(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Becoming the first high-end storage array vendor to deliver autonomic storage tiering for enterprise and cloud data centers, 3PAR (www.3par.com) has launched 3PAR Adaptive Optimization software for autonomic, sub-volume storage tiering with 3PAR InServ F-Class and T-Class Storage Servers.
According to its Monday announcement, 3PAR also announced support for the STEC MACH8IOPS solid state drive, a new class of economical and power-efficient SSDs. The combination of 3PAR Adaptive Optimization, 3PAR SSDs, and the massively parallel, highly virtualized InServ Storage Server lets 3PAR customers meet service level targets for approximately 30 percent lower cost than with fiber channel drives alone.
“Solid State Drive technology has not only unlocked new levels of performance within a smaller carbon footprint, but it has created the opportunity for the industry to rethink existing tiered storage paradigms,” STEC technical marketing vice president Scott Stetzer said in a statement. “By combining Adaptive Optimization with leading-edge STEC Solid State Drive technology on energy-efficient, ‘green’ storage arrays, 3PAR has taken a highly innovative approach to both performance and cost optimization for the enterprise.”
3PAR’s autonomic, fine-grained approach to service level optimization was designed to reduce enterprise and cloud data center costs by delivering the right Quality of Service (QoS) to the right data at the right time — non-disruptively and on an ongoing basis. Adaptive optimization takes place at the sub-volume level, so InServ arrays using SSDs require fewer of these premium drives to meet even the most stringent performance targets.
With 3PAR Adaptive Optimization software, InServ arrays are able to achieve desired service levels by combining multiple storage tiers — using any combination of SSD, fiber channel, and Nearline (enterprise SATA) drives — within a single volume for a lower overall cost per gigabyte than fiber channel-only configurations.
“The efficiency of combining fine-grained data movement at the sub-volume level with the use of SSDs and Nearline is anticipated to help us meet our service level objectives within a smaller footprint and for a lower total cost,” said Nicholas Ferguson, senior infrastructure architect for investment management firm Nephila Capital (www.nephilacapital.com). “In addition, we have calculated that incorporating SSDs into our InServ array results in operational savings, since power and cooling requirements with SSDs are far less than spinning media.”
Earlier this year, 3PAR added two new 3PAR InForm software plug-ins for VMware (www.vmware.com), providing improved online recovery of virtual machines. 3PAR’s new Recovery Manager for vSphere and the 3PAR Management Plug-In for vCenter Server became available in January, providing virtual machine-aware snapshots, rapid online recovery, and VM-to-storage mapping.
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