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HP Converged Storage A vision and strategy for data center simplicity

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Table of contents

3 The role of IT is changing. What are you doing to adapt?

3 The New Style of IT demands a new approach to storage

4 Polymorphic—a complex word that holds the key to simplicity

6 Polymorphic storage platforms and converged infrastructure solutions

7 Service-refinedstoragewithHP3PARStoreServ

7 Software-definedstorage

8 Federated data services

8 Data protection services

9 Data movement services

10 Data retention services

10 Converged management

11 What’snext?Aneweraforstorageandworkloadconvergence

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The role of IT is changing. What are you doing to adapt?

AsanITprofessional,youtakeacalculatedapproachtoinvestmentdecisionsthatincludesstrategies to ensure positive return on investment without losing focus on what is required for thefuture.Foryears,thisapproachhasenabledyoutodeliverITsolutionsthatsupportyourbusiness.Butthingsarechanging—rapidly.Drivenbytechnologytrendssuchascloud,mobility,BigData,andsocialmedia,profoundchangesinITareinfluencingtherelationshipbetweeninformation,individuals,technology,andbusiness.DemandforexpandedITcapabilitiesaregrowing at an unprecedented velocity. Increasingly stringent quality of service (QoS) demands mustbemetatlowerandlowertotalcost.

WhilebusinessandITneedsareclearlychanging,it’slikelythatyou’restillrelyingonlegacystoragearchitectures.Amajorityofthestoragesystemsdeployedtoday—includingmanyoftheplatformsstillsoldbyEMCandNetApp—weredesigneddecadesago,fornarrowlydefinedusecases,andforrealitiesmuchdifferentfromtoday’s.Inthepreviousera,ITwasdefinedbypredictablecapacityandperformancerequirementsaswellasheavyadministrativeload.Today,theselegacystorageplatformsandprocessesstruggle,havingbecomeincreasinglycostlytomaintain,complextomanage,andunresponsivetonewbusinessrequirements.

Addressingthefullbreadthofapplicationneedsanddatatypesshouldn’trequireanassortmentofdisconnectedproducts.Butyoualreadyhaveanapproachthatseemstobegoodenough,sowhyfixwhat’snotbroken?Theanswerdependsonhowconfidentyouarethatwhathasworkedinthepastwilladequatelysupportnewbusinessrealities.Ifyourorganizationislikemost,youarecontendingwithamixtureofapplicationsatdifferentstagesofmaturity.You are also likely faced with unstructured data complexity and filer sprawl as you struggle to keepupwithexponentialdatagrowthfromnewsources.YouhaveprobablydeployedmultiplestoragesystemstosupportvariousapplicationswithdifferingQoSrequirements,ontopofwhichyoumayalsobeusingacloud tierforexternalfilesharingorsoftware-definedstorageapplications deployed on industry-standard servers. It is also likely that you are increasingly dissatisfiedwiththefragmentedapproachtodeduplication,backup,anddisasterrecoverydeployedacrossthesesystems.And,likemostorganizations,yourexistingstoragecapacityisprobablymassivelyunderutilizedandyoursystemsmustbemanagedviabruteforce,humanmiddleware,andconfigurationspreadsheets.

Noneofthismeansthatyou’vemadebadchoices;itisevidencethatmainstreamstoragetechnology has failed to keep up with your needs. What happens when you can no longer acquire and deploy capacity or grow your pool of IT expertise fast enough to keep up?

Todrivebetterbusinessoutcomesintoday’sworld,youneedtotakeadifferentapproachtoIT,infrastructure,andservicedelivery.Youneedmodernstoragearchitecturesbuiltfornewworkloadsandexplosivedatagrowth.Capturing,managing,optimizing,protecting,restoring,andanalyzingdataareallbigchallenges—buttheyarealsobigopportunities.Thismeansthatstorageismorevitalthanever,butitalsomeansthatstoragemustevolve.

The New Style of IT demands a new approach to storage

StoragemustchangetosupportaNewStyleofIT,wherelarge-scaleITandbusinesstransformation must address needs such as:

•Movingtoon-demandITinfrastructure

•Enablingamoreproductiveandhyper-connectedworkplace

•Empoweringmoredata-drivendecisionsandapplications

•The protection and security of digital assets

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1 “OutsourcingTrends2013:GrowingITImpactontheBusinessDrivesNewSourcingDecisions,”Gartner,February2013

2 “MakeBusinessAgilityaKeyCorporateAttribute—Itcouldbewhatsavesyou,”Forbes,September2013

3“HowI&OCanManageChangeatthePaceoftheBusiness,”Gartner,March2013

Why should you read this paper?

