HP P4000 G2 LeftHand SAN Solutions

HP P4000 G2 SANs, provide a virtualized pool of storage resources to deliver enterprise SAN functionality that enhances virtual environments, simplifies management, and reduces costs. Easy to deploy, grow and maintain, HP P4000 G2 SANs ensure that critical business data remain available. The innovative approach to storage provides a unique data protection level across the entire SAN, reducing vulnerability without driving up costs the way traditional SANs can.

Product Overview
Planning for everything from data growth to disaster recovery to centralized backup to future proofing your infrastructure - these are all daunting tasks for any company no matter what the size. When it comes to the storage part of the design, HP P4000 G2 LeftHand SAN Solutions are a perfect fit for environments with a variety of virtual servers, client virtualization, database, email, and business applications.

P4000 SANs scale capacity and performance linearly to seamlessly grow with your business. The P4000 portfolio has affordable enterprise functionality with a comprehensive feature set and simplified central management for all locations. Superior application availability and disaster recovery features are integrated into the P4000 SANs for automated failover/failback in any situation. P4000 SANs are optimized for virtualized environments with VMware ESX/ESXi & Microsoft Hyper-V integration and offer continuous data availability to users and applications that meets demand on-the-fly.

Simplified backup and easy recovery: Application integrated and managed snapshots for ESX/ESXi and Hyper-V. Take application consistent snapshots of VMs from the storage system.

• High performance solid state tier - New P4900 SSD Storage System - linearly scales IOPS as you grow. Includes integrated SMARTSSD Wear Gauge. Easily add to P4000 environment and migrate volumes online.
• P4800 SAN Solution for BladeSystem now supports 2TB drives for best dollar per GB options in a converged infrastructure! In addition, HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric modules are also supported!
• Zero to VSA Automated Installation and Deployment: Installation of VSA is simplified and accelerated. Scriptable installs allow automated repeatable deployment of VSA configuration.
• Remote Copy performance improvements: Faster replication speeds and shorter RPOs - Saves time by pre-detecting the empty space/unchanged data and only copies changed data.
• Peer Motion data mobility with Cluster Swap: Replace or upgrade P4000 clusters with just a few clicks, no maintenance windows & no downtime required. Migrate data online between tiers non-disruptively
• New SAN Status home page & Best Practice configuration wizard: New look & feel for P4000 CMC with single view of all management groups/key info. New wizards help choose highest availability configs.
• Storage Replication Adaptor for VMware Site Recovery Manager 5: Integration streamlines/automates disaster recovery with P4000 and ESX/ESXi.

• Portfolio of highly scalable, easy to use SAN solutions with superior HA and DR capabilities
• Perfect match for server virtualization, client virtualization, Windows, and Linux environments
• Rack mount form factor for Starter SANs, Virtualization SAN, Multi-site SAN and Scalable Capacity SAN Solutions
• BladeSystem SAN Solution for Client Virtualization (VDI) deployments and Enterprise workloads.
• Intel® Xeon® 5500 / 5600 series CPU
• SSD, SAS or MDL SAS drives available
• P4000 SAN/iQ Software delivers
  • Storage Clustering for disruption free growth
  • Network RAID 0, 5, 6, 10, 10+1, and 10+2 (Synchronous Replication)
  • Thin Provisioning
  • Application Integrated Snapshots
  • Remote Copy (Asynchronous Replication with Bandwidth Throttling)
  • Multi-Site HA/DR Solution (Synchronous Replication across several locations)
  • Online Volume Migration and automated Software Upgrades
  • Self-Healing Storage: Proactive disk / volume scrubbing with automatic bad block repair
• Storage Controllers: minimum of 2 per SAN, a cluster of 3 Storage systems provides triple redundancy
• Network RAID Levels (per volume) 0, 5, 6, 10, 10+1, and 10+2 protect against double disk, controller, storage node, power, network, or site failure
• Hardware RAID Levels 10, 5, 6 (default is level 5)
• Hardware Availability features
  • Hot-plug hard drives
  • Redundant power supplies
  • Integrated storage controller w/ battery-backed cache
  • Hyper-redundant clustered storage (achieved in combination with the P4000 SAN/iQ storage software)
• HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance Software for VMware ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V transforms server disk drives and external legacy storage into a virtual iSCSI SAN
• HP ProLiant Integrated Lights-Out 2/3 Remote Management
• HP Insight Remote Support delivers 24x7 secure remote support
• 1200W 48V DC power supplies supported for P4300 G2 and P4500 G2
  

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 G2 can scale performance and capacity on-line.
• Network RAID delivers new levels of data availability
  Network RAID stripes and protects multiple copies of data across a cluster of storage nodes, eliminating any single point of failure in the HP P4000 G2 SAN. Applications have continuous data availability in the event of a disk, controller, storage node, power, network, or site failure. Choose the right network RAID level for each volume in the cluster based on capacity and performance needs.
• Thin Provisioning reduces costs by increasing 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 G2 SAN, reduces costs and ultimately increases the ROI.
• Application Integrated Snapshots for VMware and Windows simplify data protection
  Snapshots create thinly provisioned, instant point-in-time copies of data on a per-volume basis. Administrators access snapshots to recover individual files from the volume, or rollback an entire volume. Built-in application integration provides automated quiescing for VMware and Hyper-V VMs and Microsoft VSS applications.
• Remote Copy reduces costs for disaster recovery
  Remote Copy replicates snapshots between P4000 G2 SANs at primary/remote locations. Copies are thinly provisioned with no space reservation required. Remote Copy enables centralized backup and disaster recovery on a per-volume basis and leverages application integrated snapshots for faster recovery.

