What is adaptive optimization in 3PAR?

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What is adaptive optimization in 3PAR?

HP 3PAR® Adaptive Optimization Software is a granular, policy-driven, autonomic storage tiering software solution that delivers service level optimization for enterprises and cloud data centers to reduce cost while increasing agility and minimizing risk.

Which HPE 3PAR StoreServ model is all-flash?

HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8000 storage system

HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8000 storage system
The #1 midrange storage array on the market, available all-flash or hybrid. It is an enterprise-class flash array that does not compromise performance, scalability, data services, or resiliency.

What is Tunesys in 3PAR?

The 3PAR CLI tunesys command analyzes the entire system and automatically corrects space usage imbalances in the system. Virtual volume and physical disk capacity are analyzed and re-balanced for optimal performance. Access to virtual volumes is not interrupted during system tuning operations.

What is copy CPG in 3PAR?

Copy CPG – The CPG you want metadata and snapshots to be stored in. Number of volumes – if you want to create multiple volumes at the same time. Volume sets – Add the volume to a volume set. Comments – Add any comments you wish.

What happened to 3PAR?

3PAR produced computer data storage products, including hardware disk arrays and storage management software. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise after an acquisition in 2010.

Is 3PAR a NAS or SAN?

HPE 3PAR delivers Tier-1 all-flash and hybrid-flash storage arrays designed for midrange to enterprise scale storage area networks (SANs).

What is compact CPG in 3PAR?

Compact Commands : compactcpg. DESCRIPTION. The compactcpg command consolidates logical disk space in Common Provisioning Groups (CPGs) into as few logical disks as possible, allowing unused logical disks to be removed and their space reclaimed. SYNTAX.

What is the health check command in 3PAR?

The HP 3PAR OS CLI checkhealth command checks and displays the status of storage system hardware and software components. For example, the checkhealth command can check for unresolved system alerts, display issues with hardware components, or display information about virtual volumes that are not optimal.

What is CPG in HP?

A common provisioning group (CPG) is a virtual pool of logical disks that allows up to 64 volumes. Use Search to find a template, report or dashboard by name. Search is case insensitive, supports partial entries, and will display a list of potential matches.

What is chunklet in 3PAR?

In 3PAR, physical disks are at the lowest level