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HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions deliver enterprise functionality that enhances virtual environments, simplifies management, and reduces costs. Easy to deploy, scale and maintain, HP P4000 SANs ensure that crucial business data remains available. The innovative approach to storage provides unique double fault protection across the entire SAN, reducing vulnerability without driving up costs the way traditional SANs can.
Product Overview
Your storage needs are growing. You need a SAN for virtualised servers, and you want your next investment to have a longterm payoff.
The HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions are optimised for database and email applications, as well as virtualized servers.
With a pay-as-you-grow, all-inclusive pricing model and intuitive storage management software, the SAN is perfect for the budget-minded.
Do high availability and disaster recovery seem out of your reach? The P4000 eliminates single points of failure across the SAN with an innovative approach to data availability, reducing risk without driving up costs.
Unsure that current storage can meet your future needs? Built on a storage clustering architecture, the HP P4000 SAN allows you to scale capacity and performance linearly without incurring downtime or performance bottlenecks, or forcing expensive upgrades.
Need creative ways to stretch your IT budget? Reservationless thin provisioning substantially increases your storage efficiency, making you look like a rock star.
HP LeftHand P4000 SANs Models At a Glance:
• Family of highly scalable, easy to use storage solution with superior HA
and DR capabilities
• Consolidate storage for Windows and Linux environments, and for server virtualisation environments
• Rack mount chassis form factor for Starter, Virtualisation and Multi-site SAN solution
• Based on HP LeftHand SAN/iQ storage software
• Models with SAS or SATA drives
• Software included support for
- Network RAID Synchronous Replication
- Snapshot
- Remote Copy Asynchronous Replication with Bandwidth Throttling
- Multi-Site HA/DR Solution Pack Synchronous Replication
- Online Volume Migration
- Online Software Upgrades
- Self-Healing Storage
• Storage Controllers: minimum of 2 per SAN, a cluster of 3 Storage systems provides triple redundancy
• Network RAID Levels (per volume) 0,2, 3, 4 protect against double disk, system, and site failures
• Hardware RAID Levels 10, 5, 6
• Hardware Availability features
- Hot-plug hard drives and redundant power
- ECC memory
- Integrated storage controller w/ battery-backed DDR2 cache
- Hyper-redundant clustered storage
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