HP 3PAR Competitive Differentiators

HP 3PAR Competitive DifferentiatorsCapability3PARIBM XIVWhy This MattersSupreme Energy EfficiencyGreater investments in people, processes, and profit instead of utility costsAdvanced array virtualizationAdvanced virtualization leads to better ease of use and lower TCOSupport for Automatic TieringProvides choice and trade-offs between data protection and capacity utilizationSupport for SSDs and high performance 15K enterprise drivesWhen performance is required, you need enterprise class high speed disksSuperior storage densityReduce costs of floor space and avoid non-standard rack issues while easily scaling capacityPerformance metrics provided (including SPCProvides an indication of performance levels the customer can expectSupport for multiple RAID typesProvides choice and trade-offs between data protection and capacity utilizationExcellent capacity utilizationThe better the capacity utilization, the better TCOSnapshotsMultiple Point-in-Time copies provides customer choice in making copies of volumesThin ProvisioningThin Provisioning provides ease of provisioning and better capacity utilization

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IBM XIV Weaknesses3PAR offers multiple arrays based on performance and capacity requirements. XIV is limited to a maximum configuration of 180 drives and poor capacity utilization.3PAR supports RAID 0, 1, 5 and RAID MP while the XIV does not support RAID but a redundancy scheme of duplicating partitions. The XIV redundancy is not by drive, but by partition. - This makes the IBM XIV systems extremely inefficient3PAR supports FC, SATA, SSD, XIV is limited to SATA or SAS drives SATA drives are not designed for the same duty cycle of the Fibre Channel drives. If XIV is used in heavy I/O environments, we expect the SATA drives to have high failure rates.3PAR offers better QoS and Flexibility vs. XIV with one RAID type and SAS or SATA drives XIV poor configuration flexibility yields poor scalability since only three configurations available from factoryHP Restricted for HP and HP Channel Partner Internal Use Only 30 January 201423 PAR Lock-out Features vs. IBM XIVMust offer multiple RAID levels, especially RAID-5 and RAID-6. Note: XIV only offers a proprietary version of RAID-1. Must offer Fibre Channel and SATA/SAS nearline drives. Note: XIV only offers SATA or SAS drives.Must offer 15k drives. Note: XIV only offers 7200 rpm drives. Must be able to survive a double-disk failure without any complications. Note: Double-disk failures cause multiple complications for XIVs. For more details on this and other XIV weaknesses, see presentation at: http://storage.corp.hp.com/Document_Storage/Competitive_library/XIV_weaknesses_Aug_2_2011.pptxMust be able to have over 5,000 combined LUNs and snapshots. Note: XIV can only have 4,000 combined LUNs and snapshots despite its claim of supporting unlimited snapshots. Must be able to zero-reclaim a 500GB LUN in 24 hours. Note: XIV takes about 3 weeks for this. Were not joking. HP Restricted for HP and HP Channel Partner Internal Use Only 30 January 20143