HP 3PAR Storage

Virtualization & Cloud

Ivan MUSCAT
Head of Engineering and Infrastructure,
MEGABYTE LTD
The World Has Changed…
The Storage Silo Era is Over

Most storage deployed VIRTUALIZATION

today was designed for
the needs of 20 years ago
NOW 
CLOUD

BIG DATA
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Storage in a Cloud Infrastructure
The Challenges

Agile
Unpredictable demand

Efficient
Storage management is too complex
Capital and operational costs of new storage

Source: ESG Research Report, The Evolution of Server Virtualization, November 2010.

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HP 3PAR Storage
Next-Generation Tier 1 Utility Storage for IT-as-a-Service

Built for the Cloud One technology from

mid-range to high-end
Efficient
• Reduce acquisition and operational costs by 50%
Autonomic
• Increase storage management efficiency 10x
Multi-tenant
• Support unpredictable new apps and cloud

F-Class
T-Class
V-Class
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A Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant
Recognized for
Execution and Vision
Magic Quadrant for Midrange
and High-End Modular Disk Arrays
Gartner, Inc.
Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End Modular Disk Arrays
Published: 17 November 2011
Analyst(s): Roger W. Cox, Pushan Rinnen, Stanley Zaffos, Jimmie Chang.
This Magic Quadrant graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research
note and should be evaluated in the context of the entire report. The Gartner report is
available upon request from HP. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or
service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select
only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the
opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements
of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this
research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Midrange & High-End Modular Disk Arrays, 11/10
As of November 2011
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HP 3PAR Addresses
Unpredictable Demand
HP 3PAR is Multi-tenant

Shared Secure Resilient

Massive Consolidation Secure segregation while Sustain service levels

of many different applications preserving the benefits across any major
and lines of business of massive parallelism failure scenarios

Industry-leading storage for Cloud and Utility Computing

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Scale Performance for Mixed Workloads
Performance Impact from Unrelated I/O Streams

Normalized OLTP Workload

Mixed workload performance 1.4
1.33
1.27 1.23 1.22
ideal for multi-tenant and 1.2 1.00 0.99 0.95 0.98
consolidated environments 1.0
0.8
HP 3PAR architecture’s 0.6
massively parallel utilization 0.4
0.2
of system resources
0.0
OLTP Baseline OLTP & READ I/O OLTP & WRITE I/O OLTP & RW I/O
Minimizes contention and
Isolated Configuration Shared Configuration
assures service levels
automatically OLTP Other I/O
OLTP Layout and
Other I/O Streams
Layout Streams
on Same Drives
(80 drives) (80 drives)
(160 drives)

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Mixed Workload: Ready for Any Application
I/O Processing: Traditional Storage
HOSTS Heavy throughput workload
applied
Host Unified Processor Disk
and/or Memory interface Disk
Interface
Heavy transaction
workload applied
small IOPs wait for large IOPs = control information (metadata)
to be processed = data

I/O Processing: 3PAR Controller Node

HOSTS
Heavy throughput workload 3PAR ASIC
sustained & Memory Disk
Host
interface Disk
Interface Control Processor
Heavy transaction & Memory
workload sustained
control information and data are
pathed and processed separately

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Performance Leadership
SPC-1 Benchmark Comparison
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EMC Clarrion
25 CX3-40

NetApp
FAS3170
Response Time (ms)

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IBM DS8300
Turbo HP 3PAR
15 IBM
P10000 V800
Oracle Sun
Storewize Storage 6780 HP 3PAR F400
V7000 Pillar Axiom
IBM SVC IBM SVC
600 Series 3
10 (6 Node Cluster (8 Node Cluster
Huawei/Symantec with 2 x DS8700) with 16 x V7000)
HP 3PAR T800 Oceanspace S8100
HDS AMS 2500
HDS USP-V
5 HDS VSP

TMS RamSan-630
IBM DS8700 Easy Tier with SSD
0
0 100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000 500,000
SPC-1 IOPS™
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High Performance, High Capacity – No Trade Off
$/GB and Capacity Utilization
600,000
Bubble size =
IBM SVC (8 Node Cluster xx% Relative
with 16xV7000)
500,000
69% ASU Size in GB
HP P10000 xx% = Capacity
80% TMS RamSan-630 IBM SVC (6 Node Cluster Utilisation
with 2x DS8700)
400,000 65%
65%
SPC-1 IOPS™

