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HPE D6020 Disk Enclosure

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HPE D6020 Disk Enclosure

Finding it difficult to keep up with the growth in unstructured data? Looking for a cost-effective high capacity storage option? Re Enclosure

With the 12 Gb/s SAS HPE D6020 Disk Enclosure, ProLiant servers and BladeSystems, combining the simplicity and cost effectiveness of direct flexibility or performance. The D6020, external storage expansion for massive data capacity applications, at low $/GB.

standalone Direct Attach Enclosure, but can also be used for expansion in storage applications like Microsoft Storage Space, Luster, Cloud Backup, Data Protection or Big Data environments (Unstructured and Structured)

The D6020 can be using a standard 2M SAS cable/ The HPE D6020 also supports the HPE H241 Host Bus Adapter (HBA).

Use the D6020 as part of a straight

cost external zoned

direct attach storage for HPE BladeSystem servers. Easily configure storage on the fly with easy to use management software.

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supported off a single BladeSystem enclosure. 12Gb/s host connectivity enables higher performance, eases configuration/deployment and broadens supported features of a D6020 using HPE Smart Array P741m controller and 6 Gb/s SAS BL switches.

duce cost and footprint for your HPE ProLiant servers and Bladesystems storage expansion needs with the HPE D6020

Hewlett Packard Enterprise extends and redefines direct-attached storage for

-attached storage without sacrificing

designed for data-intensive environments is a storage enclosure for dense, cost-effective

The HPE D6020 can be used not only as a

directly connected to ProLiant Gen8 and Gen9 servers using the Smart Array P441, and the P841 Controllers

-forward in-rack 6 Gb/s SAS implementation that delivers high-density, low-

enclosures can be daisy-chained together to provide support for up to 210 drives. Up to six D6020 storage devices can be

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HPE D6020 Disk Enclosure

Overview

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Power supply 1

Fan module 1 (Drawer 1)

17.

Power supply 4

Power On/UID 2 status panel

10.

Primary I/O module (Drawer 1)

18.

SAS 1 connector

Fan module 1 (Drawer 2)

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SAS 1 connector

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SAS 2 connector

Primary I/O module (Drawer 2)

12.

SAS 2 connector

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Secondary I/O module (Drawer 2)

SAS 1 connector

13.

SAS 1 connector

21.

Fan module 2 (Drawer 2)

SAS 2 connector

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SAS 2 connector

22.

Power supply 2

Power supply 3

15.

Secondary I/O module (Drawer 1)

UID 1 status pane

16.

Fan module 2 (Drawer 1)

What's New

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At A Glance

• 5U rackmount form factor

Increased number of supported drives – Supporting up to three (3) enclosures for daisy chaining. Max number of drives that can be added now up to 210

• Introducing new D6020 bundles

HPE D6020 w/35 10TB 12G SAS 7.2K LFF (3.5in) Midline HDD 350TB Bundle

HPE D6020 w/70 10TB 12G SAS 7.2K LFF (3.5in) Midline HDD 700TB Bundle

• Supports seventy (70) 3.5" LFF Universal hot pluggable SAS, SAS (Midline) MDL or Solid State drives

• 1+2 daisy-chaining allows support for up to 210 drives

• Two pull-out drive drawers support hot plug large form factor dual-ported SAS, SAS MDL and Solid State drives in just 5U

of rack space (35 hot plug drives per drawer)

• Introducing support for Solid State Drives

• 12 Gb/s direct connect to ProLiant Gen8 and Gen9 servers using the HPE Smart Array P441 and P841 Controllers using

a standard 2M SAS cable; Single and Dual Domain environments.

• The D6020 also supports the HPE H241 Host Bus Adapters

NOTE: Please follow the link below to download the latest Firmware for your HBA and/or Smart array controller.

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http://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?sp4ts.oid=1008531195&swItemId=MTX_f5c0fb4

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• 12 Gb/s front-end SAS connectivity using 6 Gb/s SAS BL switches in the interconnect bays, and HPE Smart Array P741m

http://www.hp.com/go/D6020/manuals

controllers in each BladeSystem. NOTE: D6020 support requires Blade switch firmware to be 3.0.8.0 or higher

• Using the Virtual SAS Manager (VSM) in the HPE SAS BL switch, assign or 'zone' D6020 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 D6020’s externally. 3-0-0 warranty

• Microsoft Storage Spaces can be enabled with the H241 HBA, or the HP P741m Smart Array Controller (in the HBA

mode) and Gen9 servers. (Requires: Windows 2012 R2 driver: HPCISSS3 63.8.0.64, H241 Firmware: 3.56, D6020 Firmware: 2.92(A)

Deployment Guide For detailed deployment information, see the HPE direct connect external SAS storage for HPE BladeSystem deployment guide. Select Manuals under Resources for HPE D6020 Disk Enclosure:

