Disk Failures and Non-Functioning HP P4000/P4500 Storage Servers

At Advanced Data Recovery London we pride ourselves on our ability to help customers just like you recover data that under other circumstances would be lost. One such instance when it would be easy to consider your data lost for good is in the use of a HP P4000 or P4500 StoreVirtual Storage server or SAN (Storage Area Network).

If you are the owner or IT professional responsible for the overseeing of such a device you will know that they do not come cheap and more so neither does the time and effort spent trying to reclaim data by reconstituting it from old sources if it has been lost. Many man-hours can be lost with both a loss of productivity and financial implications when the disks within a ‘node’ or the server itself fail.

Our engineers at Advanced Data Recovery have perfected a way of retrieving data from the HP P4000/P4500 range of SANs that was previously unthinkable even by their manufacturer Hewlett Packard who have said openly that failure of such ‘nodes’ and their drives will leave you with a system that is unrecoverable.

It may well be that the system itself is no longer functioning and will not function again but using our bespoke methods of data recovery based on forensic recovery and reverse engineering, we can help businesses just like yours get back on track by recovering the data from drives.

You may be wondering how it is that, if Hewlett Packard say it can’t be done, we can do it.  But with over 16 years in the business of data recovery with a whole host of technology and experience at our fingertips our engineers are well versed in dealing with myriad devices such as the HP P4000/4500 range of StoreVirtual SANs and the likes of the HP StoreVirtual Centralized Control Management Console that allows it to work in conjunction with other ‘nodes’ and devices on an Ethernet or IP-based network.

Disk failures within such a setup can lead to the loss or reported deletion of LUNs (logical unit numbers) against which data is stored and allocated; these LUNs are important to a ‘node’ in the same way each drive is important within a smaller RAID setup such as RAID 0 (where each drive is allocated). Failing disks can impede the flow of information as well as its safe storage if the LUNs that the data is allocated to are no longer recognisable.

Likewise a non-functioning ‘node’ be it because of issues with the firmware or ability to communicate with software controllers like the HP StoreVirtual Centralized Control Management Console, can leave the data on-board inaccessible and without the aid of our bespoke data recovery, lost forever.