Do you need a direct attached or shared storage solution within your Blade System enclosure? The D2220sb Storage Blade delivers direct attached storage for c-Class Gen 8 blade servers, with support for up to twelve SFF SAS hard disk drives or SAS/SATA SSDs or SATA Midline hard drives. The enclosure backplane provides a PCI Express connection to the adjacent c-Class server blade & enables high performance storage access without any additional cables. The D2220sb features the onboard smart array P420i controller with large flash-backed write cache, for increased performance & data protection. Up to eight D2220sb storage devices can be supported in a single Blade System c 7000 enclosure for up to 115.2 TB. Use the HP Store Virtual VSA to turn the D2220sb into an i SCSI SAN for use by all severs in the enclosure & any server on the network. VSA
Includes:: remote replication capabilities, thin provisioning, & snapshot.