The volume of the world’s information continues togrowatnearly60percentannually,meaningthe amount of digital information we store is doublingeachyear,with80percentofthatdataunstructured.1Astheamountofinformationwe generate grows and as our relationship with informationgrowsmorecomplex,designingforsimplicityistheonlysustainableoption.ThisisaguidingprinciplebehindHPConvergedStorageandamajordriveroftheinterestinsoftware-defineddatacenter(SDDC)technologies.Thispaperdiscusseshow,asanearlyproponentofboth,HPhascontinuedtoexecute on a vision and a strategy for converged storage as the storage foundation for a New Style of IT where change is the only constant.

Consider this:

•70 percent of the companies that were on the Fortune 1000 list a decade ago have since vanishedduetotheirinabilitytoadapttochange2

•Gartnerpredictsthatby2015,only10percentofinfrastructureandoperationsorganizationswillbeabletodeliverthespeedofchangerequiredbythebusinessprocesstheyenable3

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Asastoragedecisionmaker,thetremendouscomplexitythatexiststoday—muchofitresultingfrommassivedataexplosion—posesabarriertochange.Inaddition,youarealsofacingcomplexityfromthevarietyofnewtechnologychoices—includingflash,compactiontechnologies(thinreclamation,deduplication,andcompression)andtheevolutionofsoftware-definedstorage(SDS)architectures.Andthereisever-growingcomplexityemergingfromthemultitudeofdifferentsiloedarchitecturesthatmanyofthemarket-leadingstoragecompanieshaveforcedoncustomerslikeyou.TakeEMCforexample:VMAX,VNX,VNXe,XtremIO,andVPLEX—fivedifferentarchitecturesjustforyourprimarystorageneeds.Thesemultiplearchitectureseachhaveindividualapproachestotraining,manageability,replication,andinteroperability—creatingafragmentedcrisisofcomplexitythateatsawayatyouroperationalefficiency.

ThesearesomeofthefactorsthatHPbelievespointtotheneedforstoragetoundergoanoverallsimplificationtosupporttheNewStyleofIT.Deliveringthissimplicityrequiresnew,modernstoragearchitecturesdesignedforvirtualizedITasaservice(ITaaS)andon-demandcomputingwithrichdataservicesandamanagementapproachthatisbiggerthanjuststorage.The New Style of IT requires storage that is:

•Simple—to support growth without complexity

•Agile—tohandleunpredictabledemandassociatedwithon-demandcomputinggracefully

•Fast—todeliverresponsestobusinessusersatthespeedthattheyneedthem

•Efficient—toallowITorganizationstoofferhighservicelevels,butatacoststructurethatretainstheircompetitivenessandwithcloudalternativesavailabletobusinessunits

•Secure—toreduceandmanagebusinessriskassociatedwithapplicationsavailabilityandtheintegrity of your data

•Timeless—toallownewstoragetobeintegratedseamlesslyintothedatacentertoday,andprovide investment protection for the technology changes that will occur in the future

Polymorphic: A complex word that holds the key to simplicity

Inordertoachievesimplicityinthefaceofamyriadofapplicationdemandsandcostpoints,youneedtomakeinfrastructurechoiceswithoutcompromise.Forexample,whendeployingapplications,isyourtopprioritytodeliverthehighestpossibleservicelevels?Thismightleadyoudownapathofevaluatingflash-optimized,Tier-1storage.Ontheotherhand,ifyouhaveasignificantamountofbusinessdataoranumberofapplicationswhereresourcelimitationsareatopconcern,thismayleadyoutoevaluatetheopportunityofleveragingindustry-standardserverhardwareandsoftware-basedstorage.Inthelongrun,youmayneedtopursuebothoftheseapproaches—especiallyifyouwanttobuildadatacenterarchitecturethataddressesallof your enterprise application needs and resource constraints.

Toacceleratetimetovalue,thereisalotofinterestinITmovingawayfrominfrastructureintegration. In a world where the discussion has turned to the use of converged and hyper-converged systems as fast-and-easy-to-deployfixedbuildingblocksforIT,willthisbeasufficientapproach?Orwillyouneedtoretaintheabilitytogrowyourcomputeandstorageresourcesflexiblyandindependently?Fewapplicationworkloadsscalewellforeverinfixedratiosofcomputeandstorage—thuslimitingutilizationandefficiencyofthefullITstack.Thischallengeiswhy,formanyapplicationsanddeploymentscenarios,youwillwanttoretaintheabilitytoscaleresourcesindependently.Again,theanswerisyouwillprobablyneedbothaffordablebuildingblocksandindependentscalingofcapacityandperformancetomeettheneedsofyourdifferentapplicationownersanddeploymentrealities.Thispresentsyouwithfourcriticalinfrastructurechoicepointsacrosstwodimensions(figure1).