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HPE D6020 Disk Enclosure

Features and Benefits

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Key Features

High density, low cost

• 70 LFF Universal SAS, SAS MDL or Solid State drives in 5U form factor

itecture provides zoned direct attach storage

en9 servers with the Smart Array P441, or the

Build BladeSystem

• D6020 drive bays are assigned or 'zoned' to individual blade bays using SAS 2.0 zoning

oned to each server appear as local storage to that server. This allows complete

With zoned direct attached storage capabilities; server administrators can build local storage on

HPE reliability

Familiar Smart Array technology of the Smart Array Controllers enables support for RAID levels

RAID 1+0 (mirroring and striping) protects against failure of one drive (and failure of particular

Product Technology

SAS

12 Gb/s SAS

Modular Chassis

5U, 70 Large Form Factor Universal SAS, SAS MDL or Solid State drive bays

Drives available

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) enterprise-class drives designed for high volume

SAS storage for BladeSystem and ProLiant DL/ML servers

server storage on the fly

• Two pull-out drive drawers support hot plug large form factor dual-ported SAS, SAS MDL or

Solid State drives in just 5U of rack space

• 1+2 expansion allows up to three (3) D6020 which can be cascaded for a maximum of 210

drives

• Each pull-out drive drawer is supported by a redundant set of hot plug power supplies and

redundant hot plug fans. Straight forward SAS arch for BladeSystem servers; just a Smart Array P741m controller in the Blade server, a dual or single 6 Gb/s SAS BL switches in the chassis connected to an D6020.

• Connect directly to selected ProLiant Gen8 and G

P841 Controllers using a standard 2M SAS cable; Single and Dual Domain environments. No zoning.

• HPE HBA H241 is also supported.

capabilities. Use the Virtual SAS Manager (VSM) in the 6 Gb/s SAS BL switch to dynamically assign up to 100 drives to specific BladeSystem servers, without complex configuration or recabling. Drives z flexibility to reconfigure quickly and easily without moving cables

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the fly according to their configuration requirements.

• Quickly deploy and expand capacity by configuring additional drive bays to a P741m Smart

Array Controllers without moving a single cable.

• Keeps data available and server running while a failed drive is being replaced; two fault

tolerance configurations are supported for the internal connections including:

• RAID 0 (striping) provides no extra data protection

• RAID 1 (mirroring) protects against failure of one drive

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multiple drives)

• RAID 5 (distributed data guarding) protects against failure of one drive

• RAID 6 with ADG (Advanced Data Guarding): This is the highest level of fault tolerance

• RAID 50 (RAID 5+0) protects against failure of one drive (and failure of particular multiple

drives)

• RAID 60 (RAID 6+0) allows administrators to split the RAID 6 storage across multiple external

boxes

• RAID 1 ADM (Advanced Data Mirroring) allows customers to create mirrored RAID set using 3

identical hard drives

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HPE D6020 Disk Enclosure

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24x7 usage. SAS Midline (MDL) are usually reserved for archival of data as

large capacities.

costs by reducing foot prints and power consumptions.

Scalability Up to 70 SAS, SAS MDL or Solid State 3.5" hot plug hard drives can be

chained together.

A single BladeSystem enclosure supports up to six D6020’s externally.

RAID

12 Gb/s SAS

Common Slot Power supplies

5U, 70 Large Form Factor Universal SAS, SAS MDL or Solid State drive bays

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) enterprise-class drives designed for high volume

they are both relatively inexpensive and are available in very large capacities.

S drive performance can be approximately 30%

greater than SAS MDL performance on sequential host IO. SAS performance

costs by reducing foot prints and power consumptions.

Fans

Includes four redundant hot plug fan

Configuration and

SAS BL switch for use with BladeSystem servers: Use the Virtual SAS

RAID or stripe size migration.

Management/Health

Active hardware management using HPE SIM: Manage the array with the

Log records hundreds of events and stores them in an easy-to-view format.

they are both relatively inexpensive and are available in very The D6020 can accommodate SAS, SAS MDL and Solid State drives within the same enclosure. SAS drive performance can be approximately 30% greater than SAS MDL performance on sequential host IO. SAS performance excels in sequential lower latency response time and random IO per second transaction performance due to higher rpm disk speeds yielding lower seek times. Solid State drive support with integrated “wear gauge” helps improve application performance and allows customers to reduce their operating

supported per D6020, or up to 210 drives when three D6020’s are daisy-

24x7 usage. SAS Midline (MDL) are usually reserved for archival of data as

The D6020 can accommodate both SAS, SAS MDL and Solid State drives within the same enclosure. SA

excels in sequential lower latency response time and random IO per second transaction performance due to higher rpm disk speeds yielding lower seek times. Solid State drive support wit integrated “wear gauge” helps improve application performance and allows customers to reduce their operating

Management Tools

Manager (VSM) to dynamically assign drive bays in the D6020 to each BladeSystem server bay, without complex configuration or re-cabling. This allows complete flexibility to reconfigure quickly and easily without moving cables. Smart Array Controller: Array Configuration Utility (ACU) provides configuration and management of hard drives, and supports online array capacity expansion, logical drive extension, assignment of online spares and

Utilities

highly refined HPE Systems Insight Manager. Smart Components are available to easily update firmware. A convenient Integrated Management

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