At the foundation of the ENSAextended (Enterprise Network Storage Architecture) strategy is the delivery of greater SAN and NAS capability designed to enable the adaptive infrastructure. The foundation of HP’s networked storage strategy is the SAN infrastructure, its fusion with NAS, and solutions that maximize customer’s storage investments. HP’s ENSAextended is designed to put customers in control of their storage infrastructure enabling the adaptive infrastructure. On 25 February 2003 HP brings to market a range of products, solutions and services that all help to maximize customer’s return on storage investments and expand HP’s leadership in networked storage.

move beyond traditional boundaries with multi-protocol capabilities and greater flexibility as part of the hp StorageWorks SAN

HP StorageWorks is delivering the storage resources of the SAN to remoteservers by bridging Fibre Channel to IP networks. With the new SR2122 iSCSI Storage Router, customers can utilize existing SAN storage resources to support non-mission critical, stranded, and low-end servers with a minimum incremental investment. The SR2122 also leverages existing IT staff expertise for increased productivity.

Richer SAN-to-WAN extension capabilities with expanded FCIP and DWDM support. The number of qualified devices and technologies for FCIP and DWDM has been expanded for both general infrastructure support as well as disaster recovery solutions. The new capabilities enhance the ability to remotely access centralized storage resources while realizing overall SAN benefits.

The msa1000 now extends into ‘low-cost, on-line bulk storage’ for the backup and restore marketplace. The msa1000 offers one of the most cost-effective middle-tier secondary storage devices in the industry for quick recovery/data restore. This array uses industry-standard SCSI drives that are 2 to 3x faster and more reliable than Parallel ATA drives, yet has a lower cost/MB than competitive Parallel ATA solutions while using industry standard ISV and HP backup and restore software.

The StorageWorks XParrays offer greater flexibility by providing the largest scalability in the industry (149TB in a single box). The new release also reduces management costs by providing industry unique ‘automatic LUN-size configuration’ that can save a lot of management time. Plus the ability to manage up to 149TB in a single-pane substantially lowers management costs as well.

The StorageWorks EVA now supports the 146GB 10K RPM drive for greater flexibility and scalability. With this new capacity point EVA will support up to 34 TB behind a pair of controllers and 24 TB in a single cabinet.

merge NAS and SAN environments with the fusion of a unified network storage architecture for improved return on your overall storage investment

HP StorageWorks is launching enhanced NAS (Network Attached Storage) products, the b2000, b3000, e7000 and NAS Data Path Manager for the NAS8000. These new NAS offerings bring greater performance and extended support for the fusion of NAS and SAN environments. Through unified storage architecture, customers can begin to realize the benefits of storage as a utility with simplified management and reduced storage implementation and management costs.

HP’s NAS solutions enable customers to deploy a storage network that is optimized forbothblock and file level data access. By utilizing HP StorageWorks arrays as a common data repository, HP’s NAS solutions provide a specialized platform for file serving direct to applications. The result is a scalable NAS architecture, which frees both processing and personnel resources, and a consolidated SAN environment that is accessible by more applications reducing total storage costs. Additionally, both StorageWorks NAS and SAN solutions can be seamlessly managed from a common point further reducing TCO.

HP StorageWorks has the products and services to provide customers the entire storage solution. Through NAS/SAN fusion, customers can be assured that HP has the right solutions for their storage needs across their entire environment.

maximize storage investment with migration simplicity and data availability

HP services are built around helping you design, build, integrate, manage, and evolve your infrastructure to become more adaptive, and better fit your needs. In response to the growth of enterprise SANs and businesses’ reliance on continuous access to critical data, HP is introducing Critical Services for SANs. HP is the first vendor to provide a standard, mixed-vendor SAN fabric support solution to customers, and is now enhancing this offering to include the industry’s first hardware call-to-repair commitment and 100% interconnectivity guarantee (available in May). Through proven proactive features and enhanced reactive support processes, customers are able to keep SANs running 24x7, reduce exposure to downtime and manage change and interoperability issues seamlessly.

Regardless of size or complexity, HP’s SAN Solution Service and Backup and Recovery Solution Service help customers to build, integrate and maximize the investment of their SANs. HP’s Data Migration Service can also help customers safely relocate their critical information. Through simple, scalable service components, HP goes beyond basic implementation to ensure that the networked storage architecture integrates with business processes and objectives.

Tape products are an essential part of any multi-level backup and recovery strategy and should be considered with every storage deployment. With the introduction of HP’s Library and Tape Tools (L&TT) customers can enhance there ability to keep backups running without downtime or business interruption to maximize their storage investment and increasing data availability.

The HP StorageWorks SR2122 iSCSI Storage Router is an iSCSI to FibreChannelBridge that enables access to block storage on a Fibre Channel (FC) SAN across an Ethernet network. The SR2122 Storage Router is the first HP storage product delivered to this emerging market of customers looking to extend the benefits of their existing FC SANs. Some of the basic benefits include: consolidated storage, improved disk utilization, centralized backup and management and improved utilization of IT staff experience and expertise.

The SR2122 iSCSI Storage Router provides iSCSI to Fibre Channel SAN connectivity for X86 servers, including ProLiant BL Series Server Blades as well as HP StorageWorks HSG80 products, msa1000, the Enterprise Virtual Array as well as various Enterprise Backup Solutions. As with all HP storage products, this new product can be integrated into your overall storage blueprint and represents proven storage solutions technology and qualification that the benefits of FC SANs.

Key Features and Benefits:

controllable:

  • affordable: delivers SAN storage at significantly lower cost than FC SAN storage

extensible:

  • flexible: supports two Ethernet and two Fibre Channel connections
  • integrated: fully tested by HP standards to work with key subsystems

Questions and Answers:

QWhat is IP-based storage?

AIP-based storage allows customers to realize SAN functionality and benefits by utilizing existing Ethernet capabilities to store and retrieve data. IP based storage solutions do not generally deliver the same performance levels achieved by Fibre Channel SAN solutions, however, IP SAN solutions can extend FC SAN benefits to stranded servers providing the following key benefits: Storage consolidation, improved disk utilization, centralized backup and management and improved IT efficiency.

QWhat is the advantage of the HP StorageWorks SR2122 iSCSI Storage Router over other storage router products?

AThe HP StorageWorks SR2122 iSCSI Storage Router is an iSCSI to FibreChannelBridge that enables access to block storage on a FC SAN across an Ethernet network. In addition to its high performance, the HP StorageWorks SR2122 iSCSI Storage Router allows two Ethernet and two Fibre Channel interfaces to all the flexibility of both popular protocols.

QHow does HP StorageWorks SR2122 iSCSI Storage Router map to the ENSAextended architecture?

AHP’s IP storage strategy and first product offering (SR2122 iSCSI Storage Router), represent key elements of the new ENSAextended architecture by demonstrating both the adaptive and extensible elements of ENSAextended. For more information on the ENSAextended architecture or the Networked Storage component, please refer to the presentation and strategy brief available on the ENSAextended web site:

The HP StorageWorks SAN provides the industry leading architecture to deploy, manage and scale today’s networked storage enterprise environments. It delivers the physical connectivity that, when combined to the other elements of HP’s solution, brings into reality the well established benefits of network storage: significantly reduced the Total Cost of Ownerships (TCO), increase asset utilization, and lower costs while increasing time to market and maintaining high returns on investment 100-500%

The HP StorageWorks SAN consists of two levels, physical and logical. At the physical level, it provides an architecture of networked elements (edge switches, directors, core switches, HBA’s, firmware, cables, transceivers etc.) designed to connect a heterogeneous computing environments to single and multiple shared storage systems. At the logical level, it consists the applications, management tools, virtualization technology and services built on the underlying infrastructure that provides the intelligence to manage the SAN and lower the total costs of ownerships.

What’s New?

