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The HP StorageWorks SANs provide the industry leading connectivity platforms to deploy, manage and operate today's networked storage environments. It significantly reduces TCO while maintaining high returns on investment, and improving business agility.
Features
- Centrally managed: Fully integrated with the HP OpenView Storage Area Manager framework to provide the ability to control/manage enterprise level heterogeneous fabric environments.
- Upgradeable: Investment protection through backwards compatibility with older generation switches, and ability to upgrade device firmware non-disruptively.
- Reduced complexity: Architectural guidance through SAN Design Guide and solution-focused blue-prints.
- Highly available: Ability to provide 99.999 or higher availability levels through director-class products and redundant-fabric SAN topology designs.
- Secured: Authentication, authorization, access control and zoning provide added levels of network security.
- Interoperable: Extensive HP testing to ensure seamless performance.
- Open: Support for multiple operating systems and clustering environments; NEW standards-based fabric interoperability among B-series, M-series & C-series, for outstanding flexibility and investment protection. Please refer to SAN Design Guide for currently supported configurations.
- Scalable: In distance, connectivity and performance, with support for more than 3,000 total ports in modular SANs to enable both today's and tomorrow's connectivity needs.
- Multi-protocol: Ability to support multi-protocol infrastructures with FC, iSCSI, and FCIP.
- Modular: Ability to implement modular SAN designs with increased scalability, stability and rate of utilization on storage assets through integrated subnet routing (B-series MP Router, and C-series Inter VSANs).
Benefits
- The HP StorageWorks SANs provide the industry leading connectivity platforms to deploy, manage and operate today's networked storage environments. It significantly reduces the total cost of ownerships (TCO) while maintaining high returns on investment, and improving business agility.
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Affordable, easy-to-use Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions that simplify
storage management without compromise, allowing change without chaos and growth
without limits.Enabling the single Storage Server to manage, scale, and protect: HP ProLiant Storage Server iSCSI Feature Pack and HP ProLiant Application Storage Manager deliver powerful and easy-to-use storage consolidation functionality and management to HP Storage Server solutions.
Diagram of a typical iSCSI Storage Server deployment:
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Enables consolidation of multiple DAS installations onto networked storage over inexpensive ethernet infrastructure
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Serves files, print, and blocks from a single storage platform
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Separates server and storage—more control over storage scalability
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Centralizes management and backup
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Low-cost entry into IP storage networks
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Solution focused on environments with:
- A need to implement low-cost, simplified storage consolidation
- Limited application deployments (i.e. Exchange, SQL, Oracle)
- Focus on value and simplicity over high availability
- Knowledge of the benefits of storage networking, without the means to invest in Fibre-channel SANs
- Little or no expertise in storage management
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iSCSI Storage Server solution can be enhanced with iSCSI Snapshots, iSCSI Clustering, iSCSI Direct Backup, and iSCSI Replication.
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