HP Storage Device Management Software for HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage

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1. HP 3PAR Application Software Suite for Microsoft SQL
2. HP 3PAR Security Software Suite
3. HP 3PAR Management Plug-In for vCenter Software
4. HP 3PAR Thin Conversion Software
5. HP 3PAR System Reporter Software
6. HP 3PAR Data Optimization Software Suite
7. HP 3PAR Application Software Suite for Microsoft Exchange
8. HP 3PAR Application Software Suite for VMware
9. HP 3PAR Reporting Software Suite
10. HP 3PAR Policy Manager Software
11. HP 3PAR MPIO Software for Microsoft Windows
12. HP 3PAR Thin Persistence Software
13. HP 3PAR Operating System Software Suite
14. HP 3PAR Application Software Suite for Oracle
15. HP 3PAR MPIO Software for IBM AIX
16. HP 3PAR Host Explorer Software
17. HP 3PAR InForm Operating System Software
18. HP 3PAR Thin Provisioning Software
19. HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for VMware vSphere
20. HP 3PAR Optimization Suite
21. HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for Oracle
22. HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for Microsoft Exchange
23. HP 3PAR Virtual Lock Software
24. HP 3PAR Operating System Software
25. HP 3PAR Virtual Domains Software
26. HP 3PAR Thin Suite
27. HP 3PAR System Tuner Software
28. HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software
29. HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for Microsoft SQL Server
30. HP 3PAR Dynamic Optimization Software
31. HP 3PAR Adaptive Optimization Software
32. HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for Hyper-V
33. HP 3PAR Priority Optimization Software
34. HP 3PAR StoreServ Data At Rest Encryption

HP 3PAR Application Software Suite for Microsoft SQL

Are you being forced to choose between performing fewer SQL server backups or spending more for additional storage? HP 3PAR Application Suite for Microsoft SQL is a highly efficient solution that enhances the functionality of HP 3PAR Virtual Copy Software by automatically creating point-in-time snapshots of Microsoft SQL server databases for rapid online recovery. It creates and manages hundreds of application-consistent, reservationless, snapshots of SQL databases.

These snapshots can be used to quickly restore SQL databases or non-disruptively backup databases to tape for near-continuous data protection. Scores of snapshots can be kept online economically, allowing extended or frequent recovery points.

Unlike host-based backup solutions where the time to backup is proportional to the database size, Application Suite for Microsoft SQL creates snapshots instantaneously, irrespective of database size.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR Storage systems, HP 3PAR StoreServ

Features:

Rapid, Affordable Recovery of SQL Mission-Critical Databases for Enhanced Productivity

• The HP 3PAR Application Suite for Microsoft SQL enables your SQL server databases to be quickly recovered to a known point-in-time or to the point of failure, speeding up a variety of operations including rapid recovery of the production SQL server.
• Array-based implementation leverages HP 3PAR Virtual Copy Software to enable dozens of snapshots to be kept online economically which supports extended or frequent SQL database recovery points.
• Unlike host-based backup solutions where the time to backup is proportional to the size of the database, virtual copies created with Application Suite for Microsoft SQL are instantaneous, irrespective of database size.
• Integration with Microsoft VSS provides a standardized interface for creating snapshots; advanced scheduler feature provides automated snapshot creation to control administration costs.
• The 3PAR Application Suite for Microsoft SQL can be used to make a range of scenarios simpler and more efficient, including creating snapshots for testing and development purposes.

Supports Highly Granular and Flexible Recovery Point and Recovery Time Objectives Reducing Downtime

• The Application Suite for Microsoft SQL reduces the backup window and associated “race to daylight” by integrating with Microsoft VSS to power the creation of hundreds of non-disruptive, application-consistent snapshots of single or multiple volumes for off-host backup.
• Scalable, non-duplicative snapshots allow administrators a greater number of snapshots for a frequent extended history of recovery points, giving flexibility when committing to a given Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
• Delivers flexibility to restore from snapshot (via fast disk-to-disk restore) or to directly and instantaneously mount the snapshot on the host, which allows administrators to offer increasingly aggressive Recovery Time Objective (RTO) service level agreements (SLAs) to customers.
• Integration with backup products such as HP Data Protector, Symantec NetBackup and Symantec Backup Exec deliver fast, reliable backup to tape and recovery staging to disk from tape.
• Integration with optional HP 3PAR Remote Copy Software gives organizations an ideal solution for cost-effective replication of SQL database over any distance to facilitate business continuity following a primary site outage.

HP 3PAR Security Software Suite

Are security and performance concerns standing in the way of infrastructure consolidation? The HP 3PAR Security Software Suite provides up to 1024 secure virtual private arrays and compliance with both internal and external governance policies. Delivers secure access and improved storage services for separate applications and user groups, while providing an efficient and cost-effective way to comply with data retention requirements, for example, complying with internal governance polices or eDiscovery.

This unified security offering allows both internal and external storage service providers a secure consolidated environment and the flexibility and efficiently of protecting data from intentional or unintentional deletion. It delivers customized and secure storage to multiple administrators, applications, and departments, while retaining the benefits of storage consolidation, knowing that data cannot be deleted.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR Storage systems, HP 3PAR StoreServ

Features:

Secure Virtual Private Arrays with Cost-Effective Compliant Data Retention

• The HP 3PAR Security Software Suite enables up to 1024 secure, virtual private arrays within a single HP 3PAR Storage system to deliver multiple autonomous, secure, and policy-based virtual systems within a single massively-scalable utility storage system.
• Comply with internal governance policies and procedures while providing a foundation for performing electronic discovery (eDiscovery).
• Allows organizations to enjoy the benefits of storage consolidation, including greater resource utilization, reduced administration, centralized backup and reduced energy and floor space consumption.
• Once locked, specified storage volumes and copies cannot be deleted, even by an HP 3PAR StoreServ system administrator with the highest user privilege level.

Improved Quality-of-Service (QoS) Levels

• The HP 3PAR Security Software Suite delivers a policy-based, virtual implementation that preserves the benefits of massively distributing and sharing each application workload across all system resources (ports, processors, cache, loops, and disk drives).
• Secure, virtual implementation means that authorized users only have access to their domains and logical elements to which they have been granted access by an administrator, allowing you to deliver customized and secure storage by department or application.
• Ideal for internal or external service providers that must enable secure, consolidated, independent storage services to multiple administrators, applications, departments, and customers.

Control Your Security and Retention Simply and Easily

• The HP 3PAR Security Software Suite allows a user-configurable retention period that enables individual storage volumes or copies to be locked for a specified period of time.
• During the retention period set by the administrator through the software, read access to volumes and copies are allowed, but deletions are prohibited, making your data “tamper proof”.
• Prevents deliberate or inadvertent presentation of a volume outside its virtual domain, thereby protecting authorized administrators against errors and aiding compliance efforts.
• Enables simple storage administrative tasks and monitoring tools to be turned over to system and application administrators in a “self-service” model that drives time and cost savings.

HP 3PAR Management Plug-In for vCenter Software

How would giving your VMware administrators precise insight into underlying storage resources improve their efficiency? HP 3PAR Management Plug-In Software for VMware vCenter offers administrators access to powerful management capabilities from within the VMware vCenter Server management console. VMware administrators can gain greater visibility into storage resources and precise insight into how individual virtual machines are mapped to data stores and individual volumes on the HP 3PAR Storage System.

With this plug-in, quality of service (QoS) characteristics for individual storage volumes such as RAID level, subsystem failure protection level, drive type, and volume size and type are all displayed within the familiar easy-to-use vCenter Server virtualization console. When used in conjunction with HP 3PAR Recovery Manager for VMware vShpere, this plug-in also gives VMware administrators the power of rapid online recovery from within the vCenter console.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR Storage systems, HP 3PAR StoreServ

Features:

Greater Visibility into Underlying Storage Resources

• View HP 3PAR Storage System resources connected to the VMware infrastructure using the native interface provided by the VMware vCenter Server virtualization console
• Improves visibility for VMware administrators, who can now view information on virtual machine-to-data store-to LUN mapping
• Gives precise insight into underlying storage properties for easy reporting and troubleshooting of infrastructure issues by VMware administrators
• Frees VMware administrators from relying solely on storage administrators for critical information and for help troubleshooting infrastructure performance issues
• Minimizes storage administration by consolidating all host configuration information in a central location; enables the transfer of that information to HP for service purposes

Integration with Optional Recovery Manager Software for Seamless, Rapid Online Recovery

• Integrates with optional HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for VMware vSphere to give VMware administrators seamless, rapid online recovery from within the vCenter console
• Works with Recovery Manager to enable VMware administrators to create and view hundreds of space-efficient, point-in-time snapshots of virtual machines and their associated storage volumes
• Can be used with Recover Manager to create application-consistent virtual copies for rapid recovery of mission critical applications
• Allows stored snapshots to be used for granular, rapid online recovery of individual files or directories inside a virtual machine, for entire virtual machines, or even for an entire datastore

HP 3PAR Thin Conversion Software

What I can do to improve the capacity efficiency of my legacy storage volumes without complex data migration or professional services? HP 3PAR Thin Conversion Software leverages the zero-detection capabilities within the HP 3PAR Gen3 ASIC to drive the conversion of inefficient, “fat” volumes on legacy arrays to more efficient, higher utilization “thin” volumes on HP 3PAR Storage Systems. This “thinning” of volumes enables data centers to meet Green IT targets, eliminate wasted space, and increase utilization rates.

Because the fat-to-thin conversion mechanism is built into array hardware, volume conversions take place inline, at wire speeds, while preserving service levels, and without disruption to production workloads. With Thin Conversion, a technology refresh no longer requires a terabyte-for-terabyte replacement, but instead offers the opportunity to reduce capacity requirements by 50 percent or more without the need to invest in professional services.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR Storage Systems

Features:

Drives up Storage Efficiency

• With HP 3PAR Thin Conversion Software, a technology refresh no longer requires a terabyte-for-terabyte replacement but instead offers the opportunity to shrink capacity requirements simply and rapidly.
• Leverages the HP 3PAR Gen3 ASIC and Thin Engine—a unique virtualization mapping engine for space reclamation—to drive the simple and rapid conversion of inefficient, “fat” volumes on legacy arrays to higher utilization volumes on any HP 3PAR Storage System.
• Effectively “thins” legacy storage volumes to 50 percent of their original size or less by while preserving service levels and without impacting production workloads.
• Enables customers that did not start thin by deploying thin provisioning from the outset to leverage the inherent efficiencies of thin provisioning by becoming thin, both simply and cost-efficiently.
• Helps reduce capacity costs as volumes are consolidated in conjunction with data center virtualization; as VMware Storage vMotion migrates data from legacy systems, Thin Conversion maps out deleted space from old virtual machines to save more space for new and growing applications.

