Configuration information for HP StorageWorks P2000 G3 MSA Systems

The HP P2000 G3 FC/iSCSI MSA System is a high-performance storage solution combining outstanding performance with high reliability, availability, flexibility, and manageability. HPE's MSA P2000 Family of storage arrays features P2000 G3 arrays with the latest 8 GB Fibre Channel, 6 GB SAS, 10GbE iSCSI connected models, and an iSCSI model with four 1 GB iSCSI ports per controller.

The MSA P2000 G3 arrays are 2U storage area network (SAN) or direct connect solutions (OS and protocol dependent) offering a choice of five controllers - two FC, one SAS, one 10GbE iSCSI and the newest model features a four port 1 GB iSCSI. The first Fibre Channel controller is a high-performance, 8 GB dual port model. The second offering is a unique dual-purpose Combo controller with two 8 GB Fibre Channel ports with the addition of two 1GbE iSCSI ports. The third controller choice is 6Gb SAS with four ports per controller. There is also the addition of a two port 10 GB iSCSI, while the latest controller introduction features four 1 GB iSCSI ports per controller. Whatever the situation calls for, the P2000 G3 line-up has the right solution. 512 LUNs with LUN sizes greater than 40TB depending on the RAID configuration chosen. The maximum LUN size is 64TB

• Any number or combination of LUNs can be shared among a maximum of 64 host ports as long as the total adds up to no more than 512 LUNs per P2000 G3 system (single or dual controller configuration).

 • A maximum of eight (8) enclosures (including the array enclosure) OR one hundred forty-nine (149) drives are allowed in the array configuration.

• In order to maximize performance, do not mix 6Gb and 3Gb disk drives in the same enclosures.

Connecting the P2000 G3 MSA System to remote management hosts:

1. Connect an Ethernet cable to the Ethernet management port on each P2000 G3 MSA controller.

 2. Connect the other end of each Ethernet cable to a network that the management host can access.

Connecting drive enclosures to the P2000 G3 MSA System:

The P2000 G3 MSA System supports  four  drive enclosures:

• HP StorageWorks P2000 6Gb 3.5” 12–drive enclosure

• HP StorageWorks D2700 6Gb drive enclosure

• HP StorageWorks MSA2000 3Gb 3.5” 12–drive enclosure

 • HP StorageWorks MSA70 3Gb drive enclosure

P2000 G3 MSA System controller enclosures support both 3Gbps and 6Gbps internal disk drive and expander link speeds. Mixing 3Gbps drive enclosures with 6Gbps drive enclosures is supported.

  Steps to  follow  when  Connecting drive enclosures to the P2000 G3 MSA System:

• Use only supported SAS 4x cables.

 • Mini-SAS to mini-SAS 0.5m cables are provided with the P2000 6Gb 3.5” 12–drive enclosure and D2700 6Gb drive enclosure (one per controller).

 • If longer cables are needed than those supplied with enclosure, they must be purchased separately. See the MSA Quick Specs for details.

• The maximum length cable allowed to connect enclosures in any configuration is 2m.

 • A maximum of eight (8) enclosures (including the array enclosure) OR one hundred forty-nine (149) drives are allowed in the array configuration.

The MSA P2000 G3 SAS is the follow-on product to the MSA2000sa G2, adding the latest 6 GB SAS technology to the four host ports per controller. The P2000 G3 SAS array is designed for directly attaching up to four dual-path or eight single path rack servers. HPE's MSA P2000 Family of storage arrays features P2000 G3 arrays with the latest 8 GB Fibre Channel, 6 GB SAS, 10GbE iSCSI connected models, and an iSCSI model with four 1 GB iSCSI ports per controller. The arrays are designed for entry-level customers and feature the latest in functionality and host-connect technology while offering excellent price/performance. They are ideal for companies with small budgets or limited IT expertise, and also larger companies with departmental or remote requirements. Each solution is designed to be easy to deploy, to be secure, along with low management costs, while driving a rapid return on investment through efficient storage consolidation.

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Standard Operating system features of HPE Store Easy 1450 Storage

The StoreEasy 1450 product is designed for small businesses, branch offices, and workgroup environments. They integrate easily into new and existing environments offering  storage administrators and IT generalists a straightforward, consistent management experience.

Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2012 R2, Standard Edition with HP enhanced value and unique features.

HP enhanced Initial Configuration Tasks Wizard: StoreEasy installation and network configuration wizards simplify installation and prevent network configuration errors for faster deployment.

  HP StoreEasy Dashboard consolidates all key status information such as capacity utilization, performance, and health in a single interface and reduces the need to navigate multiple tools and interfaces for system monitoring.

HP StoreEasy Pool Manager is a best practices driven storage provisioning tool that automatically discovers system storage and recommends the most efficient setup for optimum performance, optimum capacity, or a balanced configuration based on the available storage.

