Networking

Why HP P4000 iSCSI SAN?

Increasingly seen as an alternative to traditional SANs, iSCSI SAN solutions are built with virtualised environments in mind, directly addressing issues like storage cost-of-ownership and increasingly complex management. The scale-out architecture of HP’s P4000 SAN also delivers advantages around; scalability, high availability, disaster recovery and performance. Other advantages include:

Aggregated storage from clustering responds to iSCSI requests as a single system, so users can add additional storage nodes to the pool simply and without downtime
Built-in thin provisioning in the P4000 dramatically improves overall storage efficiency, allocating space only as data is actually written to a volume and in turn helping to increase both utilisation and ROI whilst controlling storage CapEx
P4000 SAN solutions offer built-in support for high availability and disaster recovery implementations, thus eliminating the need to buy add-on software.

Deliver on the promise of virtualisation

All too often organisations lose server virtualisation gains to inefficient storage and networking. By choosing SAN solutions that fully support a virtualised environment your customers can have all the benefits of server virtualisation and:

SAN storage that drives down costs via increasing storage utilisation
Greater flexibility around storage procurement, ideal in today’s tough budgetary environments
Increased capacity and performance whilst avoiding traditional SAN bottlenecks
The ability to continue operating continuously in the event of a local or geographic failure
Ease of management – both server and storage administrators can manage the same iSCSI SAN.

For you this means

Scope to leverage existing server virtualisation investments
Improved customer relationships by truly unlocking the potential of virtualised IT environments
Compelling commercial arguments for deals attaching HP Networking technology to existing virtualisation and P4000 deals to provide a fully virtualisation optimised infrastructure.

Why HP P4000 and Networking from Avnet?

Our specialist teams span HP server, storage, software and networking, helping you integrate HP and technology from other Suppliers into a Converged Infrastructure solution
We support you at every step in a deal, from identifying a lead to closing the deal.

Please take some time to review the HP P4000 and Networking resources posted on this page and then contact the HP team in Avnet on 01706 898398 to see how we can help you leverage P4000 and HP Networking deals within the broader drive towards virtualisation.