End-to-End Virtualisation with HP, why you should be interested!

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End-to-end optimisations — Comprehensive hardware, software, services, and support deliver full stack virtualisation and reduce TCO.

Ease of management — Reduce management costs by 50% and maximise use of IT assets with integrated management for physical and virtual environments.

Substantial savings — Best-of-breed storage solutions and all-inclusive pricing can triple capacity utilisation and reduce CAPEX by enabling more efficient tiered storage.

Third-party integration — Built-in HA to fully enable VMHA, LiveMigration, and XenMotion plus automated re-provisioning enable more flexible and reliable VMware, Hyper-V, and XenServer environments.

Physical getting virtual with LeftHand P4000 Small sites and remote offices can convert server-based storage into SAN storage that can be clustered and managed like a physical SAN without the expense.

Storage for Server Virtualisation

You know virtualisation improves server utilisation—but it also depends on shared storage to better meet application requirements. Your virtual environments require high levels of data availability and storage utilisation plus the ability to scale non-disruptively as your business evolves. HP LeftHand P4000 SAN solutions address these challenges and deliver real business resultsThis gives clear visibility of the real costs of storage while providing a way for you to:

Reduce cost for multi-site, high availability storage by approximately 50%

Increase capacity utilisation by approximately 33% to improve storage investments

Easily deploy shared storage within virtual server environments without disruptions to business operations

The unique, all-inclusive feature sets of HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions include thin provisioning, linear performance scaling, single-pane-of-glass management, and clustered network RAID. As a result, you can deliver increased application availability with twice the utilisation and 49% lower cost. Also, save time and accelerate the time to results by leveraging HP validated, proven-solution bundle packages.

Dynamic and fast-changing virtualised environments require equally dynamic and flexible storage. HP LeftHand SAN solutions provide advanced features such as non-disruptive configuration changes and greater scalability that are critical in virtualised environments, maximising efficiency and optimising your time.

Rather than use proprietary hardware that limits capacity and performance, HP LeftHand has taken a new approach. Relying on standards-based hardware, HP LeftHand SANs use storage clustering to aggregate multiple storage nodes into a single storage system, regardless of how many nodes you add. What's more, HP LeftHand SANs come with a comprehensive set of software features at no additional cost.

Features

ALL INCLUSIVE FEATURE SET ENABLES ENTERPRISE FUNCTIONALITY AT AN AFFORDABLE PRICE

Storage Clustering simplifies scalability - 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 can scale performance and capacity on-line.

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Network RAID delivers new level of availability - Network RAID stripes and mirrors multiple copies of data across a cluster of storage nodes, eliminating any single point of failure in the HP P4000 SAN. Applications have continuous data availability in the event of a power, network, disk, controller, or entire storage node failure.

Thin Provisioning increases storage efficiency - Thin Provisioning allocates space only as data is actually written without requiring pre-allocation of storage. This raises the overall utilisation and efficiency of the HP P4000 SAN, reduces costs and ultimately increases the ROI.

Snapshots simplify data protection - Snapshots create thinly provisioned, instant point-in-time copies of data on a per-volume basis. Administrators can access snapshots to recover individual files from the volume, or rollback an entire volume.
Built in integration provides automated quiescing for Microsoft VSS applications.

Remote Copy reduces costs for disaster recovery - Remote Copy replicates Snapshots between P4000 SANs at primary/remote locations. Copies are thinly provisioned with no space reservation required. Remote Copy enables centralised backup and disaster recovery on a per-volume basis and leverages application integrated snapshots for faster recovery.

SUPERIOR AVAILABILITY AND DISASTER RECOVERY

Data remains available during site failures - HP P4000 SANs stripe and mirror 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 power, network, disk, controller, or entire storage node failure.

Integrated replication for disaster recovery - HP P4000 SANs include integrated replication at no additional cost that simplifies management with simple failover and failback.

Change configurations without incurring downtime - Administrators can add capacity, increase performance, grow and migrate volumes between HP P4000 SAN clusters on the fly with no application downtime.

SCALABLE PERFORMANCE

Purchase only what you need today - 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 SAN online as storage requirements evolve. Buying storage only when needed simplifies planning and relieves budget pressures.

Scale performance and capacity simultaneously - Each time a storage node is added to the HP P4000 SAN, the capacity, performance, and redundancy of the entire storage solution increases.

Avoid disruptive upgrades - Add resources to the HP P4000 SAN non-disruptively as capacity and performance requirements increase. Applications remain online during maintenance events for best in class availability.

EASY TO MANAGE SANS FOR VIRTUALISED ENVIRONMENTS

Centralised Management Console - Multiple datacentres and sites can be managed from an all-inclusive “single pane-of-glass.” All of the HP P4000 SAN features are managed from the Centralised Management Console (CMC) for simple, easy-to-manage storage.

Business continuance with integrated HA and DR - Every HP P4000 SAN includes integrated synchronous and asynchronous replication at no additional cost. This approach reduces costs and simplifies management of high availability/fault tolerant and disaster recovery storage solutions.