Gartner have identified virtualisation as the key strategic focus area for IT departments until 2012. However, virtualisation just as a server technology ignores the real utilisation, availability and cost benefits from converging servers, storage, and applications into virtual pools of shared resources.
The HP StorageWorks P4000 G2 SAN Solutions are optimised for database and email applications, as well as virtualised servers. With a pay-as-you-grow, all-inclusive pricing model and intuitive storage management, the P4000 SAN is perfect for the budget-minded – eliminating single points of failure across the SAN to reduce risk, without driving up costs. Built on a storage clustering architecture, the P4000 G2 SAN scales capacity without incurring downtime or performance bottlenecks, whilst thin provisioning substantially increases storage utilisation to maximise ROI.
Key Benefits
Reduced storage costs
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HP P4000’s pay-as-you-grow model and all-inclusive software features remove the high upfront costs usually attached to the shared storage model that virtualisation requires. P4000’s powerful thin-provisioning for volumes, snapshots and clones improves capacity utilisation and removes inefficiencies.
Higher availability and stronger data protection
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Use HP P4000’s integrated replication to match server virtualisation, high availability and disaster recovery capabilities. P4000 solutions provide availability extending beyond standard hardware RAID, whilst also simplifying both backup consolidation and disaster recovery. Data online at the network level also means entire systems can fail with no impact on availability. Similarly, SANs spanning multiple sites protect against major outages at one site.
Increased performance
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With increased server utilisation putting extra pressure on the IT infrastructure and storage systems emerging as a bottleneck, HP P4000 provides non-disruptive, scalable performance and distributes load across every SAN resource.
Simpler management
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Server virtualisation leads to a dynamic, adaptive IT infrastructure and storage needs to keep pace with this shift in IT delivery. At the same time high availability, effective disaster recovery and failback provide complex management challenges. HP P4000 SAN solutions answer these varied management demands by providing a single pane of glass user interface, integrated performance manager, simple failover and failback wizards and inclusive of Microsoft VSS and VMware Site Recovery Manager.
Enhanced disaster recovery
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HP P4000 SANs overcome many of the cost implications of effective disaster recovery – eliminating the need for expensive add-on software and licences via embedded replication. Avoid high space reservations with mountable copies and thin provisioning. Use P4000’s remote office solution pack as a SAN based replication client and consolidate remote office backup. Avoid low bandwidth issues between sites with low bandwidth replication and bandwidth control.
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