3PAR Fundamentals

By Srinivas Acharya J

Sep 24, 2012

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Agenda
Day - 1

3PAR Product Overview 3PAR Hardware Architecture 3PAR Concepts Overview 3PAR Software Overview 3PAR Service Architecture Lab Managing 3PAR

Day 2

System reporter & Demonstration 3PAR troubleshooting & Demonstration 3PAR compared to other arrays 3PAR Best Practices Lab System Reporter & Troubleshooting Case studies Q& A

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3PAR Product Overview

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HP 3PAR Hardware Portfolio

F200
Controller Nodes Fibre Channel Host Ports Optional iSCSI Host Ports Built-in Remote Copy Ports GBs Control Cache GBs Data Cache Disk Drives
2 0 12 08 2 8 12 16 - 192 50GB SSD, 300/600GB FC

F400
24 0 24 0 16 2 8-16 12-24 16 - 384 50GB SSD, 300/600GB FC

T400
24 0 64 0 16 2 8-16 24-48 16 640 50GB SSD, 300/600GB FC

T800
2, 4, 6, 8 0 128 0 32 2 8-32 24-96 16 1,280 50GB SSD, 300/600GB FC

V400
24 0 - 96 0 16 2 3264 64128 16 - 960 100/200GB SSD 300/600GB FC

V800
2, 4, 6, 8 0 - 192 0 32 2 64256 12 512 16 1,920 100/200GB SSD 300/600GB FC

Drive Types
and/or 1TB/ 2TB and/or 1TB/ 2TB and/or 1TB/ 2TB and/or 1TB/ 2TB NL NL NL NL and/or 2TB NL and/or 2TB NL

Max Capacity

128TB

384TB

400TB

800TB

800TB

1.6PB

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3PAR Hardware Architecture

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3PAR Inspire Architecture

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HP P10000 3PAR Architecture Basics

Same underlying architecture as T-Class

Cache coherent & massively load balanced Mixed workload Thin Built-In

Autonomic Management

Architectural enhancements

3PAR Gen-4 ASIC

Full 64-bit HW and SW Gen4 ASIC PCIe Bus (node motherboards) 1GB Chunklets T10 DIF

Fine Grained Virtualization

Common OS and same advanced HP 3PAR software

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3PAR Concepts Overview

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Key Concepts and Terms*

PD (Physical Disk) Chunklet

Virtual LUN CPG (Common Provisioning Group) Region Host VV Set, Host Set, (Autonomic Group) Inform Management Console (IMC)

Wide Striping
Virtual Volume Set Size

Step Size
Allocation Unit Size

*There will be a quiz.

Physical Disk Chunklets (256 MB)

C
= 256 MB Data Chunklet = 256 MB Spare Chunklet

SC

C C

C C

Each InServ Physical disk is initialized with data chunklets and spare chunklets

Physical Disk
SC SC SC

Why are Chunklets so Important?

Same drive spindle can service many different LUNS, and many different RAID types at the same time

Enables array to be managed by policy, not by administrative planning

Drives up utilization rate of the disks (no leftover space)

Improved High Availability and Sparing

Enables easy mobility between physical disks, RAID types, service levels

SW architecture: rapid, tailored provisioning...

Chunklets
Physical drives broken into fine-grained uniform 256 MB chunklets

Common Provisioning Groups

Automatically grows by creating Logical Disks (LDs) as needed (parameters set by the CPG policies)
Highest performance High resiliency Higher cost
Limit Warning

Virtual Volumes
Created and exported in two commands 15 seconds with no pre-planning

Drive Chassis

LD LD LD LD
Medium performance Highest resiliency Lower cost Autonomic

Limit Warning

LD LD
256 MB to 16 TB RAID 0, RAID 10, RAID 50 (1:2-8), RAID 60 (2:6, 2:14) Group

50GB SSD, 300 & 600GB FC, 2TB NL

Common Provisioning Groups (CPG)

CPGs are FUNDAMENTAL to administering 3PAR. CPGs automatically provision Logical Disk capacity on demand CPGs are the combination of a RAID type and a drive type which equals SERVICE LEVEL and AVAILABILITY LEVEL. CPGs have many functions:

They are the policies by which free chunklets are assembled into logical disks. They are a container for existing volumes and used for reporting They are the basis for service levels and our optimization products.

3PAR Software Overview

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Adaptive Optimization

Collects sub-volume region level access data from array

Allows creation of policies for schedules, tier definitions Analyses data and initiates region movement Generates reports for Adaptive Optimization

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Adaptive Optimization: Autonomic tiering and savings

Dynamic Optimization
Tier 0 SSD Tier 1 Fibre Channel Tier 2 Nearline (Enterprise SATA)
Autonomic Data Movement - Region
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Adaptive Optimization (AO)

NL4ON* with AO & SSD

Autonomic Tiering and Data Movement

Save ~30% on $/IOPS and $/GB vs. Fibre Channel

Recovery Manager

Traditional tape backup solutions find it almost impossible to complete backup and recovery within required time frames Competing Snapshot technologies cannot meet the granular recovery points due to limited number of snapshots supported Complex and Expensive
Often

requires professional services Capacity requirements

Increased

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Recover Manager Overview

Provide efficient local and disaster recovery solution Application Supported

MS Exchange, MS SQL, Oracle, VMware Virtual Environments Value of RM products

Rapid, affordable recovery of mission critical applications

Hundreds of recovery points enabling tighter SLAs Minimize administrative tasks by tight integration with applications Build-in scheduler for taking non-disruptive Virtual Copy

Integration with 3rd party backup tools

Symantec NetBackup Oracle RMAN backup

3PAR Service Architecture

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SPOCC

Performance log and Insplore log Collection

3PAR vs Other Arrays

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References
3PAR Focus Group: 3PAR_focus_group@external.groups.hp.com

HP 3PAR docs: www.hp.com/go/3PAR

3PAR Sales site: http://intranet.hp.com/tsg/ww3/StorageSalesPortal/Pages/3PARstorage.aspx 3PAR CLI Reference Guide

3PAR Best Practices

3PAR Courses at Grow@HP

3PAR SOP Document

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