Broaden your storage horizons with HP 3PAR
S TO R AG E A N D S A N
These game changing storage solutions overcome the limitations of midrange and monolithic arrays and free IT
decision makers from the scalability and availability compromises forced on them as budgets shrink. Instead HP
3PAR offers a highly virtualised, multi-tenant storage solution for resilient utility computing and the agility and
efficiency that are critical to today’s datacentre.
A fundamental technology for future Cloud and Converged Infrastructure solutions and ideal for IT departments
struggling to cope with storage in today’s tough economy, HP 3PAR:
HP 3PAR means new, compelling storage choices for you and your customers.
Virtualisation, Cloud/utility computing and the consolidation of applications onto virtualised infrastructures
are just some of the big IT drivers transforming the datacentre, yet putting pressure on legacy storage
systems.
HP 3PAR Storage Systems
have been built from the ground up to handle these dynamic
demands and represent the next generation of Tier 1 storage.
■ Cuts storage TCO and CapEx by up to 50%
■ Reduces capacity, power, cooling and floorspace by up to 75%
■ Shrinks storage administration by 90%
Buy 50% Fewer Arrays
HP 3PAR uses scale past 2 controllers, mixed
transactional and peak loads alongside secure
multi-tenancy to cut storage array sprawl in half.
Reduce capacity, power, cooling and floorspace by
up to 50%
HP 3PAR combines powerful Gen3 ASIC processing
with Thin Built-In™ to enable ‘fat’ to ‘thin’ conversions.
Other lean storage technologies include HP 3PAR Thin
Provisioning, Virtual Copy, Thin Reclamation and
support for RAID 5/6.
Reduce storage administration by 90%
A key differentiator for HP 3PAR is its use of Autonomic
Policy driven management that eliminates mundane
management and drives new efficiencies. HP 3PAR’s
InForm Operating System cuts out manual planning and
automates provisioning, whilst a Unified Management
Console and extremely powerful Command Line
Interface offer industry-leading ease-of-use.
Optimise server virtualisation
HP 3PAR is built for virtualised environments,
exceptional I/O performance and wide-striping of data
mitigate traditional storage constraints and enhance
VM-based application performance. Thin provisioning and
Thin Built-In™ reduce capacity requirements for any
virtualisation platform, increasing server virtualisation
ROI and reducing physical capacity needs by up to 75%.
Security for public and private clouds
HP 3PAR delivers secure multi-tenancy and mixed
workload support to fuel enterprise-class virtual
datacentres and Cloud computing environments. Virtual
Private Array (VPA) technology provides secure
segregation of user groups and applications.
Deliver industry-leading performance
HP 3PAR offers the only system to exceed 224,000
IOPS in a published SPC-1™ Benchmark and the only
modular array capable of delivering results simply, right
out-of-the-box.
HP 3PAR
– Compelling Reasons to Buy
HP 3PAR
– Ecosystem
World’s first cache coherent, quad controller architecture for scalable, efficient departmental and remote office consolidation
The fastest, most efficient single-system array available. Delivers maximum consolidation and performance headroom.
Gen3 ASIC with Thin Built-In™ –
an efficient, silicon based detection mechanism, enables removal of allocated but unused space without impacting performance.
Mesh-Active Controller technology –
allows each LUN to be active on every mesh controller in the system.
Fine-grained virtualisation and wide striping – divides each physical disk into
256-MB chunklets each of which can be dynamically reassigned to virtual volumes of different QoS levels.
Persistent Cache – eliminates
performance impacts from unplanned components failures, key for maintaining.
HP 3PAR Application Managed Software HP 3PAR Architecture
InForm Operating System – employs
advanced internal virtualisation to improve administrative efficiency, system utilisation and performance.
Management Console – simplifies
administration through a unified point-and-click interface.
Thin Technologies
■ Thin Provisioning – cuts SAN costs, floor space and energy consumption by 75%
■ Thin Conversion – eliminates up to 75% of legacy capacity
■ Thin Persistence – reclaims space from deleted volumes to keep storage thin over time
Data Protection & Disaster Recovery
■ Full Copy – Creates point-in-time clones with independent service level parameters
■ Virtual Copy – reservationless, non-duplicative, copy-on-write software that allows protection/sharing of data from any application
■ Remote Copy – allows users to protect and share data from any application more affordably.
