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The 3PAR InServ F-Class:
A Midrange Storage Revolution for Lean Times
Designed from the ground up to overcome the limitations of midrange arrays, the 3PAR® InServ F-Class isn't just the industry's first quad-controller array for resilient utility computing. It's also the fastest single-system midrange storage array on the market as determined by SPC-1™ benchmark results. Our most popular F-Class model, the InServ F-400, was recently named Product of the Year by Storage magazine in the Disks and Disk subsystems category.
Read about the F400 Product of the Year win »
Read about the record-setting F-Class performance results »
Customers looking for midrange storage solutions have been conditioned to compromise scalability and availability to meet shrinking IT budgets. At the same time, more and more applications are being consolidated onto virtualized infrastructures, making the platforms they reside on mission-critical.
The product is amazing. We are putting it through its paces and it hasn't even blinked.
-Gregory S. Thomas
Vice President of Information Technology, Managed Health Care Associates
Historically, the only alternative to midrange storage limitations has been to purchase premium-priced monolithic arrays to do the same job. However, in the current economy this is no longer a viable option for most.
With the F-Class, you can:
- Buy 50% fewer arrays
- Reduce capacity, power, cooling, and floor space by up to 75%
- Reduce storage administration time by 90%
InServ F-Class arrays offer the same pioneering 3PAR InSpire® Architecture, Mesh-Active controller technology, and industry-leading, high-end features as the InServ T-Class—the world's most powerful virtualized storage array—but in a scaled-down quad-controller capable system. This means that the InServ F-Class shares the same 3PAR InForm® Operating System and supports all of 3PAR's advanced software capabilities—including 3PAR Thin Provisioning, 3PAR Virtual Domains, 3PAR Dynamic Optimization, 3PAR Virtual Copy, and 3PAR Remote Copy.
F-Class Features
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| Scale past 2 controllers Quad-controller architecture with Mesh-Active technology |
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| Migration to more efficient volumes Fat-to-Thin migration with Thin Built In™ ASIC |
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| Mixed transactional and sequential workloads ASIC-based metadata processing and data movement |
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| Security for shared storage 3PAR Virtual Domains storage hypervisor |
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| Simplified storage management Autonomic 3PAR Rapid Provisioning |
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