HP HPE0-J68 - HPE Storage Solutions

In the HPE Nimble HF-series storage system, RAID 6 with triple parity is the default RAID setup, which uses 18 data drives for RAID stripes. RAID 6 provides high redundancy by allowing for the failure of up to two drives without data loss, making it an ideal configuration for environments that require a balance between performance, capacity, and fault tolerance.

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HPE Nimble Storage RAID Configurations

HPE Storage Best Practices

HPE StoreOnce VSA (Virtual Storage Appliance) can be deployed on various cloud platforms, with Amazon AWS being one of the supported cloud/object-storage providers. AWS offers a robust and scalable infrastructure that integrates well with HPE StoreOnce VSA, enabling users to efficiently manage their backup and data protection needs in the cloud. The combination of HPE StoreOnce VSA and Amazon AWS provides flexibility in deployment and helps organizations leverage the cloud for their backup and recovery operations.

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HPE StoreOnce VSA Overview

Amazon AWS Integration with HPE StoreOnce

Persistent Checksum is a feature in HPE 3PAR StoreServ that helps detect and correct media and transmission errors that may occur anywhere in the I/O stack, from the server's Host Bus Adapter (HBA) to the HPE 3PAR StoreServ ports. This feature ensures data integrity by verifying that data read from or written to the storage array matches the original data, providing an extra layer of protection against data corruption caused by hardware issues or transmission errors.

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HPE 3PAR StoreServ Data Integrity

HPE Persistent Checksum Overview

The SimpliVity 380 is the recommended solution for a customer who has acquired another company with an outdated and costly infrastructure. This hyper-converged infrastructure solution minimizes the footprint in the data center by combining compute, storage, and networking into a single, integrated system. SimpliVity 380 offers quick deployment, simplified management, and reduced operational costs, making it ideal for modernizing IT environments rapidly and efficiently.

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HPE SimpliVity 380 Overview

HPE Converged and Hyper-Converged Solutions

Express Protect is a feature that allows data to be moved directly from a snapshot to backup storage independently of the backup server software. This feature is available in HPE's backup and recovery solutions, and it is designed to streamline the backup process, reduce load on the backup server, and improve overall backup efficiency.

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HPE Backup Solutions

HPE StoreOnce Express Protect

For a customer seeking a centralized file-sharing solution that also provides print services and 15TB of storage, the ideal recommendation is NAS (Network Attached Storage).

NAS systems are specifically designed for file sharing and often come with integrated print server capabilities. They provide centralized storage that can be accessed by multiple clients over a network, making them suitable for environments requiring both file sharing and print services. NAS devices are scalable, making it easy to add additional storage capacity as needed, and they support a variety of file-sharing protocols, ensuring compatibility with different client operating systems.

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HPE NAS Solutions

HPE Storage Overview

HPE offers several storage solutions that provide optimized backup and recovery solutions for hybrid cloud environments:

HPE StoreOnce with Catalyst: This solution provides an efficient, two-tier backup architecture that integrates with cloud storage, offering deduplication and data movement capabilities. It ensures fast recovery times and supports hybrid cloud environments, where backups can be seamlessly moved to the cloud for DR protection and retrieved quickly when needed.

HPE 3PAR 8000 Series: The HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8000 series includes robust data protection features, such as snapshot and replication capabilities, which can be integrated with cloud services through solutions like CloudBank. This integration allows for efficient, cloud-enabled data protection, optimizing recovery time and offering flexibility in a hybrid cloud environment.

These solutions provide a comprehensive approach to data protection, ensuring fast recovery times while leveraging the cloud for long-term storage and disaster recovery.

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HPE StoreOnce Solutions

HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8000

For resolving latency issues on a Nimble CS3000 storage system, particularly for a high-demand application like a 2TB ERP database, the best approach is to add additional SSD drives to the system as cache and PIN the volume. This ensures that the entire database or frequently accessed parts of it are always stored in the fastest storage tier (SSD), significantly reducing latency and improving overall performance for the ERP database.

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HPE Nimble Storage

HPE Storage Performance Optimization

In a multi-switch fabric where it is necessary to manually map out preferred paths based on application priority and topology, while still allowing failover to non-preferred paths if needed, Traffic Isolation Zones (TIZs) are the recommended functionality. TIZs provide a mechanism to segregate and control traffic within a Fibre Channel (FC) fabric, ensuring that specific application traffic follows the preferred paths while providing the necessary failover capabilities. This enhances the performance and reliability of critical applications by keeping their traffic on dedicated paths, reducing the risk of congestion and ensuring that failover paths are used only when necessary.

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HPE B-series FC Switches

To support the deployment of HPE 3PAR StoreServ with 16GB/s Fibre Channel (FC) in an existing environment that includes HPE BladeSystem with Virtual Connect Flex-10 and ProLiant Gen8/Gen9 servers, the appropriate products to include are:

HPE B-Series 16GB SAN switch: This switch is necessary to provide the high-speed 16GB/s FC connectivity between the BladeSystem and the 3PAR StoreServ array, ensuring that the performance issues are addressed with minimal changes to the environment.

HPE 16GB/s Fibre Channel HBA for Blade servers: The FC HBAs (Host Bus Adapters) are required for the blade servers to connect to the 16GB/s FC SAN, enabling end-to-end high-speed connectivity from the servers to the storage array.

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HPE B-Series SAN Switches

HPE 3PAR StoreServ Integration with BladeSystem