 HP StoreEasy 1450 Tools menu within Windows Server manager to access the most commonly  accessed tools and tasks that an administrator uses for day-to-day management of StoreEasy. The StoreEasy Tools menu provides management of storage pools, snapshots, emails and alerts, enclosure settings, and firmware updates.

Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 (WSS2012 R2) includes a robust range of file serving and  storage capabilities. It addresses heterogeneous environments and it enables more efficient storage utilization. WSS2012 R2 delivers a similar level of performance and reliability as more expensive storage solutions and it offers support for both file (CIFS/SMB and NFS) and block (iSCSI) protocols, allows for a flexible mix of configurations and includes advanced data management tools. WSS2012 R2 leverages Windows Server management skill sets and tools including Active Directory, PowerShell and System Center.

 Extensive protocol support: SMB ( 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, 3.02), NFS (v2, v3, v4.1), WebDAV, HTTP/HTTPS,· FTP/FTPS, ISCSI

 o SMB3 protocol: Leverage high performance continually available file shares to deliver feature-rich storage for business-critical applications and virtual servers using advanced new functionality.

 o SMB3 Multi-channel: Enable aggregation of network bandwidth and network fault tolerance when multiple paths are available between SMB clients and file servers.

o NFS v4.1: For Windows Storage Server 2012 R2, Server for NFS has been updated to support continuous availability. These improvements make it possible to reliably store and run VMware ESX on a virtual machine that is running Windows Server 2012 by using the NFS protocol to share files. Additional improvements in failover clustering take advantage of better resilience to hardware and software outages that may afflict individual cluster nodes. At the same time, failover clustering isolates VMware ESX hypervisor hosts from intermittent glitches during failovers.

 o iSCSI: Some applications require block storage. iSCSI Target Server can provide these applications with continuously available block storage. Since the storage is remotely accessible it can also consolidate block storage for central or branch office locations. By using boot-capable NICs or a software loader, the user can deploy hundreds of diskless

File Server Resource Manager (FSRM): File Server Resource Manager is a set of features within the WSS2012 R2 OS that allows to manage and classify data that is stored on file servers.  It  includes  Storage Quotas, File screening, File Classification Infrastructure, File Management Tasks and Storage reports.

Data Deduplication: Data deduplication enables Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 to store more data in less physical space for greater storage efficiency.

Work Folders: With Work Folders users can store and access work files on personal computers and devices, often referred to as bring-your-own device (BYOD), in addition to corporate PCs

Hosted Branch Cache: Using client/server architecture, Windows 7/8 client computers can cache content on the local network via the Hosted Cache running on the StoreEasy 1000 Storage

Volume Shadow Copy Service : Creates point-in-time copies (snapshots) of files and folders at predetermined time intervals that can then be accessed from client computers

 DFS Namespaces: Enables to group shared folders that are located on different servers into one or more logically structured namespaces

Distributed File System Replication (DFS-R): Enables to efficiently replicate folders (including those referred to by a DFS namespace path) across multiple servers and sites

New VHDX Standard: Deploy larger capacity virtual storage that can grow to 64 terabytes, is more resilient against corruption, and provides more efficient usage of new 4 KB sector hard disks with the new VHDX virtual storage standard.

 Live Storage Migration: Maintain maximized service-level availability even while moving virtual machine storage between host servers independent of the actual virtual machine.

 Unlimited Client Access Licenses (CALs) included

Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 (WSS2012 R2) includes a robust range of file serving and storage capabilities. It addresses heterogeneous environments and it enables more efficient storage utilization. WSS2012 R2 delivers a similar level of performance and reliability as more expensive storage solutions and it offers support for both file (CIFS/SMB and NFS) and block (iSCSI) protocols, allows for a flexible mix of configurations and includes advanced data management tools. WSS2012 R2 leverages Windows Server management skill sets and tools including Active Directory, PowerShell and System Center.

 All StoreEasy 1450 models except HPE StoreEasy 1450 WSS 2016 Storage have Windows Storage Server 2012 R2, Standard Edition and HPE StoreEasy 1450 WSS 2016 Storage has Windows Storage Server 2016, Standard Edition, pre-installed from the factory on the four internal LFF drives configured as RAID1+0. The StoreEasy 1450 is built on a ProLiant DL160 Gen 9 server and includes a rail kit and cable management arm.

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What are the advantages of HP Storage Works EVA 6400?

The HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) 6400 provides virtualised storage enabling capacity pooling, simplified management, automatic performance load balancing, dynamic configuration and reconfiguration. With its advanced, easy-to-use management software, the EVA saves customers up to 50 percent in storage administration costs when compared to competitive storage arrays.

The EVA6400 allows the user to virtualize everything and seamlessly provision the storage when growing applications. Add virtual servers and EVAs to dynamically build a complete virtualized IT environment—virtual storage for virtual servers tuned for the  environment.

