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Today, HP StorageWorks is pleased to announce IT Consolidation Solutions that remove barriers to optimize IT assets for our customers! With today's new and enhanced solutions, HP enables customers to consolidate their storage to put information to work - anywhere, anytime and to streamline multi-vendor, heterogeneous storage assets.
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» HP StorageWorks Business Copy EVA
An array based application that utilizes a powerfully simple HP StorageWorks Replication Solutions Manager User Interface to create, manage and configure local replication on the full EVA product family to meet business continuity and regulatory requirements. Business Copy EVA shares an integrated management interface with HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA. The replication manager manages all local and remote replication features across the full EVA array storage family. With the combination of the Business Copy's unique Snapclone and Vsnap local replication technologies combined with an unparalleled easy to use replication manager interface, businesses now can achieve new IT efficiencies once thought out of reach. In addition, with the new Instant Restore capability enterprises can now quickly and easily restore a source volume if it should become corrupted. The flexible and cost effective license model offers a simple means to achieve growth without limits when business needs change.
What's New
- Oracle Integration with HP Replication Solutions Manager, users can easily and quickly replicate Oracle table spaces and databases.
- Up to 16 Snapshots of a single Vdisks: Increases the number of supported snapshots from 7 to 16 allowing greater flexibility and expanded uses to support business continuance.
- 3-phase Fully Allocated Snapshot: A new option for the full EVA product family that speeds up the Snapclone creation process by pre-allocating the Snapclone container.
- Replication Solutions Manager license management helps customers track and ensure their compliance for HP Business Copy and HP Continuance Access.
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» HP StorageWorks Command View EVA
A comprehensive suite designed to simplify array provisioning and management of the high performance HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) family of products. Command View EVA proactively manages EVAs with a variety of networked storage devices across distributed SANs. Combined with the HP Systems Insight Manager that ships with each EVA array, enterprises have the industries most comprehensive unified storage and server management solution for managing and monitoring EVA with heterogeneous storage devices. Command View EVA offers storage administrators a powerfully simple, single storage management solution for all of their EVA management needs.
What’s New
- iSCSI Connectivity Option allows business to manage EVA using iSCSI or Fibre Channel. IT Storage Administrators maintain their existing connectivity infrastructure for increased investment protection.
- Multi-SAN EVA device discovery across a maximum of 6 SAN islands reduces the total cost of management by eliminating the number of management servers required to manage EVA
- HP Command View XP and Command View EVA software coexistence on the same Windows management server simplifies management and reduces costs by consolidating management of EVA and XP to a single server.
- HP Command View EVAPerf enhancements simplify data output enabling faster EVA performance analysis and grafting using third party grafting tools.
- Replication enhancements including 3 phase fully allocated Snapshots, and 16 Snapshots per source.
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» HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA
An array based application that utilizes a powerfully simple Graphical User Interface to create, manage and configure remote replication on entire EVA product family. Continuous Access EVA shares an integrated management interface, called Replication Solutions Manager (RSM), with HP StorageWorks Business Copy offering a unique, unified replication management approach. RSM manages all local and remote replication features across the full EVA array storage family. With the combination of Continuous Access’s unique remote replication technologies and the unparalleled easy to use RSM interface, enterprises can ensure their information is protected in the event of a disaster. Furthermore, Continuous Access EVA provides the necessary components to solve enterprises business continuity objectives in a very cost effective and easily deployable package. Continuous Access EVA offers Simplicity without Compromise! Not only is managing replication easier, it also results in the ability to make remote replication 1) Less expensive through faster, automated methods that virtually eliminate complexity while resulting in fewer user errors. 2) Easy to deploy for accelerated payback and 3) Less labor intensive allowing a much greater use of valuable IT people resources.
What's New
- Improved distance and latency support for asynchronous replication through the addition of a larger buffer
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» HP StorageWorks 4000/6000/8000 Enterprise Virtual Arrays
The next generation in a proven virtual storage array family. Designed specifically for customers in the mid-range to enterprise marketplace, models offer high performance; high capacity and high availability "virtual" array storage solutions. Not only do these solutions save time, space and costs compared to traditionally architected storage, they are supported by a powerfully simple suite of management software making it easy for users to achieve highest level of productivity. The EVA4000, 6000, and 8000 are designed for the data center where there is a critical need for improved storage utilization and scalability. They meet application specific demands for consistently high transaction I/O for the mid-range or enterprise customer, providing easy capacity expansion, instantaneous replication, and simplified storage administration.
