Abstract

Today’s small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) have ever-growing needs with respect to storage. Not only do SMBs need to be able to scale to many terabytes of storage, they require a level of high-availability typically associated with large-scale, enterprise deployments. Furthermore, given IT staffing constraints, they need such storage solutions to be able to be installed quickly by existing IT staff.

HP commissioned Tolly to evaluate the ease-of-installation, high-availability, performance and system support of the HP StorageWorks X3820 2-node Netwok Storage System in the context of SMB deployment.