Storage Area Networking (SAN)
Our storage area network product solutions provide industry-leading connectivity platforms to deploy manage and operate today's demanding networked storage enterprise environments. These solutions include the Hewlett Packard StorageWorks SAN line of products.
The HP StorageWorks SAN line provides physical connectivity that delivers the well established benefits of network storage – significantly reducing your total cost of ownership, while maintaining high returns on investment. SAN product features and benefits include:
- Centrally managed – Fully integrated with HP's OpenView Storage Essentials framework to provide the ability to control/manage a heterogeneous fabric environment
- Upgradeable – Investment protection through backwards compatibility with older generation switches, and ability to upgrade device firmware non-disruptively
- Reduced complexity – Architectural guidance through SAN Design Guide and solution-focused blue-prints
- Highly available – Ability to provide 99.999 or higher availability levels through director-class products and redundant-fabric SAN designs
- Secured – Authentication, authorization, access control and zoning provide added level of network security
- Interoperable – Systems communicate and work together to ensure seamless performance
- Open – Support for multiple operating systems and clustering environments
- Scalable – In distance, connectivity and performance, with support for more than 3,000 total ports in modular SANs to enable today's and tomorrow's connectivity needs
- Multi-protocol – Ability to support multi-protocol infrastructures with FC, iSCSI, and FCIP
- Modular – Ability to implement modular SAN designs with increased scalability, stability and rate of utilization on storage assets through integrated subnet routing
