Hewlett-Packard is expanding its range of
enterprise storage with full flash bay promising to combine performance and
software features 3PAR.The race for the primary flash storage intensifies with the arrival of the leading manufacturers in the market. If precursors as XtremIO, Violin Memory, Pure Storage, Nimbus Data SolideFire or were unsheathed the first, they were joined this year by EMC, NetApp and Dell. Still missing from this promising market, HP rectifies with the announcement of the 3PAR array StoreServ 7450. Introduced by Dave Donatelli, executive vice president at HP, during the Discover 2013 event in Las Vegas, the flash storage solution has of course been detailed by David Scott, the former CEO of 3PAR, now in charge of the HP storage business. The leader presents the flash platform as a solution without compromise, but a little digging we finally learn that the bay supports replication, snapshots, thin provisioning on - the specialty of 3PAR - primary data deduplication, but not compression.
HP, like many others besides, having trouble reconciling performance and compression, and even working at the ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit). Compression is in the pipes HP labs, but it is not yet available. The StoreServ 7450 however includes software functionality to move data between the cache and flash drives. The controller built into each 3PAR ASIC also accelerates network functions.
Flattering performance SLC
Designed from scratch, the 7450 Bay announces flattering performance: 554,000 IOPS (input / output operations per second) and a latency of 0.7 seconds. Josh Price, the architect who designed the bay, came on stage to explain the basic features include a software optimization to prioritize certain tasks related to applications. One can indeed spread IO across multiple applications with real quality of service. Another interesting feature data encryption. SSDs deliver data faster than hard drives and can improve the latency, even in the storage arrays that were not originally developed for flash systems. Only problem, bottlenecks appear quickly on these systems, which is why HP has gone from zero to its 7450 bay. Improvements developed for the flash platform will also be available to other 3PAR arrays.
Moved from 99,000 $ HT, the 3PAR
array StoreServ 7450 finally allows HP to battle with its main competitors.
The StoreServ 7450 can be configured with SSD with a capacity of 100 or 200 GB based on SLC (Single Level Cell) technology or SSD 400GB MLC operating components (Multi Level Cell). With 240 players, the maximum storage capacity thus reached 96 TB clients who demand the best performance SSD SLC will use, but it is likely that most will use MLC due to its low more reasonable. Dave Scott told us a base price of about 99,000 $ before tax.
The StoreServ 7450 can be configured with SSD with a capacity of 100 or 200 GB based on SLC (Single Level Cell) technology or SSD 400GB MLC operating components (Multi Level Cell). With 240 players, the maximum storage capacity thus reached 96 TB clients who demand the best performance SSD SLC will use, but it is likely that most will use MLC due to its low more reasonable. Dave Scott told us a base price of about 99,000 $ before tax.
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