HPE 3PAR Thin Conversion Software

Drives up Storage Efficiency

With HPE 3PAR Thin Conversion Software, a technology refresh no longer requires a terabyte-for-terabyte replacement but instead offers the opportunity to shrink capacity requirements simply and rapidly.

Leverages the HPE 3PAR Gen3 ASIC and Thin Engine—a unique virtualization mapping engine for space reclamation—to drive the simple and rapid conversion of inefficient, “fat” volumes on legacy arrays to higher utilization volumes on any HPE 3PAR Storage System.

Effectively “thins” legacy storage volumes to 50 percent of their original size or less by while preserving service levels and without impacting production workloads.

Enables customers that did not start thin by deploying thin provisioning from the outset to leverage the inherent efficiencies of thin provisioning by becoming thin, both simply and cost-efficiently.

Helps reduce capacity costs as volumes are consolidated in conjunction with data center virtualization; as VMware Storage vMotion migrates data from legacy systems, Thin Conversion maps out deleted space from old virtual machines to save more space for new and growing applications.

Quick and Easy Deployment

With HPE 3PAR Thin Conversion Software, hardware-accelerated conversion dramatically reduces volume migration timeline from months to hours.

Does not require special host software or professional services.

Allows customers undergoing a storage refresh to reduce data center environmental impact by migrating from legacy arrays to hyper-efficient, next-gen storage.

Simple three-step process involves using existing volume manager or file system to zero out deleted data before activating Thin Conversion on the HPE 3PAR Storage System and then using Thin Conversion to initiate automated migration of legacy volumes to the new array.