HP 3PAR F-Class Storage Systems
Purchase 50% fewer systems. Reduce capacity, power, cooling, and the floor space by up to 75%. Increase administrative efficiency by up to tenfold. Your results may vary—all without compromising performance, scalability, or availability.
Overview
Features
- Mesh-Active controller technology autonomically distributes volumes across a total of up to four Controller Nodes, concurrently applying all node resources to each volume to deliver load-balanced performance and greater scalability headroom than dual-controller arrays.
- Mixed workload support eliminates the large impact that sequential workloads (like data mining or backups) can have on transactional workloads (such as database operations), thus enabling customers to consolidate data for both types of applications onto a single midrange array.
- Works with optional HP 3PAR Virtual Domains Software, the first and only storage hypervisor-like technology on the market, to support multiple tenants on a single consolidated array without compromising security or performance.
- Support for multiple drive types enables clients to achieve an optimal balance of price and performance for multiple tiers of data within a single, cost-efficient, mid-range array.
- Reduce Capacity, Power, Cooling, and Floor Space Requirements by up to 75 Percent
- Support for the same wide striping technology used by all HP 3PAR arrays delivers high levels of capacity utilization to reduce physical capacity purchases, storage footprint, power usage, and cooling needs without compromising performance.
- Works with optional 3PAR Virtual Copy Software, a reservationless, copy-on-write thin technology, to reduce the capacity associated with frequent disk-based snapshots and create virtual copies that can be mounted and used instantly.
- Fast RAID 5 boosts RAID 5 performance to within 10% of RAID 1 but with significantly less capacity overhead; Fast RAID 6 (RAID MP) delivers enhanced protection while maintaining performance levels within 15% of RAID 10 and with capacity overheads comparable to popular RAID 5 modes.
- Reduce Storage Administration Time by up to 90 Percent
- The HP 3PAR Inform Operating System Software relieves administrators of tedious manual administration through autonomic provisioning and management; optional HP 3PAR Thin Provisioning Software eliminates array planning by enabling storage to be provisioned once for the lifetime of an application.
- The simple, unified HP 3PAR Management Console and extremely powerful and scriptable Command Line Interface (CLI) offer industry-leading ease of use, including the ability to configure multi-mode, multi-site disaster recovery in minutes using a more economical mixture of T-Class and F-Class arrays.
- Integration with HP CloudSystem and HP BladeSystem Matrix provide a simplified way to provision and scale storage for public and private cloud environments.
- Optional HP 3PAR Virtual Domains Software enables IT organizations to deliver customized, secure, and even “self-service” storage to multiple administrators, applications, departments, or user groups.
Specifications
| Ideal For |
Mid-range storage customers that have been conditioned to compromise infrastructure scalability and availability to meet tight IT budgets |
| Drive Description |
LFF Fibre Channel/SATA/SSD Supported |
| Drive Type |
300 GB 15K Fibre Channel 600 GB 15K Fibre Channel 1 TB 3G 7.2K LFF SATA 2 TB 3G 7.2K LFF SATA 50 GB Solid State Disk 100 GB Solid State Disk 200 GB Solid State Disk (384) Maximum, depending on model. None included |
| Capacity |
384 TB Maximum, depending on model. None included |
| Host Interface |
4 Gb Fibre Channel (24) Ports or 1 Gb iSCSI (16) Ports Maximum, depending on model. None included |
| Type and Number of Disk Enclosures |
(24) 3PAR 16-drive chassis Maximum, depending on model. None included |
| Drives per Enclosure |
16 Maximum |
| Cache |
24 GB Data Cache maximum, depending on model 16 GB Control cache maximum, depending on model |
| Storage Controller |
(4) 3PAR 2.33GHz F-Class Controller Node Maximum, depending on model |
| Supported Operating Systems |
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Microsoft Windows Hyper-V Oracle Enterprise Linux HP-UX Citrix XenServer Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) IBM AIX Egenera PAN Manager NetApp Data ONTAP ONStor EverON Oracle Solaris VMware ESX and ESXi SSH is supported for CLI. InForm CIM API and SNMP are also supported |
| Availability |
Redundant power supplies and fans Redundant batteries A minimum of dual redundant controllers RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID MP for data protection High availability cage and high availability magazine |
| Warranty (parts-labor-onsite) |
3/3/3 |
