HP P4000 SAN: Think Beyond-the-Box

Data continues to grow exponentially, server virtualisation is putting pressure on existing storage and the need to get a grip on costs remains ever-present. For you and your customers the answer is simple - HP P4000 ‘Pay-as-you-grow’ SAN.

With a pay-as-you-grow, all-inclusive licensing model - HP P4000 SANs support online upgrades, firmware changes, SAN layout modifications, and advanced high availability to address ever-changing organisational needs.

Enterprise functionality at an affordable price

Storage Clustering means consolidating multiple nodes into pools of storage
Network RAID stripes and protects multiple copies of data across a cluster of storage nodes, eliminating any single point of failure in the P4000
Thin Provisioning allocates space only as data is actually written without requiring pre-allocation of storage
Snapshots create thinly provisioned, instant point-in-time copies of data on a per-volume basis
Remote Copy replicates snapshots between P4000 G2 SANs at primary/remote locations.

Superior availability and Disaster Recovery

By striping and protecting multiple copies of data across a cluster of storage nodes, P4000 eliminates any single point of failure. Applications have continuous data availability in the event of a disk, controller, storage node, power, network, or site failure
Integrated replication at no additional cost that simplifies management with simple failover and failback
Add capacity, increase performance, grow and migrate volumes between HP P4000 G2 SAN clusters on the fly with no application downtime.

Scaling SAN capacity and performance without disruption

Purchase only what’s needed today, then grow the performance, capacity, and redundancy of your HP P4000 G2 SAN online as storage requirements evolve
Each time a storage node is added, capacity, performance, and redundancy of the entire storage solution increases
Add resources non-disruptively
Use a converged infrastructure to host application and storage workloads in the same BladeSystem infrastructure.

Easy to manage SANs for virtualised environments

Streamlined storage management for VMware, Hyper-V and Citrix
Multiple datacentres and sites can be managed from an all inclusive “single pane-of-glass”
Best-in-class operation with built-in best-practice analyzer which automatically recommends SAN best practices.