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Thin Built In ASIC
With the introduction of the revolutionary, zero-detection capable HP 3PAR ASIC in all HP P10000 3PAR, F-Class and T-Class Storage Systems, HP 3PAR Utility Storage is the first platform to offer storage with Thin Built In. This technology provides an efficient, ASIC-based mechanism for converting traditional "fat" volumes from other platforms to more efficient "thin" volumes on HP 3PAR arrays. This hardware innovation boosts capacity utilization by removing allocated but unused space and is guaranteed to reduce your capacity requirements by 50% or more.
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» HP Thin Conversion Software Brief
» HP 3PAR Thin Technologies Brief
Reservationless, Dedicate-on-write Provisioning
HP 3PAR Utility Storage takes a reservationless, dedicate-on-write approach to thin provisioning that enables the platform’s thin software applications to draw and configure capacity in fine-grained increments from a single free space reservoir without prededication of any kind. Other vendors claim to offer thin provisioning but actually require separate thin provisioning pools for each data service level. These pools are really just silos of allocated-but-unused capacity that can require manual setup, provisioning, and management that impacts thin provisioning ROI and flexibility.
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» HP 3PAR Thin Technologies Brief
» HP 3PAR Virtual Domains Software Brief
Fine-grained Virtualization and Wide Striping
On HP 3PAR Storage Systems, fine-grained virtualization divides each physical disk into granular allocation units, or chunklets, each of which can be independently assigned and dynamically reassigned to virtual volumes of different QoS levels. This fine-grained virtualization unit means that each disk drive can support many QoS levels, so the system can make the most efficient use of physical assets. Writes are striped widely across all system resources (controllers, cache, disks, and loops), enabling the system to deliver both high capacity utilization and high performance levels, simultaneously. Even the smallest volume can leverage the performance of 50 or 100 disk drives and all of the system’s clustered Controller Nodes for optimal performance without compromising utilization.
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» HP 3PAR Utility Storage Product Brochure
Persistent Cache
Persistent Cache is a unique feature that eliminates performance impacts resulting from unplanned component failures, making it a "must-have" for maintaining service levels in the virtual data center. This resiliency feature was designed to gracefully handle component failures by eliminating the performance penalties associated with "write-through" mode. A feature of all quad-node and larger HP 3PAR Storage Systems, Persistent Cache leverages the array’s unique Mesh-Active design to preserve write-caching by rapidly re-mirroring cache to other Controller Nodes in the cluster in the event of a failure.
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» HP 3PAR Utility Storage Product Brochure
Mesh-Active Controller Design
All HP 3PAR Storage Systems feature a unique Mesh-Active design as part of a next-generation architecture designed for virtual and cloud data centers. Unlike legacy "active-active" controller architectures — where each volume is active on only a single controller — this Mesh-Active design allows each volume to be active on every controller in the system. The result is robust, load-balanced performance and greater headroom for cost-effective scalability that is designed to overcome the tradeoffs associated with modular and monolithic storage systems. A high-speed, full-mesh, passive system backplane joins multiple Controller Nodes to form a cache-coherent, active-active cluster that represents the next generation of Tier 1 Storage.
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» HP 3PAR Utility Storage Product Brochure
Mixed Workload Support
The HP 3PAR Architecture features mixed workload support that enables transaction- and throughput-intensive workloads to run without contention on a single HP 3PAR Storage System without manual segregation of workloads to different physical resources. This capability is a key enabler of multitenancy and eliminates the need to purchase and maintain separate arrays to support individual applications. The resulting alleviation of data center sprawl can reduce storage footprint by 50% or more.
Mixed workload support is achieved through parallelizing data movement and metadata processing within each Controller Node. While data movement is handled by the HP 3PAR Thin Built In ASIC and Data Cache, metadata processing happens in the Intel® Xenon processors and system Control Cache. This design delivers simultaneously high transaction levels and throughput-intensive performance within a single, multitenant storage system.
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» HP 3PAR Utility Storage Product Brochure
» HP 3PAR Virtual Domains Software Brief
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