Cloud computing can solve system failures of storage islands

Although the design of the EVA series was very advanced at that time, it was introduced 10 years ago. Is HP's stance, the end of the metaphor Eva series? Obviously not. As a long history, has sold more than 100,000 sets of users, the cumulative operating time of more than 1 billion hours (equivalent to 114,000 years) of the outstanding system, Hewlett-Packard has made a significant improvement to P6000eva, positioning it as a traditional cloud-oriented storage, and thus boarded the cloud computing platform of the Times train.

Leveraging Convergence Architecture Services cloud computing

"Virtualization is a major element of cloud computing. A spokesman for Intel Corporation said so. In fact, this is also a big consensus in the industry. It can even be said that without virtualization there would be no cloud computing. The EVA series has a very good foundation for virtualization at the beginning of its birth, which provides a solid foundation for positioning P6000eva as a traditional storage device for cloud computing. The EVA series is the industry's first virtual Fcsan storage array, and the history of Eva is the history of bringing storage virtualization to market and continuously satisfying customer needs. "When VMware becomes the mainstream virtualization platform in the industry, the release of P6000eva fully supports the integration with VMware," said Mr. Shen Jiude, Product manager for the storage products division of the Enterprise Group of HP, China. including Siterecoverymanager and Commandviewsupport. ”

More importantly, with HP's converged infrastructure, P6000eva systems can be well used in cloud computing environments. "Storage is a very important element in the fusion infrastructure, but how the storage is incorporated into the converged infrastructure requires that storage devices meet some of the relevant features, and that P6000eva fully meets this requirement." "P6000eva has the finest Bladesystemmatrix integration," Shen Jiude said. For example, P6000eva can improve Cloudsystembladematrix storage utilization through its virtualized storage architecture and new, automated, streamlined configurations. At the same time, P6000eva can be managed on a unified Cloudsystem management platform and can be quickly changed according to the customer's business requirements, which can provide the appropriate storage services for customers in the converged infrastructure. "It should be pointed out that Bladesystemmatrix was defined by HP as the industry's first private cloud platform, while Cloudsystem is an important tool in the management of cloud computing platforms."

The integration of P6000eva and Hpcloudsystemmatrix means that if the enterprise is to transform the traditional data center into a private cloud, P6000eva can move directly into the cloud environment. "P6000 has been incorporated into the Cloudysystem as a storage unit for shared storage services. "Shen Jiude said. For more information about HP Fusion storage, refer to HP Fusion storage 2011:tobecontinued.

Dual feature and performance upgrades

In addition to being able to play a better role in the cloud computing platform, the P6000eva itself has made significant improvements in functionality and performance. With a 2.5-inch SAS drive, the P6000eva has improved performance by 73% compared with previous generations, and overall energy efficiency has increased by 40%, Shen Jiude said. Mr. Zhangnan, Senior technical advisor to the Storage products division of China Hewlett-Packard Co., Ltd., said that the performance improvement of P6000eva has the following two aspects, one is the online bandwidth change, and the other is the improvement of the DMA engine. "Previous DMA engine load is heavier, an engine needs to do a lot of things, such as RAID5/6 algorithm, RAID1 algorithm, cache synchronization, and so on, and now the three functions to three separate chips to do, so the overall performance of a small increase."

In the host interface, P6000eva also provides local multi-protocol support, allowing users to choose to use 8gb/s Fibre Channel, 1GB/SISCSI and 10gb/siscsi/fcoe, more flexible than the previous generation. "All ports are complementary, and this combination enables the customer to maximize their investment utilization." "Shen Jiude said. "P6000eva integrates Fiberchannel, iSCSI, and FCoE to protect the customer's original investment in Fiberchannel, which can be shared with the future network and the existing network." If customers are already building FCoE networks, P6000eva can provide storage-sharing services on a network connected to different networks at the same time. ”

With the introduction of P6000eva, Hewlett-Packard also launched a lot of new software. For example, for software, P6000eva new automatic streamlining configuration software and dynamic lun/raid migration features. Auto-Compact configuration is a capacity allocation technology that does not allocate too much space at once to an application, but instead allocates it to the application in a small amount of time, based on the actual capacity required for the application, to solve the problem of excessive storage availability. According to HP's data, the introduction of automated, streamlined data technology has increased the capacity utilization of P6000eva by 30% to 50%. Dynamic Lun/raid Migration enables storage administrators to migrate data to relatively inexpensive storage resources without stopping. Also, users who have purchased eva4400/6400/8400 can use software upgrades to have automatic compact configuration and dynamic lun/raid migration capabilities. In order to protect the investment of eva4400/6400/8400 customers, eva4400/6400/8400 customers can also enjoy the functions of thin configuration, dynamic LUN migration and so on.

For more information on products, please refer to HP P6000eva new product features and feature resolution. It is worth mentioning that Edisongroup's report, released this May, shows that P6000eva management is 20% to 30% less difficult than other midrange storage in the market.

Summary

In the era of cloud computing, Eva's old tree is a new flower with a fusion infrastructure. P6000eva in the storage system performance, capacity, ease of management and utilization characteristics, not only makes people feel pragmatic, and its joint application with Cloudsystem, so that customers can safely deploy in the cloud era, as a cloud computing storage platform as an important component.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)