You have invested in a P4000 storage array, but still have unconnected file and application servers. You need a single, unified storage pool that you can expand and protect. HP P4000 G2 Unified NAS Gateway boosts the value of P4000 SAN environment by adding Windows-powered IP-based gateway services. When you consolidate to a single, unified storage pool that can serve files to your clients and blocks to your servers you get a better return on your SAN investment with less effort and time. Industry-standards offer protection by providing compatibility with your network and applications, and a Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) license is included to provide high availability and reduce downtime.

What's New

• New Windows Storage Server 2008 R2, Enterprise Edition X64 Edition Operating System - now with File Infrastructure Classification and Hosted Branch Cache features.

Features

Add Value to an Array Investment

• HP P4000 G2 Unified NAS Gateways are file bridges to the P4000 SAN. They add IP-based data services, including file serving, in a package that can be clustered for high-availability.

• In a Windows (SMB/CIFS) environment, this is an excellent way to serve files. In mixed environments, you get the flexibility of heterogeneous support for additional protocols like NFS, HTTP, FTP, and WebDAV.

• Small environments who thought high availability shared storage was out of their price range can now build affordable HA direct-attach unified (file/block) solutions with clustered P4000 G2 Unified NAS Gateways and P4000 SAN Solutions.

• The P4000 G2 Unified NAS Gateways provide host print services, offering additional consolidation benefits to a Windows print environment.

Do More with Fewer Resources

• The operating system is pre-installed, providing a fast, safe, and easy way to add gateway services to your P4000 SAN.

• If you’re already consolidating your block storage onto an array or SAN, complete the job by adding file services to that storage pool. You can serve files to your clients and blocks to your servers and have one thing to scale and protect.

• Single Instance Storage (SIS) recovers up to 35% of disk capacity by reducing the number of redundant files.

• If you've used Microsoft Management Console (MMC) to manage a Windows server, you're already familiar with how to manage a P4000 G2 Unified NAS Gateway.

Protect and Optimize Your Investment

• You can take advantage of built-in functionality like Integrated Lights-Out2 (iLO2) that lets you manage and troubleshoot remotely. The P4000 Unified NAS Gateway integrates with HP Systems Insight Management (SIM) and support ProLiant Support Pack.

• The HP P4000 G2 Unified NAS Gateway features Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processors, and reliable SAS internal hot plug hard drives.

• The HP P4000 G2 Unified NAS Gateway is running Windows, so it integrates natively (not by emulation) into your Active Directory and DFS environments, and run your favorite antivirus, backup, and storage management applications.

• With the included Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) license, you can cluster P4000 Gateways to scale performance and/or reduce downtime. Pre-bundled, single SKU HA solutions are available to make it easier to order.

• Get Quotas, File Screening, Storage Reporting, Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) Snapshots, and Distributed File System (DFS) Replication—all at no extra cost.