Rethinking Virtualization Solutions with HP LeftHand P4000 SANs

Rethinking Virtualization Solutions with
HP LeftHand P4000 SANsOptimized storage solutions for virtual infrastructures
At a GlanceHP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions provide optimized storage for your virtualized server environment. This means:. Storage that supports virtual servers, including support for high-availability (HA) and disaster-recovery (DR) features in virtual environments. Double capacity utilization, with space-efficient snapshots and thin provisioning features included at no extra cost. High availability and 49% lower cost in small sites and remote offices achieved by turning internal server drives into shared storage
Virtualization: doing more with less Server virtualizationServer virtualization is the first step for many Virtualization encompasses more than simply server businesses. It consolidates resources to reduce costs technology. it is the convergence of servers, storage, and increase utilization. It facilitates implementation and applications in a way that fundamentally of better disaster-recovery and application-availability changes how you utilize the resources in your entire solutions. And it optimizes the IT infrastructure for the IT infrastructure. Virtualization impacts your ability flexibility and agility needed to quickly respond to to respond to business changes, streamlining some changing business needs and market conditions.processes and opening up others to a maze of possibilities. To maximize the value of investments in a virtualized environment you need a master plan for your infrastructure.Figure 1: Storage clustering creates a pool of storage resources and delivers them to application servers as logical volumes.
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Once servers are virtualized, many IT administrators Performancecome face-to-face with the challenges that this new HP P4000 SANs deliver the performance needed to environment presents. There are unique utilization, support the highly concurrent and rapidly changing performance, management and availability workloads that virtualized servers impose on storage. requirements that must be met in order to optimize your As your virtualized infrastructure grows, your SAN infrastructure. You will find that, as storage environments grows with it, scaling capacity and performance become more complex, it can become expensive and without disruption.difficult to manage the disparate systems. And, you will learn that the advanced high-availability and Higher resource utilizationdisaster-recovery features of products such as VMware HP LeftHand SAN technology allows you to vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer thin-provision storage volumes and scale capacity require the support of shared storage. on demand, helping to raise utilization levels while reducing your energy consumption. In part due to their In short, you will discover that server virtualization efficient design, HP P4000 SANs double capacity requires virtualized storage in order to fully live up to utilization and provide applications with new levels 1its promise. of availability.Cost-effective HA/DRVirtualized storage for virtual servers HP P4000 SANs stripe and mirror multiple copies of Server virtualization demands storage that can support data across a cluster of storage nodes, eliminating concurrent workloads without performance degradation. any single point of failure in the SAN. Applications It calls for storage capacity and performance that can have continuous data availability in the event of a scale without disruptions. It needs virtual disks to remain power, network, disk, controller, or entire storage online during server or site failures so that features such node failure.as VMware High Availability (HA) and Microsoft Hyper-V live migration have continuous access to HP LeftHand P4000 SANs can be split between two storage while executing failover of virtual machines. And locations to provide highly available storage that stays it calls for storage that is simple and easy to manage. online during a site failure. Remote Copy replicates HP LeftHand SAN Solutions meet all those requirements Snapshots between storage nodes at primary and and can drive your costs down and dramatically remote locations. Built-in synchronous replication improve resource utilization. performs storage failover and failback-instantly, automatically, and without human intervention.Certif... [download for more]