HPE Pushes All-Flash Solutions

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced storage portfolio enhancements to help enterprises capture the benefits of an all-flash data center while shielding them from risk.

 3PAR 20840

Offerings include:
3PAR 20840 converged flash array
StoreOnce 5500 and multi-node 6600 data protection
Get thinner guarantee

Through consolidation, cost reduction, and greater performance, the all-flash data center can reduce IT budgets by one-third while improving business agility. ⁽¹⁾ To safely and securely realize these benefits at scale, enterprises and service providers require a tier-1 flash storage architecture that delivers multi-protocol support and advanced data protection.

Over the past year, the company has refreshed its entire flash-optimized 3PAR storage portfolio, set multiple industry performance records, and emerged as the only major storage vendor to achieve year-over-year market share growth over eight consecutive quarters. ⁽²⁾ The newest member of the 3PAR family, the 3PAR 20840 storage array is a high performing, ⁽³⁾ scalable ⁽⁴⁾ converged flash array. To help enterprises avoid risks that come with infrastructure consolidation, the 20840 offers secure multi-tenancy and tight integration with the fast and scalable data protection system, the StoreOnce 6600. ⁽⁵⁾

“The all-flash data center requires an architecture that is flash-first, not flash-limited,” said Manish Goel, SVP and GM, storage, HPE. “3PAR is the only flash platform capable of delivering enterprise flash without compromise. This is why we’ve outpaced market growth and taken share from every major competitor.“

Performance, workload support and scalability to 21 PB
Scaling out to eight controller nodes and built to supply ‘six-nines’ uptime, the 3PAR StoreServ 20840 is for those consolidating multiple racks of legacy, high-end storage for CAPEX and OPEX savings. The system delivers up to 21PB of usable capacity ⁽⁶⁾ and up to 3.2 million random-read IO/s with throughput ⁽⁷⁾ while consuming up to 85% less space, power, and cooling than traditional high-end arrays like EMC Corp. VMAX. ⁽⁸⁾ The system’s scalability, compact footprint, and performance increase business agility by accelerating performance-hungry workloads and mission-critical applications for 23% lower price than competing all-flash arrays. ⁽⁹⁾

As a converged flash array, the mixed media and multi-protocol support delivered by the 20840 provide the flexibility to consolidate block and file workloads for greater space and cost savings. With the now more scalable 3PAR File Persona ⁽¹⁰⁾ and 8TB nearline drives, the 20840 can provide affordable flash-adjacent archiving suited to less active data on the same system running applications on flash drives. This allows for space, power, cooling, and management overhead savings.

3PAR StoreServ 8450 4-node storage base

For customers who don’t need the massive scale of the 3PAR 20000 family, the firm recently published SPC-1 results for the 3PAR 8450 that demonstrate the platform’s value, earning it the #1 position in terms of SPC-1 price-performance as ranked against all other external drive arrays, delivering a cost of just $0.23 per SPC-1 IOP. ⁽¹¹⁾

Application and flash integrated data protection at half the cost
To reduce the risks of all-flash consolidation, the company also announced a range of enterprise StoreOnce systems that protect service levels in even the largest and most flash-centric environments.

StoreOnce systems

The StoreOnce lineup offers 2x the scalability, 3x greater performance, and half-the cost than comparable EMC Data Domain systems.⁽¹²⁾ Built for the needs of the all-flash datacenter, the StoreOnce 5500 and multi-node 6600 offer ease of integration, flexible connectivity, application-centric backup, and the ability to perform flat backup directly from 3PAR Storage. The integration with 3PAR via StoreOnce Recovery Manager Central software enables enterprises to protect data directly from within applications like Vmware and SQL up to 17x faster and restore data 5x faster than traditional backup. ⁽¹³⁾

The StoreOnce 5500 helps enterprises meet the most stringent recovery time and recovery point objectives even in massively consolidated environments by enabling 33% faster backup than competitive systems and scalability up to 864TB – almost twice the capacity of the nearest competitor. ⁽¹⁴⁾ With a cost of $0.02 per GB of logical capacity, ⁽¹⁵⁾ the 5500 is a solution for affordable, application-centric data protection that gives administrators greater control, flexibility, and productivity.

The scale-out HPE StoreOnce 6600 is a fast and scalable data protection solution, designed for the largest and most mission-critical tier-1 environments ⁽¹⁶⁾. With features such as multi-node resiliency and autonomic restart capabilities, the 6600 is capable of protecting up to 1.7PB of data at up to 184TB/hour, which is 3x faster and twice the scale of the closest competitor. ⁽¹⁷⁾

75% less capacity and zero guesswork – guaranteed
The Get Thinner Guarantee program offers a free, up-front workload assessment and a written assurance of as much as 75% capacity savings ⁽¹⁸⁾ that removes guesswork in migrating from legacy storage onto all-flash 3PAR arrays.

