HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage

2017: HPE 3PAR StoreServ 9450

3PAR StoreServ 9450 is a data storage array. A system is released on replacement of 3PAR StoreServ 8450.

On May 27, 2017 the HPE company announced release of 3PAR StoreServ 9450. DWH is focused on medium business^[1].

According to the producer, 3PAR StoreServ 9450 exceeds StoreServ 8450 for 70% on performance, twice on scaling of capacity (9450 the petabyte of physical capacity can be expanded to six) and three times on number of ports for connection of hosts (connection of 80 servers directly is possible).

In addition to data in the form of blocks, the device is capable to store files.

Properties of a line of DWH 9000

• Max. number of controller nodes: 4
• Max. number of ports of a host: 80
• Fibre Channel: 0-80
• Max. rated capacity: 6000 TiB.

2016: HPE 3PAR 20840

HPE 3PAR 20840 is a storage array, converged a flash system, capable to be scaled to eight controller nodes.

On March 11, 2016 it became known of release of Hewlett Packard Enterprise of an array of storage^[2].

Capacity

• 6000 Tbyte (rated capacity)
• 15 PByte (formatted capacity)
• using solid state drives with a capacity of 3.84 Tbyte and technologies of data compaction of HPE 3PAR.

Description of the drive

• (1920) drives of SAS/MDL of SAS/SSD of a small form factor or (960) drives MDL of SAS of high form-factor at most for model 20840

Interface of an array

• 20 Fibre Channel ports of 16 Gbps on each controller or 10 iSCSI/FCoE 10 GbE ports on each controller or 6 ports 10 GbE on each controller to the 160th a host ports

Functions of ensuring availability

• Standby units of a power supply and accumulators, Mesh-Active controllers Persistent Cache technology, reservation of drives and possibility of use of several copies of OS.

Cache memory

• 33.8 Tbyte of Adaptive Flash Cache in the delivery

Sizes and weight

• Minimum size (Highway x x C): 59.8 x 200.6 x 112.5 cm
• Weight is 571 kg

2015

HP 3PAR StoreServ 8000

The line of HP 3PAR of StoreServ 8000 includes the all-flash configurations worth from $19 thousand, 4-controller DWH and also arrays in which it is possible to install traditional hard drives. Like the HP 3PAR models of StoreServ Storage 20000, the line of HP 3PAR of StoreServ 8000 allows to place 5.5 petabyte useful a flash capacity within one standard rack, has advanced means for data management and provides high scalability, told in the company.

HP 3PAR StoreServ 20000

HP 3PAR of StoreServ 20000 - family of arrays from a flash drives (all-flash).

On June 4, 2015 the HP company provided DWH of the corporate level of HP 3PAR of StoreServ 20000.

A system supports more than 3.2 million input-output operations per second (IOPS) at a delay in millisecond shares ^[2]. The device occupies the space in DPC 85% less, unlike traditional high-end of arrays ^[3].

HP 3PAR StoreServ 20000, 2015

Specifications

• Capacity
  • 6PB Raw,
  • 15PB Useable,
  • Based on 3.84 cLMC SSDs and HP 3PAR Compaction technologies

• Description of the drive
  • (1920) SFF SAS/MDL SAS/SSD or
  • (1024) SFF/LFF SSD or
  • (960) LFF MDL SAS

• Regiments
  • (80) 3PAR 12 Gb/sec SAS SFF Drive Enclosure
  • (80) 3PAR 12 Gb/sec SAS LFF Drive Enclosure

• The maximum number of disks in one shelf
  • 24

• Interface of an array
  • 16 Gb/sec Fibre Channel (20) Ports per controller or
  • 10 GbE iSCSI/FCoE (10) Port per controller or
  • 10Gb Ethernet

• Controller of storage
  • (8) 3PAR 6-core 2.5GHz 20800 Controller Node; (8) 3PAR 8-core 2.5GHz 20850 Controller Node; Maximum, depending on model

• Functions of ensuring availability
  • Redundant power supplies, battery backup units, Mesh active controllers
  • Persistent Cache, Drive sparing and Multiple OS instances.

• Cache memory
  • 33.8 TB
  • Maximum, depending on model

• Compatible operating systems
• * HP-UX
  • HP OpenVMS

• * IBM AIX
• * Microsoft Hyper-V
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2

• * Citrix XenServer
• * Oracle Linux
• * Oracle Enterprise Linux
  • Oracle UEK

• * Oracle Solaris
  • Ubuntu Server Edition 12.04 LTS

• * Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• * |* VMware ESX Server|VMware ESX]] and ESXi]]
  • SLES11 SP3
  • Apple OS X
  • Also includes Red Hat Virtualization, IBM Virtualization and SLES Virtualization.

