Storage

Does your data center involve complex, heterogeneous storage networking components where trouble shooting is very resource intensive?

HPE Intelligent Infrastructure Analyzer Software is an online monitoring and diagnostic product intended to manage the physical layer of a data center. It enables users to diagnose changes in Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) transceiver characteristics and can be used to detect potential failures in the SAN for root cause analysis and failure impact assessment. Diagnosing SAN issues can be exceedingly time-consuming and there is a tremendous need to isolate and resolve problems quickly—in a matter of minutes or hours as opposed to days or weeks. HPE Intelligent Infrastructure Analyzer Software improves the total datacenter quality experience by predicting optical link failures and helps reduce costs incurred due to application downtime.

Do you want to implement a shared, federated IT infrastructure across your data centers?

HPE 3PAR Peer Persistence Software allows you to break the boundaries of storage, enabling your hosts, and data to move freely across data centers without impacting your business applications. Implement a true cloud solution, where storage resources are shared across data centers, and are not constrained by their physical boundaries.

Peer Persistence enables 3PAR StoreServ systems located at metropolitan distances to act as peers to each other, presenting a nearly continuous storage system to hosts and servers connected to them. This capability, certified for vMSC environments, allows customers to configure a high-availability solution between two sites or data centers where switchover and switchback remains transparent to the hosts and applications running on those hosts. This secures business continuity without impacting performance and enables load balancing across systems and sites.

Every day, your organization faces challenges. Why should file storage be one of them?

If you need an easy-to-manage centralized space for securely storing documents, images, audio, and video files, look no further than HPE StoreEasy 1000 Storage with the HPE StoreEasy Management Console. HPE StoreEasy 1000 Storage offers flexible, efficient, and reliable file storage, right-sized for your organization’s needs and budget, without compromising on quality or capabilities. It is available in a diverse range of form factors, capacities, and performance options, and can help you get more out of your investment while you protect your indispensable digital assets in an evolving threat landscape. With that in mind, the HPE StoreEasy Management Console provides a new simplified management experience developed by HPE that consolidates multiple interfaces, automates storage tasks, and centralizes monitoring. Now you can spend less time on your file storage and more time on your business..

Want to better manage your secondary data?

The Cohesity solution available through HPE Complete, provides a converged web-scale data management platform that consolidates all secondary workloads, including storage and data services onto one unified, efficient solution. The majority of enterprise data consists of secondary data: backups, files, objects, test copies, and analytics data. It is fragmented across a patchwork of appliances, which typically include deduplication, backup servers, filers, and data lakes. Managing secondary storage is complex with data copied and stored across silos which results in excessive cost of ownership. This solution simplifies data protection, consolidates file and object services, provides instant access to test/dev copies, and supports in-place search and analytics. This converged platform coupled with HPE ProLiant platforms provides a holistic solution that advances user operations, enhances reliability and radically reduces cost and complexity.

HPE XP Thin Provisioning Software reduces the cost, accelerates the return on investment and reduces the environmental impact of your HPE XP24000 and XP20000 Disk Arrays. It allows you to supply disk storage capacity to your applications from a pool of virtualized storage. By enabling you to allocate your anticipated future storage capacity needs from virtual disk storage, HPE XP Thin Provisioning Software reduces the amount of physical disk capacity initially required. As utilization of disk space increases over time, you can purchase more disk capacity as it is needed and install it without affecting your applications. HPE XP Thin Provisioning Software reduces your initial storage acquisition cost, and reduces total cost of ownership, by allowing you to defer some storage purchases to a later date. Configure large logical volumes using a minimum of physical capacity, only paying for and installing storage when it is needed.

HPE XP for FlashCopy Mirroring Software enhances data availability for mainframe data and improves productivity by providing IBM FlashCopy compatible point-in-time copies within an HPE XP Disk Array. As soon as a copy is created, it becomes available for use. The copy can be either virtual or physical. If a virtual copy is specified, it remains a pointer-based copy that only saves the changes from the original. However, if a physical copy is specified, a full copy will be completed in the background while both the source and the copy remain available for access.

For additional availability, FlashCopy can be combined with Hitachi ShadowImage for Mainframe, Hitachi TrueCopy for Mainframe, Hitachi Universal Replicator for Mainframe, and HPE XP for Compatible Extended Remote Copy.

HPE XP for Business Continuity Manager Software enhances productivity by centralizing and simplifying management of XP disk array local and remote replication functionality in mainframe environments. Business Continuity Manager manages Hitachi ShadowImage for Mainframe, Hitachi TrueCopy for Mainframe, Hitachi TrueCopy Async for Mainframe, and Hitachi Universal Replicator for Mainframe. By automating configuration and disaster recovery tasks, Business Continuity Manger reduces human error, saves time, and improves data availability. For additional efficiency, Business Continuity Manager provides a scripting capability and group control commands, allowing administrators to manage multiple volumes easily. Through a linkage with HPE XP Replication Monitor Software, mainframe replication information can be displayed by HPE XP Command View Advanced Edition Software.

HPE XP for Compatible Extended Remote Copy (XRC) Software provides disaster protection and data migration capability for data stored on an HPE XP Disk Array by implementing IBM mainframe compatible asynchronous remote replication. XRC provides the same functionality as IBM Extended Remote Copy (now called IBM TotalStorage z/OS Global Mirror), and is compatible with System Data Mover (SDM) mainframe software. When data is written to the local XP disk array, XRC temporarily stores a timestamped copy of it in a sidefile. SDM in one of the mainframe hosts asynchronously reads the sidefile data from the local XP disk array and then writes the data to the remote disk array.
XRC can be combined with other XP disk array replication products for additional availability. When combined with Hitachi TrueCopy for Mainframe, XRC supports 3 Data Center disaster recovery solutions.

HPE XP for Compatible Parallel Access Volumes Software (PAV) and HPE XP for Compatible Hyper PAV Software enable high performance concurrent access of mainframe volumes by permitting a mainframe host system to issue multiple I/O requests in parallel to individual logical devices within the HPE XP Disk Array. Without PAV, mainframe systems can initiate only one I/O request per device at a time, and must wait for the I/O to complete before starting another I/O request to the same device. By utilizing alias addresses that all point to the same device as the base address, PAV enables the host system to start several I/O requests simultaneously to the same device, thus greatly improving performance.

The XP Disk Array supports static PAV, dynamic PAV, and Hyper PAV. With static PAV, the number of aliases assigned to each base device does not change. With dynamic PAV, high workload base devices can borrow idle PAV aliases from other base devices, increasing their I/O capability.

HPE EVA Dynamic Capacity Management Software (DCM) provides a comprehensive solution that automates storage provisioning and improves capacity utilization for the HPE Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) family. DCM Software uses advanced automation to “right-size” the supported file system and the EVA virtual disk (Vdisk) storage volume to the needs of an application. This dramatically improves capacity utilization by allowing the administrator to simply specify a capacity utilization range for each Vdisk.

Configuring EVA DCM Software policies takes just seconds with its effortless wizards and advanced automation. The simple "set and forget" provisioning not only reduces the resource cost of ongoing storage provisioning, but also allows for the potential postponement of additional capacity purchases due to increased storage utilization. This reduces the operational costs of powering and cooling unnecessary storage while lowering the enterprise's carbon footprint.