Chapter TWELVE. HP ProLiant Storage

Chapter Syllabus

12.1 HP StorageWorks

12.2 StorageWorks Disk Systems

12.3 StorageWorks MSA20

12.4 StorageWorks MSA30

12.5 StorageWorks MSA500 G2

12.6 StorageWorks MSA1000

12.7 StorageWorks MSA1500

This chapter explains the following topics:

• Network storage technologies, such as direct-attached storage (DAS), network attached storage (NAS), and storage area networks (SANs)

• HP Enterprise Storage Architecture (ENSA)

• The HP StorageWorks MSA Disk family of products

IT infrastructures need speed and flexibility to adapt to dynamic markets. The HP approach to delivering storage enables a business to be competitive in the following areas:

• Physical resources serve as highly available data repositories.

• Virtualization capabilities simplify storage management and extend the span of management of physical storage resources.

• Resource-level storage management capabilities serve to configure, provision, control, and maintain storage.