Storage

Do you need to assure quality of service for mission critical applications?

HPE 3PAR Priority Optimization Software enables service levels for applications and workloads as business requirements dictate. Provision storage performance as you provision storage capacity. Create SLAs to protect mission critical applications in enterprise environments by assigning a minimum goal for I/O per second, bandwidth and latency. Performance for that specific tenant or application is assured. Or assign performance caps on workloads with lower service level requirements. Enable predictability for all applications and tenants.

Configure service level objectives on a Virtual Volume Set or between different Virtual Domains. A Virtual Volume Set may contain a single volume or multiple volumes. A Virtual Volume may also belong to multiple Virtual Volume Sets allowing users to create hierarchical rules. All host I/O on the VVset is monitored and measured against the Service Level objective.

Does your data storage capacity outstrip your backup, disaster-recovery, and archive capability? Spectra T950 Tape Library combines field-proven reliability with storage innovation and gives you access to a full suite of enterprise storage capabilities. It delivers powerful library management, superior and proactive data integrity administration, and the outstanding total cost of ownership (TCO) for any tape solution. Once data expands beyond the limits of your initial Spectra T950 Tape Library configurations, you simply add expansion frames to keep growing. Storage can expand up to 120 drives and 10,020 Linear Tape-Open (LTO) slots (7,614 enterprise slots) in eight frames. With versatile built-in BlueScale software interface, you have intelligent command, control, and data integrity functionality at the touch of a screen. Spectra T950 Tape Library, with its compact footprint, is installed in many organizations worldwide to meet their backup, archive, and deep storage requirements.

Does your data storage capacity outstrip your backup, disaster recovery, and archive capability?

The Spectra TFinity ExaScale Tape Library delivers up to 2.53 exabytes (EB) of proven storage density packaged in a small footprint and offers scalability and speed to meet the requirements of the most demanding environments. Additional flexibility is provided through support of mixed media, both Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Technology and TS11xx technology, in the same library. Customers can also access and migrate data from legacy Oracle® T10000 media to both technologies. Using LTO technology, it can expand from 50 to 56,400 slots for 2.5 EB of compressed data. Using TS1170 technology, the library can expand from 45 to 42,930 slots for 6.45 EB of compressed data. The tape library can support up to 144 drives with transfer rates of 207.4 TB/hr (466.6 TB/hr compressed) using LTO-9 or support up to 144 drives with transfer rates of 207.4 TB/hr (466.6 TB/hr compressed) using TS1170 technology.

How do you become an end-to-end expert on the complete contents and topology of any data center?
As storage environments get larger and more complex, the IT manager has a more difficult time understanding their environment. This makes them reluctant to invest further in their infrastructure.

By using the Arxscan Arxview Software, the IT manager proactively recognizes when and what additional infrastructure investments are needed. Arxscan Arxview Software delivered through the HPE Complete program brings the information needed to analyze and report on the data center together in one light-weight, inexpensive, and easy-to-use solution that lets you know where you stand. Meaningful and feature-rich reporting also drives the power to provide up-to-date information in both high-level management views and detailed administrator grids on virtually every storage metric.

What good are thin provisioning savings if they can’t be preserved over time?

An industry first, HPE 3PAR Thin Persistence Software means that thin volumes on the HPE 3PAR Storage System stay as lean and efficient as possible by leveraging the HPE 3PAR Gen3 ASIC to reclaim unused space associated with deleted data—simply, quickly, and non-disruptively. Writing and deleting large amounts of data can leave unused space within thin volumes. Even lots of small writes and deletions can eventually reduce the efficiency of thin volumes. This logical deletion of data without actually freeing up unused space creates a hidden utilization penalty that can really add up over time. HPE 3PAR Thin Persistence Software reclaims this unused space to increase capacity efficiency, keep costs down, and help defer the purchase of additional capacity to handle new data growth. Thin Persistence also helps enterprises maintain sustainability targets by keeping down data center power and cooling needs.

As organizations continue to transform and adopt hybrid cloud, how do you ensure that your workloads are secure from cyberattacks? You need HPE Solutions with Commvault – the unified cyber resilience solution that simplifies data security and recovery across hybrid cloud, at optimized cost. 

HPE Solutions with Commvault address the challenges of hybrid environments with solutions that are jointly engineered and delivered with industry-leading security from the edge to cloud. You get deep foundational security rooted in zero-trust principles combined with AI-driven intelligence to predict & prevent ransomware attacks. This enables fastest recoverability at scale, across all workloads, no matter where they live, at a lower TCO. These solutions are delivered with unparalleled simplicity and flexibility to purchase and deploy so that you can meet your business objectives and achieve resilience faster.

As your organization continues to transform digitally, moving more workloads to the cloud, how do you ensure that you can manage all that data efficiently and protect it from threats like ransomware?

You need a single, easy to manage solution that can natively support all the platforms where your data lives. You need Commvault, the unified data protection and security solution that scored highest across cloud, virtual, and physical server environments in Gartner’s 2022 Critical Capabilities for Data Center Backup and Recovery.

HPE Solutions with Commvault are validated to enable management and protection of data from edge to cloud. An end-to-end solution with native integration that reduces cost and complexity, allowing you to focus on driving business outcomes.

Commvault integrates with HPE storage and server platforms, including HPE Alletra, HPE Primera, HPE Nimble Storage, HPE StoreOnce, HPE Apollo Storage Server 4000, HPE Nimble dHCI, HPE Simplivity, and HPE ProLiant.

Do you need the most capacity with uncompromising performance, security, and intelligence in a datacenter-friendly 2U rackmount server footprint?

The HPE Apollo 4200 Gen10 Plus System, like the other members of the HPE Apollo 4000 family, is specifically designed to unlock the business value of data stemming from digital transformation (DX) and data infrastructure modernization, at any scale, and with ideal economics. It is designed for both ends of the data-centric workload spectrum – from deeper data lakes and archives to performance-demanding machine learning (ML), data analytics, hyperconverged infrastructure, and cache-intensive workloads. The HPE Apollo 4200 Gen10 Plus System provides the data infrastructure foundation for any successful data-driven organization.

What I can do to improve the capacity efficiency of my legacy storage volumes without complex data migration or professional services?

HPE 3PAR Thin Conversion Software leverages the zero-detection capabilities within the HPE 3PAR Gen3 ASIC to drive the conversion of inefficient, “fat” volumes on legacy arrays to more efficient, higher utilization “thin” volumes on HPE 3PAR Storage Systems. This “thinning” of volumes enables data centers to meet Green IT targets, eliminate wasted space, and increase utilization rates. Because the fat-to-thin conversion mechanism is built into array hardware, volume conversions take place inline, at wire speeds, while preserving service levels, and without disruption to production workloads. With Thin Conversion, a technology refresh no longer requires a terabyte-for-terabyte replacement, but instead offers the opportunity to reduce capacity requirements by 50 percent or more without the need to invest in professional services.

For business to move at the speed of cloud, infrastructure agility and consistency is key. Configuration management tools address rapidly changing infrastructure needs by providing a template for repeatable deployment thus preventing any environmental drifts and discrepancies. HPE Storage Toolkits for Configuration Management enables popular configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet and Ansible to treat storage as a programmable resource, eliminates barrier between Developers and Operations by enabling self-service storage automation.. HPE Storage Toolkits for Configuration Management such as HPE 3PAR Cookbook for Chef or HPE Nimble playbook for Ansible provides blueprints to automate complex storage management tasks eliminating time consuming and error-prone manual tasks.