Overview
 

The HP StorageWorks Enterprise File Services (EFS) WAN Accelerator family of products are comprehensive remote office solutions that deliver true value to enterprise customers with distributed IT environments. EF WAN Accelerators can accelerate many common enterprise applications by up to 100 times, which transforms the way teams work together – no matter where they are. By creating LAN-like performance over the WAN, EFS WAN Accelerator solutions enable consolidation of remote office IT infrastructure, resulting in savings through reduction of equipment, IT staffing, and complex global networks. And EFS WAN Accelerators optimise WAN bandwidth - removing up to 95% of WAN traffic to increase capacity of low bandwidth links, or affecting TCP flow control to increase utilisation of high bandwidth / high latency links - ultimately helping to delay or avoid major WAN bandwidth upgrades.

Features
 

Agility - Industry-leading WAN application acceleration technology: EFS WAN Accelerators reduce WAN traffic for all applications running on TCP (including CIFS, NFS, HTTP, FTP, MAPI, and MS-SQL) and combine three types of WAN optimisation into one product - data redundancy elimination, latency optimisation, and transaction prediction. Other products available in the marketplace typically address only one or two types of WAN optimisation or only address one type of traffic (file systems).

Simplicity - Consolidation of distributed IT resources: The costs and complexities of distributed IT infrastructures are reduced when EFS WAN Accelerators are used to consolidate file and application servers from remote offices to data centers to centralise their management. Compliance officers are able to gain tighter control over sensitive information and are more easily able to meet regulatory requirements.

Value - Easy installation and seamless integration: EFS WAN Accelerators are based on HP ProLiant server hardware, ensuring seamless integration into established HP ProLiant environments. The appliances can be installed in-path (between the local switch and WAN router), logically in-path (using policy-based routing or other traffic re-routing protocol), or out-of-path. They quickly and transparently integrate into any enterprise network, preserving existing client-server relationships, and requiring no re-configuration of existing servers and clients.

Simplicity - Eliminate the need for local remote office backup: EFS WAN Accelerators deliver high-performance, two-way access to storage - with faster file transfers and no bottlenecks - providing a means to eliminate backup headaches at remote offices by enabling remote data to be quickly copied across the WAN to a server in the data centre, and then go to tape from there.

High reliability and availability: In the event of hardware, software, or power failure, EFS WAN Accelerators employ one of three NICs that fail through to wire, giving clients continued access to remote servers at native WAN speeds. Proxy File Service (PFS) enables remote office workers local access to files even when the WAN link to the office goes down. DL380-based models include disk redundancy and dual power supplies for higher reliability, and all EFS WAN Accelerators can be deployed in a variety of high-availability clustered (active/passive or active/standby) configurations.

Specifications
 

System features

Processor description

DL320-510, DL320-1010 and DL320-M25: Intel® Celeron® 2.93 GHz/533 MHz FSB 256 KB Level 2 Cache; DL320-2010: Intel® Pentium® 4 3.4 GHz/800 MHz FSB 1 MB Level 2 Cache; DL380-3010: Intel® Xeon® 3.4 GHz/800 MHz FSB with 1 MB L2 Cache; DL380-5010: 2x Intel® Xeon® 3.4 GHz/800 MHz FSB with 1 MB L2 Cache; DL320-M25, DL320-520, DL320-1020 and DL320-2020: Intel® Pentium® D 840– 3.2GHz dual-core w/ 1MBx2 L2 cache

Network interface description

DL320-510, DL320-1010, DL-320-2010 and DL320-M25: Dual port fail-through NIC standard; Embedded NC7782 Dual Port Gigabit NIC; DL380-3010 and DL380-5010: Dual port fail-through NIC standard; NC7782 Dual Port PCI-X Gigabit NICs (embedded)

Chassis description

DL320-510, DL320-1010, DL-320-2010 and DL320-M25: 1U; DL380-3010 and DL380-5010: 2U

Management features description

Remote management: iLO Port with Advance License Pack

Standard memory description

DL320-510 and DL320-1010: 1.5 GB; DL320-2010, DL320-520 and DL320-1020: 2 GB; DL380-3010: 3 GB; DL380-5010 and DL320-2020: 4 GB; DL320-M25: 1 GB

Disk subsystem controller description

DL380-3010 and DL380-5010: Smart Array 6i Plus Controller with 128MB BBWC (integrated on system board); others: Intel® 82801FR Integrated Serial ATA Host Controller

Internal mass storage description

Raw disk capacities - DL320-510: 250 GB; DL320-1010: 250 GB; DL320-2010: 500 GB; DL380-3010: 1.2 TB; DL380-5010: 1.8 TB; DL320-M25: 80 GB

Weight, metric description

DL320-510, DL320-1010 and DL-320-2010: 16.78 kg max; DL380-3010, DL380-5010: 27.22 kg max; DL320-520, DL320-1020, DL320-2020 and DL320-M25: 12.27 kg max.