Superior availability and disaster recovery

• Data remains available during site failures with P4000 Multi-Site Solution
  HP P4000 G2 SANs stripe and protect 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 disk, controller, storage node, power, network, or site failure.
• Integrated replication for disaster recovery
  HP P4000 G2 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 G2 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 P4000 G2 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 P4000 G2 SAN, the capacity, performance, and redundancy of the entire storage solution increases.
• Avoid disruptive upgrades
  Add resources to the P4000 G2 SAN non-disruptively as capacity and performance requirements increase. Applications remain online during maintenance events (adding nodes, updating software or firmware) for best in class availability.
• 10GbE upgrade available

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 P4000 G2 SAN features are managed from the Centralized Management Console (CMC) for simple, easy-to-manage storage.
• Business continuance with integrated HA and DR
  Every P4000 G2 SAN includes integrated synchronous and asynchronous replication at no additional cost. This reduces costs and simplifies management of high availability/fault tolerant and disaster recovery storage solutions.
• Industry leading VMware integration
  vStorage / VAAI array offload integration, HP Insight Control Storage Module for vCenter, Native ESX MPIO / PSA support, Site Recovery Manager adapter, and the only SVA certified Virtual SAN Appliance www.hp.com/go/vsa
• Best practice analyzer
  Ensuring best-in-class operation with built-in best-practice analyzer which automatically recommends SAN best practices and how to implement those.
• LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance Software
  Turn any Microsoft or VMware virtualized server's internal and/or external storage into a virtual SAN, without the expense of added storage hardware.
• P4000 G2 Unified NAS Gateway
  Boosts the value of P4000 SAN Solutions by adding Windows-powered IP-based gateway services. Fully featured NAS gateway includes support for multiple file protocols (CIFS, NFS, etc.), deduplication, print services and high availability through Microsoft Clustering.
• Reference Architectures for Client Virtualization
  VDI and client virtualization deployments are aided with the P4000 reference architectures for VMware and Citrix for projects of all sizes.

HP P4300 G2 16TB MDL SAS Starter SAN Solution

MDL SAS Starter SAN Software:

• SAN/iQ Storage Clustering
• SAN/iQ Network RAID (synchronous replication)
• SAN/iQ Thin Provisioning
• SAN/iQ Application Integrated Snapshots
• SAN/iQ Remote Copy (asynchronous replication)
• SAN/iQ Multi-Site/DR Solution (synchronous replication across locations)
• SAN/iQ Application Integration Solution Pack

MDL SAS Starter SAN Hardware:

• Dual redundant, active-active storage controllers
• 16 MDL SAS Drives, 1TB, 7,200 RPM
• 8 GB RAM
• Redundant hot swap power supplies
• 1024 MB battery backed cache
• Support for RAID 5, 6, 10
• 4 1Gbit NIC ports
• iLO2 Management
• Integrated DVD/CD-Rom
  
• 1200W 48V DC power supplies supported
  

MDL SAS Starter SAN Services:

• P4000 SAN Solutions include services resulting in 3yrs of HW&SW, 9x5, NBD
• Factory warranty for all P4000 SAN Solutions is 1yr, 9x5, NBD for Hardware
• Installation & Startup services are available from HP & HP resellers. Installation and startup can be performed by customers

Customer Training:

• A two day training course for P4000 SAN Solutions is available and recommended. Select the part number HF383E (QTY 2) from the HP Education tab

What's in the Box:

• Each sku contains the following major components:
  
  • Two P4300 G2 Storage Systems, each with eight 1TB LFF MDL SAS drives

HP P4300 G2 7.2TB SAS Starter SAN Solution

SAS Starter SAN Software:

• SAN/iQ Storage Clustering
• SAN/iQ Network RAID (synchronous replication)
• SAN/iQ Thin Provisioning
• SAN/iQ Application Integrated Snapshots
• SAN/iQ Remote Copy (asynchronous replication)
• SAN/iQ Multi-Site/DR Solution (synchronous replication across locations)
• SAN/iQ Application Integration Solution Pack

SAS Starter SAN Hardware:

• Dual redundant, active-active storage controllers
• 16 SAS Drives, 450GB, 15,000 RPM
• 8 GB RAM
• Redundant hot swap power supplies
• 1024 MB battery backed cache
• Support for RAID 5, 6, 10
• 4 1Gbit NIC ports
• iLO2 Management
• Integrated DVD/CD-Rom
  
• 1200W 48V DC power supplies supported
  

SAS Starter SAN Services:

• P4000 SAN Solutions include services resulting in 3yrs of HW&SW, 9x5, NBD
• Factory warranty for all P4000 SAN Solutions is 1yr, 9x5, NBD for Hardware
• Installation & Startup services are available from HP & HP resellers. Installation and startup can be performed by customers

Customer Training:

• A two day training course for P4000 SAN Solutions is available and recommended. Select the part number HF383E (QTY 2) from the HP Education tab

What's in the Box:

• Each sku contains the following major components:
  
  • Two P4300 G2 Storage Systems, each with eight 450GB LFF 15K SAS drives
    

HP P4500 G2 14.4TB SAS Virtualization SAN Solution

Virtualization SAN Software:

• SAN/iQ Storage Clustering
• SAN/iQ Network RAID (synchronous replication)
• SAN/iQ Thin Provisioning
• SAN/iQ Application Integrated Snapshots
• SAN/iQ Remote Copy (asynchronous replication)
• SAN/iQ Multi-Site/DR Solution (synchronous replication across locations)
• SAN/iQ Application Integration Solution Pack
• P4000 Replication for Remote Offices (VSA DR for 10 remote sites)

Virtualization SAN Hardware:

• Dual redundant, active-active storage controllers
• 24 600 GB 15K SAS disk drives
• 12 GB RAM
• Redundant hot swap power supplies
• 1,024 MB battery backed cache
• Support for RAID 5, 10, 6
• 4 1Gbit NIC ports
• iLO2 Management
• Integrated DVD/CD-Rom
  
• 1200W 48V DC power supplies supported
  

Virtualization SAN Services:

• P4000 SAN Solutions include services resulting in 3yrs of HW&SW, 9x5, NBD
• Factory warranty for all P4000 SAN Solutions is 1yr, 9x5, NBD for Hardware
• Installation & Startup services are available from HP & HP resellers. Installation and startup can be performed by customers

Customer Training:

• A two day training course for P4000 SAN Solutions is available and recommended. Select the part number HF383E (QTY 2) from the HP Education tab

What's in the Box:

• Each sku contains the following major components:
  
  • Two P4500 G2 Storage Systems, each with twelve 600GB LFF 15K SAS drives
    
  • 10 VSA licenses (NOTE: Ensure that the 10 VSA licenses are registered / authorized at the same time as the primary storage systems of the Virtualization SAN to properly activate support. Not registering the VSA licenses at the same time as the Storage Systems may invalidate support terms.)