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Polymorphic (Pol`y`mor´phic)

Adj.Havingseveraldistinctappearancesoroccurringinseveraldistinctforms.FromtheGreekpolys meaning many and morphe meaning form or shape.

Polymorphic storage denotes one architecture capableofbeingdeployedinanumberofdifferentways(forexample,midrangeandhigh-end;all-flashandhybrid).

Storage Optimization Choices• SLA: Highest possible Tier-1 data services• Cost: Deployment on commodity hardware

IT Deployment Choices • Flexible: Control and scale in all directions • Fixed: Rapidly deployed building blocks

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Figure 1. Infrastructure choice points for modern IT

AtHP,webelievethatthesecrettosimplicitycomesfrombuildingadatacenterarchitecturefoundationbasedonpolymorphicstoragearchitectures.

The word architectureisimportanthere,inthatsimplicitymustbebuiltintotheinfrastructurefoundation,aspartofitsDNA.ItisnotpossibletoachievearchitecturalefficiencybysimplyhidingunderlyinginfrastructurecomplexitywithaslickGUIorcontrolplane.

The word polymorphicreferstoasingleentitythatcanexistinmanyforms,shape,andsizes.Inthecontextofstorage,thismeansmodernarchitecturesunitedbyasingledesignbutcapableofbeingdeployedinmanyshapesandsizestomeetdifferentneeds.Forexample,insteadofdeployingfivedifferentarchitecturestomeetyourprimarystorageneeds,whynotchooseasinglearchitecturethatspansthehigh-end,midrange,andlow-endandprovideschoicepointssuchasall-flashorflash-optimizedhybridtosupportblock,file,andobjectaccess.Unlikethefragmentedcomplexitythrustoncustomersbythepreviousgenerationofstoragevendorswhooffermultipledisconnectedarchitectures,thispolymorphicapproachrequiresonlyoneapproachtotraining,oneapproachtomanagement,oneapproachtointeroperability,andoneapproachtoreplication.Thisimprovesoperationalefficiencyanddrivesdowncostswithoutcompromisingthequalitiesyouarelookingforinabest-in-classproductforaspecificusecase.

Overthelastfiveyears,HPhasdevelopedavisionandstrategythataddressestheneedfornewstoragearchitecturestosupporttheNewStyleofIT.Guidedbythisvision,HPacquiredtwoinnovativestartupcompanieswithcomplementarystoragetechnologies—3PAR(now,HP3PARStoreServ)andLeftHandNetworks(nowHPStoreVirtual).Atthesametime,withinHPLabs,HPdevelopedtheHPStoreOncededuplicationengine,supportingdisk-basedbackupcapableof handling the kind of massive data explosion data centers are seeing. These acquisitions and organic developments all shared the same polymorphicDNA—meaningtheycanbedeployedinmanydifferentformfactors.ThisvisionculminatedinMarch2011withtheintroductionofHPConvergedStorageportfolio,asuiteofmodernstoragesolutionsdesignedspecificallyforthe New Style of IT.

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Fromaninfrastructureperspective,HPConvergedStorageallowscustomerstoimplementaconsistentandcoherentapproachtobuildingdatacenterarchitecturesthatdonotjusthidecomplexity,butremoveitatthesource.HP’sstrategyistoenablechoicewithoutcompromisethrough four elements:

•Polymorphic storage platformsareafoundationalelementofthismodel,andconsistofservicelevel-optimized(orservice-refined storage)systemsandcost-optimizedvirtualstorage appliances (or software-defined storage).

•Theseplatformfoundationscanbeflexiblydeployedontheirown,ordeliveredviaconverged infrastructure solutionsthatacceleratetimetovaluebyservingasintegratedinfrastructurebuildingblocks.

•Shared,common,andinteroperablefederated data servicesofferdataprotection,movement,andretentionservicesontopofwhicheverplatformfoundationyouchoose.

•Finally,converged managementoffersorchestrationthroughprogrammablecontrolandopen interfaces for the cloud and the SDDC.

