ESG defines virtualization as the logical view and control of physical infrastructure with the goal of greater optimization, utilization and simplification. Therefore, external storage virtualization provides a logical view and control of heterogeneous storage systems.

ESG is a major proponent of storage virtualization. HP is extremely focused on providing a storage platform that can be used to enable IT to provide storage services to their businesses more rapidly.

The HP XP24000 provides a number of enterprise class capabilities including:

• External storage virtualization
• Thin provisioning of internal and external storage
• Large logical pools of capacity
• Virtual disk and cache partitions
• High performance and massively parallel performance/mixed workloads
• Enterprise-class reliability and interoperability
• High levels of internal and external capacity support
• Full volume local and remote copies and mirroring
• Logical snapshots

This ESG Lab Validation analysis is focused on verifying thin provisioning of internal and external storage, creating large logical pools of capacity and the improved performance of the XP24000.