Quick and Easy Deployment

• With HP 3PAR Thin Conversion Software, hardware-accelerated conversion dramatically reduces volume migration timeline from months to hours.
• Does not require special host software or professional services.
• Allows customers undergoing a storage refresh to reduce data center environmental impact by migrating from legacy arrays to hyper-efficient, next-gen storage.
• Simple three-step process involves using existing volume manager or file system to zero out deleted data before activating Thin Conversion on the HP 3PAR Storage System and then using Thin Conversion to initiate automated migration of legacy volumes to the new array.

HP 3PAR System Reporter Software

Do you need to gather and track historical system information for your HP 3PAR Storage Systems? HP 3PAR System Reporter Software is a flexible, intuitive, web-based performance and capacity management tool that aggregates fine-grained performance and capacity usage data for HP 3PAR Storage Systems, regardless of location. The highly customizable, robust reporting offers straightforward report sharing and report scheduling which simplifies performance monitoring and assists in gathering data for optimization and planning.

System Reporter enables quick troubleshooting and isolation of performance issues minimizing business impact. System Reporter proves particularly useful for service providers and enterprises about detailed information for service level administration.

The ability to create reports by user group supports chargeback and meeting service level agreements. Works with HP 3PAR Adaptive Optimization Software to enable policy management of autonomic storage tiering resources.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR Storage systems, HP 3PAR StoreServ

Features:

Delivers Powerful, Customizable Infrastructure Monitoring and Management Capabilities

• The HP 3PAR System Reporter Software tracks performance and capacity utilization trends for multiple HP 3PAR Storage Systems regardless of their physical location.
• System Reporter Software allows a broad range of report customizations and groupings for service level agreement (SLA) and chargeback support.
• System Reporter Software provides information on how to optimize and plan future configuration changes to improve infrastructure investments.

Simplifies Information Gathering and Storage Capacity Management

• The HP 3PAR System Reporter Software provides detailed, information-rich historical reports and both tabular and pictorial charting for ease of analysis.
• System Reporter Software simplifies reporting and supports report sharing using a Web browser or optional Microsoft® Excel client.
• System Reporter Software gives users the ability to schedule highly customizable, automatically generated reports.

Delivers Robust, Proactive Performance Analysis

• The HP 3PAR System Reporter Software alerts users when specified performance thresholds are reached.
• System Reporter Software provides a set of pre-defined reports for easy and quick viewing of capacity and performance.
• System Reporter Software helps quickly troubleshoot and isolate performance issues to minimize business impact.

Provides Policy Management for Autonomic Storage Tiering

• The HP 3PAR System Reporter Software supports clients using HP 3PAR Adaptive Optimization Software, enables policy management of autonomic storage tiering resources.
• System Reporter Software collects and analyzes access rates at a sub-volume level and relays this information to the Adaptive Optimization Software.
• System Reporter Software enables users to specify policies that guide Adaptive Optimization Software in moving sub-volume level data between storage tiers.

HP 3PAR Data Optimization Software Suite

Are your storage requirements and demands constantly moving? Can’t keep up with the ups and downs of allocation, capacity and performance across your network? You need storage that can handle anything you throw at it and you need the storage to keep running while you make these continual changes. HP 3PAR Data Optimization Software Suite lets you react quickly and effectively to changing application and infrastructure needs while your users remain online and productive.

With the Data Optimization Software Suite for HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage you have the freedom to configure, optimize, reconfigure for improved control, efficiency and effectiveness all without disturbing your users or applications. This suite rebalances, redistributes and refreshes storage non-disruptively with features that provide autonomic storage tiering, dynamic data mobility, assured performance, reducing cost and increasing agility in multi-tenant environments.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage

Features:

React Quickly to Your Changing Applications and Infrastructure with Dynamic Optimization Features

• HP 3PAR Data Optimization Software Suite non-disruptively adjusts volume service levels with a single click. No scheduling, planning needed, and zero impact to application performance. Each storage volume resides on a single tier, but shifts between tiers throughout its lifecycle.
• The Data Optimization Software Suite seamlessly tunes the RAID level, subsystem failure protection level, drive type, stripe width, or radial placement of volumes to achieve optimized data QoS levels on your HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage.
• The Data Optimization Software Suite accommodates usage spikes and moves data without over provisioning to reduce your storage costs.

Balance Cost and Performance To Meet Service Level Needs and Increase Business Agility

• The Data Optimization Software Suite pairs data at the sub-volume level to the most cost-efficient storage tier capable of delivering the needed service level. Migrate data to less expensive storage tiers without manual intervention.
• The Data Optimization Software Suite allows data movement to be scheduled and resource usage limits and tier definitions to vary by application with a flexible implementation.
• Meet service level targets for less, by applying the fine grain data movement engine to independent regions of a storage volume.

Move Data Online, Non-Disruptively, and On-Demand with HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software

• Load balance data between systems at will. Provides online, non-disruptive, on-demand data mobility between HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage systems. Self-throttled data movement regulates data migration speed to preserve application performance.
• Perform technology refresh seamlessly—Non-disruptively migrates data between HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage and from HP EVA Storage to HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage while the application remains online.
• Removes allocated, but unused storage capacity so the purchased capacity on the destination HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage system can be right-sized for written data.

Assure Application Service Levels as Business Needs Dictate with HP 3PAR Priority Optimization

• Protects mission critical applications in the enterprise, enabling certainty and predictability for each application and tenant.
• Assigns performance caps on workloads with lower service level requirements, ensuring high priority applications can get all the resources they need to meet service levels.
• Enables certainty and predictability for all applications and tenants by monitoring and measuring service level objectives.

HP 3PAR Application Software Suite for Microsoft Exchange

Is your data protection solution causing your Exchange administrative costs to spiral out of control? HP 3PAR Application Suite for Microsoft Exchange is an efficient solution that eases administration by providing rapid, efficient online backup and recovery of entire Microsoft Exchange databases or even individual emails. This package enhances the functionality of HP 3PAR Virtual Copy Software to allow dozens of Exchange snapshots to kept online economically allowing for extended or frequent recovery points.

With an easy-to-use graphical user interface these snapshots can then be used to quickly restore Exchange instances or databases, or to non-disruptively back them up to tape for near-continuous data protection. The Application Suite for Microsoft Exchange intelligently creates and manages highly granular and capacity-efficient Exchange-aware snapshots that can be used to make a variety of scenarios simpler and more efficient.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR Storage systems, HP 3PAR StoreServ

Features:

Makes Backup and Recovery in Microsoft Exchange Environments Simpler and More Efficient

• HP 3PAR Application Suite for Microsoft Exchange enables Exchange databases to be quickly recovered to a known point-in-time or to the point-of-failure. This speeds up a variety of operations including rapid recovery of the entire production Exchange server.
• Leverages HP 3PAR Virtual Copy Software to allow dozens of snapshots to be kept online economically allowing for extended and frequent Microsoft Exchange database recovery points.
• Snapshot instances are managed efficiently, from an easy-to-use graphical user interface on the host to reduce administration costs.
• Intelligently creates and manages highly granular and capacity-efficient Exchange snapshots that can be used to make a variety of scenarios simpler and more efficient, including creating snapshots for testing and development purposes.
• Integration with backup products such as Data Protector, Symantec NetBackup & Symantec Backup Exec deliver fast, reliable backup to tape and recovery staging to disk from tape. Integration with 3PAR Remote Copy Software provides a cost-effective replication of Exchange databases over any distance.

Highly Granular and Flexible Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO)

• HP 3PAR Application Suite for Microsoft Exchange removes the backup window and associated “race to daylight” by integrating with Microsoft VSS to power the creation of hundreds of non-disruptive, application-consistent snapshots for off-host backups.
• Scalable, non-duplicative snapshots allow administrators a greater number of snapshots for a frequent extended history of recovery points, giving flexibility when committing to a given Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
• Delivers the flexibility to restore from snapshot, independently roll forward the logs (via fast D2D restore) or to directly mount the snapshot on the host, which allows administrators to offer increasingly aggressive Recovery Time Objective (RTO) service level agreements (SLAs) to customers.
• Integration with HP 3PAR Remote Copy Software gives organizations an ideal solution for cost-effective replication of Exchange databases over any distance to ensure business continuity following a primary site outage.

HP 3PAR Application Software Suite for VMware

Would you like to give your VMware administrators superior control over data protection and recovery along with precise insight into underlying storage resources to improve their efficiency? HP 3PAR Application Suite for VMware offers two powerful components to deliver proven virtualization solutions from the desktop, to the data center and into the cloud. One is an array-based, online virtual machine snapshot and recovery solution that reduces the need for a backup window giving administrators control over data protection and recovery.

The other offers VMware administrators access to powerful storage management capabilities and greater visibility into underlying storage resources from within the VMware vCenter Server management console. From recovery to management the 3PAR Application Suite for VMware can streamline the planning, implementation and operation of your virtual infrastructure

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000, 7450 and 10000 Storage

Features:

Array-based Online Virtual Machine Snapshot and Recovery Solution for Low Cost Disaster Resolution

• The HP 3PAR Application Suite for VMware removes the need for a backup window and associated “race to daylight” by powering hundreds of non-disruptive, application-consistent virtual machine (VM) snapshots for rapid online recovery.
• Leverages HP 3PAR Replication Software Suite or HP 3PAR Virtual Copy Software to create space-efficient snapshots to enable tighter Service Level Agreements (SLAs) without the use of separate agents installed on individual virtual machines.
• Integrated into the VMware vCenter Server virtualization management console for superior ease of use; scheduler feature provides automated snapshot creation.
• Can be used for a variety of scenarios including change management (protecting virtual machines before applying new patches) and creating snapshots for testing and development purposes.

Get Great Visibility Into Underlying Storage Resources to See How Each Virtual Machine is Mapped

• The VMware vCenter Server virtualization console makes it easy by using the native interface that is provided to view system resources.
• VMware administrators get improved visibility as they can now view information on virtual machine-to-data store-to LUN mapping.
• Provides precise insight into underlying storage properties for easy reporting and troubleshooting of infrastructure issues.

