HP Scalable NAS File Serving for Windows & HP Polyserve Software

Northern Storage Suite is the first SRM solution to fully integrate with HP scalable NAS. As a gold member of the HP Information Management and Software Partner Program, Northern worked closely with HP to validate Northern Storage Suite with HP PolyServe Software for Scalable File Serving and HP Scalable NAS File Serving for Windows, facilitating more efficient NAS administration.

Administrators now have a centralized means of identifying and reclaiming wasted capacity, controlling user behavior and maximizing their existing storage infrastructure.

“Organizations want to save money while maximizing the performance and scalability of their storage infrastructure,” said Ian Duncan, director of marketing, StorageWorks, HP. “The combination of the HP StorageWorks Scalable NAS offering and the Northern Storage Suite achieves this while providing an important ‘value-add’ of simplified management.”

REQUIREMENTS
No installation on the NAS device is required, instead an installation should be made on a Windows host [virtual or physical] and then processes on the NAS device[s] are managed remotely from that Windows host. A single managing host can control processes on multiple NAS devices.

The specific hardware and operating system requirements for management of NAS environments are detailed below: