So, your favourite(!) storage vendor has just shelled out 2.1 billion dollars on a product line that sits alongside their bestselling Mid-Enterprise Storage Arrays (EVA) but also pokes its finger at the Mission Critical arrays (XP). Just what are customers going to gain from 3par?
- FC & iSCSI connectivity with built in dedicated site to site replication ports
- Storage Vitalization
- Thin Provisioning built in (its the first platform to offer this technology built into it)
- Thin conversion on the fly (and in the background)
- Has the capacity to migrate data between FC,SSD & SATA drives (Autonomic Tiered Storage)
- Multi-Mesh active-active controllers, which allows every LUN to be served by every controller
- Start small, grow in affordable increments
- Multi-Tenant system – run diverse workloads across the same platform
- High & Predictable Performance through 3par ASIC
- RAID5 & 6 without the usual performance impact, with the added bonus of Rapid RAID rebuild
A more than Enterprise level storage array that ticks all the boxes that many people need, especially in the cloud & utility market place.
Oh, and the ability to use words such as ‘chunklets’ & ‘raidlets’ in a sentence! 🙂
