Server virtualization brings your company more efficient, more available IT infrastructure. But it also changes storage requirements. Traditional controller-based SANs often can hold you back from realizing the full potential of virtualization. HP LeftHand iSCSI SAN solutions can help:
- Eliminate storage bottlenecks associated with a virtualized server environment
- Enable simple high availability and disaster recovery
- Reduce costs as you boost storage efficiencies
Rethink Server Virtualization
Virtualization opens up a new range of possibilities for data centers. These include higher server utilization with lower costs, the economies of server consolidation, and high availability and disaster recovery supported with built-in features. Additional benefits include performance management through dynamic workload balancing, as wells as ease of management through the harnessing of all servers as a single, uniform pool of resources.
You need a SAN for virtualized servers—one that’s an investment with a long-term payoff. You also need shared storage to take full advantage of advanced virtualization capabilities. Consider the HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions, optimized for virtualized 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.
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Rethink Business Continuity
Many potential reasons for failure can cause business-critical applications to go offline and endanger a company’s viability. While server virtualization has provided solutions that help with business continuance strategies, many traditional SANs do not provide effective support for the storage availability that server virtualization requires.
Do high availability and disaster recovery seem beyond your reach? No longer, thanks to the HP LeftHand P4000 SAN. Built on a storage clustering architecture that eliminates any single point of failure, the HP P4000 SAN scales capacity and performance linearly—with no downtime, performance bottlenecks or expensive upgrades. HP LeftHand iSCSI SANs offer efficient storage utilization, optimized performance, simple management and cost-effective disaster recovery. In fact, the entire portfolio of HP iSCSI SANs can help you reduce the cost of storing and managing ever-expanding data, while increasing data protection and availability