Shows Highly Granular and Flexible Recovery Point Objectives from the VMware vCenter Console

• Create and view hundreds of space-efficient, point-in-time snapshots of virtual machines and their associated storage volumes.
• Create application-consistent virtual copies for rapid recovery of mission-critical applications.

Enables Highly Granular and Flexible Recovery Point Objectives and Recovery Time Objectives

• A simple, automated process enables administrators to simply and efficiently protect and recover Virtual Machine Disks (VMDK), Virtual Machine File Systems (VMFS), individual virtual machines, and even individual files without the need for agents.
• Scalable, non-duplicative snapshots allow administrators a greater number of snapshots for a frequent extended history of recovery points, giving flexibility when committing to a given Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
• Delivers the flexibility to restore from snapshot (via fast D2D restore) or directly and instantaneously mount the snapshot on the host, which allows administrators to offer increasingly aggressive Recovery Time Objective (RTO) SLAs to customers.

HP 3PAR Reporting Software Suite

Do you need to gather and track historical system information for your HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage? HP 3PAR System Reporter Software is a flexible, intuitive, web-based performance and capacity management tool that aggregates fine-grained performance and capacity usage data for HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage systems, regardless of location. The highly customizable, robust reporting offers straightforward report sharing and report scheduling which simplifies performance monitoring and assists in gathering data for optimization and planning.

System Reporter enables quick troubleshooting and isolation of performance issues minimizing business impact. The ability to create reports by user group supports chargeback and meeting service level agreements.

HP 3PARinfo Software is a command line utility that provides useful information on the volume mapping between the host and the array. 

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR Storage systems, HP 3PAR StoreServ

Features:

Delivers Powerful, Customizable Infrastructure Monitoring and Management Capabilities

• The HP 3PAR System Reporter Software tracks performance and capacity utilization trends for multiple HP 3PAR Storage systems regardless of their physical location.
• System Reporter Software allows a broad range of report customizations and groupings for service level agreement (SLA) and chargeback support.
• System Reporter Software provides information on how to optimize and plan future configuration changes to improve infrastructure investments.

Simplifies Information Gathering and Storage Capacity Management

• The HP 3PAR System Reporter Software provides detailed, information-rich historical reports and both tabular and pictorial charting for ease of analysis.
• System Reporter Software simplifies reporting and supports report sharing using a Web browser or optional Microsoft® Excel client.
• System Reporter Software gives users the ability to schedule highly customizable, automatically generated reports.

Delivers Robust, Proactive Performance Analysis

• The HP 3PAR System Reporter Software alerts users when specified performance thresholds are reached.
• System Reporter Software provides a set of pre-defined reports for easy and quick viewing of capacity and performance.
• System Reporter Software helps quickly troubleshoot and isolate performance issues to minimize business impact.

Volume to LUN visibility

• HP 3PARinfo Software is a command line utility that provides useful information on the volume mapping between the host and the array.

HP 3PAR Policy Manager Software

Does your storage environment require granular and centralized outbound and remote services policy administration? With HP 3PAR Policy Manager Software, customers have the ultimate flexibility and control to allow or deny outbound communications or remote service connections to and from HP 3PAR Storage Systems at the customer site. Policy Manager enables customers to define and implement remote service access policies.

Policy configurations are managed by the customer, ensuring integrity of customer-configured remote access policies. To ensure limited access, Policy Manager is installed on a customer-provided server.

Policy Manager also serves as the centralized point for collecting and storing audit logs of all diagnostic data transfers and authorized remote service connections to and from all devices managed by the software. Since policies are administered by the customer, the audit logs are a trusted source for reporting and compliance.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR Storage systems

Features:

Provides Flexible and Granular Control in Defining and Implementing Remote Service Access Policies

• Allows customer to define and implement granular outbound or remote service connection policies for HP 3PAR Storage Systems.

Allows Centralized Audit for all Devices Being Managed

• Serves as the centralized point for collecting and storing audit logs of all diagnostic data transfers and authorized remote service connections to and from all HP 3PAR Storage Systems managed by the software.
• Provides the ability to view the audit log via Web browser within the customer internal network.

Provides a Trusted and Secure Audit Log for the Purpose of Reporting and Compliance

• Policy Manager is installed on customer-provided hardware and all policies are defined and implemented by the customer.
• HP Global Service and Support organization has no access to Policy Manager Software.

HP 3PAR MPIO Software for Microsoft Windows

Have you been foregoing the benefits of multi-pathing due to cost, complexity, or limited operability? HP 3PAR MPIO Software for Microsoft Windows delivers a highly available, robust, and trouble-free multi-pathing solution for Microsoft Windows 2003 environments. With MPIO for Windows, I/O is intelligently routed through multiple paths between a host server and the HP 3PAR Storage System for greater availability and load balancing.

This solution is designed to utilize all available paths to prevent overloading of any single path and the accumulation of I/O bottlenecks. MPIO Software for Windows accomplishes this through a combination of autonomic load balancing, path failover capabilities, and ease of management.

In the event of a path failure, MPIO for Windows routes data to an alternate path to prevent application disruption. Simple administration and affordability make MPIO for Windows an ideal solution for enhancing performance and reliability in Microsoft Windows environments.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR T-Class and F-Class Storage Systems

Features:

Highly Available, Robust, and Trouble-Free Multi-pathing Solution for Microsoft Windows 2003

• HP 3PAR MPIO Software for Microsoft Windows intelligently routes I/O through multiple paths between a host server and the HP 3PAR Storage System for greater availability and load balancing
• Active-active configuration policy enables dynamic load balancing
• Automatic failover and the ability to recover failed paths reduces the need for offline or manual reconfigurations after a failure
• Automatic detection of devices simplifies deployment while automatic load balancing and path failover capabilities ease management
• Simple administration and affordability make MPIO for Windows an ideal solution for enhancing performance and reliability in Microsoft Windows 2003 environments

 

HP 3PAR Thin Persistence Software

What good are thin provisioning savings if they can’t be preserved over time? An industry first, HP 3PAR Thin Persistence Software means that thin volumes on the HP 3PAR Storage System stay as lean and efficient as possible by leveraging the HP 3PAR Gen3 ASIC to reclaim unused space associated with deleted data—simply, quickly, and non-disruptively. Writing and deleting large amounts of data can leave unused space within thin volumes.

Even lots of small writes and deletions can eventually reduce the efficiency of thin volumes. This logical deletion of data without actually freeing up unused space creates a hidden utilization penalty that can really add up over time.

HP 3PAR Thin Persistence Software reclaims this unused space to increase capacity efficiency, keep costs down, and help defer the purchase of additional capacity to handle new data growth. Thin Persistence also helps enterprises maintain sustainability targets by keeping down data center power and cooling needs.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR Storage systems

Features:

Preserves High Storage Capacity Utilization Levels Over Time

• HP 3PAR Thin Persistence Software leverages the unique Thin Built In hardware capabilities of the HP 3PAR Gen3 ASIC to drive the ongoing, inline “thinning” of volumes at wire speeds while preserving service levels and preventing disruption to production workloads
• Uses the zero-detection capability embedded in the Gen3 ASIC to reclaim unused space associated with data deleted from storage volumes
• Hardware-based mechanism accelerates time required to reclaim allocated but unused space

Increases Storage Efficiency To Deliver Ongoing Cost Savings

• HP 3PAR Thin Persistence Software produces significant savings on both capital and operating costs by extending the benefits of HP 3PAR Thin Provisioning and Thin Conversion Software to keep capacity requirements low
• Helps customers defer the cost of purchasing raw capacity to handle new data growth by freeing up allocated but unused capacity that can be used to store new application data
• Eliminates the requirement for special host software or professional services aimed at maximizing capacity utilization levels
• Helps customers achieve and maintain sustainability targets by minimizing data center power and cooling requirements as a result of eliminating unnecessary physical capacity

Extends Thin Benefits Through Integration with Partner Products

• HP 3PAR Thin Persistence Software works with partner products building out a thin ecosystem that extends the benefits of thin technologies to other areas of the data center, including the industry’s first database storage reclamation solution
• Enables Oracle Database 10g and 11g customers using Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) to reclaim allocated but unused disk space using HP 3PAR Thin Persistence Software and the new Oracle ASM Storage Reclamation Utility (ASRU)
• Delivers performance benefits while eliminating the capacity tradeoffs associated with the highest-performing VMDK format, Eager Zeroed Thick

HP 3PAR Operating System Software Suite

Would you like to do away with traditional storage planning? HP 3PAR Operating System Software Suite provides the foundation software for HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage, designed from the ground up to be both affordable and meet any workload demand. This suite offers advanced internal virtualization capabilities to increase your storage management efficiency, capacity utilization and performance.

Storage management is simplified by handling provisioning and change management autonomically and intelligently at a subsystem level, without administrative intervention. With built-in HP 3PAR thin technology, you can cut your capacity requirements in half and ensure that your capacity stays efficient over time.

Move data from legacy storage with the integrated data migration feature and install simply and quickly with SmartStart. This suite and HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage deliver the agility your business requires to accommodate your storage needs today and into the future.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage

Features:

Make Traditional Storage Planning Obsolete with Autonomic Provisioning Features

• Instant, application-tailored volume provisioning with the HP 3PAR Operating System Software Suite rapid provisioning capability.
• Simplified storage provisioning for clustered and virtual server environments is delivered through autonomic groups. Autonomic—It’s like breathing—you don’t even have to think about it. Simplify, automate, and expedite administration by handling storage provisioning, tiering, and management.
• Quick and easy to get started with SmartStart’s one simple process for out of the box configuration for 7000 models.

Shrink Storage Footprint with Unmatched Storage Efficiency Delivered by HP 3PAR Thin Technologies

• Provision storage capacity autonomically, just in time, and without active management. No reserved capacity required so purchase disk capacity only when needed. With fine-grained 16KB allocation units, HP 3PAR StoreServ offers fine-tuned provisioning.
• Increase utilization rates, guaranteed, via volume ‘thinning’. With the HP 3PAR zero detect capability, you can convert inefficient “fat” volumes on legacy storage to thin volumes.
• Keep storage lean and efficient by reclaiming unused space from deleted data. Prevent volumes from becoming inefficient over time with ongoing inline “thinning” of volumes at wire speed.

