HP 3PAR Software Product Analysis InForm OS

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Document Category: Analysis

Subject: SAN Storage

Vendor: HP

Keywords: 3Par, Data Protection Solution, Hewlett-Packard, HP, InForm, OS, SAN

Document Price: $1999.00

Document Date: 2011-03

Document Number: 112

# of Pages: 22

Short Description:

Analysis of the HP 3PAR InForm OS and data protection software

Full Summary:

The HP 3PAR InForm operating system serves as the software platform for all of 3PAR’s storage system lines, currently supporting F-and T-Class hardware platforms. The InForm OS, along with associated value added support a variety of data protection and management features.
3PAR’s systems are comprised of a modular, clustered controller-based hardware architecture dubbed the “InSpire architecture.” Each controller in the storage system runs its own independent copy of 3PAR’s proprietary InForm operating system.  However, the InForm OS manages the InServ cluster of controllers as a single system, and provides all fault tolerance features utilizing built in hardware redundancy. The OS coupled with a high speed hardware interconnect allows up to eight controllers to function as a single storage subsystem.
This analysis covers:
  • Highlights
  • Overview (e.g. volume and virtual management)
  • Performance
  • Storage Management (including Thin Provisioning, Tiering, Dynamic Optimization, Cache, RAID, etc).
  • Data Protection
  • VMware Integration
  • Evaluator Group Comments

 


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HP 3PAR Software Product Analysis InForm OS

The HP 3PAR InForm operating system serves as the software platform for all of 3PAR’s storage system lines, currently supporting F-and T-Class hardware platforms. The InForm OS, along with associated value added support a variety of data protection and management features.
3PAR’s systems are comprised of a modular, clustered controller-based hardware architecture dubbed the “InSpire architecture.” Each controller in the storage system runs its own independent copy of 3PAR’s proprietary InForm operating system.  However, the InForm OS manages the InServ cluster of controllers as a single system, and provides all fault tolerance features utilizing built in hardware redundancy. The OS coupled with a high speed hardware interconnect allows up to eight controllers to function as a single storage subsystem.
This analysis covers:
  • Highlights
  • Overview (e.g. volume and virtual management)
  • Performance
  • Storage Management (including Thin Provisioning, Tiering, Dynamic Optimization, Cache, RAID, etc).
  • Data Protection
  • VMware Integration
  • Evaluator Group Comments