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QuickSpecs

HP MSA P2000 G3 Modular Smart Array Systems

Hardware

Create a Virtual Machine from a template Monitors the health and status of the P2000

Displays LUN / volume connections from VMs and ESX servers to the arrays and provides the location and attributes of the P2000 within the SAN

Identifies what storage features are available to allow administrators to match the features available on the P2000 to their requirements

Provide a cluster-level view of the storage

HP Insight Control Storage Module for vCenter is downloadable from Software Depot: https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPVPR

vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI)

HP Storage Management Pack for Microsoft System Center

For more information on HP Insight Control Storage Module for vCenter visit: www.hp.com/go/vmware

The vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) is one of the storage application programming interface (API) sets in vSphere 4.1. VAAI is an API storage partners can leverage to enhance performance of virtual machine (VM) management operations by delegating these operations to the storage array. With hardware offload, ESX/ESXi hosts perform certain operations faster and consume less server CPU and memory resources, and also storage port and storage fabric bandwidth. VAAI includes high performance and scalable VM data path primitives. HP introduced VAAI support for HP MSA P2000 Storage array products starting with the T230 firmware release.

Storage Hardware Primitives for VAAI

In the VMware vSphere 4.1 release, the HP StorageWorks P2000 G3 MSA Array Systems offload capabilities support the following three primitives:

Full Copy or Hardware Assisted Move

Block Zeroing or Hardware Assisted Zeroing

Hardware Assisted Locking or Atomic Test and Set (ATS)

The HP Management Pack for Systems Center Operations Manager provides seamless integration with Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager and now System Center Essentials by integrating predefined discovery and state monitoring policies, event processing rules and tasks, and diagram and topology views for the storage system.

For more information:

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/14249_na/14249_na.html

HP Storage Management Pack can be downloaded free from the following website: https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=SCOM

Snapshot and Volume Copy Software for the P2000 G3

Product Features

Data Protection

Snapshots create up to 512 point-in-time pictures of data (512 snaps are exclusive to the P2000 G3) Volume Copies create up to 128 point-in-time copies of data

Recovery is instant - revert data from any previous Snapshot or Volume Copy Backup 'snapped' data to disk, virtual tape, or physical tape without a backup window A 64 snapshot license and Volume Copy are included with all P2000 G3 models.

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