300,000 HP 3PAR
T800 59% HDS
VSP HDS USP-V
85%
200,000 35%
Oracle Sun IBM DS8300 Turbo
HP 3PAR Storage 6780
F400 34%
100,000 HDS AMS 2500
96% 64%
Pillar Axiom IBM DS8700 Easy Tier with SSD
600 Series 3
71% 73%
68%
IBM Storewize
68% 77% EMC Clarrion CX3-40
0 V7000
$0 $25 $50 $75 $100 $125 $150 $175 $200 $225 $250 $275 $300
NetApp FAS3170 (70% utilization)
$/SPC-1 ASU GB
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HP 3PAR Virtual Domains
HP 3PAR
Secure Consolidation

Data is separate and secure

Segregate users and hosts CPG
to achieve greater storage PARAMETERS
Virtual
service levels Domain B
HOSTS
CPG
Eliminate unauthorized or PARAMETERS

accidental access to data

ACCESS VOLUMES HOSTS

Virtual
Domain A
ACCESS VOLUMES

Up to 1,024 Virtual Domains

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3PAR Direct Manageability
Simple, comprehensive, consolidated
administration
3PAR InForm CLI
Powerful, fine-grained control
Scriptable, with highly consistent syntax
3PAR InForm
LDAP support, IPv6 Mgmt. Console
Multiple assignable roles

S E e e AO RM e S B

Super Edit Basic Edit Create Adaptive Recovery my Service Browse

Access to all Access to most Create and Create volumes Optim. Manager Snapshot Limited Allows read-
operations operations unmount, but can’t delete Only for AO Only for RM Create/ operations for only access
can’t delete operations operations refresh snaps servicing
(for test / dev)

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HP 3PAR Persistent Cache
Built-In Resiliency Eliminates Intolerable SLA Impacts
HP 3PAR Storage
with Persistent Cache
A must-have to maintain service
levels in a virtual datacenter
Gracefully handles component
failures by eliminating write Preserved Service Levels
through performance penalties
Available in all HP 3PAR models
with 4 or more nodes, including
3PAR P10000, T-Class and F400 Cache Re-mirroring

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Resilience During Life of the Array and Beyond
HP 3PAR Peer Motion

Data Mobility Promise of Thin Provisioning Built-in Tech Refresh

Respond to changing Remove capacity silos Change the storage lifecycle;

demands and map workloads and use space do-it-yourself data migration
to the right resources where available without service disruption

Less cost, less time, no disruption

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Customer’s
Experiencing HP 3PAR
Multi-Tenancy Benefits
CenterBeam

Increase cloud service competitiveness by “EMC was less expensive,

boosting storage throughput while automatically
Challenge
moving less frequently used data to more cost- but we wanted to grow our
efficient disk business on the superior
technology we found in
• 10-fold more storage throughput than EMC, HP 3PAR.”
boosting customer satisfaction
HP 3PAR Shahin Pirooz
Solution • 80% reduction in chief architect’s storage Executive VP, Chief Security Officer
administration time redirected to more and Chief Technology Officer
CenterBeam, Inc.
valuable projects

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Secure Consolidation at
Global Cloud Hosting Firm

300 arrays  10 arrays

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Medibank Health Solutions

Provide a flexible, scalable storage solution to

“This solution offers us the
Challenge meet the performance demands of a rapidly
growing business technology roadmap we
required over the next 3 to
Medibank Health Solutions deployed a highly 5 years, with a relationship
HP 3PAR scalable, highly available storage infrastructure to
Solution ensure performance and network uptime for its we happily endorsed over
services the past decade.”
Charles Gonzalez
99.999% uptime with highly available storage solution Head of Infrastructure Services
Medibank Health Solutions
Reduce allocated storage consumption by 80%

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SAVVIS
On Technology Refreshes

“We have a huge number of customers across a number of environments and SLAs,
and so it’s almost impossible to coordinate them all for maintenance, upgrade,
or refresh windows. HP 3PAR already helps us with this with its multi-tenancy,
resiliency, efficiency and other features that are built into the product. But we are
excited to deploy HP 3PAR Peer Motion to really help us nail the array refresh case.
Peer Motion is going to give us the opportunity to refresh our storage pool at nearly
any time we need to with disrupting any customers or SLAs.”
Tim Beerman
Vice President, Managed Hosting Product Management and Engineering
SAVVIS, Inc.