The EVA6400 packaging consists of a 4U FC dual HSV400 controller assembly and 2 to up to a full rack (18) M6412 12-bay FC Drive Enclosures. The HP Storage Works EVA6400 is designed to address moderate capacity and performance needs ranging (from 2 to 18 drive enclosures, .4 - 216TB).

With EVA there is no need to pre-allocate dedicated storage capacity.

EVA offers Business Copy EVA and Continuous Access EVA Software for local and remote replication needs. EVA solutions improve data availability and business agility and support business continuance and disaster-tolerant environments for  key business applications.

HP Command View EVA Software allows IT to focus on innovation by reducing the amount of management resources needed to support, provision and maintain the storage environment.

Adapts to improve performance by placing data across more spindles and automatically re-levelling when new storage is added.

With HP Data Protector Zero Downtime Backup (ZDB) and Instant Recovery (IR), the EVA overcomes the server performance and application data inconsistency challenges in virtual server environments.

In the dynamic virtual server environment, the most complementary storage is that which can respond to changes quickly.

 EVA virtualization allows the user to use the power and speed of all  the  drives by spreading data across all the disks in the storage array.

The flexibility of EVA virtualization allows the user to grow or shrink the storage dynamically as the business needs change. EVA uses all the drives for the highest disk utilization.

EVA also supports tiered storage through Fibre Channel solid state disks for high I/O low latency requirements, 10,000 and 15,000 rpm Fibre Channel disk drives for primary storage needs and Fibre Attached Technology Adapted drives for bulk storage

Integration of applications and operating systems with tested and proven solutions brings simplicity to the  complex and changing the environment.

HP EVA provides easy installation through  Installation and Startup for the  EVA6400.

Organizations can expect high availability with the dual-redundant EVA architecture that supports vRAID 1, vRAID 5 and vRAID 6 and end-to-end data protection with solutions for VMware Site Recovery Manager and Cluster Extension EVA with live migration with Microsoft Hyper-V.

The EVA family provides an easy-to-use, highly-available and affordable storage array to meet a wide variety of the business-critical needs.

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Build and Design of HP EVA Storage 4400

  

The HP EVA4400 is a Storage Area Network (SAN) system that provides data storage and security on a much larger scale than a simple RAID or NAS system. It is a reliable and scalable high-end data system.

The EVA4400 is actually a collection of units supplied in its own full-sized rack. Physical drives are contained in drawers which bear up to 12 volumes each in a 2RU space. Up to eight drawers allow for as many as 96 individual physical drives. Power and data connectors were all duplicated to ensure reliability.

The EVA agglomerates all the available physical drives into a single virtual unit where logical drives are allocated from this space. Connected servers are then applied as hosts to these virtual drives. A single virtual drive can be "hosted" by multiple servers. Furthermore, each virtual drive on one SAN array may be formatted for a different operating system.

 In the case of the EVA4400 as many as 96 physical disks may be included, thus vastly increasing data throughput. In a 20TB storage facility, it is far better to use 40x 500GB drives than it is to use 20x 1TB drives. Further redundancy and load balancing is achieved by using Multipath I/O. Dual-copper fiber-channel cables connect disk shelves with the SAN header and attached servers.

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Drives can be added or replaced with a minimum of fuss. The HP EVA Storage 4400 automatically adjusts itself to the number of physical disks available to it. As drives are removed due to failure or added to increase available space, the SAN restripes all the logical drives to cover each drive. If a unit fails, then RAID 1 & 5 redundancy data is used to rebuild the lost drive using whatever space is available. "Spare drives" are not physical units as in traditional RAID, but are in fact just another stripe on the virtual disk.

 Drive rebuilding has the potential to restrict user access to data, but the EVA4400 gives these tasks a lower priority than user requests — therefore, it does its housekeeping when the system is idle. It has clever data arrangement means that restriping does not require rearranging all the data on the disk but only a portion equivalent to the amount of space lost or gained.

The Snapshot allows the user to create a backup copy of a drive so the user can safely explore software upgrades knowing that the user can rapidly restore to the earlier configuration if things go pear-shaped. There is a Snapclone function that, as the name suggests, creates clones of an existing logical disk.

SAN management can be managed remotely from a Web-browser based on any other OS. OS support includes Windows , Linux (Red Hat, SUSE), Vmware ESX, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Netware, Mac OS X and OpenVMS.

 HP's iLO (Integrated Lights-Out) gives the full remote control over the hardware ensuring that the emergency administrators can troubleshoot problems from wherever they are. The "Command View" management interface allows you to check on the status of both logical and physical drives, and adjust logical drive properties.

The HP EVA4400 provides extremely high data availability by facilitating much higher I/O rates and eliminating downtime due to maintenance. The EVA also simplifies data management by physically and logically centralizing all the network storage systems.

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