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Reduce costs and stress in diverse storage environments by using the virtualization capability of the HP XP Disk Array to centralize, simplify, and streamline storage management tasks. |
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1-800-786-7967 - US only
1-800-474-6836 - Canada only |
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Overview |
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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 XP 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 XP 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 XP Disk Array.
Through advanced virtualization technology, HP XP External Storage Software enables the hosting of XP Disk Array data on externally attached disk arrays. Servers can see the capacity of the various arrays, but are insulated from the physical attributes. By providing a common access path to dissimilar storage products the XP Disk Array becomes a storage controller for flexible, multi-tiered storage with a range of cost and performance capabilities. The various tiers of storage can be centrally managed by HP XP Command View Advanced Edition Software or HP XP Remote Web Console as if they were part of the HP XP disk array. HP XP External Storage Software is designed to work with a variety of XP Disk Array software, including HP XP Business Copy Software, HP XP Continuous Access Software, HP XP Auto LUN Software, HP XP Thin Provisioning Software, and HP XP Tiered Storage Manager Software.
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What's new |
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- HP XP External Storage Software now provides a cost-effective frame-based license for the XP20000.
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Features and Benefits |
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- Robust consolidation: 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.
- Centralized management from a single pool of capacity: After external volumes have been provisioned and presented to the HP XP Disk Array, HP XP External Storage allows you to manage the capacity of those volumes from the XP Disk Array’s centralized controller and management software as if it belonged to XP Disk Array volumes - simplifying management.
- Simplified data migration: Data contained within the HP XP 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.
- Streamlined backup and restore: When you use HP XP External Storage to connect your disk arrays to an HP XP Disk Array, the externally attached disk arrays appear to be part of the HP XP Disk Array. Therefore you can simplify your backup and restore environment by using a single backup agent for all of your diverse disk arrays.
- Broad disk array support: Use HP XP External Storage Software with confidence, knowing you can connect HP disk arrays like the MSA, EVA and XP Disk Array families as well as disk arrays from IBM, EMC, HDS and SUN.
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