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The software foundation of 3PAR® Utility Storage is the 3PAR InForm® Operating System, which utilizes advanced internal virtualization capabilities to increase administrative efficiency, system utilization, and storage performance.
The InForm OS includes the following functionality and features:
New: Autonomic Groups3PAR Autonomic Groups is an InForm OS software feature that brings a new provisioning paradigm to clustered and virtual server environments by building on the same innovation featured by 3PAR Rapid Provisioning.
Autonomic Groups is designed to reduce room for human error by eliminating manual repetition of tedious commands, thereby making the provisioning process more reliable. This software feature also simplifies reporting by enabling users to pull boot and data disk utilization statistics from different clusters with just a single command.
In addition, when used together with 3PAR Virtual Domains, Autonomic Groups allows multiple independent virtual domains to be grouped as a single logical entity to simplify storage administration while maintaining the integrity of individual virtual domains. For example, backing up an autonomic domain group actually backs up all virtual domains in the group to a single backup server while still maintaining the security and isolation associated with each individual domain.
Read more about 3PAR Autonomic Groups»
Learn more about Autonomic Storage from 3PAR»
New: Scheduler3PAR Scheduler also helps automate storage management, reduce administration time, and decrease the chance of administrative error. Scheduler does this by giving users full control over creation and deletion of virtual copy snapshots—a process that is now completely automated with 3PAR Utility Storage. When used in conjunction with Autonomic Groups, 3PAR Scheduler automates virtual copy snapshots across multiple boot and data volumes with full write consistency across all these different volumes.
New: Persistent Cache3PAR Persistent Cache is a resiliency feature built into the 3PAR InForm OS that allows “always on” application and virtual server environments to gracefully handle an unplanned controller failure. Persistent Cache eliminates the substantial performance penalties associated with traditional arrays and “write-through” mode so that 3PAR InServ® Storage Servers can maintain required service levels even in the event of a cache or controller node failure.
3PAR Persistent Cache leverages the clustered InSpire® Architecture with its unique Mesh-Active design to preserve write-caching by rapidly re-mirroring cache to the other nodes in the cluster in the event of a failure. Persistent Cache is supported on all quad-node and larger 3PAR arrays, including the InServ F400—making 3PAR the only vendor to incorporate this industry-leading service level protection capability into midrange as well as high-end arrays. Learn more»
New: RAID MP (Multi-Parity)3PAR RAID MP (Multi-Parity) introduces Fast RAID 6 technology backed by the accelerated performance and Rapid RAID Rebuild capabilities of the 3PAR ASIC. 3PAR RAID MP is supported on all InServ models and delivers extra RAID protection that prevents data loss as a result of double disk failures. RAID MP delivers this enhanced protection while maintaining performance levels within 15% of RAID 10 and with capacity overheads comparable to popular RAID 5 modes. For this reason, 3PAR RAID MP is ideal for large disk drive configurations—for example, Serial ATA (SATA) drives above 1 TB in capacity.
Full Copy Full Copy is an InForm OS feature that allows you to create point-in-time clones with independent service level parameters. Full Copy offers rapid resynchronizations and is thin provisioning-aware.
Access Guard Access Guard is an InForm OS feature that delivers user-configurable volume security at logical and physical levels by enabling you to secure hosts and ports to specific virtual volumes.
New: Thin Copy Reclamation An industry first, Thin Copy Reclamation keeps your storage as lean and efficient as possible by reclaiming unused space resulting from deleted virtual copy snapshots and remote copy volumes. Thin Copy Reclamation is built on a virtualization mapping engine for space reclamation called 3PAR Thin Engine, which is included as part of the InForm OS.
LDAP Support Native support for lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) within the InForm OS delivers centralized user authentication and authorization using a standard protocol for managing access to IT resources. With support for LDAP, you can now integrate 3PAR Utility Storage with standard, open enterprise directory services. The result is simplified security administration with centralized access control and identity management.
InForm Administration Tools The InForm Operating System reduces training and administration effort through the simple, point-and-click InForm Management Console and the scriptable InForm Command Line Interface (CLI). Each interface requires only a handful of intuitive, well-supported actions or commands for complete functionality and system administration. Both management interfaces provide uncommonly rich instrumentation of all physical and logical objects for one or more storage servers, eliminating the need for extra tools and consulting often required for diagnosis and troubleshooting. Open administration support is provided via SNMP and the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S).
3PAR InForm Operating System
The software foundation of 3PAR® Utility Storage is the 3PAR InForm® Operating System, which utilizes advanced internal virtualization capabilities to increase administrative efficiency, system utilization, and storage performance.