What's New
- New HP StorageWorks EVA4000/6000/8000 v5.1 controller media kit
- Support for 4Gb host bus adapters and switches
- Business Copy EVA enhancements - Oracle Integration, RSM user enhancement and support for 16 snapshots
- Continuous Access EVA enhancements - Improved distance asynchronous support
- HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) is included in ALL HP StorageWorks EVA arrays
- 400 GB and 500 GB FATA disk drives now supported
- Integrated EVA iSCSI support with the HP StorageWorks EVA iSCSI Connectivity Option
- EVA4000 and EVA6000 can now be factory integrated into new HP 10000 G2 Series Racks with servers and other supported products
- Easily upgrade EVA4000 to EVA6000, EVA6000 to EVA8000.
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» HP StorageWorks EVA iSCSI Connectivity Option
As mid-range and enterprise businesses grow, so does the amount of information required to manage, share, and protect. Rapid growth may increase the cost of operations and spread critical business data and resources across multiple systems and applications. The HP StorageWorks EVA iSCSI Connectivity Option extends the FC SAN investment with integrated multi-protocol support, allowing customers to incorporate iSCSI servers without requiring additional storage arrays or management costs. The EVA iSCSI Connectivity Option offers simultaneous iSCSI and Fibre Channel support, providing modular multi-protocol SAN designs with increased scalability, stability and ROI on storage infrastructure. Fibre Channel SANs based on EVA technology are able to leverage IP networks and extend SAN advantages into smaller departments and remote locations, where budget constraints would not allow for a FC SAN. This enables storage consolidation by creating larger SANs extending over longer distances providing access to storage that can be scaled/re-allocated when needed. Over 70% of the servers within a data center have directly attached storage and backup devices and are not connected to a Fibre Channel SANs as they do not require the higher levels of FC performance. Because these
devices are isolated from other servers, excess storage capacity cannot be redeployed. The cost of FC connectivity to a SAN is too high ($1,000 per port), and/or the distances between server and storage are too great. |
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» HP StorageWorks XP10000 Disk Array
Delivers state-of-the-art reliability and "always-on" availability for enterprise mission-critical applications where downtime is not an option. The XP10000 is designed for organizations that demand the most from their storage. No single-point-of-failure and non-disruptive online upgrades ensure that data is always available. Outstanding random and sequential performance is ideal for database, OLTP, Oracle, SAP, and Exchange workloads. Boot-once scalability meets capacity, performance, and heterogeneous connectivity needs today and tomorrow - without ever requiring a forklift upgrade. Advanced virtualization technology simplifies the lifecycle management of data in heterogeneous SAN environments by supporting up to 16 Petabytes of external storage - all of which can be managed from one single pane of glass.
Flexible secure array partitioning eases provisioning, while array-to-array local and remote data copying enables multi-site disaster tolerance. World-class service and support for IT environments meets the most demanding needs.
What's New
- 8-port 2 Gb Fibre Channel CHIP pair increases the performance per port (particularly in CA applications) by having a designated microprocessor for each port.
- Supports up to 64 GB of Cache, twice as much Cache as before, allowing more data to temporarily be stored from Host until it is written to disk and providing more cache to be used for partitioning among users.
- Supports EVA4000/6000/8000 as external storage, which allows data from these arrays to be managed behind the XP - all from a single pane of glass. The XP can then recognize the LUNs created on the external storage and operate with them as if they were internal to the array.
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» HP StorageWorks XP12000 Disk Array
An enterprise class storage system that delivers state-of-the-art reliability and "always-on" availability for mission-critical applications where downtime is not an option. The XP12000 is designed for organizations that demand the most from their storage. Complete redundancy throughout the architecture provides no single-point-of-failure, and non-disruptive online upgrades ensure that data is always available. Industry-leading random and sequential performance is ideal for database, OLTP, Oracle, SAP, and Exchange workloads. Massive boot-once scalability meets capacity, performance, and heterogeneous connectivity needs today and tomorrow-without ever requiring a forklift upgrade. Advanced virtualization technology simplifies the lifecycle management of data in heterogeneous SAN environments by supporting up to 32 Petabytes of external storage - all of which can be managed from one single pane of glass.
