HP StorageWorks 1500 cs Modular Smart Array

The HP StorageWorks 1500 cs Modular Smart Array is a 2Gb Fibre Channel SAN attached 2U controller shelf that connects to both enterprise-class SCSI and Serial ATA (SATA) disk enclosures. HP recommends SCSI drives for intensive heavy I/O requirements while SATA drives should only be used in archived, reference, or "near on-line" disk-to-disk backup configurations. This combination provides customers with a low cost, high capacity storage solution.
NOTE: SCSI hard drive options have a three year warranty and SATA hard drives options have a one year warranty. This solution has been designed as a hardware foundation for which future solutions can be designed and implemented for investment protection. The MSA1500 cs with up-to-eight attached SATA enclosures can provide the customer with up to 64 TB* of native capacity. If the business requires SCSI reliability then attach up-to-four SCSI enclosures for a raw capacity of 16.8 TB. The system supports mixing SCSI and SATA enclosures.

The MSA1500 cs provides 2 Gb Fibre Channel to the hosts. By utilizing existing SCSI drive enclosures and MSA1000/1500 controller technology and integrating the use of our lowest cost SATA hard drives and enclosures, the MSA1500 cs lowers the total cost of ownership and extends the customers hardware investments into the future. With lower cost of ownership, customers can now take advantage of tiered storage capabilities matching up data with appropriate levels of performance, availability and cost of data storage. The result is lower overall cost without giving up the needs of business applications.

The MSA1500 cs is a member of the HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array family, delivering industry-leading technology to meet today's demanding and growing storage needs. These storage solutions offer the best price performance features for direct attach environments and entry-level and mid-range SAN environments. Each solution is designed to maximize transfer rates, reduce management costs, while driving rapid return on investment.

The MSA1500 cs can be remotely managed by using management tools such as HP Insight Manager, Array Configuration Utility and the HP StorageWorks Fabric Switch Management Utility depending on the host's operating system.

*Maximum available storage capacity depends on the RAID level being implemented, and is based on maximum number of LUNs (32) and maximum LUN size (2 TB).

• Release of the new MSA1500 SAN Starter Kits designed specifically for HP-UX Integrity and PA-RISC server customers.

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• Dual controllers (optional) can both be configured to provide fail-over protection. Controllers are configured as active /passive by default and in this manner support only Windows, Linux and NetWare
• Dual ACTIVE controllers (active/active) can also be supported individually in Windows, HP-UX, Linux, and NetWare environments.
• Ability to mix primary (SCSI) and near-online (SATA) storage behind the same SAN controller for easy to install tiered storage solutions.
• RAID 6 with HP's Advanced Data Guarding technology (RAID ADG)) - Highest level of fault tolerance, allocates two sets of parity data across drives and allows simultaneous write operations, this level of fault tolerance can withstand two simultaneous drive failures without downtime or data loss.
• 2 Gb/1 Gb Fibre connection to host - Supports both 1Gb, 2Gb and 4Gb Fibre Channel fabrics to ensure your investment in 1 Gb infrastructure is protected. Also works with the new 4Gb switches and HBAs at 2Gb speed.
• High performance controller(s) built on DAS to SAN (DtS) architecture.
• Scalable to eight SATA enclosures for a maximum of 64 TB or four SCSI enclosures for 16.8 TB of storage capacity with four dual channel SCSI I/O modules.
• Hot plug expansion and replacement support - Hot plug expansion and replacement of hard drives and redundant controllers, for simple, fast installation and maintenance. Fans and power supplies are also hot plug replaceable. Dependent on individual operating systems.
• Key solution certified for backup and restore, file retention and compliance, replication, write once read many for disk, media and broadcasting, medical, clustering and archiving.

