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HPE NS CS7000/9000/SF 1.44TB Cache Bundle
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Q8B81A is a SAN storage system engineered for enterprise environments, featuring 12 drive bays that support a mixed array of drives such as SATA, SAS, SSD, and NVMe, delivering a total storage capacity of up to 256 TB with RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, and RAID 10 configurations. This product leverages robust hardware to ensure data protection and performance in high-demand scenarios.
Q8B81A is built with an Intel Xeon processor providing 8 cores and comes with 16 GB of pre-installed ECC DDR4 memory, expandable to 64 GB. It offers advanced connectivity options including 10GbE network ports, USB 3.2, and 4 LAN ports, and features expansion support, redundant fan cooling, and a redundant power supply rated at 350W, making it ideal for SMB backup, enterprise data centers, virtualization, and media server deployments.
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In a global enterprise running 2,000+ VMware Horizon desktops on HPE Nimble Storage CS7000, the Q8B81A-HPE NS CS7000/9000/SF 1.44TB Cache Bundle caches boot storms and application loads. Outcome: delivers sub-2ms storage latency, reduces user log-in times by 60%, and increases end-user productivity during peak hours.
A financial services firm hosts mission-critical Oracle and SQL Server databases on an HPE Nimble CS9000 cluster. The Q8B81A-HPE NS CS7000/9000/SF 1.44TB Cache Bundle stores hot index and transaction logs in NVMe flash, achieving sub-millisecond response and boosting transaction throughput by 30%. Benefit: enables 10,000+ trades per second with consistent low-latency execution.
A global retailer uses an HPE Nimble Storage SF scale-out array to serve dynamic product catalogs and search queries. Integrating the Q8B81A-HPE NS CS7000/9000/SF 1.44TB Cache Bundle caches 90% of read operations in flash, slashing page-load times by 50% and driving a 20% uplift in conversion rates during holiday sales.
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 Q8B81A |  Q8G61A |  Q8D61A |  Q8G43A |  Q8B39A | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product Type | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System | Storage System |
| Storage Type | SAN | SAN | SAN | NAS | NAS |
| Form Factor | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount | Rackmount |
| Bay Count | 12-bay | 8-bay | 24-bay | 8-bay | 8-bay |
| Supported Drive Types | Mixed | Mixed | Mixed | SATA HDD / SAS HDD / SATA SSD / NVMe SSD | SATA HDD / SATA SSD / NVMe SSD |
| Hot-Swap Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Max Supported Capacity | 256 TB | 512 TB | 512 TB | 512 TB | 512 TB |
| RAID Support | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 / RAID 10 | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 / RAID 10 | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 / RAID 10 | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 / RAID 10 | RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 5 / RAID 6 / RAID 10 |
| CPU Type | Intel Xeon | Intel Xeon | Intel Xeon | Intel Xeon | Intel Xeon |
| CPU Cores | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Installed RAM | 16 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB |
| Max RAM Capacity | 64 GB | 64 GB | 128 GB | 128 GB | 128 GB |
| RAM Type | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 | ECC DDR4 |
| Network Ports | 10GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE | 10GbE |
| LAN Ports | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| USB Ports | USB 3.2 | USB 3.0 | USB 3.2 | USB 3.0 | USB 3.2 |
| Expansion Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cooling | Redundant Fan | Redundant Fan | Redundant Fan | Redundant Fan | Redundant Fan |
| Power Supply | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant | Redundant |
| Power Supply Wattage | 350W | 350W | 750W | 500W | 750W |
| Operating System | Custom OS | Custom OS | Custom OS | Custom OS | Custom OS |
| Snapshot Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cloud Sync Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Virtualization Ready | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| iSCSI Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Surveillance Support | No | No | No | No | No |
| Use Case | Enterprise Data Center | Enterprise Data Center / Virtualization / SMB | Enterprise Data Center | SMB / Enterprise Data Center / Media Server / Virtualization | Enterprise Data Center |
| Product Name | Q8B81A Enterprise Storage System | Q8G61A Storage System | Q8D61A Enterprise SAN Storage System | Q8G43A | Q8B39A Enterprise Storage Array |
| Height | 3 inches | 3.5 inches | 4 inches | 3.5 inches | 4 inches |
| Width | 17 inches | 17 inches | 17 inches | 17.2 inches | 17 inches |
| Depth | 28 inches | 28 inches | 28 inches | 20 inches | 28 inches |
| Weight | 45 lbs | 35 lbs | 35 lbs | 25 lbs | 45 lbs |
Cache bundle delivered consistent IO improvements.
Installation was quick.
Improved workload stability.
Good performance tuning option.
Reliable cache expansion.
The HPE NS CS7000/9000/SF 1.44TB Cache Bundle (SKU: Q8B81A) is a high-performance, 1.44 TB flash cache module specifically engineered to accelerate HPE CS7000 and CS9000 storage arrays.
SKU Q8B81A is compatible with HPE NS CS7000 and CS9000 storage arrays that support the SF (Smart Flash) cache architecture.
The Q8B81A bundle provides a total of 1.44 TB of NAND flash cache, boosting I/O performance and reducing application latency.
Deploying the 1.44 TB SF cache bundle can deliver up to 5× faster read/write response times and substantially lower latency for mission-critical workloads.