Three new SAN capabilities have been introduced:

  • iSCSI bridging: ability to provide enterprise-class storage resources to non-critical serves through the IP network. This is accomplished by supporting connectivity of the HP StorageWorks SR2122 iSCSI Storage Router with our switch product lines. SAN design rules to build such environments are provided in the new edition of the SAN Design Guide.
  • SAN extension: In addition to the current capabilities to support SAN extension in the context of DRM solutions, the HP StorageWorks SAN now support remote connectivity over MAN’s and WAN’s as a generic infrastructure capability. Please check the new edition of the SAN Design Guide for SAN rules and for information on the specific qualified devices
  • Updated NAS/SAN integration rules: New and updated NAS/SAN design rules covering integration of the latest NAS heads (e7000 and NAS 8000) with HP’s latest fabric products. Customer will now be able to design architectures supporting fusion of NAS heads with general-purpose enterprise SANs.

Questions and Answers:

QWhere can I get more information about the “HP StorageWorks SAN”?

AFor additional information, please visit our web site at :

QWhat is the extent of Operating System support?

AThe HP StorageWorks SAN provides leading edge support for heterogeneous computing environments. The systems supported include:

  • HP-UX, HP MPE/ix
  • OpenVMS
  • Tru64 UNIX
  • Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 2000, Datacenter
  • SUN Solaris
  • IBM-AIX
  • Novell NetWare
  • Red Hat Linux
  • SUSE Linux
  • Caldera Linux
  • SGI Irix
  • DYNIX
  • SCO Unixware
  • Mainframe: OS/390, MVS/ESA, MVS/XA, MVS/370, VM/ESA, VM/XA, VM/HPO, VSE/ESA, VSE/SP, Z/OS, Z/VM

For specifics regarding the O/S’s supported in each storage array family, and the particular versions, please check the SAN Design Guide.

QWhat cluster environments are supported?

  • The HP StorageWorks SAN leading edge support for cluster environments includes:
  • Tru64 UNIX TruCluster
  • HP MC/ServiceGuard
  • Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS)
  • Novell NetWare Clusters
  • SUN Clusters
  • VERITAS Clusters
  • OpenVMS Clusters

For specifics regarding the particular versions, please check the SAN Design Guide.

QWhat new component support has been added?

  • The HP StorageWorks SAN now supports the following new components:
  • HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/32
  • HP StorageWorks SR2122 iSCSI Storage Router

Check the SAN Design Guide for details.

The HP StorageWorks Modular SAN Array 1000 now extends into ‘low-cost, on-line bulk storage’ for the backup and restore marketplace. The msa1000 offers one of the most cost-effective middle-tier secondary storage devices in the industry for quick recovery/data restore. This array uses industry-standard SCSI drives that are 2 to 3x faster and more reliable than Parallel ATA drives, yet has a lower cost/MB than competitive Parallel ATA solutions while using industry standard ISV and HP backup and restore software.

What’s New?

  • The msa1000 is now qualified as a mezzanine backup and restore solution utilizing disk-to-disk backup technology by software vendors.
  • Compatible with HP Data Protector, VERITAS, NetBackup and Computer Associates BrightStor
  • Available on February 25, 2003.

Questions and Answers:

QWhat primary storage is supported for this solution?

AThe HP StorageWorksEnterpriseVirtual Array and the HP StorageWorks Modular SAN Array 1000.

QWhere can we find more details about this solution?

AA business and technical blueprint are available at launch and an implementation blueprint will be available as of March 11, 2003.

QWhy should I consider this solution?

AIf you need random access to data and fast single-file restores, your first backup should be disk. Then follow-up your backup with tape and optical products for longer-term storage of your data for a full data protection solution.

The HP StorageWorks NAS b2000 is an entry-level network-attached storage (NAS) solution that delivers quick and simple NAS storage with multi-protocol file support and storage management for workgroups, small businesses, and remote locations. It offers just-in-time storage that is quick and simple to set up for multi-protocol environments as well as easy to manage and administer, requiring limited IT knowledge.

