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Home > InServ T-Class Storage Array

3PAR InServ T-Class Storage Server
Thin Built In™

Introducing the world's most powerful virtualized storage array—the 3PAR InServ^® T400 and T800 Storage Servers, built on a third-generation 3PAR InSpire^® Architecture featuring the new zero-detection capable, 3PAR^® Gen3 ASIC. 3PAR is the first to incorporate an efficient "fat-to-thin" volume conversion mechanism right into the ASIC itself, enabling even higher rates of capacity utilization while maintaining high service levels. New enhancements include:

• First storage architecture with Thin Built In™
• Fastest, most efficient single-system array on the planet
• Fat-to-thin 3PAR Gen3 ASIC for simple, on the fly storage optimization
• Ideal platform for cloud computing and delivering enterprise IT as a utility service

The T-Class takes the performance of 3PAR's next-gen storage to a whole new level with record-setting SPC-1 Benchmark results that double performance of the previous generation of InServ arrays. The T800 is the fastest single-system storage array on the market.

Thin Built In

The 3PAR Gen3 ASIC featured by the T-Class arrays includes built-in zero-detection capability to provide an efficient silicon-based mechanism for converting traditional "fat" volumes to more efficient "thin" volumes. Fat-to-thin conversions boost capacity utilization by removing allocated but unused space from traditional ("fat") volumes. 3PAR is the first to build fat-to-thin capability into the hardware architecture of its arrays to preserve service levels and prevent disruption to production workloads during volume conversions.

3PAR InSpire Architecture Featuring the 3PAR Gen3 ASIC

The 3PAR Gen3 ASIC in each T-Class Controller Node acts to communicate and move data between each controller across the passive, full-mesh backplane, allowing each application workload to be distributed and shared across all system resources in a massively parallel fashion. The 3PAR Gen3 ASIC was also designed to alleviate performance concerns and cut traditional array costs.

3PAR's unique tightly clustered InSpire Architecture, featured in the T-Class, is designed to ensure high and predictable levels of performance for all workloads—even under failure conditions—as well as high utilization rates for purchased resources. Central to the InSpire design is a high-bandwidth, low-latency backplane that unifies cost-effective, modular, and scalable components into a highly available and autonomically load-balanced cluster.

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