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HP 3PAR Storage
Alleviates Concerns
About Capital and
Operational Costs
of New Storage
HP 3PAR is Efficient

Thin Optimized Green

Tier 0 (SSD)

Tier 1 (FC)

50%
Tier 2 (Nearline)

Reduce capacity Policy-based tiering Reduce power and

requirements by at least 50% balances $/GB and $/IOP cooling costs at least 50%

Reduce the acquisition and operational cost of data center storage

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Improve Efficiencies with
HP 3PAR Thin Technologies
Start Thin Get Thin Stay Thin
FAST
TRADITIONAL 3PAR THIN XXX

PROVISIONING PROVISIONING XXX

XXX

DATA DATA

BEFORE AFTER
4 TB 4 TB
1 TB 1 TB

The Provisioning Thin Conversion Thin Persistence

• No pool management or reservations
• No professional services
• Fine capacity allocation units
• Variable QoS for snapshots
• Eliminate time & complexity of getting thin
• Open, heterogeneous migrations for any
array to 3PAR
• Service levels preserved during inline
conversion
• Free stranded capacity
• Automated reclamation for 3PAR offered
by Symantec, Oracle
• Snapshots & Remote Copies stay thin

Buy up to 75% Reduce Tech Refresh Thin Deployments

Less Storage Capacity Costs by up to 60% Stay Thin Over Time

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HP 3PAR TCO Benefits of Thin Conversion
Global Banking Customer

“The results shown within this

document demonstrate a highly
Challenge No budget for additional storage, huge layoffs
efficient migration process which
removes the unused storage.”
Direct Customer Quote

Moved 271 TBs, DMX to 3PAR “No special host software

HP 3PAR - Online/non-disruptive components or professional
Solution - No data migration services required services are required to utilise this
- Large capacity savings functionality.”
Direct Customer Quote

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HP 3PAR: Thin Technologies
Flexible and Affordable

Fully Copy Virtual Copy Remote Copy

Efficient Clone Copy for The Most Efficient Flexible DR Protection

Full Volume Recovery Snapshot on the Market at Half the Cost

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Optimized
HP 3PAR Adaptive Optimization Reduces $/GB

Service Level Optimization

Deliver granular, policy-driven service level
optimization for storage
Provide needed Quality-of-Service at the Tier 0 (SSD)
lowest possible cost
Tier 1 (FC)
For enterprises and cloud data centers

Tier 2 Nearline)

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Customer’s
Experiencing HP 3PAR
Efficiency Benefits
TCO Benefits of Thin Conversion: Global Bank

Challenge No budget for additional storage, huge layoffs Reduced

power &
cooling
costs $3 million
Moved 271 TBs, DMX to 3PAR Capacity
requirements
savings
in upfront
HP 3PAR - Online/non-disruptive reduced by capacity
>50% purchases
Solution - No data migration services required
- Large capacity savings Sample Volume
200 Migrations on Different OSs
“The results shown within this document demonstrate a highly efficient migration 150
process which removes the unused storage.” 100
Direct Customer Quote
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“No special host software components or professional services are required to 0

Unix ESX Win
utilise this functionality.”
Direct Customer Quote EMC 3PAR

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Thin Provisioning Savings by a
Long-Time 3PAR Customer
Exported Written Savings Savings Savings ($)
Data Center (Useable TB) (Useable TB) (Raw TB) ($)
$16,000,000
IN-iQuest 1895 848 1197 $5,027,400
$14,000,000

$12,000,000
IN-HQ 44 38 7 $29,400
$10,000,000

NV 1985 580 1606 $6,745,200 $8,000,000

$6,000,000
SF 11 3 10 $42,000 $4,000,000

$2,000,000
IN 1146 267 1005 $4,221,000
$0
IN-iQuest IN-HQ NV SF IN Total
Total 5081 1736 3825 $16,065,000

TP Savings $16M 3.8PBs

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HP 3PAR Addresses
Storage Management
that is Too Complex
HP 3PAR is Autonomic

Up Fast Maintain Service Levels Respond to Change Quickly

Deliver high performance to

15 Seconds to all applications. Even under Quickly adapt to the
provision a LUN failure scenarios. unpredictable

HP 3PAR Customers reduce storage administration time by 90%

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HP 3PAR Autonomic Groups
Eliminate Repetitive Error-Prone Tasks
3PAR Autonomic Provisioning

10X faster provisioning than Autonomic

provisioning wizards from legacy Host Group
storage vendors
Simplifies and automates volume
Autonomic
provisioning in a single command Volume
Group

With 3PAR Autonomic Groups: 3 clicks and

60 seconds to fully create and provision multiple
volumes to multiple servers.

