HP StorageWorks
Announcing

• NEW HP StorageWorks DC SAN Backbone Director
• NEW Cisco MDS 9134 Fabric Switch
• HP StorageWorks XP for Compatible Parallel Access Volumes Software
• HP StorageWorks XP10000 Disk Array
• HP StorageWorks XP12000 Disk Array
• HP StorageWorks XP24000/XP20000 Disk Arrays

• HP Storage Essentials Solution Service
• HP StorageWorks XP Cluster Extension Software
• HP Utility Ready Storage Solution
• NEW CFT Solution Whitepapers
• Previously announced

HP StorageWorks DC SAN Backbone Director Power Pack is the most advanced B-series director-class switch and provides the backbone for evolving SANs in mission critical environments. It supports a scalable and application-centric approach to enterprise data management. It enables the merging of diverse types of networks including client/server, virtual server cluster, extension, and SANs to improve server and storage utilization, simplify management, reduce costs, and support non-disruptive growth.

DC SAN Director offers a 6Tb backplane and drives consolidation by delivering scalability with up to 768 ports in a dual chassis configuration. It provides investment protection by supporting existing and emerging protocols, including 8Gb FC, FCIP, FICON, and FCoE, iSCSI, Routing ready.

What's new:

• 8Gb Technology
• ICL Bundle
• Adaptive Networking
• Interoperability with McData SANs

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The Cisco MDS 9134 Fabric Switch is a 34 port switch with 32, 4Gbps and 2, 10Gbps Fibre Channel ports. Base 9134 comes with 24 ports active. Four factory configurations are available including 24, 26, 32, 34 active port versions. Port activation upgrade licenses are available for "pay as you grow" port activation in 8 port increments for 4Gbps ports and for the 2, 10Gbps ports.

Key features:

• Pay as you grow upgrades
• Choice of configurations from factory
• Advanced software features included at no extra change

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HP StorageWorks XP for Compatible Parallel Access Volumes Software (PAV) and HP StorageWorks XP for Compatible Hyper PAV enable high performance concurrent access of mainframe volumes by permitting a mainframe host system to issue multiple I/O requests in parallel to individual logical devices within the HP StorageWorks XP Disk Array. Without PAV, mainframe systems can initiate only one I/O request to device at a time, and must wait for the I/O to complete before starting another I/O request to the same device. Utilizing alias addresses that all point to the same device as the base address, PAV enables the host system to start several I/O requests simultaneously to the same device, thus greatly improving performance.

What's new:

• HP StorageWorks XP for Compatible Hyper PAV Software is now available for the HP StorageWorks XP24000, XP20000, XP12000, XP10000 Disk Arrays.

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The HP StorageWorks XP10000 Disk Array delivers state-of-the-art reliability and "always-on" availability for enterprise mission-critical IT. No single point of failure, non-disruptive online upgrades, and world-class services ensure that data is always available. Outstanding performance and boot-once scalability meets capacity, performance, and heterogeneous connectivity needs today and tomorrow. Advanced virtualization technology provides tiered storage up to 16 Petabytes. Array partitioning eases management, while local and remote data copying enables multi-site disaster tolerance. The XP10000 enables an adaptive enterprise - one that can quickly capitalize on and manage change increase business agility and decrease stress where downtime is not an option.

What's new:

• 400 GB FC 10K rpm 4 Gb/sec disk drives - The XP10000 disk array now support a higher capacity Fibre Channel (FC) disk drive. This drive increases the capacity internal to the array for tier 1 needs.

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The HP StorageWorks XP12000 Disk Array delivers state-of-the-art reliability and "always-on" availability for enterprise mission-critical IT. No single point of failure, non-disruptive online upgrades, and world-class services ensure that data is always available. Industry-leading performance and massive boot-once scalability meets capacity, performance, and heterogeneous connectivity needs today and tomorrow. Advanced virtualization technology provides tiered storage up to 32 Petabytes. Array partitioning eases management, while local and remote data copying enables multi-site disaster tolerance. The XP12000 enables an adaptive enterprise - one that can quickly capitalize on and manage change increase business agility and decrease stress where downtime is not an option.

What's new

• 400 GB FC 10K rpm 4 Gb/sec disk drives - The XP12000 disk array now support a higher capacity Fibre Channel (FC) disk drive. This drive increases the capacity internal to the array for tier 1 needs.

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The HP StorageWorks XP24000/XP20000 Disk Arrays are large enterprise-class storage systems designed for organizations that simply cannot afford any downtime. The XP combines a fully redundant hardware platform with unique data replication capabilities that are integrated with clustering solutions for complete business continuity.

The XP software decreases the complexities of data management. Through thin provisioning, organizations can improve storage utilization. Virtualization simplifies the management of diverse systems. Dynamic partitioning allows for the distribution of storage resources, and consolidation becomes a reality by managing open systems, mainframe, and HP NonStop applications all on a single XP. With the XP array, organizations can confidently manage mission-critical IT.

What's new

• 400 GB FC 10K rpm 4 Gb/sec disk drives - The XP24000 and XP20000 disk arrays now support a higher capacity Fibre Channel (FC) disk drive. This drive increases the overall capacity internal to the array for tier 1 type storage needs.
• Cache size doubles - The XP24000 now scales up to 512 GB of cache, while the XP20000 now scales up to 128 GB of cache. This extra cache will allow more data to temporarily be stored from Host until it is written to disk. It will also provide more cache to be used when partitioning the XP array resources among users.

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The HP Storage Essentials Solution Service helps customers to install, integrate and optimize the efficiency and performance of their storage management solution. The service includes a suite of scalable, clearly defined service engagements that provide product and solution deployment consistent with HP specifications.

Key features:

• Service planning
• Service deployment
• Installation verification tests (IVT)

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HP StorageWorks XP Cluster Extension offers disaster tolerance against application downtime from fault, failure, or site disaster by extending clusters between data centers. It resurrects your critical applications at a remote site within minutes after an event. HP StorageWorks XP Cluster Extension works seamlessly with your open-system clustering software, HP StorageWorks XP Continuous Access and your XP storage system to automate fail-over and fail-back between sites. Using Continuous Access remote mirroring allows Cluster Extension to verify the status of the storage as well as the status of the server cluster; thus, the correct failover and failback decisions are made which minimize downtime, and accelerates recovery – without human intervention.

What's new

• Support of XP20000/24000 arrays for Windows, AIX and Linux environments
• Support for Windows Server 2008 support

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The HP Utility Ready Storage Solution provides our customers a way to decrease costs associated with large, yet often unused, storage purchases. With our metering technology, customers can pay for only the storage that is used. HP provides our customers with the ability to go up AND down in storage usage to meet those surges in demand – whether from lack of planning or the need for short time application uploads.

This solution is completely customizable to meet the specific requirements and needs of each of our customers. We partner with our customers to ensure we build the most appropriate configuration as well as plan for future changes in business needs. Also, in the true spirit of partnership, HP will share in utilization and financial risks associated with storage usage.

What's new

• Metering enhancements provide for our customers to receive a lower price/GB/month.
• Metering storage usage allows our customers to pay for only the storage they use.
• HP has unique metering technology that allows customers to dial up and down in storage usage. They can provision, scale, control, and monitor the storage usage for each of their business units.

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