topic Re: D2600 and Dual Path in Disk Enclosures

D2600 and Dual Path

riperez — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:30:49 GMT

Is Dual Path with cascaded JBODs supported on the D2600. If so, is there a certain controller needed?

I see that dual domain is supported with the use of a Dual domain controller (P812 or P411 according to quickspecs) and dual ported SAS hard drives.

I have a customer that is looking to setup Dual path with SATA drives and I want to confirm this. Below is a link discussing Dual path with cascaded JBOD.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01451157/c01451157.pdf?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

Re: D2600 and Dual Path

Sudhakar Subramaniam — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:19:14 GMT

SATA drives are single ported and therefore do not have a fail-over path intrinsic to their design. Only Dual Port (DP) SAS drives will work in the Dual Domain environment

Re: D2600 and Dual Path

riperez — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:04:14 GMT

Thanks for the reply.

My customer is interested in Dual Path and not Dual domain. I believe it is supported but was hoping someone could confirm.