HP SmartDrive for ProLiant Gen8 servers

HP SmartDrive for ProLiant Gen8 servers
Data sheet
Re-designed hot plug drive carriers aligned with HP Gen8 Smart Storage solutions
enable a balanced system architecture for unified storage, better performance, and
more reliability.
Can drive carriers take the guesswork out of
drive health and efficiency?
Processor and memory performance have grown in step with
Moore’s law while storage has lagged behind. Multi-terabyte
drives are now common and necessary to keep pace with the data
explosion caused by large volumes of unstructured data, demand for
digital content, data-intensive applications, and real-time analytics.
The need for drive solutions that are equipped to handle larger
amounts of data, improve performance, reduce overall initialization
time, and protect against multi-day outages and data loss is critical.
The new HP SmartDrive for HP ProLiant Gen8 servers can help do
all of this and more. As part of HP Smart Storage solutions that
come with entirely re-designed 2.5-inch small form factor (SFF) and
3.5-inch large form factor (LFF) hot-plug carriers, HP ProLiant now
supports up to 50 percent more drives per server1 and up to 25
drives in a 2U configuration.
The ProLiant Gen8 server platforms, with a built-in Smart Array
controller, can support two times more drives or 227 drives per RAID
array, as compared to previous controllers.2 Multiple smart data
technologies are embedded to help you manage and protect your
data faster and more confidently. For example, unique HP Advanced
Data Mirroring is 1000x safer for data protection than 2-drive
mirroring or 3-drive RAID 5.* Large drive capacities mean slower
setup of RAID sets. The ProLiant Gen8 servers can initialize a RAID
array 95 percent faster.* In addition to the new carrier features,
HP SmartDrive offers significant benefits that include:
•Active Health System Monitoring through HP Integrated Lights-Out
(iLO)
•System management homepage support
•HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM), storage agents supporting
all operating systems
•Online firmware upgrades
•RAID integration
•Rebuild function for rebuilding data
•Interoperability among servers, backplanes, external enclosures,
and controllers
•Hardware and firmware enhanced for ProLiant environments
1
As compared with G7 versions that can hold a maximum of 16 drives while Gen8
versions hold 25
2
As compared to G7 versions that support 108 drives on Smart Array p812 controller
* Source: “HP internal lab testing”, HP, 2011
What’s new?
4.29"
New drive mechanical design specific to Gen8 servers
to allow more drives in the front of DL servers and more
memory space on blades
Old SFF Tray
Old SFF Tray
4.57"
New SFF Tray
5.34"
6.625"
New SFF Tray
7.2"
4.15"
Enhanced display of self-describing icons with intuitive
and improved LED function
Animated drive activity spinner
“Do not remove” indicator reduces logical drive failures
due to accidental removal of a drive
Smart carrier authentication to verify that both drive and
carrier are HP-qualified options
Challenge
Smart Array, Host RAID,
HBA, and JBODs
Response
Drive carrier
Drive error log NVRAM with black-box recorder, for
better failure analysis and resolution
Hard drive status indicator
Hard drive status
Name
Definition
Off
Not configured
Hard drive is not configured by a RAID controller.
Solid green
Configured
Hard drive is a member of one or more logical drives.
Blinking green
Rebuilding
Hard drive is rebuilding data or performing a RAID migration, stripe-size migration, capacity
expansion, or logical drive extension.
Blinking green/amber
Configured and predictive failure
Hard drive is a member of one or more logical drives and predicts it will fail.
Blinking amber
Predictive failure
Hard drive is not configured and predicts it will fail.
Solid amber
Failed
Hard drive is failed.
2
HP SAS hard drive
HP SAS enterprise and midline hard drives are designed to deliver
better performance and reliability. SAS drives are customized for
HP ProLiant, Integrity, storage systems, and system management
tools. They are designed and tested to provide tolerance against
vibration, as well as thermal and electrical stresses, with firmware
that is specifically designed and tested to improve performance
and reliability. The 10K and 15K rpm enterprise drives are
ideal for mission-critical server and storage applications, while
the 7.2K rpm midline drives are better suited for capacity and
cost‑optimized solutions.