HP P4500 G2 28.8TB SAS Multi-Site SAN Solution

Multi-site SAN Software:

• Dual active/active site failover
• SAN/iQ Storage Clustering
• SAN/iQ Network RAID (synchronous replication)
• SAN/iQ Thin Provisioning
• SAN/iQ Application Integrated Snapshots
• SAN/iQ Remote Copy (asynchronous replication)
• SAN/iQ Multi-Site/DR Solution (synchronous replication across locations)
• SAN/iQ Solution Pack for Microsoft Windows
• P4000 Replication for Remote Offices (VSA DR for 10 remote sites)

Multi-site SAN Hardware:

• Dual redundant active-active controllers
• 48 600 GB 15K SAS disk drives, 24 per site
• 24 GB RAM
• Redundant hot swap power supplies
• 2,048 MB battery backed cache
• Support for RAID 5, 10, 6
• 8 1Gbit NIC ports, 4 per site
• iLO2 Management
• Integrated DVD/CD-Rom
• 1200W 48V DC power supplies supported

Multi-site SAN Services:

• P4000 SAN Solutions include services resulting in 3yrs of HW&SW, 9x5, NBD
• Factory warranty for all P4000 SAN Solutions is 1yr, 9x5, NBD for Hardware
• Installation & Startup services are available from HP & HP resellers. Installation and startup can be performed by customers

Customer Training:

• A two day training course for P4000 SAN Solutions is available and recommended. Select the part number HF383E (QTY 2) from the HP Education tab

What's in the Box:

• Each sku contains the following major components:
  
  • Four P4500 G2 Storage Systems, each with twelve 600GB LFF 15K SAS drives
    
  • 10 VSA licenses (NOTE: Ensure that the 10 VSA licenses are registered / authorized at the same time as the primary storage systems of the Multi-site SAN to properly activate support. Not registering the VSA licenses at the same time as the Storage Systems may invalidate support terms.)

HP P4500 G2 60TB MDL SAS Scalable Capacity SAN Solution

Scalable Capacity SAN Software:

• SAN/iQ Storage Clustering
• SAN/iQ Network RAID (synchronous replication)
• SAN/iQ Thin Provisioning
• SAN/iQ Application Integrated Snapshots
• SAN/iQ Remote Copy (asynchronous replication)
• SAN/iQ Multi-Site/DR Solution (synchronous replication across locations)
• SAN/iQ Application Integration Solution Pack

Scalable Capacity SAN Hardware:

• Five redundant active-active scalable controllers
• 60 1TB 7.2K MDL SAS disk drives
• 30 GB RAM
• Redundant hot swap power supplies
• 2,560 MB battery backed cache
• Support for RAID 5, 10, 6
• 10 1Gbit NIC ports
• iLO2 Management
• Integrated DVD/CD-Rom
• 1200W 48V DC power supplies supported

Scalable Capacity SAN Services:

• P4000 SAN Solutions include services resulting in 3yrs of HW&SW, 9x5, NBD
• Factory warranty for all P4000 SAN Solutions is 1yr, 9x5, NBD for Hardware
• Installation & Startup services are available from HP & HP resellers. Installation and startup can be performed by customers

Customer Training:

• A two day training course for P4000 SAN Solutions is available and recommended. Select the part number HF383E (QTY 2) from the HP Education tab

What's in the Box:

• Each sku contains the following major components:
  
  • Five P4500 G2 Storage Systems, each with twelve 1TB LFF MDL SAS drives

HP P4500 G2 120TB MDL SAS Scalable Capacity SAN Solution

Scalable Capacity SAN Software:

• SAN/iQ Storage Clustering
• SAN/iQ Network RAID (synchronous replication)
• SAN/iQ Thin Provisioning
• SAN/iQ Application Integrated Snapshots
• SAN/iQ Remote Copy (asynchronous replication)
• SAN/iQ Multi-Site/DR Solution (synchronous replication across locations)
• SAN/iQ Application Integration Solution Pack

Scalable Capacity SAN Hardware:

• Five redundant active-active scalable controllers
• 60 2TB 7.2K MDL SAS disk drives
• 30 GB RAM
• Redundant hot swap power supplies
• 2,560 MB battery backed cache
• Support for RAID 5, 10, 6
• 10 1Gbit NIC ports
• iLO2 Management
• Integrated DVD/CD-Rom
  1200W 48V DC power supplies supported
  

Scalable Capacity SAN Services:

• P4000 SAN Solutions include services resulting in 3yrs of HW&SW, 9x5, NBD
• Factory warranty for all P4000 SAN Solutions is 1yr, 9x5, NBD for Hardware
• Installation & Startup services are available from HP & HP resellers. Installation and startup can be performed by customers

Customer Training:

• A two day training course for P4000 SAN Solutions is available and recommended. Select the part number HF383E (QTY 2) from the HP Education tab

What's in the Box:

• Each sku contains the following major components:
  
  • Five P4500 G2 Storage Systems, each with twelve 2TB LFF MDL SAS drives
    

HP P4800 G2 31.5TB SAS SAN Solution for BladeSystem SAN Software:

• SAN/iQ Storage Clustering
• SAN/iQ Network RAID (synchronous replication)
• SAN/iQ Thin Provisioning
• SAN/iQ Application Integrated Snapshots
• SAN/iQ Remote Copy (asynchronous replication)
• SAN/iQ Multi-Site/DR Solution (synchronous replication across locations)
• SAN/iQ Application Integration Solution Pack

BladeSystem SAN Hardware:

• Two redundant active-active scalable P4460sb G2 Storage Blades for BladeSystem c-Class Enclosure
• One MDS600 enclosure with 70 450GB 15K SAS disk drives
• Four Mini SAS 2m cables
• 48GB RAM
• 1,024 MB battery backed cache
• Support for RAID 5, 10, 6
• Four 10Gbit NIC ports
• iLO3 Management

BladeSystem SAN Services:

• P4000 SAN Solutions include services resulting in 3yrs of HW&SW, 9x5, NBD
• Factory warranty for all P4000 SAN Solutions is 1yr, 9x5, NBD for Hardware
• BladeSystem SAN Solutions are Factory Integrated* or Field Installable (with associated installation services).
  
  *P4800 Factory Integrated Solutions must be ordered in a C7000 enclosure, with two Virtual Connect Flex-10 modules or two Virtual Connect FlexFabric modules, two 3Gb 8 port SAS 2.0 BLc Switch Modules, PDU and a rack system. These items are not included with the P4800.

NOTE: P4800 G2 supports VC Flex-10 Ethernet functionality VC FlexFabric modules. At this time, there is no support for FCoE functionality.

Customer Training

• A two day training course for P4000 SAN Solutions is available and recommended. Select the part number HF383E (QTY 2) from the HP Education tab

What's in the Box:

• Each sku contains the following major components:
  
  • Two P4460sb G2 Storage Blades
    
  • One MDS600 enclosure with 70 450GB 15K SAS disk drives

HP P4800 G2 42TB SAS SAN Solution for BladeSystem SAN Software:

• SAN/iQ Storage Clustering
• SAN/iQ Network RAID
• SAN/iQ Thin Provisioning
• SAN/iQ Application Integrated Snapshots
• SAN/iQ Remote Copy (asynch rep)
• SAN/iQ Multi-Site/DR Solution (synch rep)
• SAN/iQ Application Integration Solution Pack

BladeSystem SAN Hardware:

• Two redundant active-active scalable P4460sb G2 Storage Blades for BladeSystem c-Class Enclosure
• One MDS600 enclosure with 70 600GB 15K SAS disk drives
• Four Mini SAS 2m cables
• 48GB RAM
• 1,024 MB battery backed cache
• Support for RAID 5, 10, 6
• Four 10Gbit NICs
• iLO3 Management

BladeSystem SAN Services:

• P4000 SAN Solutions include services resulting in 3yrs of HW&SW, 9x5, NBD
• Factory warranty for all P4000 SAN Solutions is 1yr, 9x5, NBD for Hardware
• BladeSystem SAN Solutions are Factory Integrated* or Field Installable (with associated installation services).
  
  *P4800 Factory Integrated Solutions must be ordered in a C7000 enclosure, with two Virtual Connect Flex-10 modules or two Virtual Connect FlexFabric modules, two 3Gb 8 port SAS 2.0 BLc Switch Modules, PDU and a rack system. These items are not included with the P4800.

NOTE: P4800 G2 supports VC Flex-10 Ethernet functionality VC FlexFabric modules. At this time, there is no support for FCoE functionality.

Customer Training:

• A two day training course for P4000 SAN Solutions is available and recommended. Select the part number HF383E (QTY 2) from the HP Education tab

What's in the Box:

• Each sku contains the following major components:
  • Two P4460sb G2 Storage Blades
  • One MDS600 enclosure with 70 600GB 15K SAS disk drives

HP P4800 G2 140TB MDL SAS SAN Solution for BladeSystem SAN Software:

• SAN/iQ Storage Clustering
• SAN/iQ Network RAID
• SAN/iQ Thin Provisioning
• SAN/iQ Application Integrated Snapshots
• SAN/iQ Remote Copy (asynch rep)
• SAN/iQ Multi-Site/DR Solution (synch rep)
• SAN/iQ Solution Pack for Microsoft Windows

BladeSystem SAN Hardware:

• Two redundant active-active scalable P4460sb G2 Storage Blades for BladeSystem c-Class Enclosure
• One MDS600 enclosure with 70 2TB MDL SAS disk drives
• Four Mini SAS 2m cables
• 48GB RAM
• 1,024 MB battery backed cache
• Support for RAID 5, 10, 6
• Four 10Gbit NICs
• iLO3 Management

BladeSystem SAN Services:

• P4000 SAN Solutions include services resulting in 3yrs of HW&SW, 9x5, NBD
• Factory warranty for all P4000 SAN Solutions is 1yr, 9x5, NBD for Hardware
• BladeSystem SAN Solutions are Factory Integrated* or Field Installable (with associated installation services).
  
  *P4800 Factory Integrated Solutions must be ordered in a C7000 enclosure, with two Virtual Connect Flex-10 modules or two Virtual Connect FlexFabric modules, two 3Gb 8 port SAS 2.0 BLc Switch Modules, PDU and a rack system. These items are not included with the P4800.

NOTE: P4800 G2 supports VC Flex-10 Ethernet functionality VC FlexFabric modules. At this time, there is no support for FCoE functionality.

