3PAR is a leading global provider of utility storage, a category of highly virtualized, tightly-clustered, and dynamically-tiered storage arrays. Organizations use utility computing to build cost-effective virtualized IT infrastructures for flexible workload consolidation. With 3PAR Utility Storage, customers can reduce the costs of allocated storage capacity, administration, and SAN infrastructure while increasing adaptability and resiliency. As a pioneer of thin provisioning, a green technology developed to address storage underutilization and inefficiencies, 3PAR offers products designed to minimize power consumption and promote environmental responsibility.
3PAR and Microsoft Virtualization
3PAR Utility Storage and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V work together to deliver software and hardware as a service through server and storage virtualization as part of a complete utility computing environment.
As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, 3PAR works with Microsoft to ensure that 3PAR Utility Storage products are tested and approved for use with a wide range of Microsoft products, including Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Unique features built into the 3PAR Utility Storage platform enable 3PAR to provide significant benefits to customers and enhance the value of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. As a result of 3PAR’s partnership with Microsoft, 3PAR can quickly integrate, test, and support new Microsoft product releases and better serve mutual customers.
High Performance: 3PAR storage automatically stripes volumes widely across all disks to create a highly load-balanced environment that scales to accommodate numerous Microsoft applications and virtual machines.
Highly Virtualized: Achieve greater hardware and resource consolidation on your storage with 3PAR’s unique architecture and on your servers with Hyper-V.
Reduce Overall TCO: Accelerate the deployment of your virtualization environment by cutting SAN, capacity, energy, and floor space costs by up to 75% with 3PAR storage.
Customer Scenario
As IT administrators consolidate their environments through server virtualization, the supporting storage infrastructure becomes even more critical. Higher server utilization rates lead to higher I/O and bandwidth per storage connection, placing greater demands on your storage arrays—much greater than traditional arrays are designed to handle. IT administrators are tasked with selecting a storage platform, like 3PAR Utility Storage, that provides exceptional I/O performance and one that mitigates any server memory and traditional storage constraints so they can take full advantage of server hardware and resource consolidation.
3PAR + Microsoft Solution
3PAR Utility Storage offers organizations a highly-responsive virtualized storage array for Microsoft Virtualization implementations. The combination of 3PAR Utility Storage and Microsoft Hyper-V delivers a complete utility computing solution with a virtualized server and storage platform to reduce infrastructure costs and management overhead and to improve agility to rapidly provision resources.
3PAR InServ Storage Servers are designed to address the performance and flexibility demands of virtualized environments to increase virtual server ROI. 3PAR arrays feature industry-leading performance combined with revolutionary hardware-based capacity optimization—like Thin Provisioning—to assure high levels of application performance and capacity utilization, giving your virtual server environment maximum flexibility at the lowest possible cost.
3PAR InServ® Storage Server
With a tightly-clustered, cache-coherent, load-balanced, and modular design, 3PAR InServ Storage Servers deliver resiliency and agility at the lowest cost to meet rapidly changing business needs.
3PAR InSpire® Architecture
3PAR InServ Storage Servers utilize the 3PAR InSpire Architecture to deliver a simple yet powerful and dynamically-tiered storage array. A high-bandwidth, low-latency backplane unifies modular and upgradeable components into a highly-available, fully-automated, load-balanced cluster.