The StoreServ 20000 HP 3PAR family is scaled to eight nodes and is suitable for customers who need to consolidate several racks of outdated high quality data warehouses and to provide high quality of service of applications.

HP 3PAR StoreServ 20850

The array of 3PAR StoreServ 20850 on the basis of solid state drives is capable to process more than 3.2 million input-output operations per second at a delay in shares of millisecond and over 75 Gbps for the maximum capacity of applications provide stable capacity ^[4].

HP 3PAR StoreServ 20850, 2015

The convergent flash array of HP 3PAR of StoreServ 20800 scaled to the 15th petabyte (PB) of formatted capacity was a part of family.

HP 3PAR StoreServ 20800, 2015

Arrays of this family are created on the basis of architecture of HP 3PAR of Gen5 Thin Express ASIC and provide higher level of performance, scalability and efficiency, execute deduplication with hardware acceleration.

Deliveries of DWH of HP 3PAR of StoreServ 20000 will begin in August, 2015. Initial cost is $75 thousand.

HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8450

3PAR StoreServ 8450 is a data storage array. The solution is focused on support of the organizations at implementation a flash technologies in data processing centers in the long term to refuse use of hard drives.

The array of StoreServ 8450 supports a cache memory to 4 controllers and 384 GB. The model supports up to 24 FC/iSCSI/FCoE ports and up to 480 disks SSD. The array is certified by SAP HANA Tailored Data Center Integration, he confirms compliance of the equipment to the main requirements of business applications. The updated software of HP 3PAR of File Persona will help customers to consolidate transactions of block and file storage within uniform a Tier-1 level flash platform.

The array does not support traditional hard drives - SSD disks of expanded capacity.

Controllers are completed with the Intel Xeon processors Ivy Bridge. The front-side bus operates on PCIe Gen3, 12-gigabit SAS is used as interconnect, optical ports support the FC protocol 16 Gb.

The tailored architecture helps to achieve high performance by means of orientation to use of a solid-state memory.

The array has a number of functions which allow to optimize use of disk space and In the solution of an ispolzuovan a chip of HP 3PAR of Gen5 Thin Express, it implements the mechanism of thin deduplication (thin deduplication).

This mechanism allows to save array capacity, preventing repeated record of the same data. Additional plus is that this mechanism does not use central processors of controllers and therefore the delay entered to write operation of data is minimum.

Specifications
Capacity	921,6 Тибайт (номинальная емкость)
Description of the drive	поддержка (24) накопителей SAS малого форм-фактора возможность увеличения общего числа накопителей SAS до 240 с помощью корпуса 2U для накопителей малого форм-фактора (2,5") и корпуса 4U для накопителей большого форм-фактора (3,5").
Interface of an array	4 разъема Fibre Channel 16 Гбит/с в комплекте поставки к массиву можно добавить (8) разъемов FC 16 Гбит/с, (4) разъема iSCSI/FCoE 10GbE, (8) разъемов Ethernet 1 Гбит/с (только для File Persona) или (4) разъема Ethernet 10 Гбит/с (только для File Persona).
Functions of ensuring availability	Резервные блоки питания и вентиляторы как минимум два резервных контроллера и до четырех контроллеров для повышенной надежности RAID 1, RAID 5 и RAID 6 для защиты данных. Конфигурация из 4 узлов обеспечивает сохранность кэш-памяти в случае сбоя контроллера.
Cache memory	192 Гибайт
Sizes and weight
Minimum size (Highway x x C)	48,3 x 67,6 x 8,795 мм
Weight	21,6 кг
Complete set
Model	Базовый корпус высотой 2U для системы 3PAR StoreServ 8450, 2 узла контроллера, 192 Гбайт кэш-памяти, 4 разъема FC 16 Гбит/с, 2 слота для адаптеров и 24 отсека для дисков малого форм-фактора.
Guarantee – years (part/quality production/service at the customer)	3/3/3
Complete set	Массив HP 3PAR StoreServ 8450 с 2 узлами, 4 модуля SFP FC 16 Гбит/с, комплект оборудования для монтажа в стойку, 2 шнура питания, 2 кабеля SAS, 2 м

2014

HP 3PAR StoreServ 7440c Converged Flash Array

HP 3PAR of StoreServ 7440c of Converged Flash Array - a hardware and software system of management of data storage. Uses the all-flash configuration and supports traditional hard drives.