Customer Training:

A two day training course for P4000 SAN Solutions is available and recommended. Select the part number HF383E (QTY 2) from the HP Education tab

What's in the Box:

• Each sku contains the following major components:
  • Two P4460sb G2 Storage Blades
  • One MDS600 enclosure with 70 2TB MDL SAS disk drives

HP P4900 G2 6.4TB SSD Storage System

P4900 G2 Storage System Software:

• SAN/iQ Storage Clustering
• SAN/iQ Network RAID (synchronous replication)
• SAN/iQ Thin Provisioning
• SAN/iQ Application Integrated Snapshots
• SAN/iQ Remote Copy (asynchronous replication)
• SAN/iQ Multi-Site/DR Solution (synchronous replication across locations)
• SAN/iQ Application Integration Solution Pack

P4900 G2 Storage System Hardware:

• Dual redundant, active-active storage controllers
• 16 Enterprise Flash Drives, 400GB SLC SAS
• 12 GB RAM
• Redundant hot swap power supplies
• Quad P410 RAID Controllers
• 2048 MB battery backed cache
• 4 10GbE NIC ports
• 4 1Gbit NIC ports
• Support for RAID 5
• iLO2 Management

P4900 G2 Services:

• P4000 2 Unit Bundled Storage Systems include services resulting in 3yrs of HW&SW, 9x5, NBD
• Factory warranty for all P4000 Storage Systems is 1yr, 9x5, NBD for Hardware
• Installation & Startup services are available from HP & HP resellers. Installation and startup can be performed by customers

Customer Training:

• A two day training course for P4000 SAN Solutions is available and recommended. Select the part number HF383E (QTY 2) from the HP Education tab

What's in the Box:

• Each sku contains the following major components:
  • Two P4900 G2 Storage Systems, each with eight 400GB SFF SLC SAS drives

HP Solid State Drives are equipped with HP SMARTSSD Wear Gauge™ which reports the amount of drive lifetime remaining. This data is made visible to the user through the user interface of the Centralized Management Console of HP LeftHand Storage Systems and via SNMP. The combination of HP SMARTSSD Wear Gauge and HP LeftHand appliance ensures you know the status of your solid state drives at all time so that you never need to worry about the loss of data due to drive wear.

For more information on maximum usage limitations, view the HP SAS Solid State Drive quickspecs at: http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/14038_div/14038_div.html

The P4300/P4500/P4900 G2 Storage Systems are single SKU bundle configurations. P4300/P4500/P4900 G2 Storage System Custom Solutions include the following:P4300/P4500/P4900 G2 Storage System Software:

• SAN/iQ Storage Clustering
• SAN/iQ Network RAID (synchronous replication)
• SAN/iQ Thin Provisioning
• SAN/iQ Application Integrated Snapshots
• SAN/iQ Remote Copy (asynchronous replication)
• SAN/iQ Multi-Site/DR Solution (synchronous replication across locations)
• SAN/iQ Application Integration Solution Pack

P4300/P4500/P4900 G2 Storage System Hardware:

• SLC SAS,15K SAS, or 7.2K MDL SAS HDDs
• 4GB RAM (6GB for P4500 G2 models with drives 600GB and larger, and P4900 G2 models)
• Redundant hot swap power supplies
• 512 MB battery backed cache per RAID controller
• Support for RAID 5, 6, 10* (P4900 G2 supports RAID 5 only)
• Dual port 1Gbit NIC (P4900 G2 also has a dual port 10GbE NIC)
• iLO2 Management*
• Integrated DVD/CD-Rom (not in P4900 G2)
• 1200W 48V DC power supplies supported for P4300 G2 and P4500 G2

P4300/P4500/P4900 Services:

• P4000 Storage Systems include services resulting in 1yr, 9x5, NBD for HW&SW
• Factory warranty for all P4000 Storage Systems is 1yr, 9x5, NBD for Hardware
• Installation & Startup services are available from HP & HP resellers. Installation and startup can be performed by customers
  
  * All P4000 SAN Solutions and Storage Systems ship with one year of firmware update support for Smart Array Advanced Pack and iLO2 Management. After one year, all supported features remain functional, but newer updates are not applied.

Customer Training:

• A two day training course for P4000 SAN Solutions is available and recommended. Select the part number HF383E (QTY 2) from the HP Education tab

HP P4300 G2 2.4TB SAS Storage System: 8 SAS Drives, 300 GB, 15,000 RPM

HP 400GB 6G SAS SLC SFF (2.5-inch) Enterprise Mainstream 3yr Warranty Solid State Drive

HP Solid State Drives are equipped with HP SMARTSSD Wear Gauge™ which reports the amount of drive lifetime remaining. This data is made visible to the user through the user interface of the Centralized Management Console of HP LeftHand Storage Systems and via SNMP. The combination of HP SMARTSSD Wear Gauge and HP LeftHand appliance ensures you know the status of your solid state drives at all time so that you never need to worry about the loss of data due to drive wear.

For more information on maximum usage limitations, view the HP SAS Solid State Drive quickspecs at http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/14038_div/14038_div.html

HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance Software Stock LTU

• Includes copy of SAN/iQ Software media and documentation stock-able by the channel
• Installable on either VMware ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V
• Up to 10 TB capacity licensed per Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA)
• Includes 1 yr of software support for each license

NOTE: Requires 2GHz proc, 1GB RAM, 1 virtual network

HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance Software LTU

• Includes copy of SAN/iQ Software media and documentation not stock-able by the channel, must order as drop ship and have single end-user quantities represented on the order.
• Installable on either VMware ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V
• Up to 10 TB capacity licensed per Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA)
• Includes 1 yr of software support for each license

NOTE: Requires 2GHz proc, 1GB RAM, 1 virtual network

HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance Software E-LTU

• Electronic SAN/iQ Software product entitlement
• Installable on either VMware ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V
• Up to 10 TB capacity licensed per Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA)
• Includes 1 yr of software support for each license

NOTE: Requires 2GHz proc, 1GB RAM, 1 virtual network

HP LeftHand P4000 VSA Laptop Demo Software Version

• Fully functional SAN/iQ Software 60-day evaluation pre-formatted for demonstration on laptops and PC's
• Up to 4.5 TB capacity per Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA)
• Support not included
• Download at www.hp.com/go/tryvsa

NOTE: Requires VMware Player, Workstation, or Server, 384 MB RAM and 1 virtual network

HP LeftHand VSA Full Evaluation Version Software for VMware ESX / Microsoft Hyper-V