Deliver High and Predictable Service Levels with HP 3PAR OS’s Advanced Virtualization Capabilities

• Keep service levels high and predictable even as the use of the system grows, or in the event of a component failure, with the HP 3PAR Operating System Software Suite which stripes data in a massively parallel and fine-grained fashion across all internal resources.
• Maintain service levels in the event of a cache or controller node failure with Persistent Cache which preserves write caching through rapid re-mirroring of cache to other nodes in the cluster.

HP 3PAR Application Software Suite for Oracle

Would you like to simplify the management and backup of your Oracle database? HP 3PAR Application Suite for Oracle is a highly efficient solution for automatically creating and managing hundreds of application-consistent, reservationless, point-in-time snapshots of Oracle and Oracle RAC databases for rapid online recovery. These snapshot images are then presentable to other Oracle database instances, managed from an easy-to-use graphical user interface on the host.

With HP 3PAR 7000 Application Suite for Oracle, administrators can quickly and simply recover a database to a known point in time, speeding up a variety of operations including the rapid recovery of the Oracle production server. Integration with Oracle Active Data Guard enables snapshots to be taken on standby databases, thus minimizing impact to the production database.

Fast, reliable backup and recovery to tape is made possible through integration with Symantec NetBackup.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage

Features:

Remove the Choice Between Performing Fewer Backups and Spending More for Storage

• The HP 3PAR Application Suite for Oracle leverages the HP 3PAR Replication Suite, where administrators can create highly efficient snapshots that enable Oracle logs to be replayed for up-to-the minute database recovery.
• Snapshot instances are managed efficiently, from an easy-to-use graphical user interface on the host.
• Administrators can make a variety of scenarios simpler and more efficient, including creating snapshots for testing and development purposes.
• Works with optional HP 3PAR Security Software Suite or HP 3PAR Virtual Lock Software to safeguard disk-based backups, to protect against accidental or malicious deletion of disk-backups.
• Integration with Symantec NetBackup intelligently presents Oracle snapshots to the NetBackup server as a class or policy so that backup jobs do not require reconfiguration, thus eliminating the need for custom scripting or costly consulting services otherwise necessary to achieve the same result.

Enables Highly Granular and Flexible Recovery Point Objectives and Recovery Time Objectives

• HP 3PAR Applications Suite for Oracle removes the need of a backup window and associated “race-to-daylight” by powering hundreds of non-disruptive, application-consistent snapshot images of production Oracle and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) databases.
• Autonomically discovers and intelligently maps all database elements (including table spaces, data files, control files, parameter files, and archive log files) to associated snapshots.
• Scalable, non-duplicative snapshots allow administrators a greater number of snapshots for a frequent extended history of recovery points, giving flexibility when committing to a given Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
• Delivers the flexibility to restore from snapshot (via fast D2D restore) or by directly and instantaneously mounting the snapshot on the host, which allows administrators to offer increasingly aggressive Recovery Time Objective (RTO) SLAs to customers.
• Integrated with Oracle Data Guard to provide application-level disaster recovery on the host in Oracle Data Guard and Active Data Guard environments, which enables organizations to take snapshots of standby databases instead of production databases.

HP 3PAR MPIO Software for IBM AIX

Have you been foregoing the benefits of multi-pathing due to cost, complexity, or limited operability? HP 3PAR MPIO Software for IBM AIX delivers a highly available, robust, and trouble-free multi-pathing solution for IBM AIX deployments. With MPIO for IBM AIX, I/O is intelligently routed through multiple paths between a host server and the HP 3PAR Storage System for greater availability and load balancing.

This solution is designed to utilize all available paths to prevent overloading of any single path and the accumulation of I/O bottlenecks. MPIO for IBM AIX accomplishes this through a combination of autonomic load balancing, path failover capabilities, and ease of management.

In the event of a path failure, MPIO for IBM AIX routes data to an alternate path to prevent application disruption. Simple administration and affordability make MPIO for AIX an ideal solution for enhancing performance and reliability in IBM AIX environments.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR T-Class and F-Class Storage Systems

Features:

Highly Available, Robust, and Trouble-Free Multi-pathing Solution for IBM AIX Deployments

• HP 3PAR MPIO Software for IBM AIX intelligently routes I/O through multiple paths between a host server and the HP 3PAR Storage System for greater availability and load balancing
• Active-active configuration policy enables dynamic load balancing
• Automatic failover and the ability to recover failed paths reduces the need for offline or manual reconfigurations after a failure
• Automatic detection of devices simplifies deployment while automatic load balancing and path failover capabilities ease management
• Simple administration and affordability make MPIO for IBM AIX an ideal solution for enhancing performance and reliability in IBM AIX environments

HP 3PAR Host Explorer Software

Is your administrator spending a considerable amount of time collecting host configuration information? HP 3PAR Host Explorer Software is an autonomic storage management tool for HP 3PAR Storage Systems that establishes secure communication channels between storage and hosts. Host Explorer uses this connection to automate host discovery and collection of detailed host configuration information critical to speeding storage provisioning and simplifying maintenance.

Using the secure communication channel, Host Explorer automatically and securely communicates host information such as Fibre Channel World Wide name (WWN) and host multi-path data to the HP 3PAR Storage System to reduce manual administration.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR Storage systems

Features:

Establishes Secure, Autonomic Communication Channels Between Storage and Hosts

• Securely communicates host information such as Fibre Channel World Wide Name (WWN) and host multi-path data to the HP 3PAR Storage System.

Simplifies Administration by Automating Host Discovery

• Pre-populates host configuration information is to simplify configuration of hosts with storage.

Minimizes Administration Tasks During Storage Operating System Upgrade

• Automatic collection of host configuration information minimizes administrative tasks during HP 3PAR InForm Operating System Software upgrade.

HP 3PAR InForm Operating System Software

Supported across all HP 3PAR Storage System models, HP 3PAR InForm Operating System Software utilizes advanced internal virtualization capabilities, features, and tools to increase storage management efficiency, capacity utilization, and performance in enterprise and cloud data centers. The InForm OS simplifies storage management by handling provisioning and change management autonomically—intelligently, at a subsystem level, and without administrator intervention.

Autonomic provisioning features eliminate traditional storage planning by delivering instant, application-tailored provisioning. Fine-grained virtualization of lower-level components and wide striping of data ensure that service levels remain high and predictable, even as the use of the system grows or in the event of a component failure.

Industry leading ease of use is delivered through the simple, unified HP 3PAR Management Console and the powerful, scriptable HP 3PAR Command Line Interface (CLI).

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR T-Class and F-Class Storage Systems

Features:

Autonomic Provisioning Features Eliminate Traditional Storage Planning

• HP 3PAR Rapid Provisioning is an HP 3PAR InForm Operating System Software feature that delivers instant, application-tailored volume provisioning. Provisioning is managed intelligently and autonomically while traditional storage planning and change management are reduce
• HP 3PAR Autonomic Groups is a feature designed to simplify storage provisioning for clustered and virtual server environments. Use of Autonomic Groups reduces opportunities for human error by reducing manual repetition of tedious commands, making the provisioning process more reliable
• The HP 3PAR Scheduler feature enhances management automation, reduces administration time, and decreases the chance of administrative error by giving users full control over automated virtual copy snapshot creation and deletion

Simple, Powerful Administration Tools Deliver Industry-Leading Ease Of Use

• The unified HP 3PAR InForm Management Console simplifies storage management by placing everything you need to administer and optimize your entire HP 3PAR Utility Storage deployment in a single window, including remote replication to disaster recovery sites
• The scriptable HP 3PAR Command Line Interface (CLI) simplifies storage management by giving you powerful customization capabilities that are simple to configure and which reduce the need for extra management tools and costly consulting services
• SNMP and the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) enable open, standards-based management
• Access Guard is an HP 3PAR InForm Operating System Software feature that delivers user-configurable volume security at logical and physical levels that enables you to secure hosts and ports to specific virtual volumes
• Native support for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) within the HP 3PAR InForm Operating System Software delivers centralized user authentication and authorization using a standard protocol for managing IT resources

Advanced Virtualization Capabilities Deliver High And Predictable Service Levels

• The HP 3PAR InForm Operating System Software stripes data in a massively parallel and fine-grained fashion across all internal resources. This enables service levels to remain high and predictable as the use of the system grows or in the event of a component failure
• HP 3PAR Persistent Cache maintains service levels by preserving write-caching through rapidly re-mirroring cache to the other nodes in the cluster in the event of a cache or controller node failure

Data Protection and Copy Space Reclamation Features Improve Capacity Utilization

• HP 3PAR RAID MP (Multi-Parity) uses Fast RAID 6 and the accelerated performance of the HP 3PAR ASIC to prevent data loss as a result of double disk failures. Performance levels are maintained within 15% of RAID 10 and with capacity overheads comparable to popular RAID 5 modes
• HP 3PAR Full Copy is an HP 3PAR InForm Operating System Software feature that allows you to create thin-aware, point-in-time clones with independent service level parameters which can be rapidly resynchronized with base volumes as needed.
• The HP 3PAR Thin Copy Reclamation feature keeps your storage lean and efficient by reclaiming unused space resulting from the deletion of virtual copy snapshots associated with virtual copy and remote copy volumes

HP 3PAR Thin Provisioning Software

Do you have storage pools that aren’t really efficient? HP 3PAR Thin Provisioning Software solves the problem of inefficient capacity utilization by breaking the traditional linkage between allocated and purchased capacity. Demand for thin provisioning solutions combined with increased attention to data center power consumption has put pressure on vendors to introduce thin provisioning solutions, but bolt-on implementations can’t deliver the simplicity or the efficiency of Thin Provisioning.

With HP 3PAR Thin Provisioning, capacity is dedicated and configured autonomically, just-in-time, and without active management. Rather than create separate pools of storage, the software creates one pool from which capacity is dedicated only as data is actually written.