Flexible secure array partitioning eases provisioning, while array-to-array
local and remote data copying enables multi-site disaster tolerance.
What's New
- 8-port 2 Gb Fibre Channel CHIP pair increases the performance per port (particularly in CA applications) by having a designated microprocessor for each port.
- Supports up to 256 GB of Cache, twice as much Cache as before, allowing more data to temporarily be stored from Host until it is written to disk and providing more cache to be used for partitioning among users.
- Supports EVA4000/6000/8000 as external storage, which allows data from these arrays to be managed behind the XP - all from a single pane of glass. The XP can then recognize the LUNs created on the external storage and operate with them as if they were internal to the array.
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» HP StorageWorks Enterprise File Services WAN Acclerator
A family of products are comprehensive remote office solutions that deliver true value to enterprise customers with distributed IT environments. EF WAN Accelerators can accelerate many common enterprise applications by up to 100 times, which transforms the way teams work together - no matter where they are. By creating LAN-like performance over the WAN, EFS WAN Accelerator solutions enable consolidation of remote office IT infrastructure, resulting in savings through reduction of equipment, IT staffing, and complex global networks. And EFS WAN Accelerators optimize WAN bandwidth - removing up to 95% of WAN traffic to increase capacity of low bandwidth links, or affecting TCP flow control to increase utilization of high bandwidth / high latency links - ultimately helping to delay or avoid major WAN bandwidth upgrades. The products are built on HP ProLiant server platforms, and offer the industry's most complete solution for problems affecting wide area networks, remote offices and the applications they rely on. Unlike other WAN optimization products that focus solely on improving WAN bandwidth, EFS WAN Accelerators not only deliver the industry's highest bandwidth optimization, but increase agility in addressing the effects of high latency on TCP and the applications that run on TCP.
What's New
- V2.1 software new functionality:
- Proxy File Service (PFS) for disconnected operation
- High Speed TCP optimizations
- MS-SQL protocol acceleration support
- Encryption between appliances
- V2.1 software enhancements:
- Backward compatibility
- Enhanced acceleration for CIFS and MAPI
- MS Exchange 2003 native protocol support
- Asymmetric routing support
- Serial clustering with hot standby
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» HP StorageWorks FC2143 4 Gb PCI-X 2.0 HBA,
HP StorageWorks FC2243 4 Gb PCI-X 2.0 DC HBA
Now support customers with Integrity and ProLiant Servers that have PCI-X I/O slots in them. These are the first 4Gb HBA products to support this I/O bus architecture. This product now gives customers the ability to use the higher performance PCI-X 2.0 I/O bus to connect to their HP StorageWorks arrays.
The FC2143 and FC2243 are high performance, enterprise class host bus adapters that combine the backward compatibility and high bandwidth of 266 MHz PCI-X 2.0 with exceptional 4Gb/s Fibre Channel performance. Emulex HBAs employ a firmware-based architecture and a unique Service Level Interface (SLI) that enable new features and other upgrades without costly adapter hardware changes. Emulex technology also allows for a single set of drivers and management tools across HBA product families. This kind of technical flexibility and investment protection is critical when working with evolving technology.
What's New
- Supports 4 Gb Fibre Channel link connectivity, as well as 2Gb and 1Gb speeds of previous HBA models
- Supports the 266 MHz PCI-X 2.0 host bus interface, as well as the PCI-X 1.0 and PCI bus interfaces of previous HBA models.
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» HP Storage Essentials Enterprise Edition
This suite delivers integrated heterogeneous functionality for network (DAS, SAN, NAS) management, storage resource management, provisioning, backup reporting and application infrastructure monitoring. The suite consists of HP Storage Essentials Enterprise Edition and features a portfolio of value added plug-ins. The architecture and interfaces are built on industry standards, allowing for quick deployment and investment protection. Storage Essentials integrates with HP Systems Insight Manager to provide advanced storage management; while integration with OpenView software via Smart Plug-ins (SPI) delivers integrated IT services management. Quick automation, topology visualization, improved capacity utilization, customized reporting and simplification of tasks delivered by Storage Essentials suite increases administrator efficiency to manage and reduce the costs of storage growth. Application infrastructure monitoring and the ability to align storage tiers with user needs improve the overall quality of storage service.
