Enhance your virtual environment, simplify management, and reduce costs with HP LeftHand SAN solutions.
Like just about every other organization these days, you’re working hard to balance your IT needs with today’s economic realities. Maybe you’ve already implemented server virtualization as you move toward the next-generation data center. But to really maximize virtualization’s business value, your smart next step is an HP LeftHand SAN solution.
Unlike legacy SAN arrays, an HP LeftHand SAN is easy to deploy, scale, and maintain. The difference is in the architecture. An HP LeftHand SAN is made up of a single storage system (rather than two separate hardware units) plus HP SAN/iQ® Software, which clusters multiple systems together into a single pool of storage. This ability to cluster makes for some powerful advantages:
Cost and simplicity. With an HP LeftHand SAN, you buy only what you need today. When you need to increase performance or capacity, you just attach another storage system—with no disruption to your applications. So you can start with a single system and scale to petabyte capacity over time. And manage it all with a single, intuitive user interface.
Scalable performance. Because all of its resources are clustered, an HP LeftHand SAN’s performance scales along with its capacity. Add a storage system, and you add performance. Which means you avoid controller bottlenecks and the costly, complicated upgrades that follow.
Availability. The biggest advantage of is data availability. An HP LeftHand SAN can sustain multiple system failures and still keep data on line and accessible. Rather than just use dual controllers for high availability, like most vendors do, HP also protects against dual disk failures, power failures, and air conditioning failures. In fact, by guarding against any type of “outside of the box” failure, HP LeftHand SANs deliver levels of data availability well beyond what dual controllers and hardware RAID can provide.
To learn more about what an HP LeftHand SAN can do for your business, contact ePlus. We’re an HP Enterprise Elite Storage Partner with specializations in High Availability, Business Continuity, and Disaster Recovery. Our 170 certified and trained HP engineers and 10 HP Master SAN architects have the proven expertise to design and implement the storage solution that will meet your needs today and tomorrow, while saving you money every step of the way.
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