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Overview

The HP Smart Array P700m is HP's first mezzanine Card PCI-Express (PCIE) supporting direct attach and shared SAS Storage. It is one of the highest performing controllers in the SAS portfolio and provides new levels of reliability for HP Blade servers, through its support of the latest SCSI technology and advanced RAID capabilities.

What's new

HP's innovative design and integration work within the Smart Array family of products creates customer value that is unmatched in the industry.
  • Directly Attach External Storage to a c-Class Enclosure
  • Share External Storage for a c-Class Enclosure
  • Supports both SAS and SATA hard drives, lets you deploy drive technology as needed to fit your computing environment
HP's High Performance Architecture sets new boundaries of industry performance expectations!
  • 3Gb SAS technology delivers high performance and data bandwidth up to 300 MB\s per physical link and contains full compatibility with 1.5G SATA technology.
  • Software consistency among all Smart Array family products: Array Configuration Utility, Systems Insight Manager, Array Diagnostic Utility (ADU) and SmartStart
  • PCI Express 2.5G host interface provides up to 2 GB/s in each direction

Ideal environment

Ideal for...

Shared Storage
  • C-Class BladeSystem customers in Enterprise and SMB space
  • Customers looking for scalable shared storage in a c-Class blade environment with ease of management and lower cost of ownership
Web
  • Search - Load-balanced web back-end servicing dynamic HTML pages
  • Storage - Single namespace networked file system layer for ease of management and shared access
  • Back end - Load-balanced web front-end servicing dynamic HTML pages
Data Repositories
  • For business intelligence applications with heavy workloads
  • The computational and storage needs of workloads in several areas such as scientific and technical computing, games, digital media, and data analytics are growing exponentially
  • The processors handle tasks such as indexing or deciding which data should be shuttled from fast disks to slower tape. Eventually, such systems will be very busy handling, managing and retrieving data
  • Flexible ratio of storage to processors to meet a variety of situations--including tasks such as archiving data that requires more processing abilities than stand-alone storage systems can supply
 
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Board Type Type 1 Mezz Type 1 Mezz Type 1 Mezz Type 1 Mezz
Raid Level 0,1,5,6, 50,60 0,1 (int)/NA1 (ext) NA1 (ext) 0, 1, 5, 6 (ADG) optional3
External connections 4 22 4 4
Internal connections 0 2 0 0
Max Drive Support 108 2 (int)/NA1(ext) NA1 108
RAID Level Migration Yes No(int)/NA1(ext) NA1 Optional3
StipeSize Migration Yes No(int)/NA1(ext) NA1 Optional3
Online Capacity Expansion Yes No(int)/NA1(ext) NA1 Optional3
Support for Battery Backed Write Cache Yes No No Optional3
Cache Size 1GB 0/2562 256MB 512MB
Max SAS Switch support 4 2 4 4
Use Case   Shared storage only2 Shared storage only Direct attached

1 = Controlled by the attached arrays
2 = Dependent on P712m skus
3 = Enabled by the battery
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