QuickSpecs

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What if my file serving needs are
growing rapidly or I need more
scalability in my solution?
HP has a complete product line to meet your needs from
SMB to Enterprise level file serving. The HP Enterprise File
Services Clustered Gateway product scales your file
serving needs from two to 16 nodes, with a linear
Part 3: Choosing your solution
HP StorageWorks storage array systems
The seamless portfolio for storage consolidation
increase in file serving performance. Utilizing a clustering
technology that is built upon a fully symmetrical file system,
this product is designed to provide scalability, high
availability and an industry leading price/performance
value. The Clustered Gateway is based upon either Linux
(SLES9) or Windows (WSS2003) as a base operating
system. For more information please visit
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/nas.html
Which networked storage solution is right for you?
Heres a quick way of choosing the best solution for your specific storage needs.
no
no
no
Start
yes
Do you require redundant connections
in a cluster of more than 2 nodes?
yes
Do you need more than 14 disks
or 4 TB of capacity?
yes
Do you need distance between
servers (>15 m)?
Shared SCSI storage Fibre channel SAN
no
yes
Are you looking for networked
near-online storage (SATA)?
yes
Do you need more than 12 TB
of capacity?
yes
Do you need highest array perform-
ance (Active-Active*
or >42 disks)?
no
no
Many demanding servers, highest availability
Multiple servers with
medium to high I/O
performance
Multiple servers
with medium I/O
performance
Up to 4 servers (1 cluster max.)
IP or FC SAN
How many servers are you considering
for storage consolidation?
HP
StorageWorks
MSA1000
HP
StorageWorks
MSA1500
HP
StorageWorks
EVA
HP StorageWorks
MSA500 G2
* Active-Active controllers will be available soon. See the QuickSpecs at www.hp.com/go/msa for latest product details
yesno
Do you require redundancy
in your array?
noyes
Do you want to combine file
serving and block storage in
a single device?
noyes
Do you need snapshot func-
tionality?
noyes
Do you want to connect to
more than just Windows?
HP ProLiant
Storage Server
(iSCSI NAS)
HP StorageWorks
MSA1510i
IP SAN