And while other thin provisioning implementations use coarse allocation units that can range from 1 MB to 17 GB, HP 3PAR Thin Provisioning uses a fine-grained, 16 KB allocation unit to increase system efficiency.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR Storage Systems

Features:

Enables Organizations To Do More with Less by Reducing Upfront Storage Costs

• HP 3PAR Thin Provisioning Software minimizes upfront disk drive purchases by reducing the number of disks required to store application date thanks to a “dedicate-on-write” approach that consumes physical capacity only as it is actually needed for written data.
• Draws and configures capacity in fine-grained increments from a single free space reservoir without pre-dedication of any kind—even for data with varying service level requirements, enabling enterprises to consolidate onto a single, dynamically tiered storage array with a reduced footprint.
• Fine-grained allocation unit size of just 16 KB (as compared to 1 MB ? 17 GB with other solutions) prevents small writes from consuming megabytes or even gigabytes of capacity or from filling volumes during file system setup before application data is ever written.
• Leverages the massive scalability of the HP 3PAR Storage System to enable customers to grow as business needs dictate by adding capacity easily and as needed instead of making a large up-front investment when legacy systems reach their capacity limits.
• Works with HP 3PAR Virtual Copy Software and HP 3PAR Remote Copy Software to eliminate unnecessary duplication of unwritten capacity during local and remote volume replication.

Reduces Operating Costs by Making Storage More Agile and Efficient

• HP 3PAR Thin Provisioning Software capacity reductions cut SAN costs, floor space requirements, and energy expenses up to 75%, easing recurring facilities and energy costs by eliminating the need to house, power, and cool drives that may not be needed for months or years to come or ever be needed.
• Autonomic implementation enables administrators to “set it and forget it”. Capacity is dedicated and configured intelligently, just-in-time, and without active management without planning or the need to configure storage into intermediary pools.
• Reduces not only storage administration, but also system and database administrator workloads.
• Minimizes license fees paid for many storage software products that are based on system capacity, such as SRM tools.
• Enables lifetime, application-tailored storage to be provisioned in just seconds and with just a few clicks from within the unified HP 3PAR Management Console, which offers industry-leading ease of use.

Reduces Risk and Improves Return on Investment To Shift Resources from Operations to Innovation

• HP 3PAR Thin Provisioning Software enables a greater number of projects to be initiated for a lower cost by allowing more applications to be deployed with less infrastructure .
• Expedites deployment of new applications and services by eliminating volume planning and manual provisioning.
• Eliminates application downtime associated with reconfiguring volumes and adding capacity to applications.
• Frees IT from having to wait on budget allocation and storage purchasing to initiate new projects that will generate return for the business; allows instantaneous deployment of new applications and provisioning of storage for new clients without depending on the traditional storage purchasing cycle.
• Administrator-configurable allocation warnings and limits remove risk and the need for proactive monitoring by providing redundant mechanisms for automatically notifying administrators when physical capacity is being depleted and by preventing “runaway applications.”

HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for VMware vSphere

Is your VMware vSphere backup solution disruptive or does recovery lack the granularity to restore individual files? HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for VMware vSphere is an array-based, online virtual machine snapshot and recovery solution that gives superior control over data protection and recovery in VMware vSphere environments—including granular, rapid online recovery of files. By leveraging HP 3PAR Virtual Copy Software, Recovery Manger enables VMware administrators to non-disruptively create hundreds of space-efficient, application-consistent, point-in-time snapshots to protect and recover Virtual Machine Disks (VMDKs), Virtual Machine File Systems (VMFS), individual virtual machines, or individual files.

Along with the HP 3PAR Management Plug-In for VMware vCenter, HP 3PAR Recovery Manager gives administrators access to all of this functionality from within the familiar and easy-to-use VMware vCenter Server virtualization management console.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR Storage Systems

Features:

Simple and Highly Flexible Implementation with a Low-impact Topology

• HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for VMware vSphere eliminates the backup window and associated “race to daylight” by powering hundreds of non-disruptive, application-consistent virtual machine (VM) snapshots for rapid online recovery
• Array-based approach leverages HP 3PAR Virtual Copy Software to create highly space-efficient snapshots to enable tighter Service Level Agreements (SLAs) without the use of separate agents installed on individual virtual machines
• Integrated into the VMware vCenter Server virtualization management console for superior ease of use; Recovery Manager’s scheduler feature provides automated snapshot creation
• Can be used for a variety of scenarios including change management (protecting virtual machines before applying new patches) and creating snapshots for testing and development purposes

Enables Highly Granular and Flexible Recovery Point Objectives and Recovery Time Objectives

• With HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for VMware vSphere a simple, automated process enables administrators to simply and efficiently protect and recover Virtual Machine Disks (VMDKs), Virtual Machine File Systems (VMFS), individual virtual machines, and individual files without need for agents
• Scalable, non-duplicative snapshots allow administrators a greater number of backups for a frequent extended history of recovery points, giving flexibility when committing to a given Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
• Delivers the flexibility to restore from snapshot (via fast D2D restore) or to directly and instantaneously mount the snapshot on the host, which allows administrators to offer increasingly aggressive Recovery Time Objective (RTO) SLAs to customers

HP 3PAR Optimization Suite

HP 3PAR Optimization Suite gives virtual and cloud datacenters the ability to optimize service levels autonomically, affordably, and on a large scale. Optimization Suite delivers the powerful capabilities of HP 3PAR Adaptive Optimization, Dynamic Optimization, and System Tuner Software combined into a single suite.

With Optimization Suite, users can leverage fine-grained, autonomic tiering with Adaptive Optimization to optimize service levels at the sub-volume level; react quickly to changing application and infrastructure requirements with Dynamic Optimization to non-disruptively alter service levels associated with a storage volume (RAID level, subsystem failure protection level, drive type, stripe width, and/or radial placement) and to rebalance entire system or given storage volumes, each with a single click; and maintain balanced performance with System Tuner that non-disruptively detects potential bottlenecks and hotspots and rebalances volumes to maintain peak performance.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR Storage Systems

Features:

Autonomic Service Level Optimization Delivers Cost Savings and Enhances Agility

• Adaptive Optimization matches data at the sub-volume level to the most cost-efficient resource capable of delivering the needed service level, so the right QoS is delivered to the right data at the right time.
• Adaptive Optimization delivers sub-volume optimization that allows customers to reduce costs by meeting stringent performance targets with a lean premium Solid State Disk (SSD) tier while highly economical, widely striped enterprise SATA drives are used to meet broader capacity requirements.
• Application-specific controls and comprehensive support for “thin” and “fat” volumes, volume copies, and metadata enable service level optimization for broad deployments to deliver maximum savings.
• Intelligently monitors sub-volume performance and then applies user-specified policies to autonomically and non-disruptively move data.
• Leverages the proven, fine-grained data movement engine built into HP 3PAR Operating System Software. This data movement engine has been widely deployed by HP 3PAR clients for non-disruptive rebalancing of storage volumes using HP 3PAR Dynamic Optimization Software.

Aligns Application Requirements with Data QoS Levels Flexibly, Precisely, and on Demand

• Dynamic Optimization non-disruptively alters service levels associated with a storage volume with a single click, without pre-planning or impacting application performance. Each storage volume resides on a single tier, but maintains mobility between tiers throughout the application lifecycle.
• Delivers one-button system rebalance to drive large-scale performance optimizations autonomically and non-disruptively after adding new resources to the system or moving a large number of volumes between tiers.
• Can be used to seamlessly adjust the RAID level, subsystem failure protection level, drive type, stripe width, or radial placement of volumes to achieve optimized data QoS levels.

Maintains Peak Performance with Administrative Simplicity, Flexibility, and Control

• System Tuner targets underperforming storage at the sub-volume level by identifying fine-grained capacity units that fall below a specific user-definable threshold.
• Automatically identifies and relocates underperforming chunklets to optimize performance and eliminate bottlenecks.
• All pre-existing service level parameters, such as RAID levels and disk type, are fully maintained.
• Runs completely in the background and is non-disruptive to users and applications
• Configurable thresholds can be adjusted according to multiple criteria related to service times.

HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for Oracle

Does your Oracle backup and recovery solution impact service levels and produce unnecessary cost and complexity? HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for Oracle is a highly efficient solution for automatically creating and managing hundreds of application-consistent, reservationless, point-in-time snapshots of Oracle and Oracle RAC databases for rapid online recovery. These snapshot images are then presentable to other Oracle database instances, managed from an easy-to-use graphical user interface on the host.

With Recovery Manager, administrators can quickly and simply recover a database to a known point in time, speeding up a variety of operations including the rapid recovery of the Oracle production server. Integration with Oracle Active Data Guard enables snapshots to be taken on standby databases, thus minimizing impact to the production database.

Fast, reliable backup and recovery to tape is made possible through integration with Symantec NetBackup.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR Storage Systems

Features:

Eliminates the Choice Between Performing Fewer Full Backups and Spending More for Storage

• Array-based approach leverages HP 3PAR Virtual Copy Software to create highly space-efficient snapshots that enable Oracle logs to be replayed for up-to-the-minute database recovery, speeding up a variety of operations including the rapid application recovery of the Oracle production server itself.
• Snapshot instances are managed efficiently, from an easy-to-use graphical user interface on the host.
• Can be used to make a variety of scenarios simpler and more efficient, including creating snapshots for testing and development purposes.
• Works with optional HP 3PAR Virtual Lock Software to safeguard disk-based backups, eliminating the need to perform redundant tape backups to protect against accidental or malicious deletion of disk-based backups.
• Integration with Symantec NetBackup intelligently presents Oracle snapshots to the NetBackup server as a class or policy so that backup jobs do not require reconfiguration, thus eliminating the need for custom scripting or costly consulting services otherwise necessary to achieve the same result.

Enables Highly Granular and Flexible Recovery Point Objectives and Recovery Time Objectives

• Eliminates the backup window and associated “race to daylight” by powering hundreds of non-disruptive, application-consistent snapshot images of production Oracle and Oracle RAC databases.
• Autonomically discovers and intelligently maps all database elements (including table spaces, data files, control files, parameter files, and archive log files) to associated snapshots.
• Scalable, non-duplicative snapshots allow administrators a greater number of backups for a frequent extended history of recovery points, thereby increasing flexibility when committing to a given Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
• Delivers the flexibility to restore from snapshot (via fast D2D restore) or by directly and instantaneously mounting the snapshot on the host, which allows administrators to offer increasingly aggressive Recovery Time Objective (RTO) SLAs to customers.
• Integrated with Oracle Data Guard to provide application-level disaster recovery on the host in Oracle Data Guard and Active Data Guard environments, which enables organizations to take snapshots of standby databases instead of production databases.

HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for Microsoft Exchange

Is your data protection solution causing your Exchange administrative costs to spiral out of control? HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for Microsoft Exchange Server eases administration by providing rapid, efficient online backup and recovery of entire Microsoft Exchange Server databases or even individual emails from multiple, highly granular points in time. Recovery Manager intelligently creates and manages highly granular and capacity-efficient Exchange-aware snapshots.

