Do you need a direct attached or shared storage solution within your BladeSystem enclosure?

Direct attached storage
The StorageWorks SB40c Storage Blade delivers direct attached storage for c-Class servers, with support for up to six hot plug small form factor (SFF) SAS or SATA hard disk drives. The enclosure backplane provides a PCI Express connection to the adjacent c-Class server blade and enables high performance storage access without any additional cables. The SB40c Storage Blade features an onboard Smart Array P400 controller with 256 MB battery-backed write cache, for increased performance and data protection.

Shared storage
Use HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA) software to turn the SB40c into an iSCSI SAN for use by all severs in the enclosure and any server on the network. HP LeftHand VSA software is installed in a virtual machine on a VMware ESX host server adjacent to the SB40c. HP LeftHand P4000 VSA turns the SB40c into a scalable and robust iSCSI SAN, featuring, storage clustering for scalability, Network RAID for storage failover, thin provisioning, snapshots, remote replication, and cloning. Expand capacity within the same enclosure or to other Bladesystem enclosures by adding additional SB40c Storage Blades and HP LeftHand VSA licenses. A cost effective bundle of the SB40c Storage Blade and a HP LeftHand P4000 VSA license makes purchasing convenient. If storage needs increase, add HP P4300 or P4500 systems externally and manage everything via a single pane of glass.

• A specially priced bundle of the SB40c Storage Blade and LeftHand P4000 VSA license makes purchasing convenient.

• Support for up to six (6) hot plug SFF SAS or SATA Universal drives in a half-height blade
• Internal Smart Array P400 controller with 256 MB DDR2 BBWC
• Simple configuration and setup with HP's Array Configuration Utility (ACU)
• Easy to maintain and troubleshoot with industry standard management tools including HP System Insight Manager
• Use with HP LeftHand Virtual SAN Appliance software to create a robust shared storage environment inside BladeSystem enclosures

The following features offer detection of possible failures before they occur, allowing preventive action to be taken:

• S.M.A.R.T.: Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology first developed at HP detects possible hard disk failure before it occurs, allowing replacement of the component before failure occurs.
• Drive Parameter Tracking monitors drive operational parameters, predicting failure and notifying the administrator.
• Dynamic Sector Repairing continually performs background surface scans on the hard disk drives during inactive periods and automatically remaps bad sectors, ensuring data integrity.
• Smart Array Cache Tracking monitors integrity of controller cache, allowing pre-failure preventative maintenance.
• Environment Tracking for External Storage System: Monitors fan speed and cabinet temperature of ProLiant Storage System and newer HP storage enclosures.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008
HP-UX 11i v3, HP-UX 11i v2 (when configured to HP Integrity BL860c sever blade only)
OpenVMS (when configured with HP Integrity BL860c sever blade only)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server
VMware
Solaris

Systems Insight Manager

• Powerful server and server options/storage manager tool
• Monitors over 1,200 system wide parameters
• Configuration/Diagnostic Utilities
  

HP Array Configuration Utility (ACU)

• Powerful Web based configuration utility for all Smart Array controllers
• Provides a graphical view of HP drive array configurations
• Allows for management of multiple arrays over a secure internet connection from anywhere in the world
• Easy to use Wizards for configuration
• Runs offline for all supported Operating Systems and runs online for Windows and Linux. For online configuration of NetWare, use CPQONLIN
  

HP Option ROM Configuration for Arrays (ORCA)

• A simple method for managing logical drives during system power up by pressing F8 during POST
• Allows the ability to create arrays, logical drives, and assign an online spare drive
• Allows the ability to view and delete logical drives
• Allows the ability to select the boot controller or advanced array configurations use ACU

HP Array Diagnostic Utility (ADU)

• In depth diagnostic and reporting utility for all Smart Array controllers
• Runs offline for all supported Operating Systems, and runs online for Windows and Linux

Protected by HP Services and a worldwide network of HP Authorized Channel Partners. Three-year parts, 3 Year Labor and 3 Year on-site limited global warranty. Certain restrictions and exclusions apply.

Hard drive Pre-Failure Warranty: When used with any one of the Smart Array Family controllers and monitored under HP Systems Insight Manager (v4.20 or later), HP hard drives are supported by a Pre-Failure (replacement) Warranty. SATA hard drives have a one year warranty.

HP Care Pack Services. Scalable, Flexible, Dependable. Like your storage.

Your storage is evolving. Get scalable support that evolves with it. HP Care Pack Services is an easy-to-buy, easy-to-use portfolio of packaged services covering your lifecycle needs. You can rely on our highly skilled, HP certified professionals to offer a breadth of expertise across leading storage technologies, and work side by side with you for optimal results. Partner with HP Technology Services to boost availability and avoid costly downtime by mitigating technology-related business risks. To help take the worry out of deploying, supporting and managing your storage technologies, we've designed a portfolio of service options that are as flexible, scalable and affordable as our storage.

Protect your business beyond the warranty

Standard warranty protects against product defects and some causes of downtime. HP Care Pack Services helps you proactively guard against unplanned downtime which can reduce your productivity and profitability. By using a standard approach to warranty uplifts, such as HP Care Pack Services, customers can be certain of consistency of operations for both mission-critical and standard business computing.

Extending warranties with HP Care Pack Services
The key to normalizing the warranty of combined solutions-is making service uplift simple: HP Care Pack Services. This portfolio of predefined packages, extending across the entire IT lifecycle, offering consulting, education, technical support, optimization, risk assessment, and more. It's entirely flexible allowing customers to extend the cover to the precise level of support required. Customer's standard hardware warranty, for example, can be upgraded to next-business-day response, to same-day coverage, or even to a committed six-hour call-to-repair service available 24 hours every day of the week.

Provide consistent, predictable levels of support across your entire department or business
Give you direct access to proven technical and problem-solving expertise
Offer a choice of response-time and repair-time commitments
Are available whenever and wherever you do business

For many products, post-warranty HP Care Pack Services are available when your original warranty has expired. Choose the support levels that meet your business requirements, from basic to mission-critical. In the new world of business technology, when your technology has to work for your business to work, who can you trust to make your technology work? HP Technology Services, the trusted business technology experts who manage your technology in action, because when technology works, business works. http://www.hp.com/hps/storage

NOTE: Care Pack Services availability may vary by product and country.

HP Care Pack Services recommended for optimal satisfaction of all deployments of your product.

3-Year HP Support Plus 24 provides integrated hardware and software support services designed specifically for your technology. HP Services engineers deliver reactive onsite hardware support and over-the-phone software support around-the-clock.

Services that will enhance the user experience in many product deployments.

HP eSupport is a portfolio of technology-based services that assist you with managing your business environment - from the desktop to the data center.

Support Portal
The HP support portal provides one-stop access to the information, tools and services you need to manage the daily operations of your IT environment.

Features include:

• Access to self-solve tools (including search technical knowledge base)
• Efficient logging and tracking of support cases
• Collaboration with other business and IT professionals
• Download of patches and drivers
• Access to diagnostic tools
• Proactive notification of relevant information

Access to certain features of the support portal requires an HP service agreement. To access the support portal, visit: http://www.hp.com/support

Remote Support Technology (RST)-HP Remote Support Pack
Taking a more proactive approach to IT support, the HP Remote Support pack plug-in module easily integrates with HP Systems Insight Manager to provide a powerful, unified "single pane of glass" solution for onsite and remote management.

HP Remote Support Pack enhances HP Systems Insight Manager with intelligent event diagnosis plus the automatic submission of hardware event notifications securely to HP support, including acknowledgment and status returns. It adds remote configuration collections to allow the delivery of assessment and proactive services for your SAN storage and HP-UX environments.

Consider education as an integral part of your strategy to get the best return on investment for your HP storage solution. HP offers a variety of training courses on storage software, networking, archiving and disk storage systems. Our classes are available in many delivery modalities from traditional instructor-led courses at one of our 80 training centers worldwide to on-site training customized to your needs or online. www.hp.com/learn/storage

HP Services continues to be recognized for service and support excellence by customers, partners, industry organizations and publications around the world. Recent honors and award reflect our services team's dedications, technical expertise, professionalism and uncompromising commitment to customer satisfaction. For a list of all our awards, please visit:
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Drive LED Indicators (on drive trays)

Relative Humidity (non-condensing)

Hewlett-Packard offers end-of-life HP product return, trade-in, and recycling programs in many geographic areas. For trade-in information, please go to http://www.hp.com/go/green. To recycle your product, please go to: http://www.hp.com/go/green or contact your nearest HP sales office. Products returned to HP will be recycled, recovered or disposed of in a responsible manner.

The EU WEEE directive (2002/95/EC) requires manufacturers to provide treatment information for each product type for use by treatment facilities. This information (product disassembly instructions) is posted on the Hewlett Packard web site at: http://www.hp.com/go/green. These instructions may be used by recyclers and other WEEE treatment facilities as well as HP OEM customers who integrate and re-sell HP equipment.

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For hard drives, 1GB = 1 billion bytes. Actual formatted capacity is less.