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HP 3PAR Wide-Striping
Completely and Finely Load Balanced to Maintain Service Levels

Market Leading Monolithic Array HP 3PAR Storage

CHANNEL DIRECTORS

CACHE BOARDS

DISK DIRECTORS

8GB LUN spread across 2 disks (RAID 1) 8GB LUN spread across 64 chunklets/disks (RAID 1)

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HP 3PAR Dynamic Optimization
Tiering Data at the Volume Level

DYNAMIC
Full Volume Tiering

Non-disruptive
Tier 0
Full-Volume (SSD)
Tiering flexibility Movement

without disruption
Tier 1 (FC)
VOLUME

Tier 2 (Nearline)

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HP 3PAR Adaptive Optimization
Respond to Change

Reduce Cost Gain Agility Minimize Risk

Optimize Cost/Performance Scalable, Granular, Policy-Driven Control Timing, QoS

• Sub-volume, bi-directional data
optimization
• Application specific vs. global thresholds
• Support for both thin and fat volumes
• Autonomic, sub-volume data movement
• Apply flexibly per-application
• Coexistence of tiered/non-tiered app
volumes
• Quality of service prioritization modes
with QoS gradients
• Scheduled movement
• Vary usage limits & tier definitions by app
• Minimize technology risk
• Existing sub-volume data movement
engine

Service Levels at a Lower Cost React Swiftly No Impacts to Users

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HP 3PAR Storage for Virtual Server Environments

Optimize Performance Simplify Management Maximize Savings

Double VM Density Simplified Provisioning Lower Storage Cost

• Wide striping • Autonomic groups • Thin provisioning
• Mixed workload support • Management plug-in • Thin conversion & thin persistence
• VAAI APIs and plug-ins • Recovery manager • Fast RAID technologies
• ASIC integration with VMware hardware • Site recovery adapter • Zero detect integration with VMware
assisted locking Full copy, write zero

Buy 50% Fewer Spend 90% Less Cut Storage Capacity

Physical Servers Time Managing Storage Requirements by 50%

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Customer’s
Experiencing HP 3PAR
Autonomic Management
Benefits
Adaptive Optimization and Sample Workloads
at priceline.com

Challenge Shift to lower $ / GB

SATA
10% of IOPS,
70% of capacity

HP 3PAR FC
Automate service level management 40% of
Solution IOPS,
26% of
capacity

SSD
“We no longer compromise between fast and expensive 50% of IOPS,
4% of capacity
fiber channel or slower but cheaper SATA.”
Priceline.com

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3PAR Gives Weill Cornell Medical
College a New Lease on Life
Running out of space and power
Challenge
Legacy storage arrays end-of-life
Saved $1M in upfront storage costs
HP 3PAR
76% reduction in capacity requirements
Reduced storage footprint by 66%
Solution $100K in annual administrative savings
10% reduction in power requirements
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“With HP 3PAR…we have
eliminated our storage
bottleneck. We can now
easily triple the number of
users we support without
any issues.”
Erik Krucker
Senior Server Architect
Weill Cornell Medical College
Skyscanner
On Improving the Bottom Line

“Since virtualizing our front-end production infrastructure on VMware

and HP 3PAR storage, we have already reduced the cost to serve a
session by 20 to 30 percent. That improves our bottom line.”

Phil Dalbeck
Infrastructure Architect
Skyscanner Ltd.

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District of Columbia Water
and Sewer Authority
Lay the foundation for a private cloud with virtualization to enable rapid, cost-effective
Challenge
access to dramatically growing volumes of enterprise data

HP 3PAR Increased organizational agility with enhanced IT responsiveness including ability to

Solution bring business applications online more rapidly

Reduced number of servers by 40% with HP VirtualSystem* consolidation

Reduced storage acquisition costs by nearly 40%

* Including HP 3PAR
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Platform Specifications
 HP 3PAR: Constant innovation… continued
June 2011
September 2010 HP 3PAR integration
June 2002 • HP Virtual System
First 3PAR S-Class System 3PAR acquired by HP
feat. 3PAR
released incl. industry Dec 2010 • HP Cluster
leading Thin Provision 3PAR Storage System Extension for 3PAR
Technology April 2009 Future
Introduction of the F-Class
available via HP Sales • HP 3PAR 50% Get Accelerated innovation
and Partners Thin Guarantee
the first quad controller with HP’s Converged
midrange array Storage Strategy