• Capability of building an enterprise-class SAN with SCSI reliability by attaching up to four MSA30 SCSI-drive enclosures for a native capacity of 16.8 TB (using 56 - 300 GB SCSI disks)
• Low cost, high capacity - For less than $.01 per/MB customers can obtain up to 64 TB* of capacity.
• Flexibility - Can choose SATA configuration for secondary storage of data, and/or SCSI configuration for primary storage, mixing of both technologies behind the same controller is supported but require separate SCSI I/O modules.
• Ability to utilize a tiered storage approach as data values decrease, choosing the right disk technology for your data storage.
• Investment Protection - the ability to upgrade from the MSA1000 to the MSA1500 cs. Remove the controllers from the MSA1000 and place them into the controller bays in the MSA1500 cs and upgrade the firmware. (Requires purchase of one MSA1500 FC I/O Module per moved controller)

Modular Chassis - The modular design of the MSA1500 controller shelf can support up to 4 single channel or 2 dual channel SCSI enclosures, 8 SATA enclosures on 4 dual channel SCSI I/O cards, redundant controllers, 2 Gb Fibre Channel I/O modules, fans and power supplies.

Scalability - up to 16.8 TB storage capacity utilizing 56 SCSI hard drives and four MSA30 SCSI enclosures or up to 64 TB* storage capacity utilizing SATA hard drives and eight MSA20 SATA enclosures. Larger drives are under investigation for possible future use.
NOTE: maximum available storage capacity depends on the RAID level being implemented, and is based on maximum number of LUNs (32) and maximum LUN size (2 TB)

Performance - The MSA1500 cs and its components have been designed using the latest in standard 2 Gb interconnects and Fibre Channel technology. Performance is rated at a transmission rate of up to 30,000 IOPs from cache and bandwidth of up to 200 MB per second. Performance can be substantially impacted by number of users and type of application. With dual controller active/active configurations, performance increase to >41,000 IOP/s from cache and 350MB/s throughput.

Fault Tolerance - RAID 6 with HP's Advanced Data Guarding technology (RAID ADG). This is the highest level of fault tolerance. It allocates two sets of parity data across drives and allows simultaneous write operations. This level of fault tolerance can withstand two simultaneous drive failures without downtime or data loss.

DtS Architecture - DtS (Direct Attach to SAN) architecture is an exclusive MSA1000 and MSA1500 cs feature that provides a quick and easy way to migrate stored data on SCSI disks protected by most Smart Array controllers to a MSA1000 or MSA1500 storage system.

Pre-Failure Warranty - Specific enclosures and hard drives attached to an MSA1500 and monitored under Insight Manager are supported by a Pre-Failure (replacement) Warranty.
NOTE: Pre-Failure Warranty allows for the replacement of designated SCSI drives in an HP StorageWorks disk enclosure before they actually fail when using Insight Manger. Some operating systems may not support all of these features.

Integrated Configuration and Management Tools - The MSA1500 utilizes a standard, integrated set of management and utility software. Not available with all operating systems.

Hot Plug Expansion and Replacement Support - The MSA1500 cs supports hot plug expansion and replacement of redundant controllers, fans, power supplies, Serial ATA and SCSI disk enclosures, and I/O cards for simple, fast installation and maintenance.

• Provides a graphical view of HP drive array configurations
• Easy to use Wizards for configuration
• ACU supports on-line configuration
• Web Based ACU supports On-Line, Remote Web Based and Off-line configuration
  
• ACU/CLI available for HP-UX customers

• Built-in to the controller firmware and controlled via ACU
• Allows setting of access rights to the MSA1500 storage by hosts
• Access control can be set up to a logical volume level using the Array Controller Utility

• Powerful storage server and server option management tool
• Monitor storage from a remote central location
• Browser based, provides full access from anywhere on the Intranet, eliminating the need for a dedicated Insight Manager management console
• Availability dependent on operating system
• HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array SMI-S Provider for Windows 2000/Windows Server 2003

All ProLiant x86 and x86_64 servers fully supported unless noted below. NOTE: New models are in test

ProLiant x86 servers
BL20p G2, BL30p, BL40p, DL140 G2, DL360, DL360 G2, DL360 G3, DL380, DL380 G2, DL380 G3, DL560, DL580, DL580 G2, DL740, DL760, DL760 G2, ML370, ML370 G2, ML370 G3, ML530, ML530 G2, ML570, ML570 G2, ML750

ProLiant AMD Opteron servers
BL25p, BL25p (Dual Core), BL35p, BL35p (Dual Core), BL45p, BL45p (Dual Core), DL145, DL145 G2 (Dual Core), DL385, DL385 (Dual Core), DL585, DL585 G2 (Dual Core) (DL145-G1 not supported in Boot-From-SAN environment