• Fully functional SAN/iQ Software 60-day evaluation pre-formatted for VMware ESX / Microsoft Hyper-V
• Up to 10 TB capacity licensed per Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA)
• Support not included
• Download at www.hp.com/go/tryvsa

NOTE: Requires VMware ESX or ESXi/ Microsoft Windows 2008 or 2008 R2 with Hyper-V, 1GB RAM and 1 virtual network

HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance Software requires a ESX or Hyper-V server with at least:

• 1GB of RAM
• 1 virtual CPU with 2GHz
• 5GB to 2TB of disk space per virtual disk file, up to 10TB total per VSA
• A dedicated Gigabit virtual switch

Storage Clustering

• SAN/iQ Storage Clustering allows a customer to create pools of storage by consolidating storage nodes on the network into clusters. Storage Clustering provides online scalability, both within a volume and across the entire storage pool. All available physical capacity is aggregated and available to the volumes created on the SAN.
• In order to scale capacity and/or performance, the IT administrator simply adds nodes to the storage cluster. SAN/iQ software automatically redistributes the data for optimal data availability and performance. All the capacity, processing power, and bandwidth included in each node are aggregated into the entire SAN, ensuring an increase in performance as the SAN grows. To make the process even easier, HP P4000 SANs let IT administrators expand volumes and add storage nodes online, without taking the volumes offline or causing application downtime.
• Customers can use SAN/iQ Storage Clustering to implement different tiers of storage in their SAN. For instance a storage cluster of SAS-based storage nodes can be implemented for performance while a storage cluster of MDL SAS-based storage nodes is implemented for higher density, all managed from a single interface.

Network RAID

• For increased access to the SAN, customers can install storage nodes anywhere on the IP network. P4000 nodes in a cluster can be spread out between several racks on a floor, across several floors in a building, or across buildings on a campus site or a metropolitan area. Typical round trip latency should be 2 milliseconds or less. A single P4000 SAN can thus eliminate the risk of data loss in the event of a disk, controller, storage node, power, network, or site failure.
  
• SAN/iQ Network RAID stripes and protects multiple copies of data across a cluster of storage nodes, eliminating any single point of failure in the HP P4000 G2 SAN. Applications have continuous data availability in the event of a power, network, disk, controller, or entire storage node failure.
  
• SAN administrators can manage redundancy on a per-volume basis to optimize storage utilization and match the data protection of the volume to the application data on that volume. Customers choose from Network RAID level 0, 5, 6, 10, 10+1, or 10+2 to protect data across the storage nodes, only allocating additional storage space for data that warrants additional protection. For increased protection, Network RAID can also be integrated into environments where application servers are clustered, enabling true, seamless, geo-cluster solutions that provide both application and storage clustering across geographies.

Thin Provisioning

• Most SAN vendors place the provisioning burden on SAN administrators, asking them to predict how much space will be needed in the future for volumes, snapshots and remote copies, and what the SAN's expected growth rate will be. That information is required because most storage provisioning models call for pre-allocation of storage space on the SAN. Errors in estimation are inevitable, and can be expensive or cause snapshots and backups to fail. Worse yet, if administrators over-allocate storage, it is nearly impossible to reclaim that unused space.
• P4000 G2 SANs do not require pre-allocation of storage space. SAN/iQ software manages all the storage allocations underneath a given volume, and the Thin Provisioning feature allocates space only as data is actually written to that volume. SAN/iQ Thin Provisioning allows customers to purchase only the storage needed today and then add more storage to the clusters as application data grows. This raises the overall utilization and efficiency of the SAN and ultimately increases the ROI associated with the SAN.

Application Integrated Snapshots

• The P4000 Application Aware Snapshot Manager provides allows for the creation of application consistent snapshots of VMware and Hyper-V VMs and of Microsoft VSS enabled applications.
• Application Integrated snapshots create instant point-in-time copies of data on a per-volume basis. Snapshots can be created in a variety of ways to meet business or application requirements. Administrators can create them manually ad-hoc, on a scheduled or scripted basis, or via the Microsoft VSS framework, and can then access these point-in-time snapshots to recover individual files or folders from the volume, or rollback an entire volume. Unlike most SAN vendors that require a snapshot reservation, SAN/iQ Snapshots are always thinly provisioned for efficiency, only consuming storage space on the SAN for the data written to the snapshot, eliminating any upfront space reservation or guesswork that could lead to snapshot and backup job failures.
• Built into the P4000 SAN and Centralized Management Console, application integrated snapshots provide automated quiescing for Microsoft VSS enabled applications without additional software or hardware requirements. Sets of VSS snapshots are easily created, scheduled, and recovered using the CMC.
  

Remote Copy

• SAN/iQ Remote Copy lets customers replicate thin provisioned snapshots between primary and remote locations. Because remote copies are thin provisioned no space reservation at the remote location is required. Remote Copy is used for centralized backup and disaster recovery and can be set up on a per-volume basis. Remote copies placed on a recurring schedule allow customers to achieve point-in-time asynchronous replication of the data between locations, sites, or data centers.
• Integrated into the SAN/iQ Remote Copy software is intelligent bandwidth management ensuring that the data traffic can be sent across shared WAN links without adversely impacting other network traffic. Administrators simply set the bandwidth limit for remote copies between the two sites and the SAN/iQ software holds that limit.
• A failover/failback wizard is also included with Remote Copy for step-by-step, easy to execute disaster recovery procedures when needed most.
• Remote-Copy leverages application integrated snapshots to enable VMware and Hyper-V VMs as well as Microsoft VSS applications to be replicated in a quiesced state, providing faster application recovery.

Performance Management

• The SAN/iQ Performance Management System is designed from the ground up to make it easy to obtain the performance metrics that customers need, when they need them. One click of the mouse and the Performance Monitor is up and running in the Centralized Management Console (CMC) so there is no external software to install. The monitor provides a short list of relevant statistics and counters, letting administrators obtain performance metrics rolled up to their preferred level of abstraction.
• The SAN/iQ Performance Monitor provides performance information on a per-application server/virtual machine, logical volume, snapshot, storage cluster, and storage node basis, so there's no wading through irrelevant statistics in search of pertinent information. The Performance Monitor's graphical user interface is simple and elegant, and each statistic includes a detailed explanation of what it means for SAN performance.

