Hewlett-Packard White Paper Sample

This report documents the results of ESG Lab testing of the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP) with a focus on the fundamentals of heterogeneous storage virtualization including centralized management, ease of use, thin provisioning, data mobility and capacity-efficient point-in-time snapshots. The enhanced high availability and disaster recovery capabilities of asynchronous remote mirroring are also presented.

One of the most significant findings—if not the most significant—is the substantial economic benefit of deploying heterogeneous storage virtualization. For example, 79% of early adopters with a large SAN believe they have reduced their annual storage hardware spending to some degree, with these users reporting a mean average annual savings of 19.7%.