HPE 673642-B21, 831737-B21 Getting Started Guide

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QuickSpecs

HP PCIe IO Accelerators for ProLiant Servers

Overview

HP IO Accelerator for ProLiant Servers is a PCIe card-based direct-attach solid state storage technology solution for application
performance enhancement. Based on Multi-Level Cell (MLC) and Single Level Cell (SLC) NAND Flash technology, these devices are ideal
for low latency workloads requiring high transaction rates and real-time data access.

ioDrive (Generation2) FH/HL

ioDrive (Generation2) HH/HL

ioDrive Duo (Generation2) FH/HL

What's New

Introducing the Gen2 HP IO Accelerators for ProLiant ML/DL/SL server platforms
As low as 17 microsecond WRITE latency
Performance: Up to 935,000 WRITE IOPS, up to 892,000 READ IOPS, up to 3GB/s Bandwidth
Industry-Leading Capacity: Up to 3TB
Enterprise Endurance: Wear leveling, predictive monitoring and management, and warranty forecasting
Enterprise Reliability: Adaptive flashback technology provides on-card redundancy with no downtime on multichip failures

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QuickSpecs

Overview

Models

HP I/O Accelerator
Options

Second Generation Accelerators

HP 365GB Multi Level Cell G2 PCIe ioDrive2 for ProLiant Servers
HP 785GB Multi Level Cell G2 PCIe ioDrive2 for ProLiant Servers
HP 1205GB Multi Level Cell G2 PCIe ioDrive2 for ProLiant Servers
HP 2410GB Multi Level Cell G2 PCIe ioDrive2 Duo for ProLiant Servers
HP 3TB G2 FH/HL PCIe ioDrive2 IO Accelerator for ProLiant Servers

HP PCIe IO Accelerators for ProLiant Servers

673642-B21
673644-B21
673646-B21
673648-B21
721458-B21

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Compatibility

Compatibility

Second Generation
Accelerators Support

ProLiant DL (rack-optimized):

HP PCIe IO Accelerators for ProLiant Servers

HP ProLiant DL160 G6
HP ProLiant DL160 Gen8
HP ProLiant DL180 G6
HP ProLiant DL360 G7
NOTE: Support for 673648-B21 only in x16 slot.
HP ProLiant DL360 G7

NOTE:

Support for 673648-B21 only in x16 slot.

HP ProLiant DL360e Gen8
HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8

NOTE:

Support for 673648-B21 only in x16 slot.

HP ProLiant DL370 G6
HP ProLiant DL380 G7
HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8
HP ProLiant DL385 G7
HP ProLiant DL385p Gen8
HP ProLiant DL560 Gen8
HP ProLiant DL580 G7
HP ProLiant DL585 G6
HP ProLiant DL585 G7
HP ProLiant DL980 G7

ProLiant ML (expansion-optimized):

HP ProLiant ML350 G6
HP ProLiant ML350p Gen8
HP ProLiant ML370 G6

ProLiant SL (Scalable System)

HP ProLiant SL230s Gen8
HP ProLiant SL250s Gen8
HP ProLiant SL4540 Gen8
HP ProLiant SL4545 G7

NOTE:

For the list of supported skus per server, please see each server QuickSpecs.

NOTE:

This is a list of supported servers. Some may be discontinued.

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QuickSpecs

Standard Features

What is an IO Accelerator?

Single Level Cell and
Multilevel Cell

IO and Read/Write
Performance

Latency

The IO Accelerator is an PCIe card-based, advanced storage device that uses solid state storage technology
directly on the PCI bus, assuring high read and write data rates and accelerated application performance.
The associated application performance improvements will have a positive impact on business results and
the ability to accelerate IO-bound workloads like databases, virtualization and data analytics, resulting in
significant cost and time savings.

NAND technology uses flash memory cells to store data. Single level Cell (SLC) stores one bit per cell, while
Multi-level Cell (MLC) uses two bits per cell. While MLC can store more data within each device, it has lower
endurance characteristics than SLC.

HP PCIe IO Accelerators offer superior IO performance up to 892,000 READ IOPS and 935,000 WRITE IOPS,
and high throughput up to 3.0 GB/s READ and up to 2.5 GB/s WRITE.

HP PCIe IO Accelerators offer very low latency access to data, as low as 17 microseconds to write a 4K
block and as low as 68 microseconds to read a 4K block. In other words, a virtually zero seek time
compared to rotating magnetic media.

HP PCIe IO Accelerators for ProLiant Servers

RAM Requirements

Manageability

PCI IDs

Upgradeability

The amount of free RAM required by the driver depends on the size of the blocks used when writing to the
drive. The smaller the blocks, the more RAM required. Here are the guidelines for each 100GB of storage:

Average
Block Size (bytes)

8,192
4,096 (most common)
2,048
1,024
512

Command Line (CLI) tools for both Linux and Windows to configure, monitor, and upgrade firmware
SNMP Agent and System Management Homepage provided for Linux and Windows.
ioManager GUI for Windows and Linux.

Vendor & Device ID 1AED:1005; Subsystem Vendor & Device ID 103C:324E for Generation1 products. The
Device ID for Generation2 is 2001. In Gen2 the Subsystem Vendor ID has changed to 1590. Each capacity
has its own Subsystem Device ID.

The controller for the HP IO Accelerators can be upgraded in the future with new firmware. Online firmware
update tools are available for all supported operating systems.

System RAM usage (Megabytes) per 100GB of storage for Driver
version 2.x and 3.x

280MB
530MB
1030MB
2,000MB
3,970MB

Wear-leveling

NAND Flash devices use semiconductor technology that has a finite number of data that can be written to
the device, defined as the Maximum Lifetime. Projected lifetime of the NAND storage due to wear-out
varies with type of NAND and amount of writes to the device.

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