SmartClone Technology

• SAN/iQ SmartClone technology instantly replicates data volumes and data sets into virtual copies or "clones" without requiring additional storage space. Each volume clone lets administrators save time and space in a variety of environments and applications, from server and desktop provisioning, to boot-from-SAN provisioning, to the rapid copying of production data into test and development environments.
• SmartClone technology is based on the space-efficient SAN/iQ Thin Provisioning architecture, and the volume clones can be used without limitation along with all other SAN/iQ features like Network RAID, Thin Provisioning, Snapshot, and Remote Copy. The feature works by taking any volume or snapshot and making one or many clones in an instant. The cloning function makes a permanent, read/write volume on the SAN, pointing back to the original volume's blocks instead of duplicating the blocks. By managing each clone as a pervasive volume, SmartClone eliminates any requirement for a volume, snapshot, or any of its predecessors to exist after the clone has been created, and also eliminates the need to run de-duplication software, because there are no duplicate blocks. The clone shares the original volume's blocks and uses copy-on-write semantics. SmartClone technology reduces storage costs and increases overall storage efficiency. Administrators can store "gold-master" system images on the SAN for virtual desktop and boot-from-SAN implementations, and quickly provision test environments using real production data. To simplify management, administrators can view all of the relationships between clones, volumes, and snapshots graphically in the Control Management Console.
• SmartClone technology leverages application integrated snapshots to enable Microsoft VSS applications to be cloned in a quiesced state, providing easier application testing and recovery.

Centralized Management Console

• The entire HP P4000 SAN is managed from the SAN/iQ Centralized Management Console (CMC). An administrator simply connects via the IP network to the storage nodes. Multiple data centers and sites of storage can be managed from a "single pane-of-glass" no matter where the nodes are physically located. The CMC also includes an integrated Performance Monitor providing administrator with detailed, real-time metrics and the ability to export statistics. All of the SAN/iQ features are managed from the CMC for simple, easy-to-manage storage.
• The SAN Status Home Page provides a single view of the entire storage environment. Critical information such as Alerts and utilization is displayed for all Management Groups in a single pane of glass.

HP LeftHand Virtual P4000 SAN Appliance Software (VSA)

• The HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance Software (VSA) is a Virtual Appliance that provides complete SAN functionality for VMware Infrastructure or Microsoft Hyper-V without external SAN hardware. By virtualizing the internal disk capacity of the server running ESX or Hyper-V, the VSA Software eliminates the need for external shared storage required to implement advanced hypervisor features
• Multiple VSA's running on multiple servers create a clustered pool of storage with the ability to replicate data across the hosts allowing volumes to stay on-line in the event of a server failure
• Small to medium businesses and remote office customers can lower their IT infrastructure costs and enable higher levels of protection for business critical systems without the purchase of additional hardware
• VSA Software deployed at remote sites are managed as virtual storage nodes using the same Centralized Management Console used to manage your HP P4000 G2 SANs
• 1 year 9x5 software phone support and software upgrades included
• New Zero-to-VSA Automated Install and Deployment tool allows for fast and easy deployment of virtual SAN environments including scripting for ROBO/branch installations with ESX/ESXi.

NOTE: For more information visit: www.hp.com/go/vsa

HP Storage Essentials Storage Resource Management Enterprise Edition Software

• HP Storage Essentials software provides path aware management for HP P4000 SAN Solution.
• Its automatic discovery and topology visualization of the infrastructure around the HP P4000 increase people efficiency to deal with growth and complexity.
• HP Storage Essentials reduces cost of ownership by supplementing the capacity management of the P4000 with capacity optimization across the data path from application to virtual volumes to P4000.

NOTE: For more information visit: www.hp.com/go/storageessentials

HP Insight Remote Support Software

• For small and midsize environments: HP Insight Remote Support Standard provides basic remote monitoring, notification/advisories and service dispatch and can be installed on a shared HP ProLiant Windows application server. This software supports server and storage devices, including all P4000 SANs, and is optimized for environments with 1-50 servers. Ideal for customers who do not need proactive service delivery and integration with a management platform.
• For midsize and large environments: HP Insight Remote Support Advanced is integrated with HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM). It provides comprehensive remote monitoring, notification/advisories, dispatch and proactive service support for nearly all HP servers, storage, network and SAN environments, including all P4000 SANs. It also enables HP to deliver higher levels of proactive support in line with HP Mission Critical Services support agreements.
• Both HP Insight Remote Support solutions are available at no additional cost to customers with a valid warranty on HP technology, an HP Care Pack Service or HP contractual support agreement.

NOTE: For more information visit: www.hp.com/go/InsightRemoteSupport

HP Storage Management Pack for Microsoft System Center

The HP Management Pack for Systems Center Operations Manager provides seamless integration with Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager and now System Center Essentials by integrating predefined discovery and state monitoring policies, event processing rules and tasks, and diagram and topology views for the storage system.

For more information:

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HP Storage Management Pack can be downloaded free from the following website: https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=SCOM

Stretch your HP P4000 G2 SAN Solution investment by adding file and print services with a P4000 G2 Unified NAS Gateway. Unified NAS Gateways are optimized file and print server solutions that are built on industry-standard HP ProLiant servers and come with Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 operating system pre-installed. Since they're Windows-based, network and active directory integration is easy, your tools and data protection applications run right on the box, and management has a familiar look and feel. Like many Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices, they support heterogeneous file serving environments and are pre-configured to install in minutes. A P4000 G2 Unified NAS Gateway is a file server gateway that adds IP-based services to your P4000. In addition to providing file and print services, all of your important client and server data can be managed, scaled, and protected on a P4000 G2 SAN solution.