Figure 2. HP Converged Storage—a model for delivering polymorphic simplicity

Polymorphic storage platforms and Converged Infrastructure solutions

HPhasidentifiedtwocomplementarystoragedesigncenterstomeetthecontinuumofapplicationandresourcechoicepoints.Oneisbasedonservice-leveloptimization—meetingdemandingperformanceandavailabilitylevelsasefficientlyaspossible—andrequireswhatwe call a service-refined storage (SRS) architecture. The other approach delivers operational costefficiencyatscalebyusingindustry-standardserverhardwareincludingco-locatingapplications and storage in the same server-and requires a software-defined storage (SDS) architecture.

These two classes of storage are then integrated into HP Converged Infrastructure solutions foracceleratingtimetovalueandenablingpredictable,fixed-scalebuildingblocks.

Thisapproachallowscustomerstheflexibilitytoscalecomputeandstorageresourcesineitherafixedorflexiblemanner,tailoredtoeitherservicelevelsorcost—or,moreimportantly,bycombiningallfouroftheseaspectstoachievesimplicitywithoutcompromise.Bydecouplingstorage platforms and associated integrated solutions from data services (such as protection) aswellasmanagement,HPhasbrokendownboundarieserectedbyrigidandbrittlehardware-centric approaches.

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Accelerating time to value with integrated offerings for the New Style of IT

AccordingtoIDC,thehyper-convergedmarketisgrowingat33.8percentyear-over-year.4Asthefastest-growing infrastructure vendor with new revenuegrowthof215percentyearoveryear—3.6timesfasterthanthecurrentmarketgrowthrate,5 HP is responding with hyper-converged and converged infrastructure solutions that share commonelementswhilestillofferingchoice.

Hyper-converged systems such as the HPConvergedSystem200-HCStoreVirtualcombinesHP’sindustry-leadingSDSsoftware,HPProLiantx86servers,andHPOneViewconvergedmanagementwithrobustVMware® vSphere integration for high-density virtual infrastructure that’s up and running in less than15minutes.6

Converged systems such as the HPConvergedSystem700basedonHP3PARStoreServ Storage leverage these same elements ontopofaservice-refinedstorage(SRS)foundation to deliver turnkey solution deployment at scale in days rather than months.

4 IDC Worldwide Integrated Systems2014-2017Forecast,March,2014.

5WikibonServerSANResearchProjectAugust,2014.

6 Based on HP internal testing.

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Service-refined storage with HP 3PAR StoreServMeetingstringentservice-levelagreements(SLAs)meanssupportingbusiness-critical,Tier-1 applicationswithultra-highperformanceandavailability.However,theseattributesalonearenotuniquetotheNewStyleofIT.ThenewrequirementsthathavebeenaddedtothetraditionaldefinitionofTier-1includesupportforthemassiveconsolidationofmixedandunpredictableworkloads,thesecurityconcernsofmulti-tenantdeployments,andthecostpressuretodeliverTier-1 services at very low cost per transaction.

TheserequirementsbreaktraditionalTier-1monolithicarrays,buttheyaretheexactreasonthatHP3PARStoreServStorageisthechoiceofthreeofthetopfourcloud-hostingprovidersintheworld.HP3PARStoreServisaflash-optimizedsystemwithapurpose-built,fourth-generationASICthatreducesloadoncontrollerCPUsinordertosupporthighperformancewithoutcompromisingresiliency.ItisthiscustomASICthatenablesadvanceddataservicessuchasmixedworkloadsupport,thindeduplication,non-disruptivedatamobilitybetweensystems,andsecuremulti-tenancy.Asaresult,theentireHP3PARStoreServStoragefamily—includingall-flashandconvergedflasharrays—enablepredictablyhighperformanceand low latency with granular QoS controls and 99.9999 percent7availability.Thefamily’selasticallyscalable,systems-baseddesigndeliversthesebenefitsatanextremelylowper-transactioncost,providingaffordableconsolidationforalargenumberofunpredictableworkloads through a choice of models:

•Whenscalematters,HP3PARStoreServisavailableasahigh-endhybridarray—theHP3PARStoreServ10000series,forlarge,consolidatedITaaSenvironments.

•Whenperformancematters,HP3PARStoreServisofferedasanall-flasharray,theHP3PARStoreServ7450c,andanewconvergedflasharray,theHP3PARStoreServ7440c—bothofwhichdeliverlow,predictableresponsetimes.

•Whenvaluemattersmost,HP3PARStoreServisavailableasaflash-optimized,hybridarray—includingtheentry-level,dual-controllerHP3PARStoreServ7200c—andasaTier-1,quad-controllercapablemidrangeplatform,theHP3PARStoreServ7400c.