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

August 2006
E-Class midrange March 2011 Aug 2011
Storage Server HP 3PAR integration Major HP 3PAR launch
launch • HP X9000 – File and block • HP P10000 3PAR V400/V800
May 1999
with 3PAR • HP Storage Federation with
3PAR founded
with 5 employees September 2008 • HP CloudSystem feat. HP 3PAR Peer Motion
3PAR • Support for VMware vSphere 5
3PAR introduces the T-Class
• HP Data Protector support • Other SW and integration
with the Gen 3 ASIC to be the
for 3PAR enhancements
first Thin Built in storage array
• Other SW and integration
enhancements
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Announcement of December 4, 2012
New Hardware: 3PAR StoreServ
7000 • High performance
• 2x F-Class performance
(bandwidth and throughput)
• 6 gig SAS backend
• High capacity
• StoreServ 7200 up to 144 drives
• StoreServ 7400 up to 480 drives
• Leverage Tier 1 architecture
• Gen 4 ASIC
• PCI-e bus architecture
• T10 DIF – increased data
resilience
• 8Gb FC and 10Gb iSCSI/FCoE
CNA
• Chunklet size 1GB
• Standard rack mountable
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New Software
• 3PAR OS 3.1.2
• Peer Persistence
• Persistent Ports
• Autonomic Rebalance
• Online thin to fat and fat to thin volume
conversion
• Mixed sync/async periodic RC between two
3PAR StoreServ systems
• Web Services API
• Adaptive Optimization enhancements
• Support for Windows Space Reclamation
• Copy Offload supported on Hyper-V in
addition to VMware
• SmartStart
• Online Import between EVA and 3PAR
• Virtual Service Processor
• 3PARInfo
NEW: HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000
Effortless Tier1 Storage with Midrange Affordability

Effortless: Reduce time spent managing storage by 90%

Self-configuring, provisioning, and optimizing via autonomic management

Efficient: Reduce capacity requirements 50% - Guaranteed.

Hardware enabled thin technologies, advanced tiering, and thin persistence for both file and block data

Bulletproof: Tier 1 features now in economy size

Quad controller resiliency, multi-tenant design, and mixed workload optimization enable double VM
density

Future-proof: Grow with freedom in any direction

Upgrade controllers, processors, disks, ports and federate with HP Peer Motion for virtually limitless
scale

Tier 1 Storage at Less than

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$40K!
HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000
Modern architecture to meet the demands of todays virtualized computing environments
HP 3PAR StoreServ 7200 HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400
Industry
unique

Gen 4 Gen 4
ASIC ASIC

Controller Nodes 2 2/4

Max SFF Drives 144 240/480
Max LFF Drives 120 216/432
Cache 24 GB 32/64 GB
Max. 8GBit/s FC ports 12 = 4 (built-in) + 8 (optional) 24 = 4/8 (built-in) + 8/16 (optional)
Max. 10Gbit/s iSCSI/FCOE* 4 (optional) 4/8 (optional)
Built-in IP remote copy port 2 2/4
(can also use FC ports)

Controller Enclosure 2U with 24 SFF drive slots (2x for a 4-node 7400)
Drive Enclosure SFF drive enclosure: 24 slots in 2U
49 (can be mixed behind one controller pair) LFF drive enclosure: 24 slots in 4U
* The FCoE capability of the card will become available after product first
3PAR StoreServ Storage: One OS Midrange to
High-end

HP 3PAR F200 F400 HP 3PAR HP 3PAR HP 3PAR

StoreServ StoreServ StoreServ StoreServ
7200 7400 10400 10800
Controller nodes 2 2 2–4 2–4 2–4 2, 4, 6, 8
• Fibre Channel host ports 4 – 12 0 – 12 0 – 24 4 – 24 0 – 96 0 – 192
• Optional 1Gb iSCSI host ports N/A 0–8 0 – 16 N/A N/A N/A
• Optional 10Gb ISCSI host ports 0–4 N/A N/A 0–8 0 – 16 0 – 32
• Built-in remote copy ports 2 2 2–4 2–4 2–4 2–4
GBs control cache 16 8 8 – 16 16 – 32 32 – 64 64 – 256
GBs data cache 8 12 12 – 24 16 – 32 64 – 128 128 – 512
Disk drives 8 – 144 16 – 192 16 – 384 8 – 480 16 - 960 16 – 1,920
100/200GB SLC SSD 100/200GB SLC SSD 100/200GB SLC SSD 100/200GB SLC SSD
100/200GB SLC SSD 300/600GB 15K FC 300/600GB 15K FC 100/200GB SLC SSD 300/600GB 15K FC 300/600GB 15K FC
450/900GB10K SAS 300GB 15K SAS* 300GB 15K SAS* 450/900GB10K SAS 300GB 15K SAS* 300GB 15K SAS*
Drive types 300GB 15K SAS 450/900GB 10K SAS* 450/900GB 10K SAS* 300GB 15K SAS 450/900GB 10K SAS* 450/900GB 10K SAS*
2/3TB 7.2K SAS 1/2TB 7.2K SATA 1/2TB 7.2K SATA 2/3 TB 7.2K SAS 1/2TB 7.2K SATA 1/2TB 7.2K SATA
2TB 7.2K SAS* 2TB 7.2K SAS* 2TB 7.2K SAS* 2TB 7.2K SAS*
Maximum capacity 250TB 128TB 384TB 864TB 800TB 1.6PBs
93,050 450,212
SPC-1 Benchmark Results Planned Post GA
SPC-1 IOPS SPCI-1 IOPS
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* Uses SAS to FC
converter
What’s Changed between F400 and StoreServ
7400? HP 3PAR F400 HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400

