Storage Virtualization

To provide our clients with Datacenter Consolidation and Capacity Planning, ITatOnce Storage Experts expertly deploys Networked-Data Storage Solutions. The benefits of storage networks include broader data access, easier management, and cost reductions. This technology solution provides an effective means for information-intensive companies to share data across server's farm.

Overview

Your storage needs are growing. You need a SAN for virtualized servers, and you want your next investment to have a long term payoff.

The HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions are optimized for database and email applications, as well as virtualized servers. With a pay-as-you-grow, all-inclusive pricing model and intuitive storage management software, the SAN is perfect for the budget-minded. Do high availability and disaster recovery seem out of your reach? The P4000 eliminates single points of failure across the SAN with an innovative approach to data availability, reducing risk without driving up costs. Unsure that current storage can meet your future needs? Built on a storage clustering architecture, the HP P4000 SAN allows you to scale capacity and performance linearly without incurring downtime or performance bottlenecks, or forcing expensive upgrades. Need creative ways to stretch your IT budget? Reservationless thin provisioning substantially increases your storage efficiency.

Scalable, Clustered IP SAN

• iSCSI, 10GbE optional
• Scalable Performance
• SATA & SAS HDD
• Cost effective high availability
• VMware, Citrix, Hyper-V, Windows, Linux

Features & Benefits

All inclusive feature set enables enterprise functionality at an affordable price

• Storage Clustering simplifies scalability: Storage Clustering allows a customer to consolidate multiple storage nodes into pools of storage. All available capacity and performance is aggregated and available to every volume in the cluster. As storage needs increase the HP P4000 can scale performance and capacity on-line.
  
  
• Network RAID delivers new level of availability: Network RAID stripes and mirrors multiple copies of data across a cluster of storage nodes, eliminating any single point of failure in the HP P4000 SAN. Applications have continuous data availability in the event of a power, network, disk, controller, or entire storage node failure.
  
  
• Thin Provisioning increases storage efficiency: Thin Provisioning allocates space only as data is actually written without requiring pre-allocation of storage. This raises the overall utilization and efficiency of the HP P4000 SAN, reduces costs and ultimately increases the ROI.
  
  
• Snapshots simplify data protection: Snapshots create thinly provisioned, instant point-in-time copies of data on a per-volume basis. Administrators can access the snapshots to recover individual files or folders from the volume, or rollback an entire volume to a prior state.
  
  
• Remote Copy reduces costs for disaster recovery: Remote Copy replicates snapshots between HP P4000 SANs at primary and remote locations. Copies are thinly provisioned with no space reservation required at the remote location. Remote Copy enables centralized backup and disaster recovery on a per-volume basis.

Superior availability and disaster recovery

• Data remains available during site failures: HP P4000 SANs stripe and mirror multiple copies of data across a cluster of storage nodes, eliminating any single point of failure in the SAN. Applications have continuous data availability in the event of a power, network, disk, controller, or entire storage node failure.
  
  
• Integrated replication for disaster recovery: HP P4000 SANs include integrated replication at no additional cost that simplifies management with simple failover and failback.
  
  
• Change configurations without incurring downtime: Administrators can add capacity, increase performance, grow and migrate volumes between HP P4000 SAN clusters on the fly with no application downtime.

Scalable Performance

• Purchase only what you need today: Avoid up-front cost and the potential performance constraints. Purchase only what's needed today, then grow the performance, capacity, and redundancy of your HP P4000 SAN online as storage requirements evolve. Buying storage only when needed simplifies planning and relieves budget pressures.
  
  
• Scale performance and capacity simultaneously: Each time a storage node is added to the HP P4000 SAN, the capacity, performance, and redundancy of the entire storage solution increases.
  
  
• Avoid disruptive upgrades: Add resources to the HP P4000 SAN non-disruptively as capacity and performance requirements increase. Applications remain online during maintenance events for best in class availability.

Easy to manage SANs for virtualized environments

• Centralized Management Console: Multiple data centers and sites can be managed from an all inclusive "single pane-of-glass". All of the HP P4000 SAN features are managed from the Centralized Management Console (CMC) for simple, easy-to-manage storage.
  
  
• Business continuance with integrated HA and DR: Every HP P4000 SAN includes integrated synchronous and asynchronous replication at no additional cost. This approach reduces costs and simplifies management of high availability/fault tolerant and disaster recovery storage solutions.

LeftHand SANs

Cost effective storage for virtualization, easy to implement

	SATA Starter SAN	SAS Starter SAN	Virtualization SAN	Multi Site SAN	Ala Carte Storage Nodes
Target	- Server storage consolidation - Migrating from DAS	- Initial server virtualization project (20-100VMs) - Database and email	- Mid-range server virtualization projects (50-150VMs) - Database and email	- Multi-site HA requirement - Sites can be rack, room, bulding	- Specific configurations, customers that require specific disk drive types and form factors
Key Benefits	- Cost effective capacity - Enterprise class feauture set	- Cost effective perfomance - Simplified storage for small virtual server environments - Affordable high availability	- High perfomance scalable storage - Simplified storage for larger virtual server environments - Affordable high availability	- Cost effective. High availability - Data stays online during a site failure - Single interface mgmt - Geogrphic I/O preferencing	- Flexibility - Compatibility
Remote Office Solution Pack	- Optional	- Optional	- 10 SAN/iQ licenses replication	- 10 SAN/iQ licenses replication	- Optional

HP LeftHand Network Benefits:

LeftHand Networks is iSCSI SAN, Ethernet based for a less expensive shared storage

• Leverage Ethernet/IP network infrastructure to build SAN that is very easy to set up and manage
• Scale out linear performance/capacity/availability with storage nodes --> clustering / GRID architecture
• Great shared storage for virtualization (VMware, Virtual Iron, Citrix, Microsoft virtualization)
• Pay as you grow (scale out) – buy what they need as you scale out the storage cluster / grid
• Efficient capacity utilization with no space allocation reservations needed with snapshots or Thin Provisioning
• Simple DR options for business continuity or extending the cluster (protect storage by: Racks, Room, Floor, Building, Site)
• SAN/iQ software is the magic behind the LeftHand solution; very clean, simple and basic functionality.
• Here is the 10 min Flash demo – www.lefthandnetworks.com/flash  to show the LeftHand solution