TheHP3PARplatformisalsointegratedintoHPConvergedSystemproducts,includingtheHPConvergedSystem700(CS700)forvirtualizedinfrastructurebasedonVMwareandMicrosoft®hypervisors,andtheHPConvergedSystem500(CS500)forapplicationslikeSAP®HANA.TheHP3PARStoreServplatformistheidealSRSplatformonwhichtobuildSLA-optimized,systems-baseddatacentersthatneedbothfixedandflexiblecomputeandstorage resource scaling.

Software-defined storageThecomplementtoSRSissoftware-defined storage (SDS),anapproachthatisbeingfueledbyapplicationsandinfrastructurerequiringthelowestoveralldeploymentcost.ThisiswherecompletelydecouplingstoragedataservicesfromhardwareviavirtualizedstorageappliancesdeliverssignificantadvantageandisonereasonthatSDSandhyper-convergenceareswiftlyemerging market trends.

HPsoftware-definedstorageisbasedonHPStoreVirtual,whichisspecificallydesignedtoleverageandoptimizetheuseoflatentcomputepowerandstoragecapacityinvirtualizedindustry-standardservers.HPStoreVirtualallowscustomerstorunapplicationssidebysidewithrich,scale-outstoragedataservicesonthesamevirtualizedservers.HPStoreVirtualStoragedataservicesprovideleadingcapabilitiesforavailability,efficiency,anddisasterrecovery.

StoreVirtualvirtualstorageappliances(VSAs)arehardwareindependentandcanrunonanybrandofindustry-standardserver.VSAsarealsohypervisor-agnostic,runningonESX,Hyper-V,andKVM.ByclusteringVSAs,youcanrunbothvirtualmachine(VM)-basedapplicationsandrichdataservicessidebysideonthesameindustry-standardhardwaretounlockunusedservercapacity.Thishypervisor-agnosticapproachisopenandprovidestheflexibilityandlong-terminvestmentprotectionthatisnotavailablewithotherSDSsolutionsthatarehypervisor-dependentandthatpromotevendorlock-in—solutionslikeVMwarevSANandMicrosoftStorageSpaces.

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AswithSRS,HPStoreVirtualStorageprovidesyouwithflexibilityofchoice:

•Whenvaluematters,StoreVirtualisavailableasasoftware-onlyVSA.

•Whenscalematters,StoreVirtualallowsyoutoflexiblyscaleyourstoragerequirementswiththeHPStoreVirtual4000series,deliveredthroughanintegrated,dedicatedstorageappliance.

•Whentime-to-valuematters,StoreVirtualisavailableasahyper-convergedappliance,theHPConvergedSystem(CS)200-HCStoreVirtualforVMwareenvironments.

•Whencloudmatters,StoreVirtualallowsyoutoseamlesslyextendyourvirtualizedITaaSenvironmentintothecloudthroughHPHelionOpenStackandtheCommunityEdition.

HPStoreVirtualistheidealSDSofferingonwhichtobuildcost-optimized,industry-standardserver-baseddatacenterarchitecturesthatneedbothfixedandflexiblecomputeandstorageresource scaling.

Federated data services

ThispillaroftheHPConvergedStoragestrategyallowsbothHP3PARStoreServandHPStoreVirtual—andtheirrespectiveconvergedinfrastructuresolutions—totakeadvantageofcommon,rich,federateddataservicesfordataprotection,movement,migration,andretentionaswellasstoragenetworkingsolutions.TheabilitytoleveragecommondataservicesacrossbothSLA-optimizedandcost-optimizedsolutionshelpsyoureducerisksandcostsaspart of a consistent and coherent data center architecture.

Data protection servicesHPoffersfederateddeduplicationanddataprotectionservicesforHP3PARandStoreVirtualthroughtheHPStoreOnceplatform,whichdeliversdeduplicationanddisk-basedbackup.Apolymorphicarchitecture,HPStoreOnceisavailableasaVSA,asanoptionembeddedinHPDataProtector,asasingle-controllerbackupappliance,orasahighlyscalable,available,andhigh-performancemulti-controller,cluster-basedsystemsuitedtomassivedataexplosion.

Usingthesameapproachacrosstheentireportfolio,datacanbededuplicatedonceandthenmovedbetweenpeersystemswithoutanydatarehydration.Withthistechnology,youhavetheflexibilitytodeduplicateatthetargetappliance,aspartofthebackupapplicationormediaserver,orasapplicationsource-sidededuplicationwithHPStoreOnceCatalyst.

