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Introduction
The VMA SAN Gateway provides additional scale of connectivity and availability for connecting host
servers using industry standard Fibre Channel to VMA-series Memory Arrays. The VMA SAN
Gateway acts as a storage controller that provides FC connectivity. The VMA SAN Gateway requires
a FC SAN switch between the gateway and the connecting servers.
The VMA SAN Gateway is a special purpose HP ProLiant DL380 G7 based storage controller
running a specially built and tuned operating environment, vSHARE OE, used for providing FC SAN
connectivity to one or two connected VMA-series Memory Arrays. VMA-series Memory Arrays are
connected using PCIe direct connect to the VMA SAN Gateway; the FC ports in the gateway act as
storage controller target ports for FC SAN connectivity to host servers. A maximum of two VMA-series
Arrays can be connected to the VMA SAN Gateway.
The HP VMA SAN Gateway is an appliance and can only be ordered with HP Product Number (P/N)
AM465A. The vSHARE OE cannot be ordered standalone and the VMA SAN Gateway cannot be
„built‟ from existing or new hardware.
Features
The VMA SAN Gateway provides the following features:
FC SAN connectivity of up to two VMA-series Memory Arrays
Standard four 8Gb FC target ports with option to add four additional ports
Special purpose vSHARE Operating Environment
CLI management interface
Web browser based GUI management interface
HP iLO 3 Standard functionality and remote management port
Redundant power supplies
RAID 1 mirroring of boot/operating environment disk
LAN and Serial management ports
For additional details on features, setup, commands, etc., see the HP VMA SAN Gateway Installation
and User Guide, document number AM456-9007A Rev 02, available at www.hp.com/go/vma-docs.
Figure 1: VMA SAN Gateway – front view
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