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HP StorageWorks P4000 G2 SAN Solutions

The HP StorageWorks P4000 G2 SAN Solutions are optimized for database and email applications, as well as virtualized servers. With a pay-as-you-grow, all-inclusive pricing model (including 3 years of support) and intuitive storage management, this SAN is perfect for the budget-minded. Do high availability, disaster recovery and room for growth seem out of your reach? The P4000 G2 SAN eliminates single points of failure across the SAN with an innovative approach to application data availability, reducing risk without driving up costs. Built on a storage clustering architecture, the P4000 G2 SAN scales capacity and performance linearly without incurring downtime or performance bottlenecks, or forcing expensive upgrades. And reservation-less thin provisioning substantially increases your storage utilization.

Features and Benefits

• Storage Clustering allows a customer to consolidate multiple storage nodes into pools of storage. All available capacity and performance is aggregated and available to every volume in the cluster. As storage needs increase the HP P4000 G2 can scale performance and capacity on-line.
• Network RAID stripes and protects multiple copies of data across a cluster of storage nodes, eliminating any single point of failure in the HP P4000 G2 SAN. Applications have continuous data availability in the event of a disk, controller, storage node, power, network, or site failure.
• Thin Provisioning allocates space only as data is actually written without requiring pre-allocation of storage. This raises the overall utilization and efficiency of the HP P4000 G2 SAN, reduces costs and ultimately increases the ROI.
• Snapshots create thinly provisioned, instant point-in-time copies of data on a per-volume basis. Administrators access snapshots to recover individual files from the volume, or rollback an entire volume. Built-in application integration provides automated quiescing for Microsoft VSS applications.
• Remote Copy replicates snapshots between P4000 G2 SANs at primary/remote locations. Copies are thinly provisioned with no space reservation required. Remote Copy enables centralized backup and disaster recovery on a per-volume basis and leverages application integrated snapshots for faster recovery.
• HP P4000 G2 SANs stripe and protect multiple copies of data across a cluster of storage nodes, eliminating any single point of failure in the SAN. Applications have continuous data availability in the event of a disk, controller, storage node, power, network, or site failure.
• HP P4000 G2 SANs include integrated replication at no additional cost that simplifies management with simple failover and failback.
• Administrators can add capacity, increase performance, grow and migrate volumes between HP P4000 G2 SAN clusters on the fly with no application downtime.
• Avoid up-front cost and the potential performance constraints. Purchase only what’s needed today, then grow the performance, capacity, and redundancy of your HP P4000 G2 SAN online as storage requirements evolve. Buying storage only when needed simplifies planning and relieves budget pressures.
• Each time a storage node is added to the HP P4000 G2 SAN, the capacity, performance, and redundancy of the entire storage solution increases.
• Add resources to the HP P4000 G2 SAN non-disruptively as capacity and performance requirements increase. Applications remain online during maintenance events (adding nodes, updating software or firmware) for best-in-class availability.
• Multiple data centers and sites can be managed from an all inclusive “single pane-of-glass.” All of the HP P4000 G2 SAN features are managed from the Centralized Management Console (CMC) for simple, easy-to-manage storage.
• Every HP P4000 G2 SAN includes integrated synchronous and asynchronous replication at no additional cost. This reduces costs and simplifies management of high availability/fault tolerant and disaster recovery storage solutions.
• Ensuring best-in-class operation with built-in best-practice analyzer which automatically recommends SAN best practices and how to implement those.
• Boosts the value of P4000 SAN Solutions by adding Windows-powered IP-based gateway services. Fully featured NAS gateway includes support for multiple file protocols (CIFS, NFS, etc.), deduplication, print services and high availability through Microsoft Clustering.
  

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