HP StorageWorks X9000 Network Storage Systems -
Overview & Features

Overview

Are you faced with a hard-to-manage data explosion? The exponential growth of unstructured data can lead to rampant infrastructure costs. To gain control of file-based data, a new storage solution that scales affordably, seamlessly and with zero downtime is required.

The HP StorageWorks 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, HP 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. The pay-as-you-grow architecture and an all-inclusive feature set eliminates storage over-provisioning or expensive add-ons. X9000 is the platform for customers designing the next generation data center.

Features

• Grow capacity seamlessly:  Modular storage infrastructure accommodates tens of terabytes to multi-petabyte storage growth with no downtime.
• Single global namespace for easy management:  The X9000 increases capacity utilization and simplifies management with a single global namespace that can scale to 16 petabytes.
• Scale bandwidth and application performance online:  Fully distributed metadata provides breakthrough performance for both data intensive and transactional applications.
• Zero downtime with just-in-time scalability:  The X9000 allows you to avoid expensive and complicated forklift upgrades by increasing to first-rate performance without taking data offline.

• Superior performance for all file workloads:  Maximize productivity regardless of I/O workloads--small or large files and I/Os, reads or writes, and random or sequential
• Supports all major file protocols concurrently:  Consolidate Windows, MAC, Linux and UNIX file data in a single, managed pool of storage, regardless of protocol (CIFS/NFS).
• On-the-fly storage rebalancing:  Respond to rapidly changing business needs by evenly distributing files across the storage to eliminate hotspots and ensure performance level is maintained.
• Optimize investment through product generations:  Maintain data online by extending storage capabilities to accommodate new and different storage technologies.

• Full featured appliance lowers acquisition costs:  The X9000 comes as a complete scale-out NAS appliance fully configured with a rich feature set that includes a single namespace, rebalancing, continuous remote replication, policy management and data tiering.
• Easy-to-use central management interface:  While most large storage systems require multiple management tools to manage the system, the X9000 management server enables a single point for system configuration and control, which includes monitoring health status, performance utilization, file system expansion, and server and storage capacity.
• Data tiering optimizes storage efficiency:  The X9000 has built-in policy management and automated file migration which reduces cost by moving less active data from higher cost storage to more affordable storage, thus lowering operational costs and improving overall storage efficiency.
• Modular pay-as-you-grow architecture:   The X9000 multi-tiered storage eliminates costly over-provisioning which allows you to more easily match the storage system to your business requirements.

• High availability and dynamic load balancing:   The X9000 system redundancy and automatic detection of hardware and software failures provides consistent availability, while dynamic load balancing ensures hotspots are reduced and data is always available.
• Site level protection for disaster recovery:   With the X9000 you get continuous remote replication between geographically dispersed sites which reduces risk of business outage and costly downtime.
• Ensures data availability through rolling upgrades:   Zero downtime system maintenance and upgrades keeps your business running.