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HP P9000 External Storage Software

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Reduce costs and stress in diverse storage environments by using the virtualization capability of the HP P9500 Disk Array to centralize, simplify, and streamline storage management tasks.
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In today’s business world, mergers, acquisitions, and technology changes have created IT environments where varieties of dissimilar servers and storage must co-exist. HP P9000 External Storage Software decreases the stress and reduces the cost of owning heterogeneous data storage by simplifying and centralizing common SAN management tasks through storage virtualization. In addition it simplifies movement of data between dissimilar arrays. HP P9000 External Storage Software provides these benefits by giving you the ability to access, monitor, and manage data residing on a variety of different disk arrays as if all of the data were residing on an HP P9500 Disk Array.

Through advanced virtualization technology, HP P9000 External Storage Software enables the hosting of HP P9500 Disk Array data on externally attached disk arrays. Servers can see the capacity of the various arrays, but are insulated from the physical attributes.

What's New

  • Significantly lower your IT expenditure with Meter-based Term licenses by purchasing software only for the period you use them

Features

Simplify your Storage Environment with Storage Virtualization
  • Connect open systems and mainframes through a central location to multiple petabytes of data residing in dissimilar disk arrays, thus increasing the capacity that you can manage and easing the consolidation effort in environments that have a wide variety of storage and computing systems.
  • After external volumes have been provisioned and presented to the HP P9500 Disk Array, External Storage allows you to manage the capacity of those volumes from the HP P9500 centralized controller and management software as if it belonged to P9500 volumes - simplifying management.
  • Data contained within the HP P9000 External Storage virtualized storage pool can be transparently migrated to any device within the pool without SAN or server reconfiguration. This provides flexibility and improved efficiency while reducing impact on users.
Manage your Legacy, Current and Future Storage as One Single Resource
  • When you use P9000 External Storage to connect your disk arrays to a P9500 Disk Array, the externally attached disk arrays appear to be part of the P9500 Disk Array. Therefore you can simplify your backup and restore environment by using a single backup agent for all of your diverse disk arrays.
  • Use HP P9000 External Storage Software with confidence, knowing you can connect HP disk arrays like the MSA, EVA and P9000 Disk Array families as well as disk arrays from IBM, EMC, HDS and SUN.
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