Storage Administrators are called “SAN or Storage Experts” for a reason. Deploying, managing, and maintaining traditional Fibre Channel SANs is a very specialised “art” that requires significant experience in understanding Fibre Channel protocol, zoning concepts, and SAN best practises. Similarly, these “Storage Experts” have many of the same challenges when it comes to provisioning storage resources and allocating those resources to the server systems that utilise them.
In smaller companies, there are usually none of these “experts” available and therefore deploying modern storage and storage networks has been out of the realm of their IT possibilities.
That is of course, until now. HP have launched the P2000 G3 FC DC SMB SAN Starter Kit, HP has changed SAN complexity to SAN simplicity with an SMB solution that takes significant complexity out of deploying and managing a modern storage network, which is easy to order and provides a scalable yet affordable solution for small and mid-sized customers.
The P2000 Starter kit (Part number AP847A) comes with Dual controllers, Dual power supplies, 2 x Qlogic SN6000 FC Switches, Qlogic 81Q HBA cards, Cables and SFP's, so really all you need to do is add the drives.
For more information on how this solution reduces complexity the please read the technical white paper below.
If you need help with providing a SAN solution or have questions surrounding a storage opportunity then please do not hesitate to contact us.
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Technical ISS Solutions Team