HP BQ888A

HP P4500 G2 14.4TB SAS VIRTUALIZATION SAN SOLUTION

Overview
Storage needs are changing in light of server virtualization, data growth, business continuity demands and cost pressures. Looking for storage that meets these goals and can be added easily into your infrastructure?
HP StorageWorks P4000 G2 SAN Solutions are proven for virtual servers, client virtualization, database, email and business applications. With a pay-as-you-grow, all-inclusive pricing model (3-year support included) and intuitive storage management, this SAN is perfect for the budget-minded. Do room for growth, high availability and disaster recovery seem out of reach? P4000 G2 SANs scale capacity and performance linearly without incurring downtime or performance bottlenecks. We avoid expensive upgrades. P4000 G2 SANs eliminate single points of failure across the SAN and offer application data high availability, reducing risks without driving up costs. Reservation-less thin provisioning substantially increases your storage utilization and thus reduces costs.

Features
All Inclusive Feature Set Enables Enterprise Functionality at an Affordable Price

⁍ 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.


Superior Availability and Disaster 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.


Scaling SAN Capacity and Performance Without Disruption

⁍ 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.


Easy to Manage SANs for Virtualized Environments

⁍ Streamlined storage management for VMware (SRM integration, VDI plug-in), Hyper-V (application integrated snapshots), and Citrix (StorageLink plug-in).