HP StorageWorks P9500

The Hewlett-Packard company releases disk storage systems (DWH of HP) under the HP StorageWorks trademark. It is possible to refer high reliability, rather low cost and also profitability and spaciousness to advantages of DWH of HP StorageWorks. The HP StorageWorks systems perfectly are suitable for storage of large volumes of information and backup of important data.

HP StorageWorks P9500

The StorageWorks P9500 HP disk array — the representative of the StorageWorks HP family. It accumulates achievements of five previous generations of disk arrays of NR StorageWorks XP Disk Arrays, is constructed based on the components which are an industry standard for the industry of IT and equipped with simple and effective innovation management tools.

Among HP P9500 innovations — HP P9000 Smart Tiers and HP P9000 Application Performance Extender (APEX). These software modules allow to automate process of distribution of data on disks depending on access rate and to provide the guaranteed performance of business applications without administration complication.

The HP P9500 disk array is created for the enterprises for which the continued access to data in mode 24х7 is necessary. Customers have an opportunity of accumulation of capacity and configuration change of the equipment without stopping of work. It is the industry-first architecture which is scaled from 5 to 2048 drives installed in only six disk racks.

New abilities to manage, including, the advanced Remote Web Console console, allow administrators of storage 40-60% faster to carry out standard tasks of management, in particular, creation of volumes and selection of disk space.

The software of APEX developed by joint efforts of specialists of HP Labs, HP Business Critical Systems and HP StorageWorks provides consolidation of disk space on one array for applications with different requirements to performance. P9500 resources can be selected according to the priorities set by business of your enterprise. Using APEX for crucial applications required levels of capacity and response time are guaranteed, at the same time an opportunity to store less important data and to provide access to them on the same copy of HP P9500 is given. Thus, need of purchase of two separate storage systems is excluded.

Besides, customers of HP can reduce total ownership cost thanks to the new scheme of licensing providing a possibility of time-rate pay for the software of an array of HP P9500. Such approach allows the enterprises implementing short-term projects to purchase licenses for a certain term instead of the conclusion of license agreements, unlimited on time of action.

The software of NR Smart Tiers automatically moves data of applications on the most suitable drive. Thus, data of one logical disk HP P9500 are redistributed depending on access rate on physical disks with a different performance and the price. Data movement guarantees the most effective use of expensive drives SSD. Use of Smart Tiers does possible achievement of performance of one disk rack of HP P9500 at the level of 100000 transactions of input-output per second above. (3)

The HP P9500 disk array allows to consolidate effectively high capacity of storage on smaller space due to use of standard 19-inch racks. Solutions of competitors, as a rule, is under construction based on larger mounting cabinets.

One more advantage of HP P9500 is more effective use of the premises of a data processing center due to use of compact 2.5-inch drives with the interface of SAS.