Page 2 - Information Subject to Change
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories 4-92 HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 Information Subject to Change RAID 5DP provides superior data redundancy by protecting against the simultaneous failure of two member disks by using independent error correction schemes. The VA7...
Page 5 - New Firmware Revision Code Designation for VA7410; Note; Product Features
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 4-95 Information Subject to Change New Firmware Revision Code Designation for VA7410 Note : The release firmware for the VA7410 is “A100”. The revision numbering for firmware for the VA7410 has chang...
Page 7 - Warranty; What is Instant Support Commercial; Specifications
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 4-97 Information Subject to Change Warranty Included with every VA7000 Family Array: • Warranty: 2-year, 8×5, same-day, 4-hour on-site response for hardware with a 2-year 8×5 phone-in assistance, 2-h...
Page 8 - VA7110 and VA7410 Controller Enclosure Specifications
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories 4-98 HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 Information Subject to Change Deskside and Racked Product Electrical Specifications (VA7100 only) Parameter Value Voltage 100-127 and 200-240 VAC (auto-ranging) Frequency 50/60 Hz Current (Maxim...
Page 9 - HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04; DS2405 Disk Enclosure Specifications
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 4-99 Information Subject to Change Environmental Specifications Parameter Operating Range Recommended Range Non-Operating Temperature 5° to 35° C (41° to 95° F) 20º to 25.5º C (68º to 78º F) –40° to ...
Page 10 - Parameter Specification; Radiated and Conducted Emissions
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories 4-100 HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 Information Subject to Change Regulatory Compliance Parameter Specification Radiated and Conducted Emissions FCC Class A, EN 55022: 1998, CISPR-22: 1997 Level A, and GB9254: 1998 Immunity EN 55...
Page 12 - Hardware Ordering Information; VA7100 Hardware Ordering Information
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories 4-102 HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 Information Subject to Change Figure 4.7.1.7 StorageWorks DS2405—Rear View Array Controller Card 2 RS-232 Connector Array Controller LEDs Array Controller Card 1 Disk Ports FC Host Ports FC AC ...
Page 14 - Part Number; VA7110 Hardware Ordering Information
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories 4-104 HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 Information Subject to Change VA7100 Rail Kits The following rail kits are needed to mount the VA7100 into the specific racks as listed. Part Number Description A6209A System/E Rail Kit (RoseBo...
Page 15 - Product Number Option Number Description
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 4-105 Information Subject to Change Product Number Option Number Description C7525A 0D1 Fiber Optic Cable 16-meter LC Duplex 50/125 M/M C7526A 0D1 Fiber Optic Cable 50-meter LC Duplex 50/125 M/M C752...
Page 16 - VA7410 Controller Enclosure Hardware Ordering Information; Option Description; VA7410 Enterprise Factory Rack
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories 4-106 HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 Information Subject to Change VA7410 Controller Enclosure Hardware Ordering Information The following codes define the suffixes on product numbers: A = Field Racked, AE = Empty enclosure (no in...
Page 17 - Part Number Description; NTRittal Rack Rail Kit
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 4-107 Information Subject to Change Product Number Option Description C7525A Fiber Optic Cable 162-meters LC Duplex 50/125 M/M C7526A Fiber Optic Cable 502-meters LC Duplex 50/125 M/M C7527A Fiber Op...
Page 18 - Disk System Enclosure (DS2405) Hardware Ordering Information; NOTES: A6183A requires rail kits to be ordered separately.; DS2405 Disk System Accessories
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories 4-108 HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 Information Subject to Change Disk System Enclosure (DS2405) Hardware Ordering Information Note: The DS2405 cannot be used with the VA7100. The following codes define the suffixes on product nu...
Page 19 - VA7000 Family Racking and Rail Kit Options; Support Options Overview; Hardware Support Options
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 4-109 Information Subject to Change VA7000 Family Racking and Rail Kit Options Note : Solution interconnect cabling/configuration of the A6264A/AZ and A6265A/AZ will be performed by the factory only ...
Page 20 - Description; purchase of enclosure or dual controller support packs.; HP Service levels
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories 4-110 HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 Information Subject to Change Direct (Enterprise) CATS and Options 1 Indirect (Commercial) Support Packs 1 VA Hardware Universal Product Numbers Description 1-, 2-, and 3-year Support: SD, 24×7...
Page 21 - Hardware and Software—Additional Recommended Services; Service Guard Implementation—H4810AT; Contractual Support for Enterprise and Commercial Channels; Below are the Service Levels:; Code Description
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 4-111 Information Subject to Change Hardware and Software—Additional Recommended Services • TAS—H4399A/H4399J/H4399Y • SAN Implementation Service for SAN environments—H9273A option 380, 381 • Additio...
Page 22 - Array; Y Y Y; Battery; be replaced when the software indicates a battery has failed.; Early Warning Switch; the array and capacities can be mixed within the array:
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories 4-112 HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 Information Subject to Change In a dual controller configuration, both controllers must have the same amount of cache memory as the contents of NVRAM are mirrored between the two controllers. T...
Page 23 - Loading Rules; VA7410 disk loading rules:; Estimated Usable Capacity Tables; with or without the use of hot spare drives.; Hot
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 4-113 Information Subject to Change The disk drives provide the storage medium for the disk array. A minimum of four disk modules is required to operate the disk array. Different capacity disk module...
Page 24 - Estimated Usable Capacity for AutoRAID—VA7100; drives and with or without the use of hot spare drives.
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories 4-114 HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 Information Subject to Change Capacity Table (GB) 1 GB =1,000,000,000 or (10) 9 for RAID 1+0 Drive size (GB) 36 GB 36 GB 73 GB 73 GB Hot Spares 2 0 2 0 Number of drives Maximum usable capacity ...
Page 25 - Estimated Usable Capacity for RAID 1+0—VA7110; drives with or without the use of hot spare drives.; Estimated Usable Capacity for AutoRAID—VA7110
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 4-115 Information Subject to Change Estimated Usable Capacity for RAID 1+0—VA7110 This table lists the usable drive capacity, expressed in Gigabytes (GB), of the VA7110 with 36-, 73-, and 146-GB driv...
Page 26 - Redundant Power Supply and Fan Modules; path will be disrupted and the array will overheat.; Midplane; Item Description; Product Mode Parameters; procedure is followed.; LED Status Indications
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories 4-116 HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 Information Subject to Change GBIC (VA7100 only) A Gigabit Interface Converter (GBIC) is connected to each array controller as a transceiver for data and to convert the data from an optical sig...
Page 27 - Array Logs; lost when the array is powered off.; Supported Operating Systems
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 4-117 Information Subject to Change Array Logs The array logs consist of the following controller logs: • Events − Errors − Unexpected conditions − Configuration changes − Environmental changes • Fib...
Page 28 - Supported Hardware Devices; HBA Support; Partnership Website:; Hub Support; Partnership Website:; Netware; Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes None
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories 4-118 HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 Information Subject to Change Supported Hardware Devices For the latest configuration information, please refer to the SPOCK website (internal) or the Partnership Website (external): Spock Webs...
Page 29 - Switch Support; Supported Fibre Channel Cables; Product Number Description; SFF = Small Form Factor
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 4-119 Information Subject to Change Switch Support For the latest AutoPath support and configuration information, please refer to the SPOCK website (internal) or the Partnership Website (external): S...
Page 30 - Configuration; Front End and Back End Cabling
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories 4-120 HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 Information Subject to Change Configuration Front End and Back End Cabling Both front-end and back-end cables are Fibre Channel Optical cables. Figure 4.7.10.8 VA7110 Back End Cabling (Serial C...
Page 31 - Long-distance cascaded hubs must; SAN Definitions
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 4-121 Information Subject to Change Long-Distance Configurations (Not supported on MPE/iX) Long-distance topologies are part of the supported configurations, but may not specifically be represented i...
Page 32 - LUN Security can eliminate the risk of MS disk signatures.; This configuration supports MPE’s Cluster/iX
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories 4-122 HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 Information Subject to Change Figure 4.7.1.11 Lowest Entry Point (Minimum Configuration) MPE • No Multi-Path driver required • No hub or switch required • Windows/HP-UX/Linux and MPE supported ...