StoreOnceallowsbackuptoandrecoveryfromdisktobeperformedextremelyefficiently.HPrecentlybroughtanewindustryfirsttotheworldofdataprotectionwithfederated deduplication stores,aninnovationthatdoesforbackupwhatVMwaredidforservervirtualization.HPStoreOnceFederatedCatalystisthefirstdatastoretypetobesupportedandenablessystem-widededuplicationacrosstheglobal8-nodeclusterintheHPStoreOnce6500.ThistechnologywasdesignedtobeextensibleovertimetoenablededuplicationacrossmultiplephysicalandvirtualizedStoreOncetargets,eitheronpremiseorinthecloud.

AnothernewexampleoffederateddataservicesisHPStoreOnceRecoveryManagerCentral(RMC).WithRMC,customersgetapplication-manageddataprotectionforHP3PARStoreServviaarray-basedsnapshotsandautomatedflatbackupdirectlytoHPStoreOnce,viaafeaturecalledExpressProtect.RMCisanautomationhubthatmanagessnapshotsontheprimaryarrayandisabletotransmitonlychangedblocksdirectlyoverthefabrictotheStoreOncetargetwithouthavingtoengageamediaserverorbackupapplication.Formoregranularcatalogingofbackupobjects,RMCprovidesanopenapplicationprogramminginterface(API)enablingbackupsoftwareproviderstotakeadvantageofthishyper-efficientandfastdatamovementbetweensystems.RMCissupportedinVMwareenvironmentswithHP3PARtoday,butisbeingextendedovertimetoincludemoreapplicationsandarraysources,suchasStoreVirtual.

HPconvergedsystemsportfoliobasedonHP3PARandStoreVirtualinheritstheabilitytousethesetechnologiesfordataprotection,helpingyoureduceriskdramaticallyasyoumovetotheNew Style of IT.

Federated Storage (Fed´er at`ed Stor age)

Adj.Agroupofautonomouspeerresourceswithnativeinteroperabilityacrosspeersystems without the need for external virtualizationappliances.

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Data movement servicesFederateddatamovementdeliveredunderthenameHP3PARPeerMotionareavailableforbothHP3PARandStoreVirtual.Thesetechnologiesenableonline,non-disruptive,federateddatamobilitybetweenpeersystemsforworkloadbalancing,utilizationefficiency,andlifecycleassetmanagementacrosssystemsinyourdatacenter.EachplatformalsoprovidesRemoteCopydatareplicationservicesbetweensystemsfordisasterrecoverypurposes.

Thissamefederateddatamobilityenablessimple,self-deployabledatamigrationforeithernon- or minimally disruptive movement of application data from legacy platforms to Converged Storage.Today,this“OnlineImport”functionalitycanpainlesslymigratedatafromEMCVMAX,VNX,andCLARiiONCX4disksystemstoHP3PARStoreServStorage.

Toenablemovementofdatabetweenhostsandstoragesystems,HPhasdevelopedsolutionssuchasFlatSANintegrationbetweenHPBladeSystemandHP3PARStoreServviaHPVirtualConnect.HPisalsobringingconvergenceintothestoragefabricwithsolutionsliketheHPN5900CP,whichsimultaneouslysupportsFibreChannel,EthernetoriSCSI,andFCoEconnections.TheHPStoreFabricportfolioprovidesawiderangeofchoice,includingstoragenetworking from Brocade and Cisco.

Again,thepoweroftheHPConvergedStoragevisionandstrategyisthatthesedatamovementservicescanfacilitateinteroperabilitybetweenstandaloneHP3PARStoreServandStoreVirtualdeployments and the fully integrated HP ConvergedSystem products that leverage those technologies,deliveringchoiceandsimplicitywithoutcompromise(figure3).

Figure 3. Datamovementservicesfacilitateinteroperabilitybetweensystems

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Data retention servicesTohandlethemassivedataexplosion,youmaybelookingtomanagecostsbyoffloadingdatafromyourprimarystoragesystemsbystoringsomeofthatdataonlower-costplatformsofferinglong-termdataretention.HPbelievesthatobjectstoragecanprovidethelowestcostapproachfordataretentionandoffersanumberofsolutionapproaches.

