New HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8000 and 20000 series – Optimized for Flash

AGENDA

• HPE 3PAR StoreServ architecture fundamentals

• HPE 3PAR Flash optimizations

• HPE 3PAR portfolio overview

• HPE 3PAR Flash – example from practice

• HPE RMC – Next generation backup

• Unlike most traditional architectures, limited to only 2

controllers, HPE 3PAR architecture can hold up to 8

controllers (depending on the model).

• All controllers are active on all LUNs

• Such an architecture can cover wide range of customer

needs form low midrange up to high-end.

• Single architecture (from entry 8200 up to high-end 20850

model), runs the exact same HPE 3PAR Operating System

and offer a common set of enterprise data services,

MULTICONTROLLER 3PAR ARCHITECTURE

Cost-efficient usually active/passive or active/optimized …

… but dual-controller design limits scalability and

resiliency.

Cost-effective, scalable, resilient, meshed, active-active

… … and meets cloud-computing requirements for

efficiency, multi-tenancy and autonomic management.

HPE 3PAR Architecture

Traditional Architecture

HP 3PAR Gen5 Thin Express ASIC

Fast RAID 5/6 and

Rapid RAID RebuildIntegrated XOR Engine

Tightly-Coupled Cluster2x inter-ASIC Bandwidth,

Low Latency Interconnect

achieves write latency <200us

Mixed WorkloadIndependent Metadata and Data

Processing

Thin & SHA256 based

Dedupe Built InZero & Duplicate Block Detection

for Block & File

Data IntegrityT10 PI – Persistent Checksums

• The HPE 3PAR StoreServ 20000 and 8000 systems

use the fifth and latest generation of the HPE 3PAR

ASIC, the HPE 3PAR Thin Express ASIC. The HPE

3PAR Thin Express ASIC is engineered and designed

for solid-state performance.

• It works in parallel with the CPU, evenly processing the

I/O workload across the node Active—Mesh scale—out

architecture, ensuring lower latency resulting in better

system bandwidth

• Thin Express ASIC offloads some compute intensive

tasks from Controller node CPU

HP 3PAR Virtualization Advantages

RAID5 SetRAID1 Set

RAID1RAID5 Set RAID6 Set

LUN 1LUN 0

LUN 3LUN 4

LUN 5

Traditional Controllers

Spar

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LUN 7LUN 6 LUN 2

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

R1 R1 R5R1 R5R1 R6 R6

• Each RAID level requires dedicated drives

• Dedicated spare disk required

• Limited single LUN performance

• Dedicated pool drives

Traditional Array

3PAR StoreServ Controllers

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

R1 R1 R5R1 R5R5 R6 R6

HP 3PAR• All RAID levels can reside on same drives

• Distributed sparing, no dedicated spare drives

• Built-in wide-striping based on Chunklets

• No pools and reservation required

Physical drives and Chunklets

Spar

e

Snapshot Pool

Flash optimizations

3PAR Hybrid storage optimizations

–Adaptive Flash Cache–Leverages portion of SSD capacity as Read Cache extension

–Does not require dedicated SSD disks

–Can be simulated

–Adaptive Optimization–subLUN level tiering

–Can use up to 3 tiers

–You can schedule data movements and performance monitoring periods

–Can be simulated

HDD vs Flash

Wide striping

Addressing Flash challenges – media endurance

• Equal data distribution contributes

to equalizing data writes across

available media

• With distributed sparing, no drives

are left idle (spares contribute to

wear leveling)

3PAR StoreServ Controllers

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

R1 R1 R5R1 R5R5 R6 R6

Physical drives and Chunklets

Uniquely delivers efficiency AND performance

Thin Deduplication on HP 3PAR StoreServ

INLINE• No post processing ever

PERFORMING• Only solution in the industry to use

hardware acceleration with the Gen5 ASIC

EXPRESS INDEXING• Allows dedupe on SSD tier without

capacity compromise

EFFICIENT• Combines with 3PAR Thin Provisioning

• 4:1 to 10:1 savings with Thin Dedupe and

Thin Clones

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Addressing Flash challenges – media endurance and cost

Due to all wear level optimization technologies, all

currently available HP 3PAR StoreServ SSDs (400

GB – 3.84 TB) carry a five-year unconditional

warranty offering drive replacement due to drive

failure, media wear-out, or both

Unconditional 5yr SSD warranty

HPE 3PAR STORESERV PORTFOLIO OVERVIEW

8200 8400 8440 20800 20840 8450 20450 20850

Controllers 2 2 - 4 2 - 4 2 - 8 2 - 8 2 - 4 2 - 4 2 - 8

CPU (per controller)6-core 2.2.

GHz6-core 2.2 GHz

10-core 2.4

GHz

10-core 2.4

GHz

2 x 8-core

2.5 GHz

10-core 2.4

GHz

2 x 8-core

2.5 GHz

2 x 8-core 2.5

GHz

Gen 5 ASICs (per

controller)1 1 1 2 2 1 2 2

Max controller-based

Cache / system64GiB 128GiB 384GiB 1792GiB 3584GiB 384GiB 1792GiB 3584GiB

Flash Cache (optional) 768 GiB 1536 GiB 8000 GiB 32 TiB 48 TiBNot

Applicable

Not

ApplicableNot Applicable

Host I/O

16Gb FC

(onboard)

10Gb

iSCSI/FCoE

1GbE/10Gb

E NAS

16Gb FC

(onboard)

10Gb

iSCSI/FCoE

1GbE/10GbE

NAS

16Gb FC

(onboard)

10Gb

iSCSI/FCoE

1GbE/10GbE

NAS

16Gb FC

(onboard)

10Gb

iSCSI/FCoE

10GbE NAS

16Gb FC

(onboard)

10Gb

iSCSI/FCo

E

10GbE

NAS

16Gb FC

(onboard)

10Gb

iSCSI/FCoE

1GbE/10Gb

E NAS

16Gb FC

(onboard)

10Gb

iSCSI/FCoE

10GbE NAS

16Gb FC

(onboard)

10Gb

iSCSI/FCoE

10GbE NAS

Max HDDs 240 576 960 1920 1920 N/A N/A N/A

Max SSDs 120 240 480 1024 1024 480 512 1024

Max Raw Capacity 750TiB 2400TiB 3000TiB 6000TiB 6000TiB 1843TiB 1966TiB 3932TiB

Converged Flash All-FlashHPE 3PAR STORESERV 8000 AND 20000 SERIES

Common Tier-1 Data Services across the portfolio

Thin Deduplication

Priority Optimization

StorageFederation

Thin Technologies

StorageReplication

Thank you!

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