These snapshots can then be used to quickly restore Exchange instances or databases, or to non-disruptively back them up to tape for near-continuous data protection. Since Recovery Manager is built on HP 3PAR Virtual Copy Software, scores of reservationless snapshots can be kept online economically, allowing for extended or frequent Exchange database recovery points.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR Storage Systems

Features:

Makes Backup and Recovery in Microsoft Exchange Environments Simpler and More Efficient

• Leverages HP 3PAR Virtual Copy Software to enable scores of snapshots to be kept online economically—allowing for extended or frequent Exchange database recovery points.
• Snapshot instances are managed efficiently, from an easy-to-use graphical user interface on the host that helps control administration costs.
• Can be used to make a variety of scenarios simpler and more efficient, including creating snapshots for testing and development purposes.
• Integration with backup products such as HP Data Protector and Symantec NetBackup deliver fast, reliable backup to tape and recovery staging to disk from tape.
• Enables Exchange database to be quickly recovered to a known point in time or to the point of failure, speeding up a variety of operations including rapid recovery of the production Exchange server.

Enables Highly Granular and Flexible Recovery Point Objectives and Recovery Time Objectives

• Eliminates the backup window and associated “race to daylight” by integrating with Microsoft VSS to power the creation of hundreds of non-disruptive, application-consistent snapshots for off-host backup.
• Gives administrators the ability to use third-party tools like Ontrack PowerControls to recover a single mailbox or even a single email, or to use Microsoft Exchange Server Mailbox Merge Wizard (ExMerge) to merge the necessary data back into the regular storage group.
• Scalable, non-duplicative snapshots allow administrators a greater number of backups for a frequent extended history of recovery points, giving flexibility when committing to a given Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
• Delivers the flexibility to restore from snapshot, independently roll forward the logs (via fast D2D restore) or to directly and instantaneously mount the snapshot on the host, which allows administrators to offer increasingly aggressive Recovery Time Objective (RTO) SLAs to customers.
• Integration with optional HP 3PAR Remote Copy Software gives organizations an ideal solution for cost-effective replication of Exchange databases over any distance to ensure business continuity following a primary site outage.

Simplified Management in a Multi-tenant Environment

• Simplifies management with an integrated scheduler, ability to queue creation and verification of Virtual Copy and manage multiple Active Directory Domains from the same Recovery Manager Backup Server.

HP 3PAR Virtual Lock Software

Is your organization looking to implement stricter data governance practices, or do you need to protect data from deletion to facilitate electronic discovery (eDiscovery)? HP 3PAR Virtual Lock Software is designed to help HP 3PAR Utility Storage customers meet data governance and eDiscovery needs more efficiently and flexibly than with existing storage products. Virtual Lock Software gives users the ability to protect data volumes and volume copies from intentional or unintentional deletions.

During the user-specified retention period, volumes and copies can be read but are protected against deletion, even by an administrator with the highest level user privileges. Virtual Lock Software is “thin-aware,” so it works on both standard and thin provisioned storage volumes copies, and is completely compatible with HP 3PAR Virtual Copy Software, HP 3PAR Remote Copy Software, and HP 3PAR Thin Provisioning Software.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR Storage systems, HP 3PAR StoreServ

Features:

Safely and Efficiently Preserve Data for Compliance and eDiscovery

• HP 3PAR Virtual Lock Software supports data retention for internal governance and eDiscovery purposes by protecting volumes and volume copies from intentional or unintentional deletion.
• Once locked by the Virtual Lock Software, specified storage volumes and copies cannot be deleted, even by an HP 3PAR Storage system administrator with the highest user privilege level.
• When used in conjunction with HP 3PAR Virtual Copy Software for reservationless, non-duplicative snapshots, HP 3PAR Virtual Lock Software delivers an extremely simple and efficient approach to data retention.

Simple, Flexible Administration Delivers Security and Control

• The HP 3PAR Virtual Lock Software allows a user-configurable retention period that enables individual storage volumes or copies to be locked for a specified period of time.
• During this retention period set by using Virtual Lock Software, read access to volumes and copies is allowed, but deletions are prohibited, making data “tamper proof".

HP 3PAR Operating System Software

Supported across all HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage platforms, HP 3PAR Operating System Software utilizes advanced internal virtualization capabilities, features, and tools to increase storage management efficiency, capacity utilization, and performance in enterprise and cloud data centers. The OS simplifies storage management by handling provisioning and change management autonomically—intelligently, at a subsystem level, and without administrator intervention.

Autonomic provisioning features eliminate traditional storage planning by delivering instant, application-tailored provisioning. Fine-grained virtualization of lower-level components and wide striping of data ensure that service levels remain high and predictable, even as the use of the system grows or in the event of a component failure.

Industry leading ease of use is delivered through the simple, unified HP 3PAR Management Console and the powerful, scriptable HP 3PAR Command Line Interface (CLI). 

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR Storage systems, HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage

Features:

Autonomic Provisioning Features Eliminate Traditional Storage Planning

• HP 3PAR Rapid Provisioning is an HP 3PAR Operating System Software feature that delivers instant, application-tailored volume provisioning. Provisioning is managed intelligently and autonomically while traditional storage planning and change management are reduced.
• HP 3PAR Autonomic Groups is a feature designed to simplify storage provisioning for clustered and virtual server environments. Use of Autonomic Groups reduces opportunities for human error by reducing manual repetition of tedious commands, making the provisioning process more reliable.
• The HP 3PAR Scheduler feature enhances management automation, reduces administration time, and decreases the chance of administrative error by giving users full control over automated virtual copy snapshot creation and deletion.

Simple, Powerful Administration Tools Deliver Industry-Leading Ease Of Use

• The unified HP 3PAR Management Console simplifies storage management by placing everything you need to administer and optimize your entire HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage deployment in a single window, including remote replication to disaster recovery sites.
• The scriptable HP 3PAR Command Line Interface (CLI) simplifies storage management by giving you powerful customization capabilities that are simple to configure and which reduce the need for extra management tools and costly consulting services.
• SNMP and the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) enable open, standards-based management.
• Access Guard is an HP 3PAR Operating System Software feature that delivers user-configurable volume security at logical and physical levels that enables you to secure hosts and ports to specific virtual volumes.
• Native support for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) within the HP 3PAR Operating System Software delivers centralized user authentication and authorization using a standard protocol for managing IT resources.

Advanced Virtualization Capabilities Deliver High And Predictable Service Levels

• The HP 3PAR Operating System Software stripes data in a massively parallel and fine-grained fashion across all internal resources. This enables service levels to remain high and predictable as the use of the system grows or in the event of a component failure.
• HP 3PAR Persistent Cache maintains service levels by preserving write-caching through rapidly re-mirroring cache to the other nodes in the cluster in the event of a cache or controller node failure.

Data Protection and Copy Space Reclamation Features Improve Capacity Utilization

• HP 3PAR RAID MP (Multi-Parity) uses Fast RAID 6 and the accelerated performance of the HP 3PAR ASIC to prevent data loss as a result of double disk failures. Performance levels are maintained within 15% of RAID 10 and with capacity overheads comparable to popular RAID 5 modes.
• HP 3PAR Full Copy is an HP 3PAR Operating System Software feature that allows you to create thin-aware, point-in-time clones with independent service level parameters which can be rapidly resynchronized with base volumes as needed.
• The HP 3PAR Thin Copy Reclamation feature keeps your storage lean and efficient by reclaiming unused space resulting from the deletion of virtual copy snapshots associated with virtual copy and remote copy volumes.

HP 3PAR Virtual Domains Software

Are security and performance concerns standing in the way of infrastructure consolidation? HP 3PAR Virtual Domains Software is technology capable of providing thousands of secure “virtual private arrays” within a single, massively-scalable HP 3PAR Storage system. By providing secure administrative segregation of users, hosts, and application data, Virtual Domains allows hosting providers to deliver virtual private array services and enterprise IT organizations to deliver “self-service” storage that is both secure and capable of high quality-of-service levels.

Through consolidation onto the massively parallel and dynamically-tiered 3PAR Storage, individual user groups and applications achieve greater storage service levels (performance, availability, and functionality) than pre-consolidation levels with less infrastructure. Virtual Domains is ideal for both internal and external storage service providers, and for any enterprise deploying a converged infrastructure.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR Storage systems, HP 3PAR StoreServ

Features:

Secure, Virtual Private Arrays Simplify Storage

• HP 3PAR Virtual Domains Software eliminates the costly purchase and time-consuming management of separate physical resources—either within a monolithic storage system or with multiple, dedicated modular storage arrays.
• Enables the creation of up to 1024 secure, “virtual private arrays” within a single, massively scalable 3PAR Storage/ 3PAR StoreServ system by delivering a simple, efficient, and scalable approach to secure segregation within a consolidated platform.
• Allows organizations to enjoy the benefits of storage consolidation—including greater resource utilization, reduced administration, centralized backup, and reduced energy and floor space consumption—while meeting diverse and distributed storage needs.
• Fully integrated with HP 3PAR Remote Copy Software for simple and secured access to replicated volumes, HP 3PAR System Reporter Software for simple historical performance and capacity utilization reporting by virtual domain, and LDAP support for centralized user authentication and authorization.

Improved Quality-of-Service Levels

• Policy-based, virtual implementation preserves the benefits of massively distributing and sharing each application workload across all system resources (ports, processors, cache, loops, and disk drives).
• Administrative segregation of users, hosts, and application data enables individual user groups and applications to achieve greater storage service levels (performance, availability, and functionality) at a lower cost, with less infrastructure, and without compromising security.
• With secure, virtual implementation users only have access to virtual domains and logical elements that they have been granted access by a master administrator. IT organizations can deliver customized, secure, and even self-service storage to administrators, applications, departments, and customers.
• Ideal for internal or external service providers that must enable secure, consolidated, independent storage services to multiple administrators, applications, departments, and customers.

Drives Operational Efficiency

• Enables simple storage administrative tasks and monitoring tools to be turned over to system and application administrators in a “self-service” model that drives time and cost savings.
• Prevents deliberate or inadvertent presentations of a volume outside its virtual domain, thereby protecting authorized administrators against errors and aiding compliance efforts.
• Using the Autonomic Groups feature of the HP 3PAR Operating System Software, multiple independent virtual domains can be grouped into a single logical entity thus simplifying storage administration and backups.
• Enables the secure consolidation of production with test and development environments to drive huge cost savings.

