HP TA688AAE

P4000 VIRTUAL SAN APPLIANCE E-LTU

Overview
HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance Software (VSA) – Gain the benefits of a fully-featured SAN without dedicated external storage.

Most virtualized server environments require shared storage for high availability, as well as application data, and storage solutions should be as highly available as the VMs. With a comprehensive feature set, LeftHand VSA is optimized for virtual environments and is a flexible shared storage solution that scales as needed. The ability to use existing server, DAS and SAN hardware within your environment greatly increases storage utilization, and reduces costs associated with dedicated external storage. Built-in high availability and disaster recovery features enhance server virtualization capabilities to deliver better business continuity. Straightforward and simple administration is provided by a management console that allows the administrator to manage all LeftHand SAN nodes, physical and virtual, regardless of their physical location.

Features
Virtualized Shared Storage for a Variety of Environments

⁍ Transform the internal storage of your ESX/ESXi and Hyper-V servers into fully featured shared storage for applications and virtual environments. HP LeftHand VSA delivers the scalability and high-availability of the P4000 LeftHand arrays to the S of the SMB.


Affordable Enterprise Functionality with Comprehensive P4000 LeftHand SAN Feature Set

⁍ Scale-out storage clustering allows the consolidation of multiple virtual storage nodes into pools of shared storage. All available capacity and performance is aggregated and available to every volume in the cluster. As storage needs increase LeftHand VSA can scale-out while remaining online.


Simple to Deploy, Easy to Manage

⁍ Zero to VSA Automated Installation: Simple and quick wizard driven installation. Scriptable installs allow automated repeatable deployment of VSA configurations.