Bus Architecture PCI-X PCIe

CPUs 1 x dual-core per node 1x 6-core per node
ASIC 1 per node 1 per node
Control cache 8 – 16 GBs 16 – 32 GBs
Data cache 12 – 24 GBs 16 – 32 GBs
FC host ports 0 – 24 x 4Gb/s FC 4 – 24 x 8Gb/s FC
iSCSI host ports 0 – 16 x 1Gb/s iSCSI 0 – 8 x 10Gb/s iSCSI
FCoE host ports NA FCoE ready
Built-in Remote Copy ports 2–4 2–4
Drive Chassis FC (3U, 16 drives) SAS SFF (2U, 24 drives); SAS LFF (4U, 24 drives)
Drive Types SSD, FC, SAS (coming), NL (SATA) SSD, SAS, NL (SAS)
Drives 16 – 384 8 – 480
Max Raw Capacity (TBs) 384 TBs 864 TBs
Rack options 2M HP 3PAR rack (36 in. depth) 2M HP G3 rack (42 in. depth)
3rd party rack 3rd party rack
Service Processor Physical SP Virtual SP (Default), Physical SP (optional)
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Customer Install/Upgrade No/No Yes/Yes (Drives, Drive Chassis)
HP 3PAR Utility Storage
Eliminating Storage Boundaries So You Can Achieve Your Goals

Built for unpredictable workloads

and multi-tenancy
Simple, efficient, and agile storage
for the Instant-On Enterprise
Leading the industry in
Storage Federation and IT-as-a-Service HP STORAGE
Storage Without Boundaries
www.hp.com/go/3PAR

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Competition
3PAR versus EMC VNX-Series
3PAR
Where 3PAR wins 3PAR is the most innovative disk array in the market today, easy to use and designed for today’s virtualized and cloud environments
over VNX with outstanding performance, state of the art thin technology and application integration
3PAR simplifies and automates
storage management by handling
storage provisioning, tiering,
Management
and change management
autonomically— without
administrator intervention.
Persistent cache minimizes
performance impact to applications
High-end resiliency and VMs from planned or
unplanned node or cache failures
Best SPC-1 score at very
Performance low price/IOPS
Virtualized architecture offering
Usable capacity distributed sparing and different
RAID levels on the same disks
End-to-end solution Part of a complete total solution
HP Restricted - for HP and HP Channel Partner Internal Use Only
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EMC VNX Why 3PAR is Better?
Two OSs and two separate patch streams.
Fully virtualized and autonomic — It is this
Despite Unisphere, management for file and
autonomic management of storage capacity
block is separate. Requires complex
that makes 3PAR so easy to manage.
MetaLUNs to wide stripe
3PAR is focused on application HA
EMC VNX still relies on dual storage
whereas VNX is still a dual controller array
controllers, leaves cache unmirrored when a
with no capability to add more controllers
storage controller fails.
and no MetroCluster or Continentalclusters
EMC avoids block benchmarks,
SPC-1 reports industry leading
uses SW RAID, and runs all array functions
performance of 450,212 at $6.59/IOPS
on same processors
Requires vault drives, reserve LUN pools,
Excellent usable capacity with no hidden
and has inefficient LUN fragmentation
issues
behaviors
EMC does not sell servers or networking Part of a fully tested and integrated
and can not offer comparable solutions end-to-end total solution
3PAR versus IBM XIV
3PAR
Where 3PAR wins 3PAR is the most innovative disk array in the market today, easy to use and designed for today’s virtualized and cloud environments
over XIV with outstanding performance, state of the art thin technology and application integration
100% reservation-less ASIC powered
thin technologies with more granular
Efficiency
chunk size along with highly efficient
autonomic storage tiering technology
Peer Motion software offers array
Converged
embedded online, non-disruptive
migration
data migration
Best SPC-1 score at very low
Performance
price/IOPS
Industry leading thin technology
Capacity utilization comes with 50% guarantee
State of art thin technology features,
Storage Tiering, multiple RAID
TCO
levels on the same disks,
and multi-tenancy capability
HP Restricted - for HP and HP Channel Partner Internal Use Only
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IBM XIV Why 3PAR is Better?
Supports only RAID 1. Inefficient thin
High efficiency by reducing SAN capacity,
provisioning which uses 17GB allocation
floor space requirements by up to 75%
size versus 3PAR’s 16KB. Does not offer
as compared to XIV
any storage tiering technology.
3PAR’s Peer Motion is an enabler for load
Uses traditional block
balancing, seamless technology refresh and
migration approach
cost optimized asset life cycle management
Slow, 7200rpm only disks. XIV is the
SPC-1 reports industry leading
only array for which IBM will not publish
performance of 450,212 at $6.59/IOPS
an SPC-1 benchmark
Only 180 drives per cabinet with Excellent usable capacity with no
maximum usable capacity of 44% hidden issues
Very poor footprint, very high power HP 3PAR offers better capacity utilization,
consumption, zero reclaim takes weeks, lower cost of floor space, higher
single RAID choice, and only performance, efficiency, and overall
7200rpm drives lower TCO than IBM XIV
3PAR versus Dell Compellent
3PAR Dell Compellent Why 3PAR is Better?
Where 3PAR wins 3PAR is the most innovative disk array in the market today, easy to use and designed for today’s virtualized and cloud environments
over Compellent with outstanding performance, state of the art thin technology and application integration

Persistent cache minimizes Focused on application HA whereas

Compellent supports up to 1232 drives
performance impact to applications Compellent is still a dual controller array
High-end resiliency behind only two controller nodes.
and VMs from planned or unplanned with no capability to add more controllers
No MetroCluster-type solution.
node or cache failures and limited focus on HA

3PAR’s custom ASIC for RAID ASIC offloads system processors,

ASIC Powered No custom ASIC and zero reclaim
and zero reclaim helping the volumes keeps performance high, does zero
Thin Technologies works for Windows only
to get thin and stay thin reclaim in place

Very inconsistent performance SPC-1 reports industry leading performance

Best SPC-1 score at very
Performance when multiple servers are attached. of 450,212 at $6.59/IOPS. 3PAR F class also
low price/IOPS
No SPC-1 published score. has a SPC-1 score of 93,050 IOPS

3PAR’s Adaptive Optimization Compellent’s Data Progression has no

Efficient Storage provides granular, policy-based fine tuning of policies, limited storage 3PAR offers autonomic storage tiering with
Tiering autonomic storage tiering with configuration, and eventually puts all flexible policies and excellent ease of use
sub-LUN data movement data on lowest tier

Scale-out architecture, persistent 3PAR has true “tier-1” array features required
Dual controller architecture targeted
Enterprise cache, scalable performance by large enterprises whereas Compellent’s
at SMB/mid-range with no persistent
Architecture and capacity, excellent 2-controller architecture only address
cache, poor performance scalability
application integration mid-range storage requirements

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3PAR versus NetApp FAS
3PAR
Where 3PAR wins 3PAR was built from the ground up for today’s virtualized and cloud environments with best-in-class thin technology,
over NetApp ease-of-management, performance, and multi-tenancy
Industry leading virtualization
Management automates provisioning, load balancing
and performance tuning
Industry’s best ‘total’ HA with
High availability
MetroCluster and Continentalclusters
Fastest architecture on the
Performance
market today
Thin technology comes with
Usable capacity
50% usable capacity guarantee
End-to-end solution Part of a complete total solution
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NetApp FAS
No load balancing, block space
reservations are a nightmare, multiple
confusing management ‘gotchas’
No comparable solutions
Inconsistent performance.
No load balancing between controllers,
software RAID.
Worst usable capacity in the industry.
Offers dedupe with many caveats
but then kills performance.
Will only quote raw capacity.
NetApp – NAS box with poor block.
Only sells Storage. Focused on NAS.
Why 3PAR is Better?
Fully virtualized and automated –
20% to 30% easier to manage than most
competitors and far, far easier than NetApp
3PAR is focused on data center class
application HA
SPC ‘s best single system performance –
40% faster than nearest competitor.
Excellent usable capacity and efficiency
for all environments with no hidden issues
Part of a fully tested and integrated
end-to-end total solution
3PAR versus EMC VMAX
3PAR VMAX Why 3PAR is Better?
Where 3PAR wins 3PAR is a tier-1 array built from the ground up for today’s virtualized and cloud environments with best-in-class thin technology,
over VMAX ease-of-management, performance, and multi-tenancy

Awkward MetaLUN striping, still uses

Industry leading virtualization Fully virtualized and automated –
binfiles from 1991 architecture.
Management automates provisioning, load balancing 20% to 30% easier to manage than most
Customers say managing VMAX ‘is like
and performance tuning competitors and far easier than VMAX
taking a beating’

Industry’s best ‘total’ HA with EMC has no comparable solutions but

High availability Focused on application HA
MetroCluster and Continentalclusters must rely on server vendors.