HP 3PAR StoreServ 7440c Converged Flash Array

On December 3, 2014 provided to HP a corporate product for DPC - HP 3PAR of StoreServ 7440c of Converged Flash Array.

The product is provided by access to block, file and object storage, the general volume of 3.5 PBytes, performance of all-flash, function of ensuring fault tolerance of a corporate class and high-speed links of data transmission. A system is offered at the price of model of the middle class, provides all necessary storage functions.

Software of 3PAR Online Import as a part of a HSS helps users of EMC VMAX to pass to 3PAR StoreServ, reducing the space occupied by storage systems in DPC by 19 times and reducing costs in the 8th ^[2]

HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400

HP 3PAR of StoreServ 7400 - a storage system.

HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400, 2014

Specifications

• Capacity - 1200 Tbyte (rated capacity) Is supported by OS 3PAR of version 3.1.3 above.
• Description of the drive: 48 disks of SAS of a small standard size. A possibility of expansion to 480 hard drives of SAS with M6710 and M6720 of slots for disks.
• The interface of an array is Fibre Channel of 8 Gbps, (8) ports. A possibility of adding up to (16) Fibre Channel ports or to (8) ports 10 GbE iSCSI, or (8) Fibre Channel ports and (4) ports 10 GbE iSCSI
• Functions of ensuring availability are standby units of a power supply and fans. At least two reserve controllers and to four controllers for the increased reliability. RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 6 for data protection. The configuration from 4 nodes ensures safety a cache memory in case of failure of the controller.
• Cache memory - 64 GB.
• Sizes and weight (minimum size Sh x G x B): 48.3 x 67.6 x 17.59 cm.
• Weight: 44.4 kg
• Complete set: the body of the 3PAR StoreServ 7400 system with 2 regiments 2U high, 4 nodes of controllers, 64 Gbytes a cache memory, 8 FC ports of 8 Gbps, 4 slots of adapters and 48 compartments for disks of a small standard size.

3PAR StoreServ 7200 All-Flash Starter Kit

3PAR StoreServ 7200 All-Flash Starter Kit is a solid-state storage system of initial level.

HP 3PAR StoreServ 7200 All-Flash Starter Kit

On August 27, 2014 the Hewlett-Packard company announced an output to the market of new DWH for the program configured data centers.

The HP 3PAR system of StoreServ 7200 AFA is capable to contain to the 690th terabyte of useful information. In it SSD drives on the basis of chips a class MLC flash memory. The device supports the dedaplikation mechanism squeezing data approximately twice. The hardware and software system is delivered together with a package of the software of HP 3PAR of Operating System Software Suite in which products are included:

• HP 3PAR Thin Provisioning,
• HP 3PAR Thin Conversion,
• HP 3PAR Thin Persistence
• HP 3PAR Thin Clones.

The array of SSD drives can be used also for acceleration of applications, and for work of web services.

By means of special tools users can quickly carry out data migration on 3PAR StoreServ 7200 All-Flash Starter Kit from DWH:

• EMC CLARiiON CX4,
• EMC VNX
• HP EVA Storage.

Innovation cost - from $35 thousand.

HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage

HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage — DWH of average price range with four controllers providing data availability and the functions of quality control of service inherent earlier only to disk arrays of the class High-End. A system is available in a configuration with hard or solid-state drives (in particular, the configuration only with SSD is offered) and provides the highest performance level — more than 320,000 transactions of input-output per second that 2.4 times higher, than at the competing arrays in the same price segment.

• Internal comparative price analysis and functionality of the competing solutions available in the market. The following determination of DWH of 1 level is used: DWH of 1 level (Tier 1) has more than two independent controllers and two ways to the reserve hard drive; she is capable to process failures in operation of controllers without prejudice to service quality and also to provide multilevel storage of sub-LUN on hard and solid-state drives and synchronized tripartite replication.
• On the basis of internal testing of HP IOMETER of comparable configurations using accidental access; the HP 3PAR model of StoreServ 7000 with solid state drives was compared to a popular array of the average level.

HP 3PAR of StoreServ 7000. HP claims that it is the only platform of the middle class in the industry with four controllers providing storage at the level of Tier 1 and the set service level at rather low price. It intends for remote offices, the small and medium companies. A system is capable to work with this at the level of blocks and files. It is equipped with the disks SATA and solid state drives (SSD). If only the second are used, performance reaches 320 thousand transactions of input-output per second, HP claims.

The corporation develops also model 3PAR optimized for work with SSD which will provide the exclusive performance and an extensive set of services for work with data.

HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450

On June 10, 2014 the HP company announced an exit of a new array of DWH of HP 3PAR of StoreServ 7450 Storage on on the basis of flash-drives.

A system provides economical storage (less than 2 dollars on gigabyte of formatted capacity thanks to inline-deduplication) without decline in production and with availability at the level of 99.9999%.

Specifications

Capacity - 220 Tbyte (rated capacity) at most, depending on model

Description of the drive: SAS/SSD of a small standard size or SAS/SSD of a big standard size Regiments - (9) M6710/M6720 at most, depending on model

The maximum number of disks in one regiment 24 at most

The interface of an array 24 ports of 8 GB / with the Fibre Channel, 8 ports 10 GbE iSCSI

The maximum supported configuration, depends on a configuration and model

Standby units of a power supply and fans: at least two reserve controllers and to four controllers for the increased reliability

RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 6 for data protection. The configuration from 4 nodes ensures safety a cache memory in case of failure of the controller.

Cache memory of 128 GB, the maximum depending on model is supported

Compatible operating systems

• Microsoft Windows 2003
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012
• Microsoft Windows Hyper-V
• HP-UX
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• VMware ESX and ESXi
• Oracle Solaris
• Oracle UEK
• Oracle Linux
• Citrix XenServer
• IBM AIX

2013: HP 3PAR 10000 V800

HP 3PAR 10000 V800, cache of management of 32 GB / cache of these 64 GB, rack of IEC of a basic configuration (QR637A).

