Delivers enterprise environments Scale-out NAS capability to efficiently manage explosive data growth in unstructured data and significantly improve performance of file serving applications
How do I know if the HP X9000 Network Storage Systems are right for my application?
A1.
HP X9000 Network Storage Systems may be right for you if you are faced with performance or capacity scaling challenges. HP X9000 Systems are scale-out NAS appliances with starting storage capacity of tens of terabytes and the capability to grow to 16 petabytes within a single namespace.
Q2.
What are the benefits of the HP X9000 Network Storage System?
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If you are struggling keeping up with massive file-based storage growth, rapid user growth, scaling storage and/or performance while keeping the system online, need to be able to manage more storage with fewer resources, or dealing with complexity at application and storage management layers, then the X9000 is the solution for you. Essentially, any customer that needs a massive amount of file-based storage and needs to grow it quickly is a candidate.
Typical industries include: medical imaging and analysis, genome research, media and digital animation, public and educational institutions, security and surveillance, financial services photo sharing and finishing services, online social communities/content sharing and energy exploration (oil and gas), as well as traditional enterprises who need to archive vastly growing amounts of file-based data.
Q3.
Are the X9000 products based on the software HP acquired from IBRIX, Inc.?
A3.
Yes.
Q4.
Do these storage systems come factory integrated?
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Yes. These appliances are designed to be turnkey systems that customers can set up in their data centers in no longer than 2 to 4 hours.
Q6.
Can all models of the HP X9000 Systems series exist in the same storage pool?
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Yes. All models of the X9000 series can coexist in the same storage pool. You can combine all of these models into a single global namespace which can scale to 16 PB. One of the key features of this is that you can mix and match different storage technologies in the same namespace, thus future-proofing your storage investment.
Q7.
Do the HP X9000 Network Storage Systems offer snapshots?
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Yes. The X9320 scale-out appliances offer snapshot capabilities which is included with the product. You do not have to pay extra for this capability.
Q8.
Can the HP X9000 Network Storage Systems do replication?
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Yes. All of the X9000 models come with parallel continuous remote replication built into the appliance.
Q9.
What differentiates the HP X9000 scale-out NAS solutions from traditional NAS solutions?
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X9000 scale-out NAS solutions can scale performance and capacity beyond traditional boundaries. Also, unlike traditional NAS systems, there is a central GUI management console for all operations.
Q10.
What file serving protocols are supported?
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The X9000 series support NFS, CIFS, NDMP, HTTP, HTTP/S, FTP and FTP/S protocols.
Q11.
Can the HP X9000 Network Storage Systems serve block data?
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No. The X9000 series currently does not serve block-level data.
Q12.
Do the HP X9000 Network Storage Systems support directory quotas?
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Yes. The X9000 series supports directory and user quotas.
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