An affordable alternative to tape backup, the NAS b2000 is an entry-level NAS solution that requires limited IT resources and can be managed remotely. It offers ease of installation and management features that reduce overall total cost of ownership (TCO). Plus, it comes with HP Global Services, providing cost-effective support to ensure continuous availability. The NAS b2000 is ideal for customers who require quick, simple, rapidly deployable, flexible storage or who need remote manageability and have limited IT resources.

What’s new:

The HP StorageWorks NAS b2000

  • New server platform based on ProLiant DL380 G3
  • Columbia Data Products has been loaded in place of SWVR
  • New web interface for easier management

Key Features and Benefits:

CONTROLLABLE:

  • NAS/SAN fusion: integration of file or block data leads to increased efficiency of the storage network
  • manageable: simpler management of file or block level data leading to decreased costs for storage
  • affordable: NAS/SANfusion provides an architecture that offers better efficiency for your storage

RESILIENT:

  • reliable: hp’s experience is the key to success with affordable optimized NAS solutions

EXTENSIBLE:

  • extensive: low-end, remote/workgroup solutions, to consolidated fusion solutions for the enterprise
  • optimized: hp provides the right NAS solution for each customer, no need to settle for trade-offs

Questions and Answers:

QWhat is NAS?

ANAS is an acronym for network-attached storage. NAS solutions are specialized file-serving devices that provide support for heterogeneous files in a high-capacity package. NAS solutions also provide specific features to simplify the tasks and reduce the resources associated with data storage and management. The objective of NAS technology is to simplify manageability and improve data access to clients and applications. A NAS solution will generally work with a mix of clients and servers running different operating systems.

QWhat is the advantage of the HP StorageWorks NAS b2000 over a general-purpose server?

AThe HP StorageWorks NAS b2000 has been designed to serve files to heterogeneous clients. In addition to performance tuning, the HP StorageWorks NAS b2000 includes integrated software designed to support a multi-protocol environment, snapshots, replication, and volume expansion.

The HP StorageWorks NAS b3000 provides the entry-point into NAS/SAN fusion solutions bringing enterprise-level availability with clustered no single point of failure solutions, scalability up to 48 TB with embedded switches and great performance for heterogeneous compute environments in a turnkey package.

As a great solution for storage consolidation the HP StorageWorks NAS b3000 offers great capacity and Advanced Data Guarding with the confidence that your data will be there when you need it. Migration made simple with the DAS to SAN functionality that will allow for entire Smart Array RAID sets to be physically moved and recognized.

What’s New:

The HP StorageWorks NAS b3000 v2

  • New server platform based on HP ProLiant DL380 G3
  • Columbia Data Products has been loaded in place of SWVR
  • New web interface

Key Features and Benefits:

CONTROLLABLE:

  • NAS/SAN fusion: integration of file or block data leads to increased efficiency of the storage network
  • manageable: simpler management of file or block level data leading to decreased costs for storage
  • affordable: NAS/SANfusion provides an architecture that offers better efficiency for your storage

RESILIENT:

  • reliable: HP’s experience is the key to success with affordable optimized NAS solutions

EXTENSIBLE:

  • extensive: enterprise and departmental to consolidated fusion solutions for the enterprise
  • optimized: hp provides the right NAS solution for each customer, no need to settle for trade-offs

Questions and Answers:

QWhat is NAS?

ANAS is an acronym for network-attached storage. NAS solutions are specialized file-serving devices that provide support for heterogeneous files in a high-capacity package. NAS solutions also provide specific features to simplify the tasks and reduce the resources associated with data storage and management. The objective of NAS technology is to simplify manageability and improve data access to clients and applications. A NAS solution will generally work with a mix of clients and servers running different operating systems.

QWhat is the advantage of the HP StorageWorks NAS b3000 over a general-purpose server?

AThe HP StorageWorks NAS b2000 has been designed to serve files to heterogeneous clients. In addition to performance tuning, the HP StorageWorks NAS b3000 includes integrated software designed to support a multi-protocol environment, snapshots, replication, and volume expansion.