HP has launched data deduplication software that it intends to use on primary as well as backup storage, a clustered EVA midrange Fibre Channel SAN and an iSCSI SAN built on its BladeSystem platform for virtual desktops.
HP StoreOnce, EVA Cluster and P4800 BladeSystem were among products HP rolled out during the opening day of HP TechForum 2010. HP executives focused mostly on the deduplication application. HP's executive vice president of enterprise servers, storage and networking, called StoreOnce "the most significant storage announcement we've made in at least five years."
StoreOnce is inline deduplication that is now available on the new HP D2D4312 backup appliance, and will replace the deduplication HP has sold on its smallerD2D disk backup devices for the past two years. StoreOnce has some code from the previous dedupe product, HP execs said, but will be able to scale to support primary data on application servers and HP's X9000 scale-out NAS over the next year. They also said StoreOnce will run on HP Data Protector backup software within a year.
HP's new EVA midrange system will be integrated with the StorageWorks SAN Virtualisation Services Platform (SVSP). SVSP allows clustering of two to six EVA arrays into one storage pool up to 2 PB.
HP is also introducing thin provisioning to the EVA, but the EVA hardware hasn't changed with this release.
The P4800 BladeSystem SAN uses SAN/iQ iSCSI software that HP acquired from LeftHand Networks in 2008. HP re-christened its LeftHand platform the P4000 family earlier this year. HP's other LeftHand-based systems run on ProLiant servers. The BladeSystem used for the P4800 is part of the vendor's common networking architecture running across servers and storage.
The P4800 scales to 63 TB of capacity with four storage blades connected to 140 disk drives. Because the system is integrated into a BladeSystem enclosure, the P4800 does not require external storage switches and cabling.
The P4800 is tuned for virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs) based on VMware View and Microsoft Hyper-V with Citrix XenDesktop. HP said the P4800 is designed to alleviate boot storms and log-on events that can occur with large VDI implementations. He added that HP plans other versions of the P4000 family built on BladeSystems geared for specific applications besides server virtualisation.
Thanks to SearchStorage.com for the details.