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The HP StorageWorks SANs provide industry leading connectivity platforms to deploy, manage and operate today's demanding networked storage enterprise environments.
It delivers the physical connectivity that, when combined with the other elements of the HP solution, brings into reality the well-established benefits of network storage: significantly reducing the total cost of ownerships while maintaining high returns on investment.
Most important however, are the ways SANs impact competitive advantage by improving the school's agility and capacity to react to today's curriculum network challenges.
Modular Smart Array
The HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array 1000 (MSA1000) is a 2Gb Fibre Channel storage system for the entry-level to midrange storage area network (SAN) scalable to 12 TB storage.
It provides the customer with a low-cost, scalable, high performance storage consolidation system with investment protection. It is designed to reduce the complexity and risk of SAN deployments. With the addition of two more drive enclosures and the new 300GB drives, it can control up to 42 drives allowing capacity of twelve terabytes.
Secure Path
HP StorageWorks Secure Path for Windows Workgroup Edition provides continuous data access for RAID storage systems on Windows 2000, 2003 and Windows NT platforms. It allows HP's RAID storage systems to be cabled on two independent busses, using two separate host bus adapters (HBA) in a single server.
When combined with the inherent fault-tolerant features of the RAID Array, this configuration effectively eliminates single points of failure in the storage system. Should a failure on one path's host bus adapter, cable, or controller occur, the failure is detected and I/O is automatically re-routed to the functioning, alternate path.
This process is called failover, and requires no resource downtime and ensures high availability of data.
Failed-Over Storage Units may be failed-back, through use of a configuration management utility, once failed components have been replaced. Secure Path V4.0C for Windows Workgroup Edition supports the MSA1000 and the VA solutions.