Overview - HP StoreVirtual 4000 White Paper

Technical white paper | HP StoreVirtual 4000 Storage

Overview

This paper provides network design recommendations for deploying HP StoreVirtual 4000 Storage. Design practices
described within this paper serve as a blueprint to guide network configurations for the current and previous generations
of HP LeftHand Storage and HP P4000 G2 SAN Solutions, which are now referred to as HP StoreVirtual 4000 Storage and
will be referred to that way in this paper.
As shown in figure 1, principle components of a HP StoreVirtual installation are:
• Storage nodes and storage clusters
• Networking infrastructure
• Servers and virtual machines accessing shared storage
Guidelines provided in this paper have been tested and refined over time to guide network planning, architect design, and
implementation of HP StoreVirtual 4000 Storage. Network considerations included in this document take into account
standard and multi-site clusters as well as typical disaster recovery configurations with Remote Copy in the context of
networking. This document serves as a recommendation guide and should not be considered an implementation guide
for all customer deployments of HP StoreVirtual.
Readers of this white paper have basic experience designing and deploying network infrastructures for iSCSI storage, and
are knowledgeable of the OSI model in general, and Layers 2 and 3 networking in particular. Another assumption is that
readers have some experience with HP StoreVirtual Centralized Management Console (CMC).
Figure 1. Architecture overview
HP Networking
HP StoreVirtual
As of November 1, 2012, the third generation has been rebranded to HP StoreVirtual 4000 Storage and includes the new models HP
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StoreVirtual 4130 Storage and HP StoreVirtual 4330 Storage
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HP ProLiant
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