Components and Specifications
This chapter provides detailed system specifications for the HP P10000 3PAR Storage Systems
and serves as a quick reference for other relevant specifications that are described in more detail
in other chapters of this manual.
HP 3PAR Storage System Components
HP 3PAR Storage Systems are designed around a cluster-based approach that incorporates
sophisticated data management and fault tolerance technologies that can meet the storage needs
of smaller sites and can easily be scaled for global organizations.
The HP P10000 3PAR Storage Systems are housed in a 2 meter (2M) cabinet and are comprised
of the following components:
Controller Nodes are high-performance, data movement engines that provide the caching
capabilities and manage the flow of data in a storage system. The V400 Storage System can
accomodate two or four controller nodes while the V800 can accomodate two, four, six or
eight nodes.
3PAR Storage Server Backplane works in conjunction with the controller nodes to route data.
This passive, full-mesh backplane enables high-bandwidth and low-latency internal pathing
that supersedes bus-, switch-, and even InfiniBand-based architectures.
Drive Chassis houses the drive cages that, in turn, contain the drive bays. Each drive bay can
accommodate a single drive magazine that holds an array of hard disk drives. These are
intelligent, compact, extremely dense storage units, where each is capable of holding a large
numbers of disk drives in a a small rack space (EIA-standard rack units).
Fibre Channel adapters and FC-AL modules provide high speed routing of data and enable
granular and potentially massive connectivity to hosts and to the drive chassis.
Service Processor provides the remote error detection and reporting capabilities that support
diagnostic and maintenance activities for storage systems. In general, one Service Processor
is required per storage system.
Figure 1 (page 9)
(40U) HP P10000 3PAR Storage System cabinet with the various components installed:
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and
Figure 2 (page 9)
show the front and rear views of a fully populated 2M
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