HP 3PAR Thin Suite

HP 3PAR Thin Suite offers the industry’s most comprehensive tools for thin storage. Thin Suite combines industry-leading HP 3PAR Thin Provisioning, Thin Conversion, and Thin Persistence Software in a single suite.

HP 3PAR Thin Provisioning Software increases storage system efficiency and optimizes capacity utilization. It does this by addressing the problem of capacity over-allocation through eliminating the need to dedicate storage capacity up-front.

With HP 3PAR Thin Conversion Software, a technology refresh now offers the opportunity to reduce capacity requirements by up to 60 percent – simply and rapidly. HP 3PAR Thin Persistence Software ensures that thin volumes on HP 3PAR Storage System stay as lean and efficient as possible by reclaiming unused space associated with deleted data.

Thin Suite enables users to not only save money on up-front capacity purchases, but to remain cost- and energy-efficient over time by ensuring that thin storage stays thin.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR Storage Systems

Features:

HP 3PAR Thin Provisioning Software Reduces Capital Expenditure for Storage and Enables Green IT

• Minimizes upfront disk drive purchases by reducing the number of drives required to store application data thanks to a dedicate-on-write approach that consumes physical capacity only as it is actually needed for written data
• Reservation-less implementation draws and configures capacity in fine-grained increments from a single free space reservoir without pre-dedication of any kind, enabling enterprises to consolidate onto a single, dynamically tiered storage array with a reduced footprint
• Fine-grained allocation unit size of just 16 KB (as compared to 1 MB - 17 GB with other solutions) prevents small writes from consuming megabytes or even gigabytes of capacity or from filling volumes during file system setup before application data is ever written
• Leverages the massive scalability of the HP 3PAR Storage System to enable customers to grow as business needs dictate by adding capacity easily and as needed instead of making a large up-front investment when legacy systems reach their capacity limits
• Built-in, integrated Thin Provisioning design is fully integrated with HP 3PAR Virtual Copy and Remote Copy Software to eliminate unnecessary duplication of unwritten capacity during local and remote volume replication

Thin Provisioning Reduces Operating Expenditures by Making Storage More Agile and Efficient

• Autonomic implementation enables administrators to “set it and forget it”; capacity is dedicated and configured intelligently, just-in-time, and without active management without planning or the need to configure storage into intermediary pools
• Capacity reductions cut SAN costs, floor space requirements, and energy expenses, easing recurring facilities and energy costs by eliminating the need to house, power, and cool drives that may not be needed for months or years to come, or may never actually be needed

HP 3PAR Thin Conversion Software Drives up Storage Efficiency, Simply and Rapidly

• With HP 3PAR Thin Conversion Software, a technology refresh no longer requires a terabyte-for-terabyte replacement, but instead offers the opportunity to shrink capacity requirements by up to 60%, simply and rapidly
• Leverages the HP 3PAR Thin Built In ASIC and Thin Engine—a unique virtualization mapping engine for space reclamation—to drive the simple and rapid conversion of inefficient, “fat” volumes on legacy arrays to higher utilization volumes on any HP 3PAR Storage System
• Effectively “thins” legacy storage volumes while preserving service levels and without impacting production workloads
• Does not require special host software or professional services
• Helps reduce capacity costs as volumes are consolidated in conjunction with data center virtualization; as VMware Storage vMotion migrates data from legacy systems, Thin Conversion maps out deleted space from old virtual machines to save more space for new and growing applications

HP 3PAR Thin Persistence Software Preserves High Capacity Utilization Levels Over Time

• Delivers significant savings on both capital and operating costs by deferring the cost of capacity purchases to handle new data growth by freeing up allocated but unused capacity that can be used to store new application data
• Leverages the unique HP 3PAR Thin Built InASIC zero-detection capabilities to drive the ongoing, inline “thinning” of volumes at wire speeds while preserving service levels and preventing disruption to production workloads
• Integrated with partner products to deliver the benefits of thin technologies to other areas of the data center, including the industry’s first database storage reclamation solution for Oracle Database 10g and 11g and automated virtual machine storage reclamation for VMware vSphere 5.0

HP 3PAR System Tuner Software

HP 3PAR System Tuner Software spreads volumes evenly and widely across all available resources so that HP 3PAR Storage can deliver balanced performance. However, as the storage system scales and new applications come online, new access patterns may emerge that result in sub-optimal performance levels.

HP 3PAR System Tuner Software autonomically and non-disruptively detects potential bottlenecks and hotspots then rebalances volumes to maintain peak performance without impacting service levels or changing pre-existing service level characteristics such as RAID level.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR Storage systems, HP 3PAR StoreServ

Features:

Autonomically Maintains Peak Performance Over Time

• HP 3PAR System Tuner Software automatically detects and eliminates bottlenecks and hotspots without disrupting applications or impacting service levels.
• Detects unforeseen storage access patterns and addresses any issues to ensure consistently high performance.
• Retains all pre-existing service level parameters such a RAID levels and disk type.
• Relocation operations run as a background process that is non-disruptive to users and applications.

Customizable Solution Delivers Administrative Simplicity, Flexibility, and Control

• HP 3PAR System Tuner Software targets underperforming storage at the sub-volume level by identifying fine-grained capacity units that fall below a specific user-definable threshold.
• Configurable thresholds can be adjusted according to multiple criteria related to service times.
• Can be set to examine all capacity in the array or a subset of the system, such as a specified group of physical disks.

HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software

HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software is the first non-disruptive, do-it-yourself data migration tool for enterprise block storage. With Peer Motion, HP 3PAR Storage System customers can load balance I/O workloads across systems at will, perform technology refresh seamlessly, cost-optimize asset lifecycle management, and lower technology refresh capital expenditure.

Unlike traditional block migration approaches, Peer Motion enables customers to migrate storage volumes between any HP 3PAR Storage Systems online, non-disruptively, and without complex planning or dependency on extra tools. Peer Motion leverages HP 3PAR Thin Built In™ technology to power the simple and rapid inline conversion of inefficient, “fat” volumes on source arrays to more efficient, higher-utilization “thin” volumes on the destination 3PAR Storage System.

Peer Motion Manager is an add-on application that orchestrates all stages of the data migration lifecycle to ensure data migration is simple and fool-proof. 

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR Storage systems, HP 3PAR StoreServ

Features:

Load Balance Data Between Systems at Will

• Provides online, non-disruptive, on-demand data mobility between HP 3PAR Storage Systems .
• Works between any-to-any HP 3PAR Storage Systems, including midrange and high-end systems.
• Works without requiring complex planning or dependency on new technology layers/extra tools.
• Works with Peer Motion Manager to enable do-it-yourself data migration that is simple and fool-proof.
• Self-throttled data movement regulates data migration speed to preserve application performance.

Perform Technology Refresh Seamlessly

• Non-disruptively migrates data between HP 3PAR Storage Systems while the application remains online.
• Works with Peer Motion Manager to automate, simplify, and fool-proof the migration of data between HP 3PAR Storage Systems, thereby enabling a do-it-yourself data migration approach while minimizing the need for professional services.
• Works with inter-generational HP 3PAR Operating System versions.

Cost-optimize Asset Lifecycle Management

• Non-disruptive data mobility between any-to-any HP 3PAR Storage System unlocks the flexibility to optimize the purchase and addition of new resources to an existing system over its lifecycle.

Lower Technology Refresh Capital Expenditure

• Leverages HP 3PAR Thin Built-In™ ASIC to power the simple and rapid conversion of inefficient, “fat” volumes on source system to more efficient, higher-utilization “thin” volumes on the destination HP 3PAR Storage System.
• Removes allocated, but unused storage capacity, so the purchased capacity on the destination HP 3PAR Storage system can be right-sized for written data.
• Can be used to seamlessly adjust the RAID level, subsystem failure protection level, drive type, stripe width, or radial placement of volumes to optimize data QoS levels and lower capital expenditure on destination HP 3PAR Storage system.

HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for Microsoft SQL Server

Are you being forced to choose between performing fewer SQL Server backups or spending more for storage? HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for Microsoft SQL Server is highly efficient solution for automatically creating and managing hundreds of application-consistent, reservationless, point-in-time snapshots of Microsoft SQL Server databases for rapid online recovery. Snapshots can be used to quickly restore SQL Server databases or non-disruptively back up databases to tape for near-continuous data protection.

Because Recovery Manager leverages highly efficient HP 3PAR Virtual Copy Software, scores of snapshots can be kept online economically, allowing extended or frequent recovery points. Unlike host-based backup solutions where the time to backup is proportional to the database size, Recovery Manager creates snapshots instantaneously, irrespective of database size.

This capability enables organizations to maintain consistent service levels even with large, multi-terabyte databases.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR Storage Systems

Features:

Rapid, Affordable Recovery of Mission-Critical Applications

• The array-based implementation of HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for Microsoft SQL Server leverages HP 3PAR Virtual Copy Software to enable scores of snapshots to be kept online economically, allowing for extended or frequent SQL database recovery points
• Unlike host-based backup solutions where the time to back up is proportional to the size of the database, virtual copies created with Recovery Manager are instantaneous, irrespective of database size
• Integration with Microsoft VSS provides a standardized interface for creating snapshots; Recovery Manager’s advanced scheduler feature provides automated snapshot creation to control administration costs
• Enables SQL Server databases to be quickly recovered to a known point in time or to the point of failure, speeding up a variety of operations including rapid recovery of the production SQL server
• Can be used to make a range of scenarios simpler and more efficient, including creating snapshots for testing and development purposes

Enables Highly Granular and Flexible Recovery Point Objectives and Recovery Time Objectives

• HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for Microsoft SQL Server eliminates the backup window and associated “race to daylight” by integrating with Microsoft VSS to power the creation of hundreds of non-disruptive, application-consistent snapshots of single or multiple volumes for off-host backup
• Scalable, non-duplicative snapshots allow administrators a greater number of backups for a frequent extended history of recovery points, thus increasing flexibility when committing to a given Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
• Delivers the flexibility to restore from snapshot (via fast D2D restore) or to directly and instantaneously mount the snapshot on the host, which allows administrators to offer increasingly aggressive Recovery Time Objective (RTO) SLAs to customers
• Integration with backup products such as HP Data Protector and Symantec NetBackup delivers fast, reliable backup to tape and recovery staging to disk from tape
• Integration with optional HP 3PAR Remote Copy Software gives organizations an ideal solution for cost-effective replication of SQL databases over any distance to ensure business continuity following a primary site outage

Simplified Management in a Multi-tenant Environment

• Simplifies management with an integrated scheduler, ability to queue creation and verification of Virtual Copy and manage multiple Active Directory Domains from the same Recovery Manager Backup Server

HP 3PAR Dynamic Optimization Software

Looking for a storage solution that alleviates costly and time-consuming QoS level management? HP 3PAR Dynamic Optimization Software is an autonomic storage tiering tool that provides the ability to react quickly and non-disruptively to changing application and infrastructure requirements. Dynamic Optimization enables organizations to achieve optimized data QoS levels at the lowest cost, at all times, across all stages of the disk-based data lifecycle.

