HP ProLiant 1600 Server Consolidation with Compaq ProLiant Servers - Page 10

Server Consolidation with Compaq ProLiant Servers 10 With consolidated storage, issues such as disaster recovery, network reconfiguration and financial planning need to be considered Tradeoffs of Storage Consolidation Storage consolidation's numerous benefits also include a few notable tradeoffs. It is important to consider disaster recovery scenarios when data is centralized to a single location. In addition, storage engineering and application configuration expertise is required to adequately analyze network performance requirements. Storage consolidation may require a significant initial cash outlay to procure large RAID units as opposed to simply adding hard drives to a system. In addition, existing investments in RAID and tape backup may become obsolete as they are replaced by larger arrays and automated tape backup libraries. As the world's largest storage supplier, Compaqs high availability, high capacity and high performance solutions will meet the needs from desktop to data center Benefits of Using Compaq for Storage Consolidation A primary reason to consider Compaq for your storage consolidation efforts is that Compaq is the world's largest storage supplier. Compaq is also the only storage vendor that ensures high availability and reliability, high capacity and high performance storage, with solutions for applications ranging from the desktop to the data center. Other benefits include: • Compaq's Enterprise Network Storage Architecture (ENSA) provides a highly flexible environment for data storage capacity and management. This advanced technology creates "virtual disks" from a large pool of consolidated storage. The storage pool is physically distributed as business needs require. With ENSA, a storage pool can consist of a number of small, relatively inexpensive "array controllers" that are deployed as needed. Storage growth is granular down to a disk drive. In addition, ENSA preserves much of today's storage hardware investment. Only ENSA offers the range of configuration, performance tuning, monitoring and data protection capabilities needed to unify an enterprise storage environment. ENSA is also designed to grow as business needs require, while maximizing the protection of your existing storage investments. • StorageWorks Command Console, a Windows NT based monitoring and configuration tool, can manage up to 1.2 petabytes of data distributed across an enterprise from a single workstation. Its easy to use features include failure notification, reliability monitoring and multiple levels of security. ECGO30/0499