Storage needs are changing in light of server virtualization, data growth, business continuity demands and cost pressures. Looking for storage that meets these goals and can be added easily into your infrastructure? HP P4000 G2 SAN Solutions are proven for blade servers, virtual servers, client virtualization, database, email and business applications. With a pay-as-you-grow, all-inclusive pricing model (3-year support included) and intuitive storage management, this SAN is perfect to help get data growth under control. HP P4000 G2 SANs scale capacity and performance linearly without incurring downtime or performance bottlenecks. P4000 G2 SANs eliminate single points of failure and offer application data high availability, reducing risks without driving up costs. Reservation-less thin provisioning substantially increases your storage utilization and thus reduces costs. Choose from rack or blade offerings and protect your investment with no cost software upgrades.

All-inclusive Feature set for any P4000 Offering Enables Affordable Enterprise Functionality.
• Storage Clustering allows a customer to consolidate multiple storage nodes into pools of storage. All available capacity and performance is aggregated and available to every volume in the cluster. As storage needs increase the HP P4000 G2 can scale performance and capacity on-line.

Superior Availability and Disaster Recovery
• HP P4000 G2 SANs stripe and protect multiple copies of data across a cluster of storage nodes, eliminating any single point of failure in the SAN. Applications have continuous data availability in the event of a disk, controller, storage node, power, network, or site failure.

Scaling SAN Capacity and Performance Without Disruption
• Avoid up-front cost and the potential performance constraints. Purchase only what’s needed today, then grow the performance, capacity, and redundancy of your HP P4000 G2 SAN online as storage requirements evolve. Buying storage only when needed simplifies planning and relieves budget pressures.

Easy to Manage SANs for Virtualized Environments
• Reduce storage system power/cooling costs by up to 30% and data center footprint by 65% using the HP P4800 SAN Solution for HP BladeSystem. Fully integrated into HP BladeSystem the P4800 eliminates expensive and complicated FC networking delivering enterprise storage within a BladeSystem enclosure.