Specification Sheet

QuickSpecs
HP MSA P2000 G3 Modular Smart Array Systems
Hardware
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When deployed with the P2000 array, provides the following:
 Active Management functionality for the P2000 array:
o Create/Expand/Delete a Datastore
o Create a Virtual Machine from a template
 Monitors the health and status of the P2000
 Displays LUN / volume connections from VMs and ESX servers to the arrays and provides the
location and attributes of the P2000 within the SAN
 Identifies what storage features are available to allow administrators to match the features
available on the P2000 to their requirements
 Provide a cluster-level view of the storage
HP Insight Control Storage Module for vCenter is downloadable from Software Depot:
https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPVPR
For more information on HP Insight Control Storage Module for vCenter visit: www.hp.com/go/vmware
vStorage API for Array
Integration (VAAI)
The vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) is one of the storage application programming interface
(API) sets in vSphere 4.1. VAAI is an API storage partners can leverage to enhance performance of
virtual machine (VM) management operations by delegating these operations to the storage array.
With hardware offload, ESX/ESXi hosts perform certain operations faster and consume less server CPU
and memory resources, and also storage port and storage fabric bandwidth. VAAI includes high
performance and scalable VM data path primitives. HP introduced VAAI support for HP MSA P2000
Storage array products starting with the T230 firmware release.
Storage Hardware Primitives for VAAI
In the VMware vSphere 4.1 release, the HP StorageWorks P2000 G3 MSA Array Systems offload
capabilities support the following three primitives:
 Full Copy or Hardware Assisted Move
 Block Zeroing or Hardware Assisted Zeroing
 Hardware Assisted Locking or Atomic Test and Set (ATS)
HP Storage Management
Pack for Microsoft
System Center
The HP Management Pack for Systems Center Operations Manager provides seamless integration with
Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager and now System Center Essentials by integrating
predefined discovery and state monitoring policies, event processing rules and tasks, and diagram and
topology views for the storage system.
For more information:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/14249_div/14249_div.html
HP Storage Management Pack can be downloaded free from the following website:
https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=SCOM