AP836B HPE P2000 G3 MSA Fibre Channel Controller

The AP836B is the HPE P2000 G3 MSA Fibre Channel controller, a controller with two 8Gb Fibre Channel host ports. It is the RoHS compliant SKU of the P2000 G3 FC controller, and an array takes one or two of them, in either the large form factor or the small form factor P2000 G3 array or in the two DC-powered carrier-grade chassis.

The Fibre Channel controller ships with SFPs and can run in point-to-point mode or in FCAL (loop) mode. FCAL is the default and is used for direct connect, particularly with two controllers, while point-to-point (fabric) mode is used with almost all switches. Each controller carries a 2 GB transportable read/write cache, with battery-free cache backup that uses super capacitors and compact flash.

P2000 G3 arrays support RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10 and 50. They accept enterprise SAS, SAS midline and SATA midline drives in either the P2000 large form factor 3.5-inch or the small form factor 2.5-inch size, and an array can grow with up to 7 P2000 LFF drive enclosures or up to 5 D2700 SFF enclosures, or a mix of both sizes.

In the carrier-grade configuration the AP836B is NEBS certified. The AP841B DC-power SFF chassis is a controller-less 6Gb chassis that supports one or two P2000 G3 8Gb Fibre Channel controllers and has twenty-four small form factor drive bays. Companion drives for the same arrays include the AP858A P2000 300GB 6G SAS 15K LFF hard drive, and more arrays and controllers are in HPE storage systems.

Related part: 592261-002 HPE P2000 G3 8Gb Fibre Channel Controller Board