What's New
- Integration with OpenView software via Smart Plug-In (SPI). Delivers integrated IT Services management in areas like provisioning, operations, reporting and charge back.
- Backup management. Single view of backup activities. Identify unprotected applications, servers and files. Root cause analysis of backup failure. Increase utilization of backup resources.
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» HP StorageWorks 6000 Virtual Library System
Integrating seamlessly into existing backup applications and processes, the HP StorageWorks 6000 Virtual Library System accelerates backup performance in complex SAN environments while improving overall reliability. Emulating popular tape libraries and tape drives, the HP 6000 Virtual Library System matches the existing data protection environment, removing the need to change backup software or monitoring policies. By emulating multiple tape drives simultaneously, more backup jobs can be done in parallel resulting in reduced backup times. Additionally, because the data resides on disk, single file restores are exceptionally fast. The HP 6000 Virtual Library System simplifies your SAN environment by providing more virtual devices, reducing the complexity of shared storage while maintaining the manageability of a single system. As your environment changes, the HP 6000 Virtual Library System adapts to it - host masking and mapping ensure that only the appropriate hosts have access to the HP 6000 Virtual Library System. As storage requirements grow, it matches the environment by scaling both capacity and performance.
What's New
- New higher capacity drives extend the VLS6000 platform to 70 TB.
- Improved storage density delivers over 75% more storage in the same physical, thermal and power footprint.
- New 4.4 TB capacity kits can be mixed and matched with existing 2.5 TB capacity kits on VLS6000 products.
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» HP StorageWorks MSL2024 Tape Library
The ideal entry-level tape library that combines tape library capacity and features in the compact form of a tape autoloader. With a native capacity of up to 9.6 TB using HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960 Tape Drive technology, the MSL2024 Tape Library can easily tackle backup and recovery jobs typically handled by mid-range tape libraries. Utilizing a 2U form factor, the MSL2024 Tape Library provides a large amount of data storage without consuming a large amount of valuable rack space. Perfect for replicated systems, the web-based management features reduce the dependencies on local IT resources, allowing multiple sites to be supported centrally. The MSL2024 Tape Library offers customers the choice of purchasing a library equipped with one HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960 Tape Drive, or up to two HP StorageWorks Ultrium 448 Tape Drives. If only one Ultrium 448 Tape Drive is selected, a second Ultrium 448 Tape Drive can be added later if initial backup needs grow. Each library includes two removable 12-slot magazines, and one mail slot dedicated for import/export of data cartridges. A barcode reader is part of the standard configuration for facilitating media management. All MSL2024 Tape Library units arrive rack-ready for installation in a standard 19" rack. Also, all MSL2024 Tape Library systems and associated kits are RoHS compliant.
What's New
- The HP StorageWorks MSL2024 Rack-to-Tabletop Conversion Kit allows customers to convert the rack-ready MSL2024 Tape library into a desktop model.
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Cisco MDS 9020 Fabric Switch
A twenty port, 4 Gb Fibre Channel switch. The Cisco MDS 9020 is well suited for small to medium businesses that want to deploy cost-effective but scalable, high-performance SANs. The Cisco MDS 9020 is also ideal for branch offices and departments in large enterprises that require management simplicity and easy deployment. It can be used as the foundation of SAN standalone SANs or as an edge switch in larger core-edge SAN infrastructures.
The Cisco MDS 9020 provides a balance of cost, performance and basic enterprise-class features in a compact 1 rack unit form factor. Layering a requisite set of intelligent features onto a cost-effective, small profile switching platform, the Cisco MDS 9020 meets the cost, performance, ease of management and connectivity requirements of small to medium-scale storage environments. The Cisco MDS 9020 is fully compatible with the HP StorageWorks C-series family of products; Cisco MDS 9500 Multilayer Directors and the MDS 9200 and 9100 Multilayer Fabric Switches for transparent, end-to-end service delivery in large datacenter core-edge deployments.
