Hewlett-Packard White Paper Sample

While virtualization is being addressed at all levels of the SAN, the most powerful application of this technology today is at the storage system level. With the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array and HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services platform, organizations can take advantage of the many benefits of virtualization with a solution designed specifically for open systems.

Virtualization at the storage system level with the EVA offers many advantages. The common problems of storage environments are curtailed. Cost, space, and management resources are better utilized in a virtualized environment, providing real value to business.

The EVA provides time savings though automatic performance tuning as well as a high controller throughput. As a result, administrators no longer need to micro-manage data placement and performance tuning. The result is less storage downtime. Through centralized management, virtualization helps reduce costs. The same number of storage administrators can manage more storage while company assets, such as disk space, are better utilized.

IT professionals benefit from the flexibility and capacity savings through support for virtual disk mirrors, Virtually Capacity-Free Snapshot, and Virtually Instantaneous Snapclone. These tools deliver optimized capacity and greater flexibility to storage administrators.