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Virtualisation with HP LeftHand iSCSI SAN solutions

Are you looking to achieve the full potential of server virtualisation? While you may have begun to virtualise servers, it’s important to virtualise the network and storage infrastructure as well.

With virtualisation driving much of today’s server and storage strategy many customers are looking for SAN solutions that support this approach and yet break free of traditional controller-based technology to realise the full potential of virtualisation.

The leader in open iSCSI SANs, HP LeftHand Networks pioneered the IP storage area network (SAN) market in 2001 with the introduction of SAN/iQ-powered solutions. HP LeftHand changes the rules of storage networking. With its powerful, yet cost-effective iSCSI SANs, customers are not constrained by high cost, high maintenance vendor-specific systems. They deliver SANs that are easy-to-grow, easy-to-manage and designed to meet customers' most urgent business needs. HP LeftHand iSCSI SAN solutions can help:

  • Provide superior scalability, powerful virtualisation and simplified management capabilities to help customers effectively manage even the most explosive data growth
  • Eliminates the storage bottlenecks that blight so many of today’s virtualisation projects
  • Bring enterprise class storage features, including  high availability and disaster recovery
  • Reduce costs as you boost storage efficiencies, using the pay-as-you-grow all-inclusive pricing model.
  • Provide powerful storage efficiencies and simplified management capabilities in LeftHand SAN solutions to drive down storage expenditure.

 

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HP LeftHand SANs introduction

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Rethink server virtualisation

You need a SAN for virtualised servers—one that’s an investment with a long-term payoff. You also need shared storage to take full advantage of advanced virtualisation capabilities. Consider the HP LeftHand P4000 SAN solutions, optimised for virtualised servers, database and email applications. If you are a small-to-midsized company wresting with sophisticated storage requirements, a pay-as-you-grow, all-inclusive pricing model plus intuitive storage management software make HP P4000 SAN solutions your ideal solution

Solution Overview

VMware Infrastructure (now VMware vSphere) is the industry’s most widely deployed software suite for optimizing and managing IT environments through virtualisation. It offers businesses a scalable and cost-effective way to optimise utilisation of technology assets, simplify IT management, and protect the data and IT environments that run their businesses. VMware offers compelling features for IT organisations concerned with resource management, high availability and disaster recovery. VMware VMotion allows virtual machines to be moved from server to server while running. Thus administrators can balance workloads and performance to match user demands—and even vacate a server in order to take it offline for maintenance. VMware HA monitors the state of running virtual machines and, in the event of a server failure, restarts the virtual machines on alternate servers.

Features such as VMotion and VMware HA require continuous access to the underlying storage, which in turn requires the implementation of a shared storage infrastructure. Small and medium businesses and companies with remote offices want to leverage these same benefits and deploy comprehensive virtualisation solutions to meet their own business needs. However the requirement for shared storage is an obstacle to virtualisation adoption for these customers due to cost, complexity, and management of another external device.

The HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance Software creates a shared storage node using resources that already exist inside the physical server running VMware ESX. These nodes can be clustered together to transform existing server storage into a clustered storage system that is managed as a single SAN. This allows you to use all VMware ESX advanced features that need shared storage such as VMware HA, VMotion, DRS and SRM. You can use the P4000 VSA to cluster disks from multiple servers without disruption and add more as needed. The P4000 VSA is a VMware-certified compatible SAN/Storage device customers can count on. Installed easily on any VMware ESX server, the P4000 VSA combines server virtualisation and SAN on the same server platform and is fully integrated with HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions

Downloads - HP LEFTHAND P4000 VSA TRIAL SOFTWARE

This free 30-day, fully functional evaluation edition is pre-formatted for the VMware ESX platform. Capable of supporting up to 2TB per node, this version is useful for building SAN/iQ clusters of any size. Each VSA requires 1GB of RAM and at least 5GB of disk space. 

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