Storage. Infosmackpodcasts.com. 3PAR V-Class: The Best Just Got Better – Technical Deep Dive. Disclaimer: I’m a self confessed fan of the 3PAR architecture.
I think its best and cleanest design of all of the enterprise class storage arrays on the market. But I admit that architecture isn’t everything, service, support, cost etc all play a part in the wider solution. Anyway, now that that is out of the way…. It’s old news that HP recently announced a major refresh of it’s 3PAR line, the P10000 or 3PAR V-Class. I despise HP’s naming conventions so I will call it V-Class. One potentially interesting thing to note from the product branding P10000 (that’s ten thousand) is that HP have given the 3PAR a higher number than the rebadged Hitachi VSP, the HP P9500.
Anyway lets get to the good stuff…… The Good Stuff For me, the major improvements that came with the V-Class are the following - Moving from PCI-X to PCIe4th generation ASICPeer Motion Aside from the innovations listed above, the V-Class just feels more enterprise, more high performance. The Stuff Thats Missing PCIe 4th Gen ASIC Nigel. 3PAR. 3PAR Inc. is a global provider of utility storage systems for mid-sized to large enterprises, financial services firms, cloud computing service providers, consumer-oriented Internet/Web 2.0 companies, and government entities.
The company helps organizations to build infrastructures that support the delivery of cloud-based services both internally, and at the scale required by service providers that make a business of selling such services to their external customers. The company’s enterprise-class storage systems feature a clustered design that supports comprehensive multi-tenancy and was developed to be self-configuring, self-optimizing, self-monitoring, self-healing and scalable.
The Company’s utility storage systems feature an architected, clustered, integrated hardware platform that includes an operating system and a range of software applications. Recent Milestones Videos Screenshots Above: 3PAR Screenshot -- #1Uploaded: 12/26/10 Stock Price Sources. HP 3PAR. 3PAR Inc. was a manufacturer of systems and software for data storage and information management headquartered in Fremont, California, USA. 3PAR produced enterprise storage products, including hardware disk arrays and storage management software.
It became a wholly owned subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard in 2010. History[edit] 3PAR was founded in 1999. The founders included Jeffrey Price and Ashok Singhal, the P and A in the company's name. The R stands for a third partner, Robert Rogers, who left the company in 2001. 3PAR first shipped the InServ storage server in September 2002. 3PAR's primary competitors in the enterprise storage market are EMC Corporation, Hitachi Data Systems and IBM. 3PAR has been called a "pioneer and champion"[1][2] for thin provisioning,[3] a mechanism to improve the utilization efficiency of storage capacity deployment. 3PAR first announced this capability in June 2002 and shipped it to customers in 2003.
Takeover bids[edit] Products[edit] References[edit] 3PAR Utility Storage Family. 3PAR System Reporter Software - Overview & Features. 3PAR Users Group › View topic - Command to find type of Device (NL or FC) One way that I've figured out is sort of a multistep process.
If you know of a single command to do it please share! I'm still new at this (3 months). This shows you the common provisioning groups (CPGs) configured: Code: % showcpg -sdg Then use the 'showvv' command to display information about the virtual volumes belonging to the host. . % showvv -cpgalloc -host <HOSTNAME> For example: % showcpg -sdg ------(MB)------ Id Name Warn Limit Grow Args 0 DISKFCR1 - - 32768 -t r5 -p -devtype FC 1 DISKNLR1 - - 32768 -t r6 -p -devtype NL % showvv -cpgalloc -host HOST08 Id Name Prov Type UsrCPG SnpCPG333 HOST08_F tpvv base DISKFCR1 -- 334 HOST08_G tpvv base DISKFCR1 -- 335 HOST08_T tpvv base DISKFCR1 -- 337 HOST08_Y tpvv base DISKNLR1 -- 336 HOST08_Z tpvv base DISKFCR1 -- --------------------------------------- 5 total Hope that helps,