SSW Solutions for HP Blade System.pdf

HP Simply StorageWorks solutions for HP BladeSystem

A guide to storage provisioning and data protection for your bladed server infrastructure

Table of contents

Storage and IT infrastructure challenges: Unique to your business .............................. 3

Think differently about how you store and protect data: HP BladeSystem and HP StorageWorks ......... 3

Connecting storage to your blade environment ........................................... 4

Storage provisioning and consolidation ................................................ 6

Business protection ............................................................... 7

Solutions to address specific business needs ............................................. 8

HP Simply Storage Consolidation at a glance ........................................... 12

Delivering better business outcomes .................................................. 15

Why HP? ..................................................................... 15

HP Services ................................................................... 16

Storage and IT infrastructure

challenges: Unique to your

business

Think differently about how

you store and protect data:

HP BladeSystem and HP

StorageWorks

The goal of every IT department is to provide high-quality

IT service to the business, at the lowest possible cost,

while improving business outcomes. This fact is even more

important when thinking about today’s economic climate.

At the heart of this challenge we find several common

problems related to IT infrastructure. First, beyond the

initial acquisition cost is the ongoing maintenance cost.

Second, how do you make the best use of your time?

Third, traditional infrastructure can be inflexible and

difficult to adapt and grow. Lastly, how do you optimize

utilization of energy and physical resources?

HP BladeSystem is simply a smarter way to build an

infrastructure to support the vital applications your

business requires, but with fewer wires, lower electric

bills, addressing the concerns you have today.

All of this adds up to big savings in time and money

that you can re-invest into your business. A BladeSystem

tackles these problems by consolidating everything from

the start; before the infrastructure grows out of control.

It repackages the moving parts for greater convenience

and lowers costs, plus it adds useful features to save you

time, money, and power, while making change easy.

Looking outside of the infrastructure itself, we see two

key challenges related to data storage:

•Provisioningcapacityforapplications

•Reducingriskthroughasounddataprotectionstrategy

As you rethink your infrastructure and take cost out

of your business with the HP BladeSystem, you may

also be exploring the benefits of a virtual server

infrastructure. Blade servers, virtual servers, and your

next-generation IT infrastructure all have one thing in

common—they require you to think differently about how

you store and protect your data. Unlike large enterprises

that often have specialists dedicated exclusively to

storage efforts, midsize businesses like yours may not

have the time, resources, or available expertise to

develop effective, long-term storage strategies.

Data is the lifeblood of today’s business—and these two

challenges are both critical in providing quality IT service

to the business. In the past, you were forced to choose

between complex and expensive systems designed for

enterprise customers or use static direct attached storage

for individual servers. The first option was beyond the

reach of most companies and the second was inefficient

and associated with higher total cost.

These problems are all a result of how infrastructure

and storage systems are traditionally built, the silos

they create, and the complex processes behind them.

“The glue that makes the HP BladeSystem and

the transformation of our data center possible

is our move to the HP StorageWorks SAN.”

Jeff Haidet, Consultant,

JCC Consulting, Inc.

Connecting storage to your

blade environment

HP Simply StorageWorks delivers better business

outcomes by bringing together the tools, solutions,

products, and services that help you navigate the

storage landscape, bridging the gap between data

explosion, and your bladed IT infrastructure. With

simple, affordable and reliable storage consolidation,

and business protection solutions, HP can help to

improve the efficiency, performance, and continuity of

your business.

Before we discuss the storage consolidation and data

protection solutions available for your BladeSystem, let

us briefly discuss the connectivity options and choice

points available to you.

Internal vs. External

Depending on where your HP BladeSystem enclosure

is being deployed you may choose an ”infrastructure

in-a-box” where both servers and storage are located

inside the enclosure. This is common in remote office

environments where space is at a premium.

HP BladeSystem and Simply StorageWorks have been

integrated by design to complement your BladeSystem

with common hardware, management tools, and

interfaces to help you migrate, optimize, and transform

your server and storage infrastructure, which will in

turn help your business reduce costs and respond

more effectively to change. With these integrated

solutions you can:

•Improveefficiencybyconsolidatingstorageinto

centralized and high-performance storage arrays

and optimized NAS file/print serving solutions.

•Makesurethatyourdataissafeandsecure.

Automating your backup or moving towards backup

strategies that utilize both disk and tape, vastly

improving your recovery points and recovery times.

A majority of deployments, however, will connect

external storage to the servers inside the enclosure.

This allows you to increase server deployment in the

enclosure and benefit from options like Virtual Connect

to simplify external storage.

Regardlessofhowyouarestoringandprotectingyour

data, HP StorageWorks has a blade-ready solution for

your business.

External Storage: Thinking outside

the box

One of the key benefits of your HP BladeSystem

infrastructure is the simplicity with which you can

connect to external storage. The design of the

infrastructure has reduced cable requirements by up to

94% 1 . The Virtual Connect architecture lets you wire

the infrastructure once, and add, replace, or recover

blades on the fly, without impacting networks or

storage. There are several different connectivity options

available for connecting storage to your enclosure.

• Fibre Channel (FC): For larger, more demanding

environments, Fibre Channel (FC) provides 8 Gb/sec

performance and the highest levels of scalability. FC

supports longer distances, and due to a large existing

FC installed base, may be the preferred option for

larger customers connecting to the corporate SAN.

• iSCSI: For midsize environments, iSCSI provides

a cost-effective shared storage option and uses

standard Ethernet hardware. Like FC, it supports

SAN connectivity over distance, and added path

redundancy over a switched network. 1 Gb/sec

performance is sufficient for small and midsize

deployments where cost is a primary driver.

• Direct connect SAS: Serial attached SCSI (SAS) is an

option that allows servers and storage to be connected

with a cable connection through the HP StorageWorks

3 Gb SAS BL Switch rather than a dedicated storage

network. SAS provides 3 Gb/sec performance, and

due to the local nature of the storage has the advantage

of low-latency. This makes it an exceptional choice for

application swap file space or server boot volumes.

To connect your HP BladeSystem to external storage,

HP offers a variety of interconnect hardware modules,

which support Fibre Channel, Ethernet/iSCSI, and direct

connect SAS. The built-in Virtual Connect architecture

includes a 5 Terabit backplane that supports redundant

fabrics, and includes multiple interconnect bays. All

interconnect options are hot-pluggable and can be

installed in pairs for full redundancy.

1 Compared to standard 1U rack servers

Assumes fully redundant connections to LAN and SAN, management

network and power plugs for 1 c7000 enclosure versus 16 1U servers

TCO calculator—validate cable count

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