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“Managing your organization's evolving priorities and anticipating new opportunities is demanding and requires vision. To find, organize and publish information rapidly and effectively is a major challenge for businesses worldwide. With HP ProLiant server-based solutions, running Microsoft® Office SharePoint Server and implemented by experienced HP Services consultants, you can quickly turn your computer network into a knowledge network, bringing people, processes and information together to increase productivity and agility."
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Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services / MS Office SharePoint Server 2007

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AT A GLANCE:

Microsoft's SharePoint application suite is the most powerful and lexible collaboration system on the market. The IT infrastructure for SharePoint needs to be just as powerful and lexible. No matter how much SharePoint grows and changes, the LeftHand SAN can easily accommodate it. No more add-on products, complex procedures, high-priced consultants, or months of training, YOU will be able to change, scale and protect your storage environment on the ly to accommodate whatever your SharePoint user community throws at it.

INTRODUCTION

Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Ofice SharePoint Server (collectively known as "SharePoint") constitute the connective tissue that binds together the outputs of ofice workers into a manageable, searchable and accessible information environment. Gone are the days of unmanaged public folders, public email folders, intranet wiki sites and lash drives passed from person to person. SharePoint provides a self-service environment where ofice workers can take control of information - how it's organized, who gets access to it, and how it's displayed.

From an IT perspective, SharePoint is a collection of technologies that provides a server infrastructure to support the needs of information workers. SharePoint ties together client software such as Word, Excel^® Outlook^®, and Internet Explorer^® on the desktop, and utilizes Windows Server^TM, ASP.NET, Internet Information Server, SQL Server, and SharePoint Server itself to create the infrastructure. At the end of the day, IT staff members are managing server farms, databases, web servers and server-based applications, just as they are with any other major distributed application environment.

The storage requirements are tied to the size, use proile, and information criticality of the SharePoint deployment. Deployments range from single server, small group implementation housing mostly secondary information, all the way to large server farms supporting thousands of users against multiple site collections with massive amounts of highly critical data. Therefore the speciic deployment of SharePoint will dictate the data protection, performance, high availability, capacity, storage management and scalability requirements.

...And it will change! By it's very nature, SharePoint will morph and grow to accommodate new projects and new uses as your corporate user community learns the system and fully exploits its capabilities.

What is needed is a storage subsystem that is lexible enough to meet a variety of initial demands, and then adaptable to accommodate changes - without costing an arm and a leg, or requiring an army of storage experts to manage.

SOLUTION OVERVIEW

SharePoint from a storage perspective is implemented as a set of SQL Server databases which reside in NTFS volumes. For best performance and reliability, these volumes should reside on direct attach storage (RAID storage arrays), or block-level storage on a Fibre Channel (FC) or iSCSI SAN. An iSCSI SAN from LeftHand Networks has ive advantages that recommend it as the best choice:

1. You get all the storage management features and beneits of a modern, state of the art SAN (e.g. thin provisioning, replication, high availability, snapshots).
2. The storage is sharable from all servers, making the environment lexible and scalable as server farms change and grow.
3. iSCSI SANs from LeftHand are easy to manage, requiring no speciic array management or storage networking expertise.
4. LeftHand SANs perform as well, and are far more scalable than the other alternatives.
5. You can easily apply additional data protection and HA features as needed without downtime.

For high-end SharePoint deployments, two storage requirements typically emerge as central to the storage decision:

• The ability to change storage conigurations on the ly
• The ability to construct a highly available storage environment; one that will survive virtually any component failure and keep on running with no impact to SharePoint users

LeftHand Networks iSCSI SANs meet both these requirements. Based on its patented SAN/iQ^TM storage management software, a LeftHand SAN is comprised of multiple "storage nodes", each of which is a self-contained server with 6 to 12 drives each. A set of storage nodes are clustered together to create a virtual storage array or storage pool from which iSCSI volumes are created. SAN/iQ load balances volume data across the storage nodes within a cluster, and also replicates individual blocks to different storage nodes using a technology called "Network RAID (nRAID)". The end result is two-fold: First, the storage subsystem scales simply by adding additional storage nodes to the storage cluster. Existing volumes are automatically re-balanced to accommodate the new nodes, and both the capacity and the performance of the storage cluster is increased. Let us repeat this: A performance bottleneck relating to the storage subsystem can be immediately solved by adding an additional node to the storage cluster. No re-planning or re-coniguration. No downtime. No storage expertise required.

The second beneit of LeftHand's architecture is based on nRAID. nRAID provides the same level of protection between storage nodes as disk RAID provides between disks in a RAID array. Thus, if any part of a nodes fails (e.g. disks, CPU, network connections, power), other copies of the data within the SAN ensure that the data volumes are still available. The system can even tolerate most multiple failure scenarios. For example, a drive failure in a node will be caught by disk RAID. Another drive failure in the same array will be caught by nRAID. Also, due to the method by which nRAID creates data replicas, even multiple nodes can go down without interruption of service. In fact, (here comes the really cool part), by physically locating half of your storage nodes in one location, and the other half in a different location, you can suffer the complete failure of a location (a failure of half the storage nodes), and still keep running! There is no additional product to buy, nothing extra administratively to do...just put half your nodes in a different location, and you have instant, multi-site failover capability. Combine this with a Microsoft Cluster Server environment for your SharePoint databases, and you will have a complete HA SharePoint environment - all at a price you never thought possible.

Beyond the key features mentioned above, SAN/iQ has a rich set of additional storage management features, including:

• Thin provisioning
• Snapshots, remote snapshots between SAN/iQ clusters
• Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) support
• Online upgrades of SAN/iQ
• Automated volume growth
• Automated snapshot capacity management
• iSCSI network load balancing (via Microsoft MPIO)
• Central SAN management console with administrative access rights
• Full iSCSI security and server authentication

All these features and more are included in the base SAN/iQ SAN. No ala carte feature pricing. In short, a LeftHand SAN/iQ SAN is the best storage for running your SharePoint environment.

THE POWER OF SHAREPOINT AND LEFTHAND NETWORKS SAN/IQ

LeftHand Network's SAN/iQ provides a cost-effective, easy-to-manage, high scalable, and highly available iSCSI storage environment for use as the SharePoint storage environment. Your corporate SharePoint infrastructure can be easily expanded as you add new site collections, new users, or entire new web collections. If you are starting small, you can go from 1 or 2 servers with a small 2-node SAN up to servers farms consisting of multiple web servers, index / SSP servers, and clustered database servers against a 10 or 20 node multi-site SAN without once having to reconigure your existing volumes, or ever taking the storage system down.

ABOUT LEFTHAND NETWORKS AND MICROSOFT

LeftHand Networks and Microsoft have a strong partnership and work together to provide scalable IT and business solutions for the mid-tier market. LeftHand is a Microsoft Gold Certiied Partner, a Managed ISV Partner, and a Microsoft Storage Partner. LeftHand products are Windows certiied, and LeftHand and Microsoft work together on many benchmarks and technical papers relating to Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, and System Center.

ABOUT LEFTHAND NETWORKS

LeftHand Networks is the leader in Open iSCSI SANs. Founded in 1999, the company pioneered the IP SAN market in 2001 with the introduction of SAN/iQ-powered solutions. Today, thousands of SAN/iQ systems are running worldwide in production environments.

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