HP 3PAR P10000 With All SSDs, Up to 512 Per Array

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. announced an all-SSD configuration for HP 3PAR P10000 Storage to improve organizations’ application performance while reducing operational costs and IT complexity.

Organizations with massive cloud and virtualized environments are turning to SSDs to address application performance gaps and improve infrastructure efficiency. However, integrating SSDs in legacy IT environments can be challenging and costly. Limitations on the number of SSDs per array can force clients to buy multiple systems, which in turn increases physical footprint, power usage and cooling expenses.

In addition, administrators are often required to move data manually between storage tiers to optimize service levels. This time-intensive process increases data center maintenance requirements, which can eliminate the performance and cost benefits that SSDs deliver.

The new all-SSD configuration for 3PAR P10000 Storage eliminates these issues with a single tier of solid state storage while also delivering the same performance as the existing 3PAR P10000. By supporting up to 512 SSDs per array, the all-SSD system reduces equipment costs, data center footprint and energy expenses. Client cost per I/O /s is reduced by 70%, and cost per kilowatt hour is cut by more than 80%, making all-SSD 3PAR P10000 Storage for performance-driven applications.

3PAR P10000 systems also allow clients to combine SSDs with traditional FC drives and deploy 3PAR Adaptive Optimization software to achieve autonomic storage tiering. Adaptive Optimization distributes data to the right storage tier at the right time, reducing data-center management costs and maximizing system performance.

"Before our move to HP 3PAR Adaptive Optimization Software with solid state, service levels were being compromised and substantial time was spent moving between tiers reactively," said Ken Kirchoff, director, Unix Systems and Storage, Priceline. "Now that data is automatically tiered, our total cost of ownership has dramatically improved, and our staff has more freedom to concentrate on strategic growth opportunities."

Server-to-storage SSD integration
improves performance, reduces cost
HP Converged Infrastructure integrates SSDs across servers and storage, allowing clients to improve application performance while reducing operational complexity and cost.

The new HP Smart Cache for the HP ProLiant Generation 8 servers will soon be available with advanced functionality that utilizes SSDs for caching to accelerate workload performance. The solution will use HP Smart Analytics technology to assign frequently accessed ‘hot data’ to SSD drives. By providing workload-aware intelligence to optimize system operations, this ‘smart caching’ capability helps clients achieve six times higher performance for transactional workloads as well as 50% more performance for video-streaming applications, compared to previous generations.

HP also is extending the functionality of Smart Cache within ProLiant Gen8 servers to a converged solution with 3PAR Storage solutions. This collaborative-caching capability will autonomically copy data in real time from the 3PAR Storage arrays to the Smart Array SSD cache on the ProLiant Gen8 server. This capability enables clients to improve performance while reducing costs and latency, resulting in more agility when responding to service-level demands.

"While SSDs deliver critical performance for cloud and virtualized workloads, legacy infrastructures fail to maximize the technology’s return on investment by requiring intensive data-tiering administration," said David Scott, SVP and GM, Storage Division, HP. "The ability to intelligently automate data mobility between HP ProLiant servers and HP 3PAR systems within array tiers fully actualizes SSD performance and efficiency so clients can focus more time growing the business instead of managing the back office."

Pricing and availability
HP 3PAR P10000 with all SSDs is available for a starting price of $350,000.