BuiltonthesameunderlyingtechnologyasHPStoreOnceBackup,theHPStoreAllArchivesystemisascale-out,filebasedarchitecturethatalsoprovidesOpenStackSwiftAPI-compatible,object-basedaccesstorepositoriesoflow-coststoragewithinasingledatacenter.UsingpatentedmetadatasearchcapabilitiesfromHPLabs,theHPStoreAllExpressQuerytechnologyallowscustomerstosearchdatarepositories100,000timesfaster—atthescaleofhalfabillionobjectsorfiles.6HPStoreAllandExpressQueryhavebeenintegratedintotheHPIDOLmeaning-basedanalyticsengineanditsrelatedsoftwaretitlesincludingHPControlPointandHPConsolidatedArchive.HPControlPointhelpsassessdatalifecycleusageandprovidesapolicy-drivenapproachtodrivedatatolower-costsolutionslikeStoreAll.ConsolidatedArchiveprovidesformalarchivingsolutionsforrecordsretentionandcompliance.

Mainstreamuseofobjectaccessfaceshurdlessuchasaffordableimplementation,enterprise-classresiliency,andapplicationdependencies.Today’sobjectstoragesoftwarefaces triple-copy overhead for resiliency and most data center applications were not designed towritetoobjectstores.BasedoninternallydevelopedHPintellectualproperty,HPStoreVirtualObjecttechnologystoresonlyasinglecopyofeachobjectyetcanhandlefailuresfromtheboxlevelallthewayupthroughtheentiredatacenterthankstointegrationwithHPHelionOpenStack.

Inthefuture,policy-baseddatamobilityfromon-premisetocloudusingStoreVirtualObjectstoragecouldenablemetadatatostayonpremisesothatapplicationsdonotneedtochangeinordertoaccessoff-premisedata.Althoughthistechnologyisnotyetgenerallyavailable,itcanbepreviewedthroughapartnershipwithHPEnterpriseServices.

Converged management

Datacenteradministrationshouldnotrequireyoutolearndifferentstoragemanagementtoolsforaplethoraofdifferentstoragearchitectures,norshoulditentaildealingwithexternalvirtualizationappliancesandbackupsilos.Instead,youcanbuildaconsistentdatacenterwithpolymorphic storage architectures and federated data services. The last challenge with legacy storagecomplexityisthatmanagementshouldreallybeengineeredatthedatacenterlevel—notjustforyourstorage.

HPOneViewisanautomationhubthatprovidesconvergedmanagementandprovisioningofservers,storage,andnetworkingacrossthedatacenter.HP3PARistightlyintegratedintoOneViewtoallowprovisioningandmanagementthroughtheHPOneViewStorageResourceManagerplug-in.HPhasalsoreleasedanewelementconfigurationmanagementconsoleforHP3PARcalledtheHP3PARStoreServManagementConsole(SSMC),whichusesexactlythesamesearch-enabledframeworkasOneViewtoprovideaconsistentlookandfeelwithHPOneViewandtremendoussimplificationofstoragemanagement.WeplantoprovidesimilarintegrationandconsistencywithOneViewforStoreVirtualinthefuture.

CustomerscanalsoenabledatacenterwidemanagementconsistencyleveragingstandardRESTfulAPIsfromOpenStack,includingHPHelionOpenStack.Thisinvestmenttakesadvantageofacommonindustrylanguagethatenablestheautomatedorchestrationandprovisioningofallstoragedataservices—whethertheyareemployedbyphysicalorvirtualarrays,onpremiseorinthecloud.ThisapproachhasmadeHPthetopcontributortoOpenStackaccordingtoStackalytics data.8

A seamless transition to the New Style of IT

OnepartofHP’sstrategyistooptimizecustomers’existingenvironmentsbyprovidinginvestmentprotection.ExamplesincludedeliveringnewgenerationsofplatformsliketheHPXP7andHPMSA2040or1040,whichwerecompletelyrefreshed in the last year. The other part of HP’s strategyistooffercustomerstheopportunitytomodernize,withoneexamplebeingtheextremelysimpleupgradepathweprovidedfromHPEVAtoHP3PAR.Thisapproachtomodernizationincludesproviding customers with a seamless transition to the New Style of IT with HP Converged Storage. Andourstrategyistoprovidethatseamlesstransitionforourcompetitors’installedbasesas well.

Building on exceptional infrastructure delivered asintegratedsolutions,HPwrapsourConvergedStorage solutions into HP Technology Consulting and Support Services that can accelerate customers’ time to value and reduce operational risk.WehaveenabledtheHPsalesforceandchannel partners to provide customers with solutionsthataddresstheirbusinessneedsanddelivertheirdesiredbusinessoutcomes.