Each P4000 G2 Unified NAS Gateway Node includes:

• Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2008 R2, Enterprise Edition
• Intel® Xeon® Processor E5503
• Two 300 GB LFF 15K 6G SAS drives
• P212 SmartArray Controller
• 6 GB RAM
• 6 GbE ports

Services Included with the P4000 G2 Unified NAS Gateway:

• Factory warranty for P4000 G2 Unified NAS Gateway is 1yr, 9x5, NBD for Hardware.
• P4000 G2 Unified NAS Gateway also includes services resulting in 3 yr of HW&SW, 9x5, NBD.
• Installation & Startup doable by customer or available from HP.

Looking for NAS and iSCSI services for media and entertainment, financial services or health and life sciences industries? Looking to aggregate heterogeneous storage for file serving and fulfilling the need for iSCSI storage? Looking for iSCSI and access to 1,000s of files concurrently? Are you faced with a hard-to-manage data explosion? The X9300 placed in front of a P4000 G2 SAN can help to address the above challenges. The HP X9000 Network Storage Systems scale-out beyond traditional network attached storage in both capacity and performance. Designed to be extremely scalable, flexible, and cost-efficient, X9000 Network Storage Systems deliver excellent performance and a modular storage infrastructure to accommodate unprecedented storage growth and performance. Central management allows the administrator to manage not just terabytes but multi-petabyte environments at the highest density possible from HP. The pay-as-you-grow architecture and an all-inclusive feature set reduce storage over-provisioning or expensive add-ons. X9000 is the platform for customers designing the next generation data center.

X9000 Network Storage System Family of Products
Large enterprises and scale-out environments that need to seamlessly serve, store and scale terabytes to multi-petabytes of unstructured data.

• X9300 Network Storage Gateway - A flexible, scale-out solution that brings feature rich gateway file services to HP MSA, EVA, P4000 or 3rd party arrays or SANs for those customer experiencing considerable unstructured data growth.

NOTE: For more information visit: www.hp.com/go/X9000

For customers, one of the greatest concerns is always database performance. With storage clustering, P4000 customers get industry leading, impressive performance along with the scalability, availability, and ease of management capabilities.

HP has developed best-in-class expertise in Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, and Virtualization Hypervisor technology through extensive testing with the HP P4000, HP servers, and management software; high availability and disaster recovery solutions; and backup and recovery on the Oracle, Microsoft, and SAP application platforms.

To learn more about p4000 specific white papers on Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, VMware and Citrix deployments go to the Resource Library on www.hp.com/go/P4000.

For an overview of HP Storage Solutions for Oracle, Exchange, SAP and Virtualization environments, visit the solution sites supporting each of these applications.
HP Storage for Oracle hyperlink to www.hp.com/storage/Oracle
HP Storage for Microsoft hyperlink to www.hp.com/storage/Microsoft
HP Storage for SAP hyperlink to www.hp.com/storage/SAP

The HP D2D Backup Systems provide price leading disk-based data protection for small or medium-sized data centers and distributed environments. Automate and consolidate the backup of multiple servers onto a single, rack-mountable device. Improve reliability by reducing errors caused by media handling. With 1.5 to 18 TB of usable capacity and speeds of up to 720 GB/hour you can significantly reduce your backup window and restore time. The D2D Backup Systems feature HP Dynamic deduplication allowing you to retain more data on disk for longer and enabling low bandwidth replication for cost-effective off-site backup and recovery. Included as standard on all D2D systems, support for both virtual tape library and NAS (CIFS only**) targets offers the ease of use and flexibility needed to integrate into your current IT environment.

* Actual performance is dependent upon data set type, compression levels, number of data streams, number of devices emulated and number of concurrent tasks, such as housekeeping or replication.

** The addition of NAS as a target for backup is currently limited to the CIFS protocol, suitable for use in Windows-only environments. The authentication models for the CIFS protocol are "no authentication" or "local user level authentication". There is currently no support for Microsoft Active Directory authentication. Support for the NFS protocol for use in LINUX/UNIX environments and for Microsoft Active Directory authentication for the CIFS protocol will follow later in the year.

The HP D2D4112 Backup System is focused on the needs of mid-sized data centers and used as a replication target device for remote and branch offices, the 2U D2D4112 series delivers a scalable solution from 9 to 18 TB of useable capacity using a simple and cost effective 2U capacity upgrade and speeds of up to 720 GB/hour*. These devices automate the daily backup of multiple distributed servers through the flexibility of virtual tape library and NAS (CIFS only**) targets for backup applications.

* Actual performance is dependent upon data set type, compression levels, number of data streams, number of devices emulated and number of concurrent tasks, such as housekeeping or replication.

** The addition of NAS as a target for backup is currently limited to the CIFS protocol, suitable for use in Windows-only environments. The authentication models for the CIFS protocol are "no authentication" or "local user level authentication". There is currently no support for Microsoft Active Directory authentication. Support for the NFS protocol for use in LINUX/UNIX environments and for Microsoft Active Directory authentication for the CIFS protocol will follow later in the year.

For more information on HP D2D Backup Systems, please go to: www.hp.com/go/d2d.

Consider education as an integral part of your strategy to get the best return on investment for your HP storage solution. HP offers a variety of training courses on storage software, networking, archiving and disk storage systems. Our classes are available in many delivery modalities from traditional instructor-led courses at one of our 80 training centers worldwide to on-site training customized to your needs or online. www.hp.com/learn/storage

NOTE: A two day training course for P4000 SAN Solutions is available and recommended. Order part number HF383E (QTY 2). To order additional training seats simply specify an increased quantity (QTY 2 per additional seat).

HP Services continues to be recognized for service and support excellence by customers, partners, industry organizations and publications around the world. Recent honors and award reflect our services team's dedications, technical expertise, professionalism and uncompromising commitment to customer satisfaction. For a list of all our awards, please visit:
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