Manage your small and midrange business growing storage needs by deploying the next generation 6Gb SAS low cost, flexible tiered external storage system. Ideal for small application environments in SMBs, remote offices and departmental locations as well as tier 2 or 3 storage for enterprise customers. The new 6Gb SAS enclosures - Large Form Factor (LFF) D2600 with 12 drive bays and Small Form Factor (SFF) D2700 with 25 drive bays - offer modular solutions to simplify capacity expansion of HPE ProLiant server environments to external storage without having to make the full move to SAN or NAS. This allows you to buy what is needed today and purchase additional capacity as data storage needs grow.

The D2000 enclosures support direct attach storage to ProLiant Servers with the HPE Smart Array P411, P212, P812, P222, P421, P431, P441, P822 or the P841 Controllers. On HPE ProLiant and Integrity servers Dual Domain support is available for the HPE Smart Array P411, P421, P431, P441, P822 or the P841 Controllers attached to a D2600/D2700. (Single initiator environment only.) (For Dual Domain - HPE Smart Array Advanced Pack 2.0 No Media 1 Server 1yr 24x7 Support Software is required with the P421Controller). HPE UX 11iv3 and Windows 2008 R2 OS supported for HPE Integrity servers (single initiator environment only). Blade 6Gb SAS connectivity is enabled using a HPE Smart Array P711m, P721m, P731m, P741m Controllers, 6Gb SAS BL Switches and the D2000 disk enclosures. HPE H221, H222 and the H241 Host Bus Adapters are also supported with the D2600/D2700 Disk Enclosures