topic Re: max disk drive in Disk Enclosures

max disk drive

Utpal Krishna — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 03:53:57 GMT

Hi,

What is the maximimum no.of Disk drive for VA 7400?

Utpal

Re: max disk drive

Robert-Jan Goossens — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 03:58:31 GMT

Hi Utpal,

Below are the partnumbers and dicription

A7289A
146GB 'hot swap' hard drive module - 10000 RPM

A7289AR
146GB 'hot swap' hard drive module - 10000 RPM

Regards,

Robert-Jan.

Re: max disk drive

Utpal Krishna — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 04:16:06 GMT

Thanks for the answer. Actually my quetion was, how many disk drive are there in VA 7400?
Please let know.

Utpal

Re: max disk drive

Robert-Jan Goossens — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 04:26:29 GMT

Ahhh sorry,

missed the word no,

Â» hp StorageWorks virtual array 7400
# Up to 7.7TBs GB per array (raw capacity)
# Industry leading 2 GB/s fibre channel interface
# Scaleable to 105 fibre channel disks with expansion disk systems (HP DS 2400);
15 disks per 3U enclosure
# Scaleable to a secure 16 node HA cluster
(via a fibre channel switch & Secure Manager VA)
# 160 MB/s sustained performance; up to 28,000 IOPs from cache, up to 7,500 IOPs disks

Hope it helps,
Robert-Ja

Re: max disk drive

Utpal Krishna — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 05:10:57 GMT

Thanks for the mail. But here I need to know the raid level of VA 7400 and Data transfer rate of VA 7400

Thanks

Utpal

Re: max disk drive

melvyn burnard — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 05:34:00 GMT

why not try reading the docs in the Storage area at:
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/storage/index.html

or going to
http://www.hp.com and search for storage
or
http://www.hp.com/go/storage

Re: max disk drive

Eugeny Brychkov — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 06:20:20 GMT

I agree with Melvyn. You'd better read documentation, all answers are there. You know it's not possible to paste whole manual here :)
Direct link: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DocumentIndex.jsp?locale=en_US&contentType=SupportManual&docIndexId=179166&prodSeriesId=89018&prodTypeId=12169
Although this page states VA7410 there's a user and service manual for whole VA7xxx family disk arrays