Tag: HP Lefthand

Setting up an HP Lefthand array

In this document you will see certain generic configurations that allow these HP SAN arrays called HP Lefthand, this case is carried out by means of virtual arrays under a VMware environment, as they allow you to work perfectly in a much more flexible laboratory environment. HP has several models of physical Lefthand arrays, all with the same system, but with different capacities, Disc Models, Ethernet Mouths… would be the HP LeftHand P4500 and HP LeftHand P4300 series. But also for production environments there is the HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance or VSA. In this document we will see the main characteristics of the cabins, such as storage clustering (gives greater performance and capacity), Network RAID (Increased data availability), Thin provisioning (Reduces costs and improves disk capacity utilization), iSCSI (Ethernet network technology) Snapshots and Replication using Remote Copy (for local replication […]

Virtualize an HP Lefthand Array

This is a simple thing, but I document it because not whoever manages storage systems has to know how VMware works, so it feels 😉 like having a storage cabin, a virtualized SAN can serve two purposes, one testing laboratory or a second case, for production. I am not very supportive of this last option, It's a personal thing, HP advises it, for certain small environment scenarios it could be right, couldn't?. But, well, it is always interesting to be able to operate a cabin freely or more visually in a virtual environment such as VMware's. HP Lefthand physical arrays follow the nomenclature of 'HP LeftHand P4000 SAN’ have several models, The P4300, P4500… but in virtual environment the nomenclature changes to HP Lefthand VSA or HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance.