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HP's 3PAR trifecta soups up entry-level, AFAs and software

Hot new Gen-5 products leaves older Gen-4 10000 series out in the cold

StoreServ 20000

The 20000 QuickSpecs doc tells us there are three models in the family; 20450 AFA, 20800 hybrid flash/disk and the 20850 AFA, with the 20800 and 20850 being newly announced.

20800 All-Flash Starter Kit starts at $99,000 to lower the entry cost. The 20450 slots in under the 20850 AFA.

The number of controllers range from two to eight and the 20450 scales up to 6PB and 1.8 million IOPS, compared with the 20850's 3.2 million IOPS. Here is the 20000 range QuickSpecs table:

20000_Quickspecs_table

HP 3PAR StoreServ 2000 QuickSpecs table

Both the StoreServ 8000 and 20000 flash arrays are certified for SAP HANA Tailored Data Center Integration (TDI).

StoreServ 10000

The StoreServ 10000 is now the oldest member of the 3PAR family and uses an older Gen-4 ASIC. There is no all-flash configuration of this product, such as a 10450. According to its QuickSpecs, the 8400's 2400TiB raw capacity exceeds the 10400 model's 4.84-1600TiB range and the 8440's 3000TiB almost matches the 10800's 4.84-3200TiB range maximum.

With the 8000 series using the newer Gen-5 ASIC and doubling 7000 series' performance, this leaves us wondering how much of a future the 10000 series product has. Before June this year, the StoreServ family comprised the 7000 and 10000 products.

Now we have the Gen-5 ASIC refresh, as we might call it, with the 8000 and 20000 forming a natural pair, so to speak, and the 10000 looking, well, old hat.

3PAR OS enhancements

The big news here is adding a latency quality of service (QoS) target:

  • Priority Optimisation lets admins specify latency goals down to 0.5 milliseconds to ensure consistent service levels in multi-tenant environments
  • 3PAR StoreServ powered by StoreOnce Recovery Manager Central for VMware (RMC-V)"delivers 17x faster VM protection by taking application-consistent snapshots on the HP 3PAR StoreServ array, then automatically copying changed blocks directly to any HP StoreOnce appliance"
  • RMC-V gets vSphere 6.0 VVOLs support plus more granular recovery of individual VMs and files
  • SmartSAN for StoreServ "uses Express Provisioning technology to orchestrate SAN (Fibre Channel) fabric zoning autonomically, reducing the number of steps required to provision a SAN by 80 per cent"
  • Other StoreServ enhancements reduce iSCSI latency and add support for iSCSI VLAN tagging. These new iSCSI features lower "total storage networking infrastructure acquisition costs by $25,000 or more"
  • The File Persona software has been enhanced to support larger unstructured data applications. Get a datasheet here.

Pricing and availability

The StoreServ 8000s are available and orderable worldwide. US street pricing starts at $19,479 (HP 3PAR StoreServ 8200, 6 480GB cMLC SSD drives, base operating system).

The 20800 All-Flash Starter Kit with 2 controllers, 8 x 480GB cMLC SSD drives and three years of Proactive Care 24x7 support is available worldwide, orderable September 2015 with US street pricing starting at $99,995.

The 20450 All-Flash Arrays are available worldwide, orderable immediately with US street pricing starting from $85,167.

Priority Optimisation is available worldwide as part of the 3PAR Data Optimisation Suite, starting at $1,210.

Smart SAN 1.0 is available worldwide, licensed on a per-system basis, starting at $200 for HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 and 8000 models.

RMC-V 1.2 will be available worldwide in October 2015 and is licensed per-array, starting at US $2,500. ®

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