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The HP Storageworks XP (XP = eXtended Platform) is a computer data storage disk array sold by Hewlett Packard Enterprise using Hitachi Data Systems hardware and adding their own software to it.[1] It's based on the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and targeted towards enabling large scale consolidation, large database, Oracle, SAP, Exchange, and online transaction processing (OLTP) environments.

The XP Disk Array family

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Used to be called P9000 XP, to match with other disk array products they sold at the time (P2000, P4000, P6000 and P10000).

XP 48

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  • RAID 0/1 and RAID 5 support
  • 18 GB[2] 15,000 RPM, 73 GB 10,000 rpm and 181 GB 7,200 rpm Fibre Channel drives
  • Crossbar Architecture (3.2 GB/s)
  • High capacity scalability—up to 48 disks, 8.7 TB[3] and 24 host connectivity ports
  • up to 16 GiB of battery-protected (48 hours minimum), mirrored write cache

XP 128

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  • a mixture of disk drives configured as RAID 1 (2D+2D and 4D+4D) and RAID 5 (3D+1P and 7D+1P).
  • from 5 drives to 128 for up to 36 TB of usable storage capacity, 4 drives at a time
  • heterogeneous connectivity via Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FICON and ESCON
  • all the software functionality of the larger XP 1024 with a smaller footprint.
  • up to 64 GiB of battery-protected (48 hours minimum), mirrored write cache

XP 256

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  • RAID 0/1 and RAID 5 support
  • from 17 GB to 9 TB of storage space
  • connectivity via SCSI (8 to 32 ports) or Fibre Channel (4 to 16 ports)
  • up to 16 GiB of battery-protected (48 hours minimum), mirrored write cache

XP 512

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  • RAID 0/1 and RAID 5 support
  • 18 GB, 15,000 rpm, 73 GB 10,000 rpm and 181 GB 7,200 rpm Fibre Channel drives
  • High capacity scalability—up to 512 disks, 93 TB and 32 host connections
  • up to 32 GiB battery-protected, mirrored write cache

XP 1024

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  • a mixture of disk drives configured as RAID 1 (2D+2D and 4D+4D) and RAID 5 (3D+1P and 7D+1P).
  • up to 1024 disk drives for 288 GB to 149 TB raw and 144 TB to 129 TB of usable storage capacity in a single array
  • heterogeneous connectivity via Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FICON and ESCON
  • up to 128 GiB battery-protected (48 hours minimum), mirrored write cache

XP 10000

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  • a mixture of disk drives configured as RAID 1 (2D+2D and 4D+4D), RAID 5 (3D+1P and 7D+1P) and RAID 6 (6D+2P)
  • up to 240 disk drives for 69 TB of capacity
  • virtualization technology provides external storage device support to enable tiered storage up to 16 PB

XP 12000

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  • OEM product from Hitachi Tagmastore USP 1100
  • a mixture of disk drives configured as RAID 1 (2D+2D and 4D+4D), RAID 5 (3D+1P and 7D+1P) and RAID 6 (6D+2P)
  • from 9 to 1152 disk drives for 576 GB to over 332 TB of internal capacity
  • virtualization technology provides external storage device support to enable tiered storage up to 32 PB
  • up to 128 GiB battery-protected (48 hours minimum), mirrored write cache
  • double the internal performance of the XP1024

XP 20000

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  • a mixture of disk drives configured as RAID 1 (2D+2D and 4D+4D), RAID 5 (3D+1P, 7D+1P, 14D+2P and 28D+4P) and RAID 6 (6D+2P)
  • up to 240 disk drives for 177 TB of raw capacity
  • up to 64 GiB battery-protected (48 hours minimum), mirrored write cache
  • virtualization technology provides external storage device support to enable tiered storage up to 96 PB

XP 24000

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A mixture of disk drives configured as RAID 1 (2D+2D and 4D+4D), RAID 5 (3D+1P, 7D+1P, 14D+2P and 28D+4P) and RAID 6 (6D+2P) from 9 to 1152 disk drives for 2.26 PB Raw space. (Used at Cloud At Cost)

P9500

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  • a mixture of Serial attached SCSI (SAS) and midline SAS disk drives configured as RAID 1 (2D+2D and 4D+4D), RAID 5 (3D+1P, 7D+1P, 14D+2P and 28D+4P) and RAID 6 (6D+2P)
  • from 5 – 2048 disk drives for 2 PB of raw capacity
  • up to 1 TiB flash-protected (backup will last indefinitely), mirrored write cache
  • No entry-level model any more – P9500 scales from small to large
  • Minimum configuration is a whole rack containing SFF SAS drive chassis, proprietary SSD drive chassis, SAN network controller, cache module, batteries, power supplies, fans, management server
  • Based on Hitachi VSP F710I

At some point models are the XP 20000, XP24000 and the P9500.

XP7

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  • supports RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 6
  • supports up to 8PB raw capacity and up to 2304 disks (SFF, LFF, SSD, Flash-Modul SAS)
  • up to 2 TiB cache
  • up to 247 PB external storage

XP8

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  • supports RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 6
  • supports up to 69PB raw capacity with several disk formats(SFF, LFF, SSD, Flash-Modul SAS, SCM, NVMe SFF)
  • up to 6 TiB cache
  • up to 255 PB external storage

XP8 Gen2

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Notes

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  1. ^ "HP and Hitachi, Ltd. Extend Multi-billion Dollar Relationship for High-end Disk Arrays". HP. 2003-08-13. Archived from the original on 2013-06-02. Retrieved 2014-05-15.
  2. ^ One gigabyte (1 GB) is one billion bytes (109 B)
  3. ^ One terabyte (1 TB) is one thousand billion bytes (1012 B)
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