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HP deed-poll drama: MORE new names for storage kiddies

Isn't this getting a bit confusing?

Posted in Storage, 6th November 2012 18:03 GMT

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HP is currently rebranding its storage arrays as StoreSomething [1] and the HP X9000 IBRIX scale-out filers are looking to become HP's StoreAll product line, with the 3PAR block arrays becoming StoreServs.

The company has already announced the StoreOnce, StoreVirtual [2] and StoreEasy brands. It looks as if there are going to be more shortly.

StoreAll

There is an HP Support Document [3] which discusses a possible system hang when a file system is created or expanded. It lists the possible affected hardware and the list includes these products:

AW549A (HP IBRIX X9700 Performance Chassis: Standard HP Product),
AW549B (HP IBRIX X9700 Performance Chassis: Standard HP Product),
QZ728A (HP IBRIX X9730 Base Rack: Standard HP Product),
QZ729A (HP IBRIX X9730 Performance Chassis: Standard HP Product),
QZ729B (HP IBRIX X9730 Performance Chassis: Standard HP Product),
QZ730A (HP IBRIX X9730 140TB 2TB 7.2K LFF MDL Storage and Performance Module: Standard HP Product),
QZ731A (HP IBRIX X9730 210TB 3TB 7.2K LFF MDL Storage and Performance Module: Standard HP Product),
QZ731B (HP IBRIX X9730 210TB 3TB 7.2K LFF MDL Storage and Performance Module: Standard HP Product),
QZ732A (HP StoreAll* 9730 140TB LFF 2TB 7.2K MDL 6Gb Storage Couplet: Standard HP Product),
QZ733A (HP StoreAll* 9730 210TB LFF 3TB 7.2K MDL 6Gb Storage Couplet: Standard HP Product)

Then there are some HP job ads which mention Ibrix and StoreAll. Clicking on their links gets us nowhere - the jobs have been filled or have disappeared - but we have the Google search page which mentions the StoreAll word and here it is:

HP job Ads mentioning Ibrix and StoreAll

So El Reg hazards a guess that HP Ibrix X9000 arrays are going to become StoreAll arrays. Pity... we'd have liked the StoreBrix moniker.

This leaves a question though: how will HP rebrand its 3PAR range? StoreBlocks? StoreSAN? StoreThin?

StoreServ

We reckon it could be StoreServ. Have a look at this HP document [4] called Quick Specs - HP VirtualSystem for VMware.

Section 6 on page 2 looks like this:

There it is: HP 3PAR StoreServ.

THe next page of the document has HP StoreServe co-existing with 3PAR F- and V-class arrays.

Page 10 identifies StoreServ 7400 products, mentioning a 4-port 8G FCA item, replication and reporting items as well. ®

*El Reg's emphasis.