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HPE 3PAR Operating System Software
Overview
The software foundation of 3PAR® Utility Storage is the HPE 3PAR Operating System, which utilizes
advanced internal virtualization capabilities to increase administrative efficiency, system utilization,
and storage performance.
The HPE 3PAR OS includes the following functionality and features:
• HPE 3PAR Web Services API
• HPE 3PAR OS Administration Tools
• HPE 3PAR Rapid Provisioning
• HPE 3PAR Autonomic Groups
• HPE 3PAR Scheduler
• HPE 3PAR Persistent Cache
• HPE 3PAR Persistent Ports
• HPE 3PAR Persistent Checksum*
• HPE 3PAR RAID MP (Multi-Parity)
• HPE 3PAR Full Copy
• HPE 3PAR Access Guard
• HPE 3PAR LDAP Support
• HPE 3PAR Adaptive Flash Cache
• HPE 3PAR Thin Technologies
NOTE: *Available on HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8000, 9000, and 20000 platforms only
Product Highlights
HPE 3PAR Access Guard
Access Guard is an HPE 3PAR OS feature that delivers user-configurable volume security at logical
and physical levels by enabling you to secure hosts and ports to specific virtual volumes.
HPE 3PAR Autonomic Groups
HPE 3PAR Autonomic Groups is an HPE 3PAR OS software feature that brings a new provisioning
paradigm to clustered and virtual server environments by building on the same innovation featured
by HPE 3PAR Rapid Provisioning.
Autonomic Groups is designed to reduce room for human error by eliminating manual repetition of
tedious commands, thereby making the provisioning process more reliable. This software feature also
simplifies reporting by enabling users to pull boot and data disk utilization statistics from different
clusters with just a single command.
In addition, when used together with HPE 3PAR Virtual Domains, Autonomic Groups allows multiple
independent virtual domains to be grouped as a single logical entity to simplify storage
administration while maintaining the integrity of individual virtual domains. For example, backing up
an autonomic domain group actually backs up all virtual domains in the group to a single backup
server while still maintaining the security and isolation associated with each individual domain.
HPE 3PAR Full Copy
Full Copy is an HPE 3PAR OS feature that allows you to create point-in-time clones with
independent service level parameters. Full Copy offers online operations so that the destination clone
can be immediately exported, rapid resynchronizations and thin provisioning-awareness.
HPE 3PAR Persistent Cache
HPE 3PAR Persistent Cache is a resiliency feature built into the HPE 3PAR OS that allows "always
on" application and virtual server environments to gracefully handle an unplanned controller failure.
Persistent Cache eliminates the substantial performance penalties associated with traditional arrays
and "write-through" mode so that 3PAR StoreServ Storage Servers can maintain required service