Warranty

HP StorageWorks Enterprise File Services (EFS) DL320 WAN Accelerator SKUs include a 36/12/12 month (parts/labor/on-site) hardware warranty. 12 months of Hardware Maintenance On-Site service w/diagnosis, material and repair labor. Hardware diagnosis, material and repair labor. Four-hour response time (restrictions may apply) for Year 1. HP StorageWorks Enterprise File Services (EFS) DL380 WAN Accelerator SKUs include a 36/36/36 month (parts/labor/on-site) hardware warranty. 36 months of Hardware Maintenance On-Site service w/diagnosis, material and repair labor. Hardware diagnosis, material and repair labor. Four-hour response time (restrictions may apply) for Year 1; Next business day response time for Years 2 and 3. All HP EFS WAN Accelerator Fail-through NICs (Models N2c, N4c, and N2f) include a 12-month hardware warranty. HP warrants only that the Software media will be free of physical defects for a period of ninety (90) days from delivery.

Warranty options description

For 1, 3, 4 and 5 years : HP Next Day Hardware Support; HP 4 Hr, 9x5 HW Support; HP 4 Hr, 13x5 Hardware Support; HP 4 Hr, 24x7 Hardware Support; HP 6 HR Call-to-Repair HW Support; HP Software Support; HP Software Support 24x7; HP Support Plus; HP Support Plus 24; HP Proactive Essentials 9x5, 10 SW Incidents; HP Proactive Essentials 9x5, 25 SW Incidents; HP Proactive Essentials 9x5 Unlimited; HP Proactive Essentials 24x7, 25 SW Incidents; HP Proactive Essentials 24x7, 50 SW Incidents; HP Proactive Essentials 24x7 Unlimited; HP Proactive 24 Service; HP Critical Service.

Service & support features

1 year 24x7 4-hour response hardware support; One year of HP Software Support 24 x 7 (software technical support and software product and documentation updates)

Service & support options description

Software Installation Service; 3 years of HP Software Support 24 x 7

Features 01

Scalable Data Referencing (SDR): Works across all TCP applications including Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes, CIFS, NFS, CAD, ERP, FTP, HTTP and more to ensure that the same data is never sent more than once over the WAN. Reduces bandwidth consumption for some applications to less than 1% of previous levels.

Features 03

Transparent Pre-Population: Data stores can be automatically and transparently pre-populated with newly-generated data so that users experience immediate performance benefits.

Features 02

Virtual Window Expansion: Allows applications to overcome TCP windowing limitations that affect long-distance WAN connections.

Features 04

Application-specific Optimizations: Reduces the impact of WAN latencies for a variety of chatty applications including Windows file sharing (CIFS), Microsoft Exchange (MAPI), Web (HTTP), Database (MS-SQL), FTP, backup, and replication, providing an additional order-of-magnitude throughput improvement.

Features 05

Bi-Directional Operation: TCP traffic is optimized in both directions--to and from remote offices and data centers.

Features 06

Permanent Disk-Based Store: HP EFS WAN Accelerators store between 80GB and 512GB of byte-level data on each appliance, providing a significant data store from which data commonalities can be leveraged.

Features 07

DL380-5010: High-Speed TCP (HS-TCP): For high bandwidth / high latency WAN links, native TCP flow control makes 'filling the pipe' difficult, leaving much of the often expensive WAN bandwidth unused. HS-TCP helps utilize more of that bandwidth, and supports up to 750 Mbps per connection for blazing fast data replication and backup.

Features 08

Proxy File Service (PFS): PFS enables remote office workers local access to files even when the WAN link to the office goes down. PFS also enables remote office file shares to be replicated automatically to the data center, ensuring reliable backup.

Features 09

Policy and Security: Support for rules-based policy administration of optimization classes and packet marking for QoS and route control. Also supports packet filtering, optional IPsec encryption, and RADIUS/TACACS+ authentication.

 

Business Value
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IT appliances that deliver a higher level of WAN application acceleration at a lower cost, enabling site consolidation of key IT infrastructure by creating LAN-like performance over the WAN.

 

 

 

 

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