ProLiant INTEL EM64T servers
BL20p G3, BL20p G4, BL460c, BL480c, DL360 G4p, DL360 G4, DL360 G5, DL380 G4, DL380 G5, DL580 G3, DL580 G4, ML350 G4p, ML350 G5, ML370 G4, ML370 G5, ML570 G3, ML570 G4

Integrity IA64 (Itanium) servers
rx1600 rx1620 rx2600 rx2620 rx4610 rx36xx rx4640 rx5670 rx66xx, rx7620 rx8620 rx8800 rx9610 zx2000 zx6000 Integrity Superdome
NOTE: BL60P (FC Mezzanine Card, FC passthru or internal McData/Brocade FC 4Gb Switch Cube)

PA-RISC servers:
rp24xx, rp34x0, rp4440, rp54xx, rp740x, rp7410, rp7420, rp8400, rp8420, SD16000, SD32-128A, SD32/64000, C3xxx, B2000, J5xxx, J6000, J7xxx, K-class

Supported Alpha servers
DS10, DS15, DS20, DS20E, DS25, ES40, ES45, ES47 (PCI-X), ES80 (PCI-X), GS60, GS60E, GS80, GS140,GS160, GS320, GS1280 (PCI-X)
NOTE: Certification of new ProLiant & Integrity server models is ongoing. Not all OSes are supported on all models. Supports most multi-vendor industry standard 32-bit Intel-based (x86) and Opteron servers.

• Microsoft Windows Enterprise Edition 2003 (32 & 64-bit) R2
• Microsoft Windows Standard Edition 2003 (32 & 64-bit) R2
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Edition (32 & 64-bit)
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server (sp4) (32 & 64-bit)
• HP-UX 11.11 and 11.23 (single controller in homogeneous environments only. For dual controller heterogeneous support refer to the next section)
• Red Hat Linux Enterprise Advanced Server 2.1 and Enterprise Linux 3.0 (32 & 64-bit) & 4.0 (32-bit & 64-bit )SuSE Linux SLES8 and SLES9 (32 & 64-bit )Netware v5.1 and 6.5.
• SCO OpenServer 6.0.0, SCO UnixWare 7.1.3 and UnixWare 7.1.4 (single controller in 2-node homogeneous environments only).
  

Please refer to compatibility matrix at http://www.hp.com/go/msa1500cs for complete configuration support.

Optional controller firmware is available for downloading at no cost from the HP MSA1500 Web Site that enables both controllers to operate in an active/active mode. The following are the only operating systems that have been tested and are supported with active/active functionality in a homogeneous configuration only. All dual active (active/active) controller support is homogeneous.

• Microsoft Windows Standard and Enterprise Editions 2003 (32 & 64-bit) R2
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server (SP4) Editions (32 & 64-bit)
• HP-UX 11.11, and 11.23
  NOTE: all MSA1500 HP-UX starter kits ship with active/active firmware pre-installed
• Red Hat Linux Enterprise Linux 3.0 (32-bit & 64-bit ) No Red Hat 4 support at this time
• SuSE Linux SLES8, SLES9 (32 & 64-bit )
• SCO
  

NOTE: HP Secure Path is not supported on active/active controller configurations. Industry standard failover methodology is employed.

The MSA1500 for HP-UX supports dual active/active controller or single controller configurations (Active/passive configurations are not supported). HP-UX single controller support is enabled with the standard firmware that ships with the MSA1500HP-UX implemented with dual active controllers requires use of firmware available through a free download off the MSA1500 web site.
NOTE: all MSA1500 HP-UX starter kits ship with active/active firmware pre-installed, which supports both single controller or active/active controller configurations.

• ACU/CLI (Command Line Interface) is used for configuration and Event Monitoring Service (EMS) for monitoring.
• Root/Boot/Dump/Swap/Install is also supported.
• PVlinks is supported for multi (HBA) path / single controller (2 HBAs) and dual/active controller configurations.
• Fabric and direct connect are supported
• HP-UX 11.11 & 11.23, PA-RISC and Itanium

• Microsoft Cluster Server
• Service Guard for HP-UX and Linux
• SteelEye LifeKeeper for Linux Certification
• Netware Clustering
• Polyserve - Matrix Server for Windows

• HP Data Protector
• VERITAS Backup Exec and NetBackup
• Legato NetWorker for Windows
• Computer Associates BrightStor Enterprise Backup

• Bycast StorageGRID

• HP Storage Mirroring for Windows
• HP Virtual Replicator for Windows.

• Microsoft Virtual Server
• VMware

OpenView Storage Mirroring is designed to take small-medium enterprises beyond periodic backup to provide continuous data protection with minimal data loss and immediate recovery from any disaster or system outage. Natural and man-made disasters can occur when you least expect it - serving as a reminders that with less than a moment's notice, volumes of data loss can be lost. To prevent data loss from failure, error, or disaster, HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring software provides replication of your valuable Windows data, Exchange data, and SQL Data to another server. Proactive replication is a key strategy that can be coupled with tape backup and snapshot technology for continuous data protection and point-in-time copies of data. Having replicated data co-located, customers can recover their static and transactional data in seconds without loss of productivity. Storage Mirroring can also be utilized for disaster recovery, centralized backup, data distribution/mining, and server/storage migration..

• Supports Microsoft Windows 2000/NT/2003servers
• One-to-one failover/fail back solution for MS-Exchange, MS-SQL and Oracle providing automatic failover and near instantaneous access to replicated data or use replicated data or rebuild your local server.
• Server Groups - enables the "grouping" of servers on the management console (GUI) allowing focus on only those servers under your span of control
• Continuous, asynchronous byte-level replication with intelligent data compression captures changes as they occur, ensures sequence of data mirrored on target, and provides user-configurable compression levels to ensure efficient usage of network resources.
• One-to-many and many-to-one host configurations allowing multiple production servers to use the same target server

For more information visit http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/sm/index.html

HP supports additional high availability multi-pathing capabilities within various operating systems and through third-party vendors, providing continuous data access from HP's RAID MSA1500 to host servers. Options are available for servers running the Windows, Linux and HP-UX operating systems. More information and the explanation of restrictions are available at http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/sanworks/multipathoptions/index.html

• Microsoft Windows 2000 and 2003 (32 bit EE and 64 bit EE only)can utilize the HP MPIO Basic Failover v1.3 for MSA Arrays, a DSM available for free download at the above site.
• Linux (and SCO) industry standard failover for the MSA1500 is available at no charge within the HBA device driver from QLogic or Emulex.
• HP-UX utilizes PVLinks

NetWare, OpenVMS, Tru64 UNIX utilize native OS_based failover software

• Maintains connections to storage
• Monitors I/O paths and alerts on significant events
• Used in Stand alone Configurations, Cluster Configurations, and SAN configurations

In a single controller configuration or when dual controllers are configured as active/passive (standby), mixing clusters with single nodes is supported. For example you may mix three Microsoft (Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000) clusters and other individual servers, even doing so in a heterogeneous server operating system environment. Windows Server 2003 allows a single cluster of up to eight nodes.

To see Cluster Configuration Support Matrices that support the listings on the Microsoft Windows Server Catalog, refer to:
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/solutions/enterprise/highavailability/answercenter/configuration-all.html

Single-path (single controller, non-Secure Path) NetWare clustering has been successfully tested up to a 12-node cluster. NetWare clusters employing Secure Path (dual controller, dual HBAs) are limited to six nodes. Multiple NetWare clusters (and single servers) may have concurrent access with no limitation inherent to the MSA1500 cs.

Up to a 16-node Linux cluster (single controller, non-Secure Path) utilizing SteelEye LifeKeeper for Linux clustering software has been tested and is supported. Refer to http://www.hp.com/go/securepath for any restriction with Secure Path.

Up to a 4-node HP-UX cluster (dual controller, non-Secure Path) utilizing HP-UX Service Guard clustering software has been tested and is supported. Refer to http://www.hp.com/go/MSA1500cs, the Compatibility Guide under technical documents under the support section.

The MSA1500 has the ability to be configured with up to thirty-two LUNs. A configuration of twenty attached servers has been tested and is supported. More commonly, users have had an average of four to eight nodes. This can be any combination of hosts or clusters with different operating systems (while holding fast to the guidelines and limits described in the above paragraphs. Performance within these guidelines is heavily dependent on the actual number of end users and types of applications being employed.

For more information, click on the link: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/msa1500cs/index.html

• Three-year Limited Warranty for MSA1500, Fibre Channel Cables and SFP Transceivers
• 3 years parts exchange
• 1 year labor
• 1 year on-site
• Next business day response

• Response - Upgrade on-site response from next business day to same day 4 hours
• Coverage - Extend hours of coverage from 9 hours x 5 days to 24 hours x 7 days
• Duration - Select duration of coverage for a period of 1, 3, or 5 years

• HP Care Pack is defined as an upgrade to the product warranty attribute, available for a specific duration and hours of coverage.
• HP Care Pack is not available for less than the product's warranty duration.
• HP Care Pack is available for sale anytime during the warranty period for most products, but the commencement date will be the same as the Warranty Start Date (delivery date to end user customer). Proof of purchase may be required.
• HP Care Pack services are prepaid.

NOTE: Refer to Step 6 "Choose HP Care Pack Services" in the Configuration Information section below for all Service, Warranty Plans, Installation and Startup Services available for the MSA1500

For additional information on Product Services and HP Care Pack, as well as orderable part numbers, please refer to the URL: http://www.hp.com/hps/carepack/.
If you have specific questions about availability or how to obtain services contact your local HP representative. Contact information for your local area can be found at:
http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/contact_us.html

HP warrants only that the software media will be free of physical defects for a period of ninety (90) days from delivery.
The following services are offered as HP Care Pack Services at the time of software product order:

• Software Technical Support 24 x 7 (1 and 3 years) is available 24 hours per day, Monday through Sunday, including holidays (includes phone-in software technical support 24 x 7 and software product and documentation updates).
• Installation Service (software installation) and Installation and Startup Service (software installation, configuration, startup testing and knowledge transfer).
• HP Care Pack services must be ordered with the product and are prepaid.
• For tailored support contracts based on personalized statement of work contact your local support center via http://www.HP.com/support.

• Software product services included with Secure Path: One year of Software Technical Support 24 x 7 HP Care Pack Services (includes phone-in software technical support 24 x 7 and software product and documentation updates).
• HP Care Pack services are available to upgrade the one year of Software Technical Support 24 x 7 included with the Secure Path product to 3 full years.
• Installation service (software installation).

• Installation services that include basic installation and Array Installation and Startup
• On-site maintenance (includes warranty support)
• Response time upgrades during the warranty period
• Post-warranty coverage or warranty extension
• RAID setup and performance consulting via statement of work
• Migration service consulting via statement of work
• Environmental, Mission Critical Services

For product services information for HP Care Pack services, as well as orderable part numbers, please refer to the URLs listed below:
All storage services: http://www.hp.com/hps/storage/.
All HP Care Pack Services: http://www.hp.com/hps/carepack/storage/cp_networked.html.
Installation and Startup Services: http://www.hp.com/hps/storage/ns_implementation.html.
If you have specific service questions contact your local HP representative. Contact information for your local area can be found at: http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/contact_us.html

The HP Installation and startup for HP StorageWorks Disk Arrays service package provides installation and configuration of HP StorageWorks Disk Array products. Service highlights include:
Installation and Startup provides, installation, LUN Disk Design and configuration of the MSA 1500 which includes

• Service Planning
• Service Deployment
• Installation Verification Testing (IVT) required for this service
• Customer Orientation session
• Service Deployment includes the deployment of the MSA disc array into a new or pre-existing SAN which may consist of switch, hub or SCSI bridge technology. Installation includes the customization of up to four host servers, eight host bus adapters (HBAs) and up to four high availability software licenses.

SAN Solution Service covers your entry-level disk array solution with:

• Comprehensive SAN implementation strategy and planning
• Hardware and software installation and configuration
• Integration of the installed disk array in your SAN environment
• Firmware verification
• SAN testing
• Solution handover to your staff

The Array Installation and Startup service is a pre-requisite for the SAN Solution Service.

For more information about he SAN solution service, please visit: http://www.hp.com/hps/storage/ns_san.html

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