Bangkok--2 Dec--Aziam Burson-Marsteller
HP StorageWorks P9500 Disk Array offers simplicitywithout compromise for mission-critical applications
Mr. Wongviwat Siritasanakul, Product Manager, StorageWorks Division HP Enterprise Business, Hewlett-Packard (Thailand) Ltd., introduced the new HP StorageWorks P9500 Disk Array. It is designed to reduce data center complexity without sacrificing mission-critical performance or availability. Building on five generations of HP StorageWorks XP Disk Array success, the P9500 features standards-based hardware and new management innovations to provide improved levels of simplicity and efficiency. The P9500 Disk Array is designed for 24/7 data availability, with the ability to add capacity and make system changes without incurring system downtime. Clients can simplify storage deployment by leveraging the industry’s first mission-critical storage hardware architecture to scale from five drives in a single cabinet to more than 2,000 drives in only six cabinets without disruption to the system’s availability.(1)
New software features for the P9500 include HP P9000 Application Performance Extender (APEX) and HP P9000 Smart Tiers. These features enable clients to automate data tiering and enhance mission-critical application performance.
The new APEX software enables consolidation of storage capacity for mission-critical and other business applications on the same array. This eliminates the need to purchase two separate systems. Using APEX, clients can ensure mission-critical applications meet required bandwidth and latency thresholds, while still allowing less important data to be stored and accessed on the same P9500.
In addition, clients can lower their total cost of ownership with new “pay-as-you-use” meter-based licensing. This enables clients with short-term projects to buy only what is required for the time span they need, rather than perpetual licensing arrangements.
HP P9000 Smart Tiers software automatically moves small “chunks” of data between classes of storage on the P9500, improving performance and capacity utilization without incurring system downtime. This allows clients to balance storage performance and cost requirements in a single storage environment.
With Smart Tiers, application data is automatically moved to the optimal disk type, giving applications solid-state disk performance for data that needs it while moving less critical data to lower cost drives. Smart Tiers also improves application performance by enabling the P9500 Disk Array to deliver more than 100,000 I/Os per second from a single cabinet.(2)
The P9500 allows clients to consolidate more storage in less space with greater efficiency through a new hardware design that leverages standard, 19-inch enclosures instead of the larger enclosures employed by competitive solutions. Clients also realize improved resource utilization with 2.5-inch small form factor SAS drives, which offer double the power efficiency and I/O per square foot in half the space.(2)
More information about HP StorageWorks mission-critical solutions is available at http://www.hp.com/storage/highlights.
(1) Based on comparisons using competitors’ published documents.
(2) Based on internal HP testing.