* More information available on March 1, 2006. |
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» HP StorageWorks DLT VS160 Tape Drive
Backing up to tape is a key component in a complete storage strategy. Tape drives can be used for creating daily and weekly backups that allow customers to move information off-site and can be used for archival purposes to retain data for years. The DLT VS160 Tape Drive is designed for the customer who is outgrowing the capacity of their current DLT VS80 drives. It is their drive of choice if they are ready to move up in capacity but do not need the performance of a super drive because they do not have strict limitations on their backup window. The DLT VS160 provides double the capacity and performance over the DLT VS80.
The HP StorageWorks DLT VS160 tape drive offers a reliable mid-ranged DLT based backup solution. With 160 GB of compressed capacity, the DLT VS160 provides a price and capacity point ideal for the medium-sized business customers. The DLT VS160 Tape Drive has a transfer rate of 16MB/sec compressed, and can store up to 57.6 GB of compressed data in an hour. The native capacity is 80 GB, and the uncompressed transfer rate is 8MB/s. The DLT VS160 tape drive is supported by HP StorageWorks Library and Tape Tools (L&TT) which aids in installing, managing and troubleshooting the drive and media.
What's New
- The DLT VS160 Tape Drive is 5/6 RoHS compliant.
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» HP StorageWorks SDLT 600 Tape Drive
Backing up to tape is a key component of a complete storage strategy. Tape drives can be used for creating daily and weekly backups that allow customers to move information off-site and can be used for archival purposes to retain data for many years. The SDLT 600 is designed for the customer whose data protection needs are outgrowing the capacity of their existing SDLT drives. The SDLT 600 provides almost double the capacity and performance of the SDLT 320. The HP StorageWorks SDLT 600 Tape Drive offers a reliable DLT-based backup solution. With 600 GB capacity compressed, the SDLT 600 provides the highest capacity point available for customers who have standardized on DLT technology. The SDLT 600 Tape Drive has a transfer rate of 72MB/sec compressed. The native capacity is 300 GB, and the uncompressed transfer rate is 36MB/s. The SDLT 600 Tape Drive is supported by HP StorageWorks Library and Tape Tools (L&TT) for installing, managing and troubleshooting the drive and media. It is compatible with HP Data Protector, HP Data Protector Express, native Windows, Backup Exec, ARCServe and other backup software applications. The SDLT 600 Tape Drive is read compatible with the HP StorageWorks SDLT 320 media. The SDLT 600 supports One Button Disaster Recovery (OBDR), which dramatically reduces downtime in the case of a disaster.
What's New
- The SDLT 600 Tape Drive is now100% RoHS compliant.
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» HP StorageWorks Data Protector Express Software
For backup and recovery provides secure protection for data, applications and systems. Data Protector Express is easy to install, operate and manage for organizations without dedicated IT disaster recovery staff that require simple, reliable, efficient and affordable data protection. All components run on Windows, Linux and NetWare environments and support tape, disk and DVD/CD as the backup media. Data Protector Express delivers class leading features and reliability without compromising its ease of use. Features such as open file backup, D2D2Any backup and recovery and bare metal disaster recovery minimize the impact of backup and recovery operations. The D2D2Any feature extends the scale and capability of the standard Virtual Tape Library to allow backups to be moved or copied from the VTL (disk) to other media such as tape for longer term retention. Agents are available for the protection of networked file servers, application servers and desktop machines. High performance is delivered through the Data Protector Express three-tier architecture - unique in this class of product - and self-tuning parallel backup streams that allows multiple jobs to run concurrently. Operations and monitoring are performed via a customizable graphical user interface (GUI) that can be run locally or remotely with a common look and feel across all operating system environments.
Data Protector Express Package for Microsoft Small Business Servers is specifically designed to protect Microsoft Small Business Servers (Premium and Standard)). It includes all the Data Protector Express components needed to do this and is an excellent value package. The included components are Data Protector Express Backup Server, MS Exchange Agent, MS SQL Server Agent and the Metal Disaster Recovery option. All Data Protector Express components include one year support and delivery of fixes/ upgrades. |
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