HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance Software
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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 Appliance 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.

Superior service levels

• Downtime decreases by up to 50%¹
• Maintain data availability despite drive failures
• Maintain application availability despite server failures
• Manage remote sites centrally
• Easily move applications to minimize scheduled downtime

Reduced capital expenditures

• Double capacity utilization²
• Reduce acquisition costs by up to 49% ³

Reduced operational expenditures

• Reduce annual IT labor and downtime costs by up to 65%¹

Excellent ROI

• Realize up to 769% ROI
  (3 years using a 12% discount rate)¹
• Realize up to a 4.3-month payback¹

VSA requires ESX 3.5 or ESX 4 with at least:

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

When you click on the 30-day free trial button, you will proceed to a webpage where you can download the software.

You will see two download choices in the Software specification box:

1. Select Virtual_SAN_Appliance_Trial.zip if you want to install the actual VSA product bits onto an existing ESX/ESXi server.

2. Select HP_LeftHand_Laptop_Demo.zip if you want a fully functional demo environment. This is the best choice if you do not have an existing ESX/ESXi server available for your evaluation.

Either download is about 380 MB which can take 20-30 minutes to download with typical connections.

If you experience any difficulties, please contact our support team at vsa.inquiries@hp.com.

¹ HP sponsored IDC white paper “Business Value of Virtualization: Realizing the Benefits of Integrated Solutions”
² Source: Based on a comparison between the HP P4000 and best practice implementations of EMC CLARiiON and NetApp FAS analyzing the impact of recommended hardware configurations in a multi-site configuration. Unlike the competition the P4000 does not require a 2nd complete system for multi-site high availability, nor does it require incremental synchronous replication software. Instead, a single system is split across two sites and leverages integrated software capabilities.
³ Source: Based on July 2009 list price comparison between a 4TB dual-controller Dell EqualLogic PS6000 and HP P4000 VSA Software plus 24 250GB HDDs used to create the virtual iSCSI SAN in a VMware deployment.