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HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance Software - Overview & Features

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HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance Software
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Virtualize your servers and your data with ESX and VSA without the expense of a physical SAN
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Overview

Looking for a way to implement virtual server high availability that does not require the costs and complexity of separate external shared-storage devices?

HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Software (VSA) enables the benefits of a physical SAN with the ability to transform captive server disk drives and build a virtual iSCSI SAN. Costs and complexity of stranded storage go away.

Features and Benefits

Improve application availability, double your capacity utilization and reduce costs up to 49%.
  • Superior service levels: Decrease downtime by up to 50%. Maintain data availability despite drive failures. Maintain application availability despite server failures. Easily move applications to minimize scheduled downtime.
  • Reduced capital expenditures: Double capacity utilization. Reduce acquisition costs by up to 49%.
  • Reduced operational expenditures: Reduce annual IT labor & downtime costs by up to 65%.
  • Excellent ROI: Realize up to 769% ROI (3 years using a 12% discount rate). Realize up to a 4.3-month payback.
Easy to deploy and use
  • Installs easily on any VMware ESX server: This includes over 100 HP ProLiant rack and blade servers.
  • No external SAN required: Creates shared storage out of the internal disk capacity in the ESX servers.
  • See for yourself how easy installation is: You can watch a video that demonstrates installing ESX and VSA on bare-metal servers at www.hp.com/go/tryvsa.
Network RAID – only available from HP
  • The ultimate in high availability: Traditional hardware RAID and redundant components are simply not good enough when it comes to your data. Only HP offers Network RAID which protects you from outside-the-box issues such as human error, power, cooling and networking issues.
  • Per-volume redundancy: You control which volumes will be protected by Network RAID.
  • Space efficient protection: Network RAID does require additional capacity. But oh is it worth it! Also, VSA offers other efficiencies that more than compensate for this extra storage. Thin provisioning is a great example. Provision volumes at their actual size and allocate additional storage only as it’s required.
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