This guide contains detailed information on using the StoreOnce GUI and includes some Command
Line Interface commands and troubleshooting information.

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Tasks available only in the StoreOnce GUI are described only in this guide.

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Tasks available in both the GUI and CLI are described in this guide. (The CLI command is
described in greater detail in the HP StoreOnce Backup system CLI Reference Guide.)

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Tasks only available in the CLI are described fully in the HP StoreOnce Backup system CLI
Reference Guide. Those tasks may not be described in this guide.

Overview of HP StoreOnce Backup products

The HP StoreOnce 6000 series of modular systems features HP inline deduplication and network
efficient technology and offers extended capacity for Enterprise-class storage.

Table 1 StoreOnce B6200 and 6500 models

Storage expansion

Ports

Description

Product model

Up to six 12–disk storage
shelves per couplet (three
per node)

8 x 1GbE ports 4 x 10GbE
ports8 x FC ports

Rack system with up to four
couplets. Each couplet
contains two nodes (servers)

HP StoreOnce B6200
Backup

and two 12–disk RAID
storage controllers

Up to five 22–disk
expansion kits for the two

8 x 1GbE ports 4 x 10GbE
ports8 x FC ports

Rack system with up to four
couplets. Each couplet

HP StoreOnce 6500 Backup

disk enclosuresOnce all bays

contains two nodes (servers)

in both disk enclosures are

and two pre-configured

full, further expansion is by
adding a couplet

two-drawer disk enclosures,
each with eleven 4TB disks
and four hot spare disks

The HP StoreOnce B6200 and 6500 Backup systems are composed of 1 to 4 couplets (the size
depends on the customer-specific configuration). A couplet is a paired combination of two nodes
that are directly connected in failover pairs. Within a couplet each node can access and assume

Getting started