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HP 3PAR Storage Arrays are a best of breed next generation storage arrays that are the cornerstone of the HP Converged Infrastructure
initiative. HP 3PAR is designed to deliver enterprise IT as a utility service simply, efficiently, and flexibly. The arrays feature a tightly
coupled clustered architecture for resilience, secure multi-tenancy, and mixed workload support to fuel enterprise-class virtual and cloud
data centres. Use of unique thin technologies and fine grain virtualisation reduces acquisition and operational costs by up to 50%, while
autonomic management features improve administrative efficiency by up to tenfold per GB. All of this is clearly evident in the SPC1
numbers and should be leveraged as a factual discussion with your customer.
About the Storage performance council (SPC):
The Storage performance council is an independent body that is sponsored by nearly all companies that sell storage arrays. This includes
storage submissions and/or sponsorship but is not limited to, the following companies: HP, EMC, HDS, Oracle, IBM, Fujitsu, NetApp,
LSI. The goal of the SPC is to serve as a catalyst for performance improvement in storage subsystems, and to ensure fair and vigorous
competition between vendors as a means of improving the products and services available to customers. Exposing vendor marketing to
real world reality. The SPC is recognised as the industry-standard benchmarks for storage performance. As a result, customers are able
to more accurately assess the performance and price/performance of competing storage products prior to acquisition.
SPC Peer Review Status:
An SPC benchmark measurement becomes a new SPC benchmark result upon successful completion of the required SPC Audit and SPC
submission process. The new SPC result is initially given a Submitted for Review status for a minimum of 60 days during which the SPC
Peer Review occurs. The SPC Peer Review allows SPC members an opportunity to review the details of the SPC benchmark result and
raise any compliance issues resulting from that review. If there are no compliance issues raised at the end of the SPC Peer Review, the
status of the SPC benchmark result will transition to an Accepted status. If compliance issues are raised during the SPC Peer Review and
the SPC benchmark result is found to be compliant with the appropriate SPC specification, the status of the SPC benchmark result will
transition to an Accepted status. If the SPC benchmark result is found to be non-compliant during the SPC Peer Review, the SPC
benchmark will either be withdrawn or revised to become compliant and then will transition to an Accepted status.
The vendor storage configurations used in the testing are entered at that vendors discretion, and the Storage Performance Council (SPC)
then measures specific metrics against the test results submitted. The metrics measures are the same metrics for all storage arrays as is
the I/O workload. The I/O workload itself is actually supplied by the SPC and represents a multi-tenant random workload that is 60%
read and 40% write, which tries to emulate as closely as possible typical customer workloads seen with in highly random and virtualised
environments.
The Storage performance council matrix below highlights specific metrics reported from the real world, independent and publically
available SPC performance benchmark, which highlight the merits of any HP 3PAR value proposition. The test results discriminate
between marketing hype and reality.
Best Performance + Lowest $/IO + Lowest $/GB + Less Complexity ASU TB = Built for
Regardless of the storage configuration used for the testing, the SPC executive summaries submitted by the relevant storage vendors
compare apples to apples testing criteria. Not all storage arrays are equal in terms of position and scalability in the market
(Midrange/high-end etc), so these factors are considered with regards to the three metrics measured. The SPC test results actually help
customers differentiate between marketing hype and actual reality.
The 3 metrics measured are:
1. Cost per IOP (bigger arrays have a higher cost and will need to produce the IOPs to get a good $ per IOP rating).
This is measured by dividing the cost of the solution, including all hardware and software and 3 years 24 x 7 support
by the number of IOPs achieved.
2. Cost per GB (this measures how efficient your array is, the vendor has to report the percentage of usable storage
utilised (efficiency)
3. Complexity in setting up storage environment.
In all the SPC metrics all HP 3PAR excels, the figures populating the above table are taken from that vendors own reports that were
submitted to the SPC board and reviewed before publishing.
Note: EMC do not enter their arrays into the SPC, despite being one the off the sponsors of the SPC as they do not believe in
benchmarks (other than those performed behind closed doors in their labs where other vendors cannot see or challenge the results) the
CLARiiON entry from 2008 was actually submitted by NetApp.
Any customer can confidently and comfortably consolidate many diverse workloads on our systems (e.g. thousands of different
VMs and/or workloads)
Each workload will receive attractive service levels (high IOPS with low latency)
The HP 3PAR system will scale, from 16 drives to 1920 drives, and still maintain performance predictability
The HP 3PAR system will not sacrifice low rates of capacity utilisation to achieve high performance
Simplicity is maintained independent of scale on all HP 3PAR Converged Utility Storage Arrays
ONLY 3PAR delivers consistently Best Performance, lowest cost per IO, lowest cost per GB and less complexity, a technology
built from the ground up for ITaaS/Virtualisation
It can be seen from the results for all HP 3PAR arrays, that HP 3PAR bring high end functionality and availability in to the mid-range
space (F400) and the running costs and simplicity of mid-range arrays in to the tier 1, enterprise space (T800/V800).
HP 3PAR Converged Utility Storage Arrays are built for virtualised cloud environments and therefore many of the inhibitive commercial,
business and technical pain points, are eliminated. Pain points such as unpredictable performance, service levels and capacity growth
often associated with highly virtualised data center environments.