The program, which now includes savings from 3PAR Thin Deduplication, uses specialized, big data assessment tools to determine the amount of capacity reduction that a customer can expect to see by migrating to a 3PAR all-flash array. The program uses these results to offer an individualized, written guarantee of customer capacity savings.

With this program, the company offers a strong assurance of capacity reduction, backed by a written contract.⁽¹⁹⁾ Participation does not require any professional services and features the fastest ASIC-based array migration tool on the market, 3PAR Online Import software, which allows company’s customers and partners to move from EMC, HDS, and IBM storage to all-flash HPE 3PAR Storage.

Pricing and availability: ⁽²⁰⁾

• The 3PAR 20840 storage systems are available worldwide, orderable and shipping immediately with a US street price starting at $147,000, Supporting 1,920 drives (up to 1,024 SSDs) and 15PB usable; support for 2,304 drives (up to 1,152 SSDs) and 21PB usable supported as of 2H2016.

• The 8TB 7,200rpm nearline SAS drives are available worldwide, orderable and shipping from March 29th 2016 with a US street price starting at $1,705.

• The 3PAR Get Thinner Program is available worldwide for new sales of 3PAR 8000 and 20000 Storage Systems.

• The StoreOnce 5500 will be available worldwide from 31st March 2016 with a US street price starting at $35,100.

• The StoreOnce 6600 will be available worldwide from 31st March 2016 with a US street price starting at $75,000.

⁽¹⁾ The IT Benefits of an All-Flash Data Center by David Floyer, Wikibon, March 23, 2015.
⁽²⁾ Based on external storage revenue share year-over-year growth among top six vendors. IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker from Q413 to Q315.
⁽³⁾ Based on SPC-2 results for the 20840.
⁽⁴⁾ Based on HPE analysis of publicly available data as of March 2016.
⁽⁵⁾ Based on HPE analysis of publicly available data as of March 2016. StoreOnce 6600 has a maximum backup speed of 184TB/hr. and scalability up to 1728TB of usable capacity as compared to EMC Data Domain 9500 (currently positioned by EMC as the fastest and most scalable backup system in the industry), which has a maximum backup speed of 58.7TB/hr. and maximum scalability of 864TB usable.
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⁽⁷⁾ Max capacity supported using 8TB drives as of 2H2016.
⁽⁸⁾ Based on SPC-2 results.
⁽⁹⁾ As compared to EMC VMAX 400K with 12PB (representing a mix of 90% HDDs and 10% SSDs).
⁽¹⁰⁾ As compared to an EMC XtremIO All Flash Array with 4, 20TB X-bricks.
⁽¹¹⁾ As of February 2016 total capacity supported by HPE File Persona 512TB for an 8 node system.
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⁽¹³⁾ Based on HPE analysis of publicly available data and U.S. list pricing. StoreOnce 6600 can back up data at 184TB/hr with StoreOnce Catalyst as compared to EMC Data Domain 9500, which can backup data at 58.7TB/hr with Data Domain Boost. StoreOnce 6600 can scale up to 1728TB capacity as compared to Data Domain 9500, which scales up to 864TB of usable capacity. DD specifications. See.
⁽¹⁴⁾ Based on HP internal testing, Nov. 2014.
⁽¹⁵⁾ Based on HPE analysis of publicly available information. StoreOnce 5500 with Catalyst can backup data at 37.7TB/hr whereas Data Domain 7200 with Data Domain Boost can backup data at 28.3TB/hr. StoreOnce 5500 can scale up to 864TB of usable capacity whereas Data Domain 7200 can scale up to 428TB of usable capacity. Data Domain specifications.
⁽¹⁶⁾ Based on US street price calculation for a fully configured StoreOnce 5500 and applying 20:1 dedupe ratio for logical capacity.
⁽¹⁷⁾ Based on HPE analysis of publicly available data as of March 2016.
⁽¹⁸⁾ Based on internal testing and HPE analysis of publicly available information for the EMC Data Domain 9500.
⁽¹⁹⁾ Per the terms and conditions of the Get Thinner Guarantee program.
⁽²⁰⁾ Based on HPE analysis of publicly available data.
⁽²¹⁾ Estimated U.S. street prices. Actual prices may vary.