Key features and benefits
Performance and reliability tuned for multiple application
environments
•Offers high reliability for mission-critical applications
•Achieves high availability for business-critical applications
•Provides robust 6 Gb/sec SAS interface (dual port, full duplex)
•Delivers high performance and reliability with 15K and 10K rpm
•Achieves capacity and improved reliable industry-standard
2.5‑inch and 3.5-inch form factor through 7.2K rpm
•Suits transaction processing, database applications, analytics, and
high-performance computing and business applications
•Contains new hot-plug carriers, exclusively for HP ProLiant Gen8
servers
•Maintains existing hot-plug carriers to support HP ProLiant G7 and
earlier servers and server storage
HP SATA hard drive
HP SATA hard drives are designed for reliability and mass storage
demanded by today’s non-mission-critical application server and
storage environments. The SATA hard drive portfolio is categorized
as entry and midline hard drives. HP SATA entry hard drives are
the lowest unit-cost solution for entry-level servers. Designed for
economical reliability and performance of non-mission-critical
applications, entry and midline SATA hard drives provide better
price advantage for these lower workload environments.
Key features and benefits
Designed and engineered to provide reliable, cost-efficient
data storage
•Lowered cost without sacrificing reliability with enterprise-class
hard drives
•Enhanced cost and capacity solutions that provide up to 3 TB
storage in a single device
•Customized rotational vibration tolerance provides enterprise-class
reliability in a midline drive
•Fine-tuned 3 Gb/sec data transfer rate to support existing servers
•Advanced new 6 Gb/sec data transfer rate exclusively for the
ProLiant Gen8 servers in new hot plug carrier design
HP Solid State Drive
traditional rotating media. Available with single level cell (SLC) or
multi-level cell (MLC) NAND Flash technology in both SAS and
SATA interfaces, HP SSD enhances performance for a range of
workload environments. 3G SATA MLC and 6G SAS MLC deliver
exceptional performance for environments with high random-read
IOPS performance applications, and applications with mixed read/
write workloads. 6G SAS SLC products are intended for unrestricted
workloads and deliver excellent read and write performance.
HP SAS SSDs offer better scalability behind expanders. SSDs are
available as SFF and LFF hot plug devices, non-hot plug SFF, and SFF
quick release devices that support HP ProLiant servers and server
storage platforms. HP SSD fits seamlessly into the existing HP server
infrastructure.
Key features and benefits
Suited for a wide range of high performance enterprise
workload solutions
•Delivers 6x faster solid state performance for Gen8 servers vs.
previous generation servers†
•Delivers higher performance, lower latency, and low power
solutions when compared to traditional rotating media drives.
Greater than 75x the 100 percent random read IOPS of a 15K
hard drive†
•Increases transactional throughput for OLTP applications by
up to 50 percent, with 88 percent less energy and 75 percent
less space†
•Fits a wide range of workload solutions as SSDs are available in
value, mainstream and performance categories
•Supports write endurance monitoring through HP SMARTSSD
Wear Gauge
†
Source: “HP internal lab testing”, HP, 2011
HP Services
HP Technology Services offers a set of consultancy, deployment, and support
solutions designed to meet the lifecycle needs of your IT environments.
HP Care Pack Services for industry-standard servers include support for qualified
options at no additional cost.
HP Foundation Care services deliver scalable support packages for
HP industry‑standard servers and software. You can choose the type and level
of service that is most suitable for your business needs. New to this portfolio is
HP Collaborative Support. This option offers a single point of contact for server
problem diagnosis, hardware problem resolution, basic software problem
diagnosis, fault isolation, and resolution if available with HP. In case the issue
is with HP or supported third-party software product and cannot be resolved by
applying known fixes, HP will contact the third-party vendor and create a problem
incident on your behalf.
If you are running business-critical environments, you can opt for HP Proactive Care
or HP Critical Advantage. These services help you deliver high levels of application
availability through proactive service management.
All service options include HP Insight Remote Support for secure remote monitoring,
diagnosis, and problem resolution. Also included is the HP Support Center that
provides access to information, tools, and experts to support HP business products.
For more information, contact your HP or Authorized Partner sales representative,
or visit www.hp.com/services/proliant or www.hp.com/services/bladesystem.
HP SSD delivers high performance, low latency solutions for
HP ProLiant servers and server storage when compared with
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4AA3-9827ENW, Created March 2012