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Industry-first innovations on proven software-defined storage platform improve agility and efficiency of virtualized environments
HP today announced new HP Converged Storage innovations that enable customers to maximize the return on investment (ROI) of their virtual infrastructure by lowering costs while increasing agility and capacity utilization.
Extending its six-year leadership in software-defined storage,(1) HP announced new HP StoreVirtual Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) software functionality. These new features include automated sub-LUN (logical unit number) storage tiering and increased VMware and Microsoft integration to improve efficiency and performance. New licensing options provide deployment flexibility to support current workload requirements and future growth needs.
HP also announced a new HP StoreOnce Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) that cuts the cost of small site backup by up to 65 percent.(2)
Autonomic, scalable and highly available software-defined storage
Organizations with virtualized environments that range from small sites, to enterprise branch offices, and even public cloud providers, are turning to hardware- and hypervisor-agnostic software-defined storage to cost-effectively provide high availability and other data services running on industry standard server infrastructure.
HP StoreVirtual VSA—powered by the proven HP LeftHand operating system and introducing new Adaptive Optimization capabilities—is the industry’s first scale-out software-defined storage solution to offer data tiering. This feature moves data blocks to high-performance or cost-optimized storage automatically, based on application needs, for improved efficiency and performance.(3)
With HP Adaptive Optimization, continuous workload monitoring migrates actively used data to faster storage such as solid-state disk (SSD), and inactive data to lower-cost storage such as hard disk drive (HDD) storage. This granular approach eliminates the need to move entire application volumes to more expensive SSD. For inactive data, HP StoreVirtual VSA enables customers to further reduce costs by repurposing and virtualizing their legacy third-party storage, treating that capacity as a secondary tier within HP Adaptive Optimization.
HP now offers multiple licensing options for HP StoreVirtual VSA, providing flexibility to support current workloads as well as future growth requirements. In addition to the 10-terabyte (TB) standard license, the company now offers a 4TB license for small sites and a 50TB high-capacity license. As a result, customers can start small and nondisruptively upgrade to a larger VSA or the HP StoreVirtual 4000 appliance as needed.
Easily managed by IT generalists in VMware and Microsoft environments, HP StoreVirtual VSA installs three times faster and scales capacity 11 times faster than competitive software-defined storage options from VMware.(4) New support for VMware ParaVirtualized SCSI Controller delivers efficient CPU utilization, minimizing ongoing infrastructure investments. Increased Microsoft Windows? Server with Hyper-V integration enables clients to provision storage from Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager for faster deployment.
“To reduce data center investment and operational costs, budget-conscious organizations are transitioning from dedicated physical hardware to software-defined storage embedded on existing industry standard servers,” said Surachai Atthamongkolchai, business manager, HP Storage, HP Thailand. “Having pioneered software-defined storage with an installed base of over 170,000 StoreVirtual VSA licenses, HP is now extending its leadership in this area with auto-tiering capability to further optimize cost and performance for small or medium-sized businesses as well as remote enterprise branches.”
Second-generation software-defined storage for more efficient data protection
HP StoreOnce VSA deploys as a virtual machine on existing industry-standard servers, eliminating the need for customers to purchase dedicated hardware. It enables backup-as-a-service offerings for hosting providers and lowers costs for enterprise remote office protection. In addition, HP StoreOnce VSA reduces physical hardware requirements by up to 50 percent and energy costs by up to 70 percent.(5)
HP already is shipping the broadest portfolio of software-defined servers, storage and networks—all the key components for a software-defined data center.(2) The new HP StoreOnce VSA joins software-defined networking, server and storage as part of the HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio.
Unlike the fragmented complexity of competitive solutions, only HP StoreOnce meets enterprise disk backup needs with a single storage architecture.(2) It can be deployed across application and backup servers, as well as on physical and virtual storage appliances. This enables customers to transfer deduplicated data between any HP StoreOnce system without adding the bandwidth and management overhead of disparate systems.
“HP StoreOnce VSA provides flexibility and investment protection, while still providing robust data services using all the capabilities of the investments. Standardize on a single deduplication solution across the enterprise for cost-optimized data replication.” Surachai added.
Availability
- HP StoreVirtual VSA is available now at multiple capacity points.
- HP StoreOnce VSA is available now.
- All new solutions will be available from HP and authorized channel partners.
- P’s premier EMEA client event, HP Discover, takes place Dec. 10-12 in Barcelona, Spain.
About HP
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(1) Based on HP internal comparative analysis of publicly available data from major competitors, August 2013.
(2) Based on HP internal comparative analysis of publicly available data from major competitors, June 2013.
(3) Taneja Group blog, “Defining Software-defined… Storage.”
(4) Taneja Group, “Whitepaper—HP StoreVirtual Virtual Storage Appliance: The VSA for scalable VM density. A test lab validation of StoreVirtual VSA and VMware vSphere Storage Appliance,” August 2013.
(5) Based on HP comparisons of public data on HP StoreOnce VSA and EMC DD 160 data sheets as of May 2013.
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