Physical storage, Physical storage 22, Disk drives 22 – HP StorageWorks 8000 NAS User Manual

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22 NAS 8000 Concepts

Figure 1

Physical and Logical Storage

Physical Storage

Disk Drives

The HP NAS 8000 supports the following storage devices either directly

attached to the NAS 8000 or on a SAN:

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Virtual Array (VA) 7100 is a disk storage system that holds from 4 to 15

disk drives. The array has scalable capacities from 72 GB to over 1

Terabyte depending upon the size and number of disk drives. The

capacity of the disk drives can be mixed.

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Virtual Array 7400 series arrays are high-performance, high-availability,

multi-terabyte storage arrays with a 2Gb/s fibre channel host. The

VA7400 series supports up to 105 drives (10 minimum) with additional

DS2400 disk enclosures.

For more information about these drives, see the

HP Surestore Virtual Array

VA7100 and VA7400 User And Service Guides

at http://www.hp.com/

support/va7100 or http://www.hp.com/support/va7400.