The HP StorageWorks NAS e7000 v2 fuses NAS and storage area network (SAN) technologies. This innovative combination provides tremendous gains in scalability and flexibility. The NAS e7000 provides the best return on data center storage investment by simplifying centralized storage and system management, saving resources, time, and lowering the total cost of ownership. It limits the need for expensive and complex integration and management by connecting to the industry's broadest range of SAN arrays. The NAS e7000 provides support for HP StorageWorks Modular SAN Array 1000 (msa1000), Virtual Array, Modular Array, Enterprise Modular Array, Enterprise Virtual Array (EV), and Disk Array XP.With virtually unlimited storage scalability, the NAS e7000 grows as business needs grow - without downtime and without compromising performance. With no single-point-of-failure, this NAS solution ensures data is always available, enabling business continuance through cluster support, hardware redundancy and replication. The NAS e7000 provides the simplicity of NAS with the scalability of SAN - a fusion that sets new standards in performance, flexibility and consolidated management.