Disk types, Disk group types, General guidelines | HP P6000 specification

Disk types

The disk type specifies the type of physical disk drives that can be included in a disk group. The types are:

Online disk type. All physical drives must be Fibre Channel or enterprise SAS drives. This disk type provides first tier performance and reliability.

Near-online disk type. All physical drives are lower cost, lower performance hybrid Fibre Channel or midline SAS disk drives. Hybrid drives are dual ported, Fibre Attached Technology Adapted (FATA) drives. This disk type provides second tier performance and reliability.

Solid state drive disk type. All physical drives must be solid state drives (SSD). This disk type provides first tier, very high performance and reliability.

Disk type support varies with HP XCS controller software versions. The following table summarizes support and typical uses.

Feature	Online	Near-online	Solid state drive
XCS support	All versions	All versions	XCS 09500000 or later
Physical disks	Fibre Channel/SAS drives	FATA/SAS drives	Solid state drives
Typical uses
Disaster tolerance	Preferred usage	Preferred usage	Preferred usage
Disk-to-disk backup		Preferred usage
Disk-to-tape backup		Preferred usage
Frequent file access	Preferred usage		Preferred usage
Infrequent file access		Preferred usage
High performance	Preferred usage		Preferred usage
Virus attack recovery		Preferred usage

Disk group types

When a disk group is created, it is assigned a disk group type: basic or enhanced (default).

Disk group type	Supported Vraid levels	EVA support
Basic	Vraid0, Vraid1, and Vraid 5	EVA4000/4100/4400/6000/
		6100/6400/8000/8100/8400
Enhanced	Vraid0, Vraid1, Vraid5, and Vraid6	EVA4400/6400/8400 P6300/P6500 EVA

General guidelines

One disk group (the default) is created when the system is initialized. You can add disk groups as needed.

•Each physical disk drive can belong to only one disk group.

•A single disk group may contain all the physical disk drives in the storage system.

•Multiple virtual disks can be created in a disk group, up to the disk group's capacity.

•Each virtual disk exists entirely within one disk group.

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