HP announces storage systems series with new personas

HP has announced a latest portfolio of midrange and flash-optimised HP 3PAR StoreServ systems that offers new workload-centric storage personas, including unified storage access as well as data protection for flat backup to HP StoreOnce.

The new offerings include 3PAR File Persona software and the HP 3PAR StoreServ 7440c Converged Flash Array, which provides all-flash performance, unified storage agility, hybrid storage affordability and flat backup of 3PAR StoreServ snapshots to HP StoreOnce Backup fully orchestrated through HP OneView for VMware vCenter Server.

The HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000c-series with 3PAR File Persona software comes with converged file and object-access alongside existing flash-optimised block storage; reducing datacenter footprint 66 percent.

HP 3PAR File Persona delivers Network File System, Common Internet File System and object access on new HP 3PAR StoreServ platforms. These new persona-enabled 3PAR StoreServ systems provide multi-protocol access to a single-shared capacity group for all workloads to boost utilisation and lower costs. All block, file, and object-access management is integrated within a new 3PAR StoreServ Management Console, which simplifies administration via a search-enabled dashboard and seamless HP OneView experience.

The new HP 3PAR StoreServ 7440c Converged Flash Array is a midrange-priced system that comes with unified access, 3.5 Petabytes usable capacity, all-flash optimised performance over 900,000 IOPs, tier-1 resiliency, and 16Gb Fibre Channel connectivity, cutting storage rack space requirements by 19x and reduce costs by 8x. Customers can configure the HP 3PAR StoreServ 7440c as an all-flash array or use a combination of flash and spinning media to lower costs to $1.70 per usable GB, the company said.

In addition, HP is also announcing enhanced HP 3PAR StoreServ 7200c, 7400c and all-flash 7450c platforms. All of these new hardware models have more processing cores, larger memory caches, and support for block, file and object-access.

In addition, the HP 3PAR Online Import software now simplifies data migration from EMC VMAX systems in addition to EMC VNX and CLARIiiON CX4 systems. HP 3PAR Online Import enables self-managed platform migration and inline thin volume conversion without requiring professional services engagements or external hardware appliances.

A new data protection offering, HP StoreOnce Recovery Manager Central (RMC) software, enables application-managed snapshots on 3PAR StoreServ systems together with automatic movement of changed data to a HP StoreOnce Backup target.

HP also expanded its Software-defined Storage offerings with a 50 terabyte (TB) HP StoreOnce VSA option that provides a higher capacity point to enable Backup-as-a-Service consolidation. And, also offers expanded support for Kernel-based Virtual Machine in addition to VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V Server support. HP also offers a one TB StoreOnce VSA for free.