Product Focus: HP StorageWorks P4000 G2 SAN:
Affordable, Scalable, Simple Storage
Your storage needs are changing. You are looking for a solution that accommodates your virtual server requirements, increased email traffic, and rapidly growing databases while also aligning with your business applications. The HP StorageWorks P4000 G2 SAN Solutions are enhanced for database and email applications, as well as virtualized servers. With a pay-as-you‑grow, allinclusive pricing model (including 3 years of support) and intuitive storage management, this SAN (storage area network) is perfect for the budget-minded. Do high availability, disaster recovery, and room for growth seem out of your reach? The P4000 G2 SAN helps eliminate 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, all without any expensive upgrades. Reservation-less thin provisioning is used throughout, substantially increasing your storage utilization while application integrated snapshots simplify data protection.
All inclusive feature set enables enterprise functionality at an affordable price.
- Storage Clustering simplifies scalability:
Storage Clustering allows 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 P4000 G2 SAN can scale performance and capacity online. - Network RAID delivers new level of availability:
Network RAID stripes and protects multiple copies of data across a cluster of storage nodes, removing any single point of failure in the P4000 G2 SAN. Applications have continuous data availability in the event of a disk, controller, storage node, power, network, or site failure. - Thin Provisioning increases storage efficiency:
Thin Provisioning allocates space as data is actually written without requiring pre-allocation of storage. This raises the overall utilization and efficiency of the P4000 G2 SAN, reduces costs, and ultimately increases the return on investment (ROI). - Protection via Application Integrated Snapshots:
Snapshots create thinly provisioned, instant point‑in-time copies of data on a per-volume basis. Administrators can access the 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 reduces costs for disaster recovery:
Remote Copy replicates snapshots between P4000 G2 SANs at multiple locations. Copies are thinly provisioned with no space reservation required. Remote Copy enables disaster recovery on a per‑volume basis and leverages application integrated snapshots for faster recovery. - Data remains available during site failures:
HP P4000 G2 SANs can protect multiple copies of data across a cluster of storage nodes, removing any single point of failure in the SAN. Applications have nearly continuous data availability in the event of a disk, controller, storage node, power, network, or site failure. - Integrated replication for disaster recovery:
HP P4000 G2 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, improve performance, grow and migrate volumes between HP P4000 G2 SAN clusters on the fly with no application downtime.
- Purchase only what you need today:
Avoid up‑front cost and the potential performance constraints. Purchase only what's needed today, then grow online as storage requirements evolve. Buying storage at the time of need simplifies planning and relieves budget pressures. - Scale performance and capacity simultaneously:
Each time a storage node is added to the P4000 G2 SAN, the capacity, performance, and redundancy of the entire storage solution increases. - Avoid disruptive upgrades:
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 continuous high availability.
- Centralized Management Console:
Multiple data centers and sites can be managed simply from the Centralized Management Console (CMC), a "single pane-of-glass", that is used to manage all HP P4000 G2 SAN features. - Business continuance with integrated High Availability and Disaster Recovery:
Every 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 solutions. - Best practice analyzer:
P4000 G2 SANs automatically analyze the SAN configuration and provide recommendations to the administrator on how to stay within best practices. - HP StorageWorks P4000 Unified NAS Gateway:
Add NAS functionality to the P4000 SAN Solutions by adding Windows IP-based gateway services via Windows Storage Server 2008. Fully featured NAS gateway includes support for multiple file protocols (CIFS, NFS, and so on), de-duplication, print services, and high availability through Microsoft Clustering.