8“HPleapfrogsRedHat®tobecometopcontributortoOpenStack,”NetworkWorld,September2014

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Forexample,toautomatecloudservicesmanagement,HPhasaugmentedHPStoreVirtualwithanewOpenStackCinderinterfacewhichhasinturnenabledHPtoofferafullyfeaturedandlicensedcopyofStoreVirtualasastandardpartofHelionOpenStack—providinghighlyavailable,scale-outstorageforcloudcomputing.HPwasactuallytheleaddeveloperofthestandardandreferenceimplementationsofCinderwithsupportforbothHP3PARStoreServandStoreVirtual.

Lastly,bothHP3PARStoreServandStoreVirtualsupportthird-partyAPIstofacilitateintegratedmanagementwithsupportforStorageManagementInitiativeSpecification(SMI-S)andothermanagementAPIs,suchasthoseavailablefromVMware—includingVASAandVAAI.BothHP3PARandStoreVirtualsupporttheleadingthird-partychoicesforprovisioningsuchasVMwarevCenterviatheHPOneViewforVMwarevCenterplug-in,andsupportforMicrosoftSystemsCenterviatheHPStoreFrontforMSSCplug-in.

A vision that delivers value todaySofarinthispaperwe’vediscussedthedesignrequirementstoenableconsistentandcoherentdatacenterarchitecture.HPhasdeliveredonthoseneedswithHPConvergedStorage,asetof polymorphic storage platforms with federated data services and a converged approach to management.

Thousandsofcustomershavealreadymadetheswitchandhaveseenbenefitssuchas8xfasterprovisioning,40%lowerdatamigrationcosts,and75%lowercapacityrequirements.

Consumableaseitherflexiblestorageplatformsorturnkeybuildingblocks,HPConvergedStoragehasbeendesignedforsimplicityandallowscustomerstogetbetterreturnontheirinformationassets,infrastructureinvestments,andindividualadministrators—somethingthatHPcallsROItothepowerofthree.

What’s next? A new era for storage and workload convergence

TheultimategoalofHPConvergedStorageistoreducecomplexity,increaseagility,andsupportsustainabilityviaaconsistentandcoherentapproachtodatacenterarchitecture.Havingstartedexecutingthisstrategyin2011,HPisnowmovingthisvisionforwardwiththenextevolutionofconvergence,madepossiblebystoragepersonas.

Astorage personaisanativeimplementationwithinthestorageOSaimedatboostingutilizationandloweringcostsbymovingstorage-affinityrelatedworkloads(suchasdataaccess,protection,andanalytics)directlyintothestoragecontroller.Sofar,HPhasidentifiedand is devoting engineering resources to the following storage personas:

•Access—avarietyofprotocolsthatserveworkloadsacrossahybridclouddatacenter

•Analyze—forexample,SAPHANA,Hadoop,orVerticaanalyticswithinthestoragecontroller

•Protect—viaapplication-managedprotectionbuiltintothestoragecontroller

•Secure—basedongeographicassociationofanapplicationordataforaccesspurposes

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HPrecentlypresentedthefirstapplicationofthisvisionwiththeintroductionofbothaccesspersonas(HP3PARStoreServFilePersona)andprotectpersonas(HPStoreOnceRMC).Inthefuture,HPplanstointroduceadditionalpersonastocoverotherworkloads.

AsHPcontinuestoevolvetosupporttheNewStyleofIT,HPConvergedStoragewillcontinuetobringstorageandcomputeclosertogethertoimproveperformancewhilealsoprovidingnewprovisioningmodelstospeedservicedelivery.Theuseofstoragepersonassimplifiestheautomationofresourceprovisioningand,inthefuture,willenabletheuseofabroker-bidmodelthatconnectsincomingrequeststotherightunderlyingstorageresources(bothonpremiseandastiersofstoragebasedinthecloud).Inthisbroker-bidmodel,whenanadministrator,software-definedapplication,orclouduserrequestsstorageresourceswithspecificrequirements,thoserequestsareroutedtoabroker,whichnegotiateswithavailablestorageresourcesviaopen,standards-basedAPIs—suchasthoseprovidedbyHPHelionOpenStack—using a biddingprocess.Itisthebroker’sjobtodeterminethroughthisbidding process the storagepersonabestsuitedtotheincomingrequestandthenautomaticallyanddynamicallyprovision underlying resources.

These future developments are logical extensions of the work that HP has already done tomodernizestoragearchitectureandabstractasetoffederateddataservicesandopenmanagementAPIstobetteraddressunpredictableneedsandenableaNewStyleofIT.Thismeansanewera,notjustforyourstorageoryourITinfrastructure,butalsoyourbusiness.

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