The 2U-high rack-mountable unit starts at about $8,300 and that is with 587Gbytes of storage attached to it. It is a product that can be grown to 27Tbytes if needed. It is a standalone appliance that has quite a bit of scalability from a storage perspective.
Lastly, the box ships with a quick restore DVD in the event of some unfortunate mishap. If a customer is suffering from a worst case scenario and there is no way to recover the box, at least there is a way to recover it to the factory default.
HP StorageWorks 2000s is a mid range NAS device that runs an Intel Xeon 3.06GHz processor, which also has the option to run a second Xeon processor. It starts with one Gbyte of memory and can be expanded up to six Gbytes. It comes with two Gigabyte NICs and runs on Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003, a derivative of Windows Server 2003, but it is an OS optimized specifically designed for NAS devices.
HP modified the GUI by adding some additional capabilities revolving around cluster management and managing HP disk arrays. The company really offers some value add to their boxes with these management features, which are typically found in higher end HP SAN boxes, like the 4000s and 9000s.
One thing that HP has done is that they tried to make it is as easy as possible to get the box up and running, so that folks can get file sharing going within minutes rather than hours. VARs servicing customers who are in desperate need of storage capacity can really take advantage of the easy deployment and reap the rewards.
Integration with existing networks is straightforward and allows for on-the-fly installation. Out of the box, the unit includes support for Windows, UNIX, Linux, Novell, Macintosh, FTP and HTTP. Integrators will find setup of the unit a breeze. After plugging the unit into the network, an installer uses the browser, to find the unit and launch the browser-based configuration menu. Network administration, user access, and storage configuration are all easily managed through the NAS GUI.
Solution providers should seriously consider the device for use in Windows-based networks. The unit's ability to integrate with Windows servers and the commonality of the interface make the NAS device an ideal storage solution for those networks.
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