Hp today announced it is providing a 1terabyte tb hp storevirtual virtual storage appliance vsa license at no cost to all purchasers of intel xeon processor e5 v3based servers, including servers from dell, ibm and lenovo as well as new hp proliant generation 9 gen9 server models, which now feature singleclick vsa deployment. I found out last week that the team has updated those hp blueprints. Hpe storevirtual is a leader in virtual softwaredefined storage. Hewlett packard enterprise provides flexible deployment options to fit any requirement, including vsa software, bare metal storage arrays and hyperconverged systems.
Storeonce vsa can reduce capital expenses by up to 65% compared to a dedicated backup appliance. Hpe storevirtual vsa software hewlett packard enterprise. It enables linear scaling of capacity and performance. Hp helps softwaredefined storage customers maximize. The first softwaredefined virtual storage appliance to support all major industrystandard servers and multiple hypervisors, hp storevirtual vsa has a proven. Stormagic is a really easy to use and to install softwaredefined storage solution, especially for hci, edge and iot environment. There were seven of them and i had blog posts talking about each. To eliminate the cost ofdedicated storage hardware, hp storevirtual vsa software tapsunused compute and storage capacity within a server to provideresilient. This is the softwaredefined data center in a small form factor, molina told crn. Wer mehrere proliants kauft, kann bis zu drei storevirtualvsainstanzen kombinieren.
The basis of those articles were short technical white papers the team had done looking at software defined storage sds. Softwaredefined storage is ideal for businesses who want to simplify infrastructure management, the ability to deploy storage ondemand, or have remote offices. Hp news hp makes softwaredefined storage available to the world. I offered up a base definition of what softwaredefined storage means to hp. Last year before the hp split, i did a series of articles looking at storevirtual vsa. The first softwaredefined virtual storage appliance to support all major industry standard servers and multiple hypervisors, hp storevirtual vsa has a proven. Storevirtual vsa delivers software defined storage by virtualizing up to 50tb of disk capacity per server running vmware vsphere, microsoft hyper v or linux kvm. Hp is announcing storeonce virtual storage appliance vsa which is a new hardwareagnostic, softwaredefined storage solution that is deployed as a vm on existing industrystandard server infrastructures. Optimized for virtualised vmware vsphere, microsoft. Its hardwareagnostic and hypervisorindependent, with support for vmware vsphere, microsoft hyperv and linux kvm. Hp storeonce virtual storage appliance vsa announced. Storevirtual vsa software defined storage solutions hpe. The basis of those articles were short technical white papers the team had done looking at softwaredefined storage sds.
Hp storevirtual vsa virtual storage appliances free. What i like in particular of the hp storevirtual vsa is that it is 100% sds. Hp makes softwaredefined storage available to the world. Hpe storevirtual is a leader in softwaredefined storage and is the foundation of a composable data fabric. Softwaredefined storage for flexible data storage for. This feature moves data blocks to highperformance or costoptimized storage automatically, based on application needs, for improved efficiency and performance. Hp storevirtual vsapowered by the proven hp lefthand operating system and introducing new adaptive optimization capabilitiesis the industrys first scaleout softwaredefined storage solution to offer data tiering. Hp storevirtual vsa virtual storage appliances free software defined storage. You probably know that i am a big fan of software defined storage. Storevirtual vsa delivers softwaredefined storage by virtualizing up to 50tb of disk capacity per server running vmware vsphere.