Improve efficiencies and simplify operations with the powerful combination of HP SVSP storage virtualization and server virtualization.

Virtualization as a technology can offer tremendous benefits. By combining these two technologies users realize even greater value than what they would by using them individually. The powerful combination of HP StorageWorks SVSP storage virtualization solution with server virtualization products produces a more dynamic IT infrastructure that improves efficiencies and simplifies operations.

The rapid proliferation of server virtualization technologies (especially VMware) is due to the value of easily consolidating many servers and applications, into a single physical device, allowing many instances to run on a common hardware platform. In this manner, it is possible to take tens — or even hundreds — of underutilized physical servers and consolidate them into a few easy-to-manage servers while maintaining the logical separation between each application.

Storage virtualization similarly makes it possible to consolidate many underutilized arrays into centrally-managed virtual storage pools that provide logically separate storage for many applications. A solution that combines both server and storage virtualization dramatically improves efficiency, simplifies operations, and reduces support and maintenance workloads while creating new opportunities to leverage the power of the server and storage infrastructure. The addition of a storage virtualization technology on the back-end of the server virtualization technology is one of those cases where the value of the full solution is much greater than the sum of the value of the individual components.

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