Resilience & Security
■ Virtual Domains – VM software that delivers secure, segregated access and robust storage to applications and groups
■ Virtual Lock – enables the secure retention of storage volumes.
Autonomic Storage Tiering
■ Adaptive Optimisation – creates reliable, non-disruptive, autonomic tiered storage and enables users to meet service levels for up to 30% less
■ Dynamic Optimisation and Policy Advisor – nondisruptively distributes and redistributes application volumes across tiers.
Autonomic Provisioning
■ Autonomic Groups – lets users create host, volume and domain groups to automate and expedite storage provisioning
■ Rapid Provisioning – eliminates array planning via instant, application-tailored provisioning.
Autonomic Management
■ System Reporter – simple to use, web-based capacity management tool ■ Host Explorer – automates host
discovery and collection of detailed host configuration information.
HP 3PAR Software
VMWare/Citrix – server
and desktop virtualisation.
Microsoft/Oracle –
databases.
Microsoft – email and
communications.
HP 3PAR Storage System Components
Controller nodes – the
building blocks of 3PAR Mesh Architecture.
Full-mesh backplane –
high speed, full-mesh, passive system backplane that joins multiple controller nodes.
Drive chassis – switched
architecture for advanced error isolation, industry-leading density, redundant/ hot-pluggable components, redundant fibre-channel paths to nodes.
Drive Magazines – fully
tiered; magazines available for FC, nearline (SATA) and solid state drives (SSDs).
Purpose built for virtualised environments, HP 3PAR is a building block for Cloud and offers the
architecture, built-in thin hardware and advanced performance required to deliver and respond quickly in a
virtual environment, whilst remaining ‘always-on’.
HP has integrated 3PAR Utility Storage across the HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio to simplify scalable Cloud
computing. Together these solutions enable the optimisation of Cloud delivery with features like automated storage
tiering to improve performance and thin storage offerings to eliminate over-provisioning.
HP 3PAR with HP Converged Infrastructure enables consolidation of storage hardware and offers an effective
response to explosive data growth, with converged block-and-file storage on a single storage array. This combination
also simplifies data management with solutions built on converged storage, server and networking platforms
providing unified management and a lower total cost of ownership.
For more information on HP 3PAR including market background, customer pains/opportunity spotting and
objection handling make sure you read the Avnet HP 3PAR Value Proposition, available from your HP
Marketing team in Avnet. Visit www.ts.avnet.com/uk/vendors/hp/
HP 3PAR
– The Cloud & Converged Infrastructure sell
Move into the Cloud with 3cV
3cV brings together HP 3PAR Storage Server, HP BladeSystem c-Class and VMware to create a complete utility computing offering. Delivering up to 50% savings on server, storage and operational costs alongside dramatically improved IT agility. 3cV offers:
■ 50% reductions in server and storage CapEx ■ 50% reductions in OpEx
■Security that comes from advanced virtualisation instead of hardware silos.
■ An environmentally friendly alternative:
- Up to 70% savings from VMware driven server consolidation - 50% consolidation savings driven by HP BladeSystem density - 30% power savings driven by HP Thermal Logic
- Twice the capacity per floor tile than alternatives - Power and cool 75% less disk capacity.
Utility-based storage for Cloud
The move to Cloud is forcing IT organisations and service providers to rethink infrastructure design. With effective answers requiring the seamless integration of computing, storage and networking, as well as centralised management.
In response to this need, users can automate and simplify the provisioning of multitenant storage for the Cloud, with HP 3PAR now being fully managed as part of HP CloudSystem, HP’s complete, integrated system for building and delivering services across private, public and hybrid Cloud environments.
Virtual domains facilitate multi-tenant deployments, making HP 3PAR an ideal platform for hosting, service and Cloud providers.
This combination of 3PAR with HP CloudSystem enables reduced Cloud application deployment time, from days to minutes, and operational efficiency of storage management improved tenfold, whilst storage costs are cut by up to 50%.
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