It enables users to non-disruptively alter service levels associated with a storage volume (RAID level, subsystem failure protection level, drive type, stripe width, and /or radial placement) and to rebalance entire system or individual storage volumes, each with a single click. Dynamic Optimization analyzes how volumes on the HP 3PAR Storage system are using physical disk space and makes intelligent, autonomic adjustments to ensure optimal volume distribution and tiering of storage volumes.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR Storage systems

Features:

Aligns Application Requirements with Data QoS Levels Flexibly, Precisely, and on Demand

• HP 3PAR Dynamic Optimization Software non-disruptively alters service levels of a volume with a single click, without scheduling, planning, or impacting application performance. Each storage volume resides on a single tier, but maintains mobility between tiers throughout the application lifecycle.
• Drives large-scale performance optimizations with one button system rebalance after adding new resources to the system or moving a large number of volumes between tiers.
• Can be used to seamlessly adjust the RAID level, subsystem failure protection level, drive type, stripe width, or radial placement of volumes to achieve optimized data QoS levels.

Provides the Ability to React Quickly to Changing Application and Infrastructure Requirements

• HP 3PAR Dynamic Optimization Software enables service level change orders to be made on demand, aligning appropriate storage resources as needed with the changing value of data.
• Autonomically and non-disruptively rebalances entire system or multiple volumes with a single button based on configurable policies.
• Eliminates the cost of over provisioning to accommodate usage spikes as well as the time-consuming, manual migration of data to lower tiers to reduce storage costs.

HP 3PAR Adaptive Optimization Software

Do you want to optimize service levels effortlessly, on a large scale, and for a lower total cost than other solutions? The HP 3PAR Adaptive Optimization Software is a granular, policy-driven, autonomic storage tiering solution that delivers service level optimization for virtual and cloud data centers to reduce cost while increasing agility and minimizing risk. Adaptive Optimization Software delivers the next generation in autonomic storage tiering by taking a fine-grained, highly automated approach to service level optimization.

Policy-driven, granular data movement takes place autonomically, providing highly reliable, non-disruptive, cost-optimized storage tiering at the sub-volume level to deliver the right QoS to the right data at the right time on a large scale.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage

Features:

Service Level Optimization Delivers Cost Savings

• Matches data at the sub-volume level to the most cost-efficient resource capable of delivering the needed service level, so the right QoS is delivered to the right data at the right time.
• Delivers sub-volume optimization that allows customers to reduce costs by meeting stringent performance targets with a lean premium Solid State Disk (SSD) tier while highly economical, widely striped Nearline (enterprise SATA) drives are used to meet broader capacity requirements.
• Leverages SSDs to allow customers to meet virtual and cloud performance demands in a smaller footprint and for up to a 30 percent lower storage equipment costs than using Fibre Channel drives alone.
• Application-specific controls and comprehensive support for “thin” and “fat” volumes, volume copies, and metadata enable service level optimization for broad deployments to deliver maximum savings.
• Starting service levels for each application can be configured independently and flexibly to match the desired service level and cost.

Autonomic Solution Enhances Infrastructure Agility

• Enables IT managers to react swiftly to changing business needs while delivering service level optimization over the entire application lifecycle, autonomically and non-disruptively.
• Offers QoS gradients for application prioritization modes (performance, balanced, cost) to shift data at a granular level toward the most appropriate resources according to changing QoS demands.
• Intelligently monitors sub-volume performance and then applies user-specified policies to autonomically and non-disruptively move data.
• Works with HP 3PAR System Reporter Software to allow administrators to prioritize each application by configuring an adaptive optimization configuration with up to three storage tiers defined by drive type, RAID level, stripe width and/or radial placement of data.

Flexible, Proven Implementation Minimizes Risk

• Leverages the proven, fine-grained data movement engine built into HP 3PAR Operating System Software. This data movement engine has been widely deployed by HP 3PAR StoreServ clients for non-disruptive rebalancing of storage volumes using HP 3PAR Dynamic Optimization Software.
• Protects against user impact by incorporating a high degree of user control and several policy override mechanisms. A flexible implementation allows data movement to be scheduled and resource usage limits and tier definitions to be varied by application.
• Allows for user-configurable analysis periods, collection of performance data after cache, and built-in stability mechanisms that prevent data thrashing.
• Supports multiple Adaptive Optimization configurations and the co-existence of tiered and non-tiered application volumes, delivering the ability to consolidate a wide range of applications onto a single array.

HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for Hyper-V

Is your Hyper-V backup solution disruptive or does recovery lack the granularity to restore individual files? HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for Hyper-V is an array-based, online virtual machine snapshot and recovery solution that gives superior control over data protection and recovery in Hyper-V environments. By leveraging HP 3PAR Virtual Copy Software, Recovery Manger enables administrators to non-disruptively create space-efficient, application-consistent, point-in-time snapshots to protect and recover Virtual Hard Disks (VHDs), individual virtual machines (VMs).

The Application Suite for Recovery Manager includes Recovery Manager for Hyper-V and the VSS Provider software.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR Storage systems

Features:

Simple and Highly Flexible Implementation for Recovery of Hyper-V VMs to Enhance Productivity

• HP 3PAR Recovery Manager for Hyper-V enables Hyper-V VMs to be quickly recovered to a known point-in-time or to the point-of-failure. This speeds up a variety of operations including rapid recovery of the application.
• Array-based approach leverages HP 3PAR Virtual Copy Software to create highly space-efficient snapshots to enable tighter Service Level Agreements (SLAs) without the use of separate agents installed on individual virtual machines.
• Can be used for a variety of scenarios including change management (protecting virtual machines before applying new patches) and creating snapshots for testing and development purposes.
• Snapshot instances are managed efficiently, from an easy-to-use graphical user interface on the host to reduce administration costs.

Enables Highly Granular and Flexible Recovery Point Objectives and Recovery Time Objectives

• HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for Hyper-V provides a simple, automated solution to enable administrators to efficiently protect and recover Virtual Hard Disks (VHDs), Hyper-V Virtual Machines (VMs) and individual files.
• Scalable, non-duplicative snapshots allow administrators a greater number of backups for a frequent extended history of recovery points, giving flexibility when committing to a given Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
• Delivers the flexibility to restore from snapshot or to directly and instantaneously mount the snapshot on the host, which allows administrators to offer increasingly aggressive Recovery Time Objective (RTO) SLAs to customers.

HP 3PAR Priority Optimization Software

Do you need to improve service levels for mission critical applications? HP 3PAR Priority Optimization Software enables service levels for applications and workloads as business requirements dictate. Protect mission critical applications in enterprise environments by assigning performance caps on workloads with lower service level requirements.

Provide high priority applications with all the resources they need to meet service levels. Enable certainty and predictability for all applications and tenants. Configure service level objectives—I/O per Seconds limit and I/O Bandwidth limit — on a Virtual Volume Set (VVset).

A Virtual Volume Set may contain a single volume or multiple volumes. A Virtual Volume may also belong to multiple Virtual Volume Sets.

All host I/O on the VVset is monitored and measured against the Service Level objective.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR Storage systems, HP 3PAR StoreServ

Features:

Enable Service Level Performance for a Specific Application with a Flexible Priority Policy

• HP 3PAR Priority Optimization Software allows you to create and modify threshold limits including I/O per second and bandwidth to meet business needs.
• You can configure thresholds by volume set with real time enforcement measured in seconds or sub-seconds.
• Autonomic service level objectives configured for a virtual volume set make setup simple.

Specify the Relative Performance of Each Workload on HP 3PAR StoreServ

• Control and balance the distribution of the powerful HP 3PAR StoreServ disk bandwidth across multiple production and test and development workloads on a single system.
• Avoid resource contention in the storage system by throttling the I/O of one or more workloads to assure performance of others.
• Manage end user application performance expectations with even only one workload present, preventing support calls with additional workloads come online.

HP 3PAR StoreServ Data At Rest Encryption

HP 3PAR StoreServ Data at Rest Encryption protects data from security breaches. If your application or environment requires data protection from loss of a drive or unauthorized exposure of the data on a drive, then consider the HP 3PAR StoreServ Data at Rest Encryption solution.

With this solution, HP 3PAR StoreServ is configured with self-encrypting drives. A single array-based local key authenticates access to the data being read or written to the drives, with no performance impact. HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000, 7450 and 10000 models are available with self-encrypting drives (SEDs), where data is encrypted as it is written to the drive.

You have the comfort of knowing that all data contained on these drives is protected against unauthorized access, including media or hardware theft, tampering, accidental corruption and more.

Supported Hardware Environment:
HP 3PAR StoreServ

Features:

Secure Sensitive Personal Information According to Regulatory Mandates

• Encrypt electronic medical records for HIPPA compliance to provide patient confidentiality from unauthorized or inadvertent disclosure.
• Comply with payment card industry regulations that define requirements for protection of card holder data.
• Protect intellectual property or other sensitive business data by encrypting data.

Encrypt Data Easily and with no Performance Impact

• All data on the HP 3PAR StoreServ System is encrypted as it is written to the drives. In the event of a drive failure, the data is protected from unauthorized access.
• The encryption process happens inside the drive architecture without any user intervention.
• Local key manager included with HP 3PAR StoreServ unlocks all drives in the array for reads and writes. Each encrypted array uses only one authentication key.

Mitigate Internal and External Risk with Data-At-Rest Encryption

• HP 3PAR StoreServ system provides proper key management that is critical to maintain separation of duties and protection against improperly cared for disks, or malicious intent from remote office employees.
• Encryption protects against disk drive theft and un-scrubbed disk drives that repurposed.