The InForm OS includes the following functionality and features:
- Rapid Provisioning
- New: Autonomic Groups
- New: Scheduler
- New: Persistent Cache
- New: RAID MP (Multi-Parity)
- Full Copy
- Access Guard
- New: Thin Copy Reclamation
- LDAP Support
- InForm Administration Tools
New: Autonomic Groups3PAR Autonomic Groups is an InForm OS software feature that brings a new provisioning paradigm to clustered and virtual server environments by building on the same innovation featured by 3PAR Rapid Provisioning.
Autonomic Groups is designed to reduce room for human error by eliminating manual repetition of tedious commands, thereby making the provisioning process more reliable. This software feature also simplifies reporting by enabling users to pull boot and data disk utilization statistics from different clusters with just a single command.
In addition, when used together with 3PAR Virtual Domains, Autonomic Groups allows multiple independent virtual domains to be grouped as a single logical entity to simplify storage administration while maintaining the integrity of individual virtual domains. For example, backing up an autonomic domain group actually backs up all virtual domains in the group to a single backup server while still maintaining the security and isolation associated with each individual domain.
Read more about 3PAR Autonomic Groups»
Learn more about Autonomic Storage from 3PAR»
New: Scheduler3PAR Scheduler also helps automate storage management, reduce administration time, and decrease the chance of administrative error. Scheduler does this by giving users full control over creation and deletion of virtual copy snapshots—a process that is now completely automated with 3PAR Utility Storage. When used in conjunction with Autonomic Groups, 3PAR Scheduler automates virtual copy snapshots across multiple boot and data volumes with full write consistency across all these different volumes.
New: Persistent Cache3PAR Persistent Cache is a resiliency feature built into the 3PAR InForm OS that allows “always on” application and virtual server environments to gracefully handle an unplanned controller failure. Persistent Cache eliminates the substantial performance penalties associated with traditional arrays and “write-through” mode so that 3PAR InServ® Storage Servers can maintain required service levels even in the event of a cache or controller node failure.
3PAR Persistent Cache leverages the clustered InSpire® Architecture with its unique Mesh-Active design to preserve write-caching by rapidly re-mirroring cache to the other nodes in the cluster in the event of a failure. Persistent Cache is supported on all quad-node and larger 3PAR arrays, including the InServ F400—making 3PAR the only vendor to incorporate this industry-leading service level protection capability into midrange as well as high-end arrays. Learn more»
New: RAID MP (Multi-Parity)3PAR RAID MP (Multi-Parity) introduces Fast RAID 6 technology backed by the accelerated performance and Rapid RAID Rebuild capabilities of the 3PAR ASIC. 3PAR RAID MP is supported on all InServ models and delivers extra RAID protection that prevents data loss as a result of double disk failures. RAID MP delivers this enhanced protection while maintaining performance levels within 15% of RAID 10 and with capacity overheads comparable to popular RAID 5 modes. For this reason, 3PAR RAID MP is ideal for large disk drive configurations—for example, Serial ATA (SATA) drives above 1 TB in capacity.
Full Copy Full Copy is an InForm OS feature that allows you to create point-in-time clones with independent service level parameters. Full Copy offers rapid resynchronizations and is thin provisioning-aware.
Access Guard Access Guard is an InForm OS feature that delivers user-configurable volume security at logical and physical levels by enabling you to secure hosts and ports to specific virtual volumes.
New: Thin Copy Reclamation An industry first, Thin Copy Reclamation keeps your storage as lean and efficient as possible by reclaiming unused space resulting from deleted virtual copy snapshots and remote copy volumes. Thin Copy Reclamation is built on a virtualization mapping engine for space reclamation called 3PAR Thin Engine, which is included as part of the InForm OS.
LDAP Support Native support for lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) within the InForm OS delivers centralized user authentication and authorization using a standard protocol for managing access to IT resources. With support for LDAP, you can now integrate 3PAR Utility Storage with standard, open enterprise directory services. The result is simplified security administration with centralized access control and identity management.
InForm Administration Tools The InForm Operating System reduces training and administration effort through the simple, point-and-click InForm Management Console and the scriptable InForm Command Line Interface (CLI). Each interface requires only a handful of intuitive, well-supported actions or commands for complete functionality and system administration. Both management interfaces provide uncommonly rich instrumentation of all physical and logical objects for one or more storage servers, eliminating the need for extra tools and consulting often required for diagnosis and troubleshooting. Open administration support is provided via SNMP and the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S).
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