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Scale-out design delivers greater linear performance versus dual controller systems
The rapid evolution of server technology has created greater demands on storage performance and throughput. These demands are further compounded as virtualization increases server utilization levels, requiring scalable storage capacity and performance to avoid bottlenecks.
Solid state drives (SSDs) are designed to improve performance and efficiency of database indexes, heavy-read workloads, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) boot storms and legacy datasets. However, when SSDs are used within traditional dual controller disk systems, their performance and potential are hindered by limited Input/Output (I/O) throughput.
The new HP LeftHand P4900 Solid State Drive (SSD) Storage system delivers SSD performance without controller bottlenecks; it scales capacity and performance non-disruptively and linearly as workload demands increase. Clients can now either deploy a dedicated SSD configuration or use the HP LeftHand P4900 as an SSD tier within a larger LeftHand management group. This latest addition to the HP LeftHand Storage portfolio enables clients to:
— Improve performance with 10 times greater I/O per Second (IOPS) compared to solutions with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives.
— Rapidly adapt to changing application demands with linear scalability and increased IOPS each time a node is added to the system versus traditional dual controller arrays.(1)
— Manage drive life span by monitoring the percentage of SSD life consumed, life remaining, and notification of end of life with HP SMARTSSD Wear Gauge?.
— Build a flexible, tiered storage infrastructure with performance- and capacity-optimized systems as well as virtual and physical storage area networks (SANs) to fit any size business.
— Easily add SSD nodes into existing LeftHand fabric without the need for special planning or management.
— Create a high performance storage tier to handle virtual machines with extremely high workload requirements as well as the concentrated I/O that is typical in client virtualization environments.
— Improve productivity by maintaining data access while migrating a current HP LeftHand P4000 volume to a new HP LeftHand P4900 high-performance tier with HP Peer Motion.
— Protect critical data with Network RAID synchronous replication, application integrated snapshots, remote copy asynchronous replication as well as multi-site disaster recovery solutions which provide automatic failover/failback across multiple sites and eliminate single point of failure.
Additional product information is available at www.hp.com/go/p4000
Availability
HP LeftHand P4900 Solid State Drive (SSD) Storage is available now.
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(1) A 2-node P4900 solution is capable of delivering 70,000 IOPS at 3 ms response time during an 8KB, 100% random read test with HP P4000 DSM for Windows MPIO as compared to a 24-node P4500 solution with SAS drives which delivers 70,000 IOPS at a 30 ms response time.