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We’re talking flash: the basics on flash-optimized storage

HPStorage-Guest| a week ago - last edited Tuesday
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By Priyadarshi (Pd), Sr. Product Manager, HP 3PAR Storage

 

Pd - Copy.jpgI have to say I’m excited to be kicking off this blog series focused on flash-optimized storage. To help introduce me to you, Calvin and I first recorded a quick podcast. Give it a listen: I talk a little bit about my background and get the conversation going on four key flash design requirements (which I’ll be talking about in more detail in subsequent posts).Then I follow up with a quick primer on flash—to lay the foundation for further discussion on flash design requirements.

 

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Tags: Flash| flash-optimized| solid-state| SSD
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Flash 101 with Vish Mulchand

CalvinZ| 3 weeks ago - last edited 2 weeks ago
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Vish Mulchand.jpgVish Mulchand is our Director of Product Management - his team is defining the future of HP Converged Storage through products like HP 3PAR StoreServ and HP StoreVirtual.  With more and more conversations happening around flash and flash-based storage, I thought it would be good to kick off some conversations focusing on the topic.  I thought Vish would be ideal to kick-off the conversation because he had a session at SNW (a storage focused industry event) in October 2012 focused on flash and I did a podcast with him back then talking about it.  NOTE: that was ATSB podcast #122 if you subscribe via iTunes. In some ways, the two conversations go together so if you haven't listened to that podcast with Vish, you should check it out.

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How server and storage evolution is driving the need for Gen 5 Fibre Channel

HPStorage-Guest| March 25, 2013
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By Rohan Viegas, Worldwide Product Management, HP Storage

 

Gen 5 Fibre Channel is more than just 16Gbps speeds. It unleashes the full potential of high-density server virtualization, cloud architectures and next-generation storage. It offers a purpose-built, data center-proven network infrastructure for storage. And it delivers unmatched performance, reliability and simplicity. Today, Rohan Viegas talks about how the server and storage evolution is driving the need for Gen 5 Fibre Channel and how the HP StoreFabric SN6500B 16Gb Fibre Channel Switch helps meet that need.

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Tags: Flash| Gen 5 Fibre Channel| SSD| StoreFabric SN6500B 16Gb Fibre Channel Switch
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More on the Flash Module for the P9500

CalvinZ| January 18, 2013
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P9500.jpgLast week, I had a blog post and video I did of the Flash Module for the P9500 - something I learned about while at HP Discover.  Things were just a wee bit busy for me and I didn't have time to learn much about the Flash Module while at Discover, but I called Ayman Abouelwafa.  Ayman is a senior architect in our enterprise storage lab and my go-to engineering guy when I need to understand something about P9500.  Ayman was in one of my first video blogs and was very helpful in doing a video we did talking about our collaboration with Hitachi Japan.

 

After talking to him, I realized there was a lot I didn't get from my 4 minute conversation at HP Discover - so here's a bit more of what I learned from Ayman.  First he told me about some new firmware.

 

Performance Accelerator

 

  • Ayman and his team worked with Hitachi Japan on Performance Accelerator, a new firmware-based program that significantly enhances the back-end random performance, targeting SSD and flash media.
  • This significantly expands the P9500 frame-limit for random IOPs.  Ayman told me the firmware enables around a million IOPs per P9500.  Wow!
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New P9500 Disk Array Flash Module

CalvinZ| January 10, 2013 - last edited 3 weeks ago
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So much news came from HP Storage at HP Discover that one thing that was new but not included in all the announcements we did is a new Flash Module for the P9500 (formerly known as the XP Disk Array).  In fact, I didn't even know about this until one of our bloggers told me he saw it in the booth.  So I went to check it out and get a quick overview from our product manager Karen van Warmerdam.  Here's a short video I did with Karen.

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Solid State Storage - why it's already changed IT and what's coming

CalvinZ| October 14, 2012 - last edited a month ago
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Vish Mulchand_SNW SSD session.pngSNW Fall is happening in Santa Clara, yet another event I can't attend as my wife and daughter are enjoying a fabulous trip through Europe. One of the hot topics that will be certainly getting a lot of attention is solid state storage.  My colleague Vish Mulchand, Director of Product Management, joined me late Friday night to record this podcast with me as he presents a session at SNW about solid state technology. 

 

It's a great discussion with Vish - here's an outline of what we covered:

  • Why has solid state changed the IT landscape?
  • Where are the different places customers can deploy solid state storage technology?
  • We discussed when to use solid state technology?
  • Lastly we talked about HP's offerings that include solid state - this is a short discussion. 
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