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What this article shares with you is about the advantages of 3Par storage in government agencies. The editor thinks it is very practical, so I share it with you. I hope you can get something after reading this article. Let's take a look at it.

As we all know, as the end user of the product, we don't care too much about the internal technical details of the product, but pay attention to the price, efficiency, energy consumption, management cost and expansion ability of the product itself. If there is a product with stable operation, high efficiency and low cost, it will certainly be regarded as a classic by the market. For example, IBM's V7000Jet V5000 has done a good job in the above aspects, so it has been recognized by most users after it has been put into the market. And today we're going to talk about another product:

HP 3Par StoreServ .

Next, let's talk about what I understand about 3Par storage.

The original 3Par was founded in the late 1990s by the three founders, Jeffrey Price, Ashok Singhal and Robert Rogers, and the name 3Par was formed by merging the initials of the three founders. The original slogan was: "make storage simple and efficient!" . After the successful acquisition of 3Par, HP continued to use the name 3Par and the company's original design philosophy for storage. Combined with the development trend of the current storage market, this paper puts forward the strategic vision of "high efficiency", "autonomy", "multi-tenant" and "joint". From the hardware design and operating system design of their products, it is indeed relatively easy to use, and the efficiency is also good.

1. The problems encountered in the development of government, enterprise and industry.

1) performance issu

With the arrival of the era of big data, many government and enterprise industries have gradually begun to develop from distributed systems to centralized systems, and in this transformation process will certainly put forward higher requirements for the infrastructure and computing power of the system itself. Of course, storage as an important equipment to support the operation of the system, the quality of performance has naturally become the first requirement for users in the government and enterprise industry.

2) Management problems

In the government and enterprise industry, end-users will not delve into the technical details of a storage product, and with the emergence of a new product, users will not spend too much time learning how to configure and manage. Therefore, in the current complex storage market, friendly operation interface, convenient operating system and automated configuration wizard are also a factor for users to choose and purchase products.

3) Stability problem

No matter in what organization, the value and importance of information system data are self-evident, of course, the government and enterprise industry is no exception. These customers also hope that the robustness of the storage device is good enough to continue to provide services for the information system when the equipment fails, while ensuring that the response speed is not greatly affected.

2. Why did you choose 3Par storage

1) excellent performance

When I first received the 3Par device (the specific model is HP 3Par StoreServ 7400), I couldn't help but do some small performance tests with the storage of other brands, and the performance of the storage should be combined with the application as a whole to make more sense.

It should be noted that the storage compared with 3Par is the same level of storage of other brands, and the configuration is also quite. It's not convenient to reveal here, you know! )

As can be seen in the above table, except for the different controllers, the other configurations are the same. In this configuration, 50 gigabytes of disk space for each of the two stores is mapped to two HP DL580 G7 servers with the same configuration, which install the same operating system and database, and both use the disk space of the 50GB in the same way as ASM. Finally, import the same data to the databases of the two hosts, and execute the same Select statement to see the execution time.

As can be seen from the above results, 3Par storage takes about 3 seconds less time to execute the same Select statement than other brands.

2) simple and automatic management

This is mainly reflected in the SmartStart function of 3Par. Basically, every step of the configuration will be described in detail to introduce the operation, as long as the storage has a basic understanding of the person, the operation is very fast. It also provides self-installation wizards for new storage users in Windows, Linux, or VMware environments. Therefore, for users of government, enterprise and industry, the cost of learning is very low.

3) better robustness

The 3Par backplane adopts a full-mesh connection structure, and each controller node is directly connected at a high speed. Because it is full-network, basically a link failure only affects the communication of two directly connected nodes, but has no effect on other nodes. Each controller node has a built-in hard disk for operating system installation.

Each host port of storage has a corresponding port, and if the primary port is offline, the backup port will take over immediately (it is said that the whole process only takes sub-seconds, but it is only applicable to SAN connection mode, and it has not been tested in this respect, so it is not good to comment! )

In addition, the Remote Copy feature can be used through IP (RCIP) and / or fibre Channel (RCFC) connections, and synchronous remote configurations also support bidirectional.

Of course, the most important and expected feature for customers is that there are four controllers in 3Par 7400 that can work at the same time. When a node fails, the 4-node persistent cache will remap the cache to prevent serious "write-through mode" and affect business performance, taking into account both efficiency and failover.

3Par storage as a high-end storage, its advantages are far more than the above. All in all, the performance of the storage is very outstanding and has its own characteristics. The architecture design of virtualization is more suitable for high-end users of large enterprises. At the same time, as a high-end storage, the cost of learning configuration management is relatively low, new users can easily implement initialization configuration and later operation and maintenance management in the wizard of the software, and 3Par can also take into account both performance and data security in the event of hardware failure, and the excellent guarantee mechanism also reduces the burden of operation and maintenance.

These are the advantages of 3Par storage in government agencies, and the editor believes that there are some knowledge points that we may see or use in our daily work. I hope you can learn more from this article. For more details, please follow the industry information channel.

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