At A Glance
5U rackmount form factor
Supports seventy (70) 3.5" LFF Universal hot pluggable SAS or SAS (Midline) MDL drives
Two pull-out drive drawers support hot plug large form factor dual-ported SAS or SAS MDL drives in just 5U of rack space (35
hot plug drives per drawer)
6 Gb/s front-end SAS connectivity using 6 Gb/s SAS BL switches in the interconnect bays, and HP Smart Array P721m or P731m
controllers in each BladeSystem server (
NOTE:
D6000 support requires Blade switch firmware to be 3.0.8.0 or higher
)
The D6000 can also be directly connected to selected ProLiant Gen8 servers using the Smart Array P421 and P822 Controllers
using a standard 2M SAS cable; Single and Dual Domain environments. Only P822 supports Dual Domain. No zoning.
The D6000 also supports the HP H221 or the H222 Host Bus Adapters
Using the Virtual SAS Manager (VSM) in the HP SAS BL switch, assign or 'zone' D6000 drive bays directly to BladeSystem server
bay
Additional option kit with two dual port I/O modules is added for SAS drives, creating a dual domain environment. A single
BladeSystem enclosure supports up to six D6000 's externally. 3-0-0 warranty
Deployment Guide
For detailed deployment information, see the HP direct connect external SAS storage for HP BladeSystem deployment guide. Select
Manuals under Resources for HP D6000 Disk Enclosure:
http://www.hp.com/go/d6000/manuals
QuickSpecs
HP D6000 Disk Enclosure
Overview
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