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- Unit 4 Data Center Peripherals
- Purpose 1
- Objectives 1
- Introduction 2
- High-End Disk Array Solutions 2
- High-End Backup Solutions 3
- 1/2-inch cartridge tape by Storage Technology Corp. 3
- HP Optical Library System 3
- High-End Printing Solutions 4
- HP's Vision for the Future 5
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- Purpose
- This unit discusses disk arrays, backup solutions, and high-speed, high-
- volume printers that you can offer to your Corporate Business System
- customers.
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- Objectives
- At the end of this unit, you will be able to describe high-end solutions
- in the following areas:
- o Disk arrays
- o Backup solutions
- o Printers
- You will also be able to discuss HP's plans to support 3480-
- compatible tape drives from StorageTek.
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- Introduction
- The high-end customer must have reliable peripherals that have the
- ability to store, protect, back up, and print an ever increasing amount
- of data. Today's customers don't want equipment that interrupts on-line
- users, that needs frequent operator intervention, or that otherwise
- decreases the availability of the system.
- HP peripherals have set an industry standard for reliability,
- minimizing the expense and frustration of unexpected down-time.
- This unit describes three groups of peripherals for HP's Corporate
- Business System:
- o Disk array technology for increased storage capacity
- o Support of StorageTek's high speed 3480 tape backup solution
- o High-speed, high-volume printing with HP's F100 printer
- For more information on any of the products described in this unit,
- please contact the appropriate sales and marketing center.
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- High-End Disk Array Solutions
- HP Disk Arrays: The C225X Family
- High-end customers want high availability solutions and low storage
- costs, along with high performance. You can offer all this, plus more
- with HP's family of C225X disk arrays.
- The C225X disk array family offers increased disk connectivity, a
- small footprint, increased availability, and controller flexibility.
- The C2254HA and C2252HA spread or "stripe" data across two or four
- disks, storing and protecting up to 2.7 Gbytes or 5.4 Gbytes of usable
- data. Users may never know that a disk drive has failed or is being
- replaced. Because these disk arrays include a data protection disk and
- provide for the on-line "hot" replacement of a failed disk, users can
- stay on-line without being interrupted when a disk drive is down. Under
- this configuration, customers can get up to 43.5 Gbytes of storage for
- each HP-FL interface.
- The HP 9000 supports disk arrays in the independent mode, thus
- improving I/O performance for certain file types.
- HP's disk array technology is ideal for your Corporate Business
- System customers. The C225X disk arrays offer high-end customers
- increased storage capacity, high availability, increased performance,
- and greater flexibility.
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- High-End Backup Solutions
- Customers looking for high-end backup solutions want high performance,
- compatibility with existing media, and cost effectiveness. While HP has
- a full range of backup solutions, a high-end customer's needs will best
- be met through HP's support of the StorageTek's 4XXX series of 3480
- compatible tape drives, as well as HP's Optical Library System.
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- Half-inch cartridge tape by Storage Technology Corp.
- High-end computing backup and StorageTek are synonymous. The majority of
- mainframes or large system installations contain 1/2-inch cartridge tape
- technology and/or a StorageTek SILO solution. HP's Corporate Business
- System supports the StorageTek 1/2-inch cartridge tape solution.
- Compatible with IBM's 3480 technology, this cartridge tape solution
- offers the high performance required by customers using mainframe-class
- systems.
- By using multiple tape drives with autochangers, an unattended backup
- capacity of over 16 Gbytes is possible.
- By using TurboStore/iX on the HP 3000 for software data compression,
- you can offer even greater performance and capacity.
-
- HP Optical Library System
- The HP Optical Library System is the solution for a maximum capacity
- unattended backup on the HP Corporate Business System.
- On an HP 3000 using TurboStore/iX and software data compression, the
- Optical Library System can perform up to 35 Gbytes per hour with four
- autochangers with a capacity of up to 70 Gbytes.
- On the HP 9000 using HP OmniBack/Turbo, the Optical Library System
- can perform up to 24 Gbytes per hour with four autochangers with a
- capacity of 80 Gbytes.
- The Optical Library System can also be used for on-line archival
- storage of infrequently accessed data. Although the Optical Library
- System is not a random access device, when used in this manner it can
- provide a cost-effective alternative to either on-line hard disks or
- off-line tape storage.
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- High-End Printing Solutions
- HP 5000 Series Printers
- Your mainframe printer customer is looking for an effective way of
- handling high-volume output. Applications such as billing, invoicing,
- financial statements, and direct mail can generate hundreds of thousands
- to millions of pages per month, and require a quality presentation.
- Your customer will want a printer that handles very large capacities
- at printing speeds of 100 pages per minute or more and that has
- LaserJet-quality resolution. Also they will need sophisticated page
- formatting tools that can scan images or signatures, that can generate
- logos or graphics and merge electronic forms with OLTP data. Your high-
- end customer requires robust spooling capabilities, including page-level
- error recovery and secure spool files. Paper handling equipment, such as
- roll feed input, bursters, or envelope stuffers may also enter into the
- picture. With the HP 5000 series of printers, you can offer your
- customer all this, plus the ability to route output to compatible
- printers across the network, from the desktop to the data center.
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- HP 5000 Model F100 Printer
- The printers,F100 printer is the first product in a new family of
- printers targeted for mainframes. It has twice the speed and duty cycle
- of the HP 2680 printer. The F100 printer can be directly connected to HP
- Corporate Business System systems. It uses the HP PCL4 printer language,
- an industry standard established by the HP LaserJet Series II printer.
- It uses fanfold paper and offers a resolution of 300 x 300 dpi. (The HP
- 2680A prints 180 x 180 dpi.) It can print 100 pages per minute, and 2.8
- million pages per month.
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- HP's Vision for the Future
- HP will continue to offer improved disk arrays, backup devices, and
- printers that are faster, more powerful, and cost-effective.
- For backup devices, you can offer customers the future possibility of
- SILO support, which will accommodate six thousand 3480 tapes. This will
- give unattended backup of 6000 x 200 Mbytes or 1.2 terabytes of data. In
- addition, HP is investigating 3490 tape support.
- For printers, you can look for the HP 5000 printers,F135XP printer at
- the end of 1992. This printer will print a wide line of 17 inches so
- that customers can print two 8.5 by 11 pages simultaneously. This means
- that the printer can print a wide page at 135 pages per minute and two
- 8.5 by 11 pages at 210 pages per minute.
- An upgrade to the F100 printer for the F135XP will be available in
- the fourth quarter of 1992.
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- Index
- 3480 tape backup solution 4-2
- C225X disk array 4-2
- Optical Library System 4-3, 4-4
- Printers,F100 4-5
- Printers,F135XP 4-5
- SILO 4-3, 4-5
- TurboStore/iX 4-3, 4-4
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