Page 34 - SAN Configurations
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories 4-124 HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 Information Subject to Change SAN Configurations Figure 4.7.1.17 Midrange Multi-host (Non-clustered) SAN with Optional Path Redundancy MPE VA71x0 Array Controller 1 Controller 2 Switch Switch M...
Page 35 - Not Supported
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 4-125 Information Subject to Change Figure 4.7.1.19 MPE/iX SAN Cluster MPE Switch Switch MPE • Dual HBA • Dual controllers • Dual switches • MPE Cluster/iX required (unsupported on VA7100) • Manageme...
Page 36 - Notes; Metro Cluster and Continental Cluster are not supported.
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories 4-126 HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 Information Subject to Change Figure 4.7.1.21 SAN Consolidation HP-UX Server HP-UX Server MPE Server MPE Server Switch Switch • Requires LUN Security • Single or Dual HBA • Controllers setup wi...
Page 37 - Software Product Descriptions; Software Products Reference Chart; in detail later in this section.; Software Product; Software Products; Product Number
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 4-127 Information Subject to Change Software Product Descriptions Software Products Reference Chart The following table lists the software products available for the VA7000 Family. These products are...
Page 38 - HP StorageWorks Command View SDM Software; Operating System; All
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories 4-128 HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 Information Subject to Change HP StorageWorks Command View SDM Software The HP StorageWorks Command View SDM software is a host or Web-browser based device management application that provides ...
Page 39 - Component; HP StorageWorks Command View SDM Frequently Asked Questions
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 4-129 Information Subject to Change The VA7x00 family system encompasses all the components within the controller chassis as well as the disks and their enclosures. The VA7x00 family Graphical User I...
Page 40 - HP StorageWorks Integrations Pack; HP StorageWorks Integrations Pack Compatibility; What is included with HP StorageWorks Integrations Pack?
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories 4-130 HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 Information Subject to Change HP StorageWorks Integrations Pack HP StorageWorks Integrations Pack provide customers with a basic level of integration between HP StorageWorks Command View SDM an...
Page 41 - HP StorageWorks Business Copy VA; HP StorageWorks Command View SDM; HP StorageWorks Business Copy VA Minimum System Requirements
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 4-131 Information Subject to Change HP StorageWorks Business Copy VA HP StorageWorks Business Copy VA is an array-based software product that allows customers to create up to 1023 non-disruptive high...
Page 42 - HP StorageWorks Business Copy VA Frequently Asked Questions; How does HP StorageWorks Business Copy VA Licensing work?; HP StorageWorks Secure Manager VA
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories 4-132 HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 Information Subject to Change HP StorageWorks Business Copy VA Frequently Asked Questions What is included with HP StorageWorks Business Copy VA Software Media Kit? Each HP StorageWorks Busines...
Page 43 - HP StorageWorks Secure Manager VA Software Compatibility; 5 MB of free disk space.; HP StorageWorks Secure Manager VA Frequently Asked Questions; How many secure connections can each VA7000 family array support?; HP StorageWorks Auto Path
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 4-133 Information Subject to Change HP StorageWorks Secure Manager VA Operating Systems Compatibility HP StorageWorks Secure Manager VA runs with HP StorageWorks Command View SDM. For operating syste...
Page 44 - HP StorageWorks Auto Path Features; Pentium III- 500 MHZ; HP StorageWorks Auto Path Frequently Asked Questions; What is included with HP StorageWorks Auto Path?
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories 4-134 HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 Information Subject to Change Note : If a customer has met or is near the VA performance threshold, it is possible that high I/O demand (at 90% or greater of the VA threshold) may cause a perfo...
Page 45 - VA7000 Family Software Ordering Information
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 4-135 Information Subject to Change What environments are available for HP StorageWorks Auto Path on the VA? HP StorageWorks Auto Path has planned availability of Windows 2000, Windows NT, and HP-UX ...
Page 49 - Glossary; Abbreviation Description
Chapter 4 Peripherals and Accessories HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 1/04 4-139 Information Subject to Change Glossary Abbreviation Description Bps Bits per second BE Back End CLUI Command Line User Interface Cluster For the purposes of this document, a cluster is a config...