Specifications

Capacity 1.6 PB; the maximum is supported by V800 model Interface of an array (192) Fibre Channel port 8 Gbps or (32) iSCSI ports of 10 Gbps and (160) Fibre Channel ports of 8 Gbps; the maximum support on V800, are not included in the delivery. Drive type solid state drive with a capacity of 100 GB; solid state drive with a capacity of 200 GB; 300 GB, 15,000 RPM, Fibre Channel; 600 GB, 15,000 RPM, Fibre Channel; 3G, 7200 RPM, LFF SATA with a capacity of 2 TB; 3G, 7200 RPM, LFF SATA with a capacity of 1 TB; it is supported at most (1920), is not included in the delivery. Note. Up to 128 solid state drives on each couple of a node of the controller Description of the drive Fibre Channel/SATA/SSD, high form-factor Minimum size (Highway x x C) 59.94 x 91.44 x 194.31 cm Weight 580.14 kg Guarantee – years (part/quality production/service at the customer) 3/3/3 Complete set (1) V800 node with two controllers; a cache of management for both nodes of the controller; a cache of data for both nodes of the controller; (2) the power supply with the built-in batteries on one node; (2) the fan on one node; Standard rack of HP 3PAR, IEC standard 2011: HP P10000 3PAR Storage System In September, 2011 provided to HP new storage systems of HP P10000 of 3PAR Storage System for data processing centers which maintain functionality of providing IT in the form of service (IaaS) in private and public cloud environments. New opportunities are first of all optimization of simultaneous operation of a large number of applications in a cloud, so-called multi-user storage system. In addition new storage systems include the improved technology of effective use of disk space Thin Provisioning and the independent mechanism of balancing of loading which provides flexibility of redistribution of resources of storage system depending on requirements of business applications. In October, 2011 during benchmark testing of performance by SPC-1 technique the storage system of HP 3PAR of P10000 V800 set a world record of processing speed of transactions in real time (OLTP). HP 3PAR of P10000 V800 provides record performance for the data processing centers of the corporate level using virtualization and cloud computing, allowing clients to consolidate successfully virtualized IT infrastructure. "From the moment of acquisition of 3PAR we saw the task in offering clients more effective, more flexible DWH for implementation of the IaaS model (IT-kak-usluga), – David Scott, the senior vice president and the head of department of storage systems of HP tells. – The new world record of performance exceeding expectations of users of 3PAR is, of course, not only technology, but also commercial success". Storage systems of HP P10000 of 3PAR Storage System offer ample opportunities for creation of computing environment of the corporate level on the basis of public and private clouds (IaaS model). Among them – a possibility of consolidation of the applications given sets in a cloud environment for support of unpredictable loadings, the improved Thin Provisioning technology for effective use of capacity and also the independent mechanism of balancing of loading. Results of testing of SPC-1 represent the actual performance of an array for tasks of OLTP; they give clients the objective and adequate information about efficiency of these storage systems in comparison with the competing solutions. Results of testing underwent independent audit and today are the best of all when that was Storage Performance Council published by Council. During testing with a capacity equivalent to thousands of virtual machines, the standard version of V800 HP 3PAR system showed result of 450212.66 SPC-1 IOP/s – 100% increase in productivity in comparison with the last record set by the HP 3PAR system. In addition to the record performance of OLTP testing of SPC-1 confirmed exclusive convenience of HP 3PAR of V800 in management. Configuring and setup of DWH HP 3PAR V800 are executed automatically; the user needs to enter only several simple, standard commands. It allows clients to perform quickly deployment and V800 HP 3PAR tuning according to the required service level, without penetrating into subtleties of management of DWH. For achievement of the highest results in SPC-1 tests the competing arrays use a huge number of disks, and the coefficient of useful use of capacity of an array, as a rule, makes 10-20% (4). Results of testing of SPC-1 showed that at V800 HP 3PAR storage system this indicator is several times higher – 80%. Thus, the highest at the moment in the world the capacity of the disk array is reached at effective use of hardware resources of 3PAR. V800 HP 3PAR model is really capable to help clients to cut down expenses and to provide compliance to the required service levels. The drives SSD are capable to provide to business a number of advantages: they help to improve performance of corporate applications and to increase efficiency of the virtualized and cloud environments. At the same time, integration of SSD technology into the existing IT environments often is complicated by need to manually move data between storage levels for providing the service level stipulated with business users. It is difficult process which can lead to idle times of DPC. This problem can reduce to zero that performance benefit for which the companies wait from implementation of the drives SSD. The version of summer of 2012 of DWH of HP 3PAR of P10000 on the basis of solid state drives helps to solve this problem. The HP solution of 3PAR Adaptive Optimization which is included in the delivery automates management of multilevel storage. It moves data on the necessary level of storage in the fullness of time, allowing to cut down expenses on management and to improve performance. "Before deployment of software of HP 3PAR of Adaptive Optimization we had to manage our disk array manually. We spent huge amount of time for moving the storages given between levels, and, certainly, all this extremely negatively affected the service levels — Ken Kirchoff, the director of division of storage systems and the solutions Unix, Priceline tells. — Implementation of DWH of HP 3PAR and software of Adaptive Optimization allowed to reduce considerably the cost of ownership of storage and also to release personnel for the solution of other tasks …" New DWH of HP 3PAR of P10000 based on SSD provides the same (1) performance level, as well as the previous version of HP 3PAR of P10000, however uses the smaller number of drives that allows to save a valuable space in DPC and to cut down expenses on power supply. It supports up to 512 drives SSD on one array — four times more, than earlier — and provides notable economy — to 70% for input-output operations per second and more than 80% for power supply. All this does new DWH ideal for high-performance environments (2). New level of integration of servers and DWH HP aims to provide the closest integration of SSD technology in the servers and DWH within the concept of convergent infrastructure. So, HP is going to put on the market new HP Smart Cache — the improved server cache on SSD drives for ProLiant Gen8 HP servers. The new solution will use HP Smart Analytics technology that will allow to move in the automatic mode often used data on high-performance SSD drives. The intellectual caching of data executed taking into account workload will help to improve system operation considerably. In particular, it will allow to increase transaction processing performance by six (!) times (3) and to increase performance of applications for stream transfer of video content to one and a half times in comparison with the systems of the previous generations (4). Besides, the HP solution of Smart Cache provides closer integration of HP servers of ProLiant Gen8 and DWH of HP 3PAR. It is capable to copy in real time data from HP 3PAR arrays in a SSD cache on ProLiant Gen8 HP servers. It means an opportunity to increase performance, to lower time of delays, to cut down expenses and to react more flexibly to change of requirements of SLA for the customer. "The drives SSD are capable to provide that performance level which is necessary for the cloud and virtualized environments. The problem consists that many infrastructures still require "manual" management of multilevel storage that creates additional difficulties and expenses — David Scott, the senior vice president and the head of department of storage systems, HP says. — Automation of data movement between HP servers of ProLiant and DWH of HP 3PAR within one array allows to implement fully advantages of the drives SSD". Notes ↑ of HPE carries out global updating of storage systems ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 of HPE 3PAR 20840 HPE fills up a portfolio of DWH based on a flash memory ↑ [Data are obtained on analysis results, carried out by HP company, in comparison with EMC VMAX 400K from 12 PBytes (90% of hard drives and 10% of solid state drives).] ↑ [Data are obtained based on the testing held by HP in the conditions of consecutive data reading by blocks on 256K with the node model using local volumes and use of protection of RAID5]