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3PAR Thin Conversion Software
With 3PAR
® Thin Conversion, a technology refresh no longer requires a terabyte-for-terabyte replacement, but instead offers the opportunity to eliminate up to 75% of your legacy capacity, simply and rapidly.
This savings alone can save you up to 60% on the cost of a technology refresh.
3PAR Thin Conversion
In an ideal world, all your storage would start thin using
3PAR Thin Provisioning software. After all, other vendors would have you purchase up to three times more storage than you really need. But what if starting thin has not been an option? For example, what if you’ve been limited to legacy arrays from a traditional storage vendor?
It’s never too late to get thin and to become more efficient. With 3PAR Thin Conversion, you can quickly shrink your storage footprint, reduce storage TCO, and meet your Green IT targets. 3PAR Thin Conversion software makes this possible by leveraging the
zero-detection capabilities within the 3PAR Gen3 ASIC and Thin Engine—3PAR's unique virtualization mapping engine for space reclamation—to power the simple and rapid conversion of inefficient, “fat” volumes on legacy arrays to more efficient, higher-utilization “thin” volumes on any InServ Storage Server featuring Thin Built In™. Getting thin has never been so easy.
The zero-detection capability built into the 3PAR Gen3 ASIC combined with Thin Conversion software can effectively and rapidly “thin” a heterogeneous datacenter to one-quarter of its original size—or less—while preserving service levels and without impacting production workloads. This means that now a technology is not only more affordable, but it reduces up-front capital costs as well as ongoing operational and environmental costs associated with powering, cooling, and housing your storage—and without requiring special host software or professional services.