Estimates are that a fully loaded VMAX

Fastest architecture on the market would fall below 3PAR’s OLD SPC SPC ‘s best single system performance –
Performance today. benchmark, i.e., would be half of 40% faster than nearest competitor.
today’s 3PAR

Recovery Manager for vSphere, plug-ins for

Late with VAAI, plus major VAAI glitch
Excellent Vmware integration – first to vCenter, full VAAI, Block Zero, Full Copy.
VMware integration in May 2011. Old VMAX/Symmetrix
support VAAI Jointly developed Adaptive Queue-depth with
architecture slows implementation.
VMware, etc. 3PAR has it all

EMC does not sell servers or

Part of a fully tested and integrated
End-to-end solution Part of a complete total solution networking and can not offer
end-to-end total solution
comparable solutions.

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HP 3PAR and EMC: A Comparison
Shahin Pirooz, Executive Vice President, Chief Security Officer and Chief
Technology Officer, CenterBeam, Inc.
PERFORMANCE
“We get 10-fold or more IOPS out of a fully populated HP 3PAR array than we could get out of a fully populated equivalent EMC CLARiiON array.
This was a big reason for picking it.”
STORAGE TIERING
“One difference is that EMC claims to have an equivalent to Adaptive Optimization which they call FAST, and that FAST infrastructure never really
came to fruition. The block sizes were too big to really give us any good advantage.”
PERFORMANCE AND CAPACITY WITHOUT COMPROMISE
“One of the architectural advantages to 3PAR, aside from Adaptive Optimization, is that as storage nodes are added, IOPS and processing
capability increase,” Pirooz explains. “With the EMC system, because it’s a traditional head-unit model, more IOPS come from adding spindles,
but there’s a storage processing bottleneck with the storage controllers.”
AGILITY
“The biggest advantage with HP 3PAR technology is to be able, on-the-fly, to change the RAID architecture or the mix of high-performance and
nearline disks with zero impact to the production environment. That’s a huge cost savings.”
AUTONOMIC
“Our storage experts are rock solid. We manually grew the LUNs as needed to add disks to the storage environment. But that required going into
the application, doing maintenance, and exposing the additional disk space to the operating system to that it could take advantage of it. Changing
a partition on a Windows® platform is not a task for the weak at heart. But with 3PAR thin provisioning, there are no operating system touches that
we have to do. It doesn’t require a rocket scientist to do it on the 3PAR platform; it did on the EMC platform.”
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Summary
HP 3PAR: Enterprise Storage Leader
Execution & Vision Leader Fastest Array in the World Best in Class

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EMC Clarrion
CX3-40
25
NetApp
FAS3170

Response Time (ms)

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IBM DS8300 Turbo HP P10000

15 Oracle Sun 3PAR V800
IBM Storage 6780
Storewize HP 3PAR
Pillar Axiom
V7000
10
600 Series 3 F400 HP 3PAR
HDS AMS 2500
T800 IBM SVC (6 Node Cluster
HDS VSP with 2x DS8700)

5 HDS USP-V

IBM DS8700 Easy Tier with SSD

0
0 50,000 100,000 150,000 200,000 250,000 300,000 350,000 400,000 450,000 500,000

SPC-1 IOPS TM

Gartner Magic Quadrant for SPC-1 benchmark leadership HP 3PAR F400 ranked
midrange and high-end with HP P10000 3PAR Best in Class in DCIG 2012
modular arrays Midrange Buyers Guide

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Thank you
3PAR: Backup, Recovery and Availability
HP 3PAR Recovery Manager
Take application consistent copies
for Exchange, SQL, Oracle, for backup and quick recovery
VMware

Zero Downtime Backup utilizing

HP Data Protector 3PAR virtual copy

Disk-to-disk backup with leading

HP D2D StoreOnce de-duplication engine (Save 20x capacity)

Fully automated site failover and live

HP Cluster Extension and
migration for MS Clusters & Hyper-V
HP-UX MetroCluster for 3PAR & HP-UX

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 HP 3PAR Fast RAID Technologies
Capacity Savings without Performance Tradeoffs

Improve efficiency and further reduce

storage utilization
Fast RAID 5 performs to 90% of
traditional RAID 1 performance
Enabled by RAID XOR acceleration in
HP 3PAR Gen 4 ASIC

Fast RAID 5/6

Rapid RAID
Rebuild
Integrated XOR Engine

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