Wow from this , im better off going with the net app , has more bang and features and flash cache to come with unlike the 3par , which you need to get to the 7400 to get , this makes my work much easier.

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 5:59 PM, mabeya conseray <mbshem@gmail.com> wrote:
check out below analysis- 

HA Product
Specification

NetApp

HP

FAS255x

FAS8020

StoreServ 7200

StoreServ 74x0

Architecture

Unified SAN and NAS; Scale-out and Scale-up. Supports 3rd Party arrays with FlexArray S/W

SAN only (FC & iSCSI); NAS requires Windows or IBRIX gateways; No 3rd party array support

Scalability

SAN: 8 nodes

NAS: 24 nodes

SAN: 8 nodes

NAS: 24 nodes

2 nodes

2-4 nodes

Max Host ports

12

28

12

24

Max drives

144 (240 SSD)

480 (240 SSD)

240 (120 SSD)

480 (240 SSD)

24 SFF drive slots in base; add-on shelves can be SFF or LFF

Drive types

100GB, 200GB SSD; 300GB, 450GB, 600GB, 900GB SAS; 1TB, 2TB, 3TB, 4TB SATA

100GB, 200GB, 400GB, 480GB, 960GB SSD; 300GB, 450GB, 900GB, 1.9TB (7450 only)

 SAS; 1TB, 2TB, 3TB, 4TB NL SAS

Auto-tiering

Flash Pools – included with OS

FlashCache – included with OS

Adaptive Optimization - sub-LUN

Dynamic Optimization – full-LUN

Protocols

16Gb FC, FCoE, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, HTTP, FTP (1GbE & 10GbE)

8Gb FC, 10Gb iSCSI/FCoE; NAS requires Windows or IBRIX gateways

Memory

48GB

48GB

24GB

32-64 GB (7400)

64-128GB (7450)

Flash Cache, Flash Pools

4TB (Flash Pool)

3TB

N/A

N/A

Data protection capabilities

·    RAID-DP, RAID4, Snapshot, SyncMirror, MetroCluster, DSM/MPIO

·    FlexClone, SnapMirror, SnapVault

·    File, Volume, or LUN level restore

·    RAID 1,5,6(MP), DSM/MPIO

·    Snapshot, Remote Copy, Peer Persistence (metro distance protection) – are add-on S/W

·    LUN level restore

Built-in efficiency technologies

Snapshot, dedupe, compression, thin provisioning, RAID-DP, FlexVol, Disk Sanitization – all included with OS

·    RAID 6(MP), Thin Provisioning – included with OS bundle

·    Snapshots are add-on S/W













































Why 3PAR:
·         Compelling performance with a 4-controller 7400 all-SSD SPC-1 benchmark of 258,078 IOPS at 0.86ms latency.  3PAR currently holds the fastest SPC-1 benchmark with their StoreServ 10800 though the latency was 13.67ms and the list price was $1.6M. HP claims the all-flash 7450 can achieve 900,000 4K read IOPS though it’s not a verified SPC benchmark – most likely Iometer driven workload.

·         Good Thin Provisioning capabilities – particularly during migration of external fat volumes to create thinly provisioned volumes in new 3PAR arrays.

·         Streamlined deployment provides pre-defined templates of disk type & capacity, RAID type, auto-tiering, & host groups for easy storage provisioning. EVA-like interface provides EVA customers with an easier transition to 3PAR arrays.

·         In-line deduplication for all-flash 7450 only.

·         New 1.9TB (effective capacity) SSD drive for 7450 only

·         EVA/EMC Migrate or HP Peer Motion S/W offers non-disruptive migration from EVA, VNX, CX4, or 3PAR arrays to new 3PAR arrays. Peer Motion is also sold as tool to “federate” 3PAR arrays together for non-disruptive LUN movement between arrays.

·         Good multi-tenant QoS capabilities that control IOP, MB/sec, & latency min/max

New Six-Nines Availability Guarantee
why net app:

·         Single unified multi-protocol scale-up and scale-out architecture.

·         Built-in storage efficiency features such as deduplication, compression, thin provisioning, RAID-DP, snapshots, etc. – all included with the OS.

·         Unique space efficient vaulting provides fast and simple backup and recovery.

·         Investment protection through non-disruptive data-in-place controller upgrades, clustering controllers of various age, size, & performance, virtualize EMC, HDS, HP, and E-series storage.

·         Simple, unified, cluster-wide management from the low-end to the high-end reduces administrative burden across a highly scalable environment.


Bottom line:

Evaluate and decide






On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 5:07 PM, geoffrey gitagia via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
Hi All
   i have been looking at these 2 products for what seems to be ages , can someone try and differentiate them in terms of service and performance

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