HP AD509A MSA1500CS W/ MSA20 SATA ENCL

MSA1500cs 2U Fibre Channel SAN Attach Controller Shelf, with one MSA20 SATA drive enclosure

The HP StorageWorks 1500cs 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 MSA1500cs 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 MSA1500cs 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 MSA1500cs

Key Features AD509A StorageWorks 1500cs Modular Smart Array

• 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.