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HP Surestore Disk Array 12h and FC60 User Manual

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90 Recommended Disk Array Configurations

Maximum Capacity

Hardware Configuration
– Two disk array controllers connected directly to host Fibre Channel adapters
– Four disk enclosures with ten 73 GByte disks each (40 disks total)
– Disk enclosures configured for full-bus mode (one SCSI channel per enclosure)

LUN Configuration
– Ten RAID 5 LUNs, each comprising four disks (3 data + 1 parity)
– Each disk in a LUN is in a separate enclosure.

High Availability
– Handles a single disk failure, single controller, single channel, single BCC, or a single

disk enclosure failure

– Expansion requires powering down the disk array and adding additional disk

enclosures and cabling

Disk Capacity
– Maximum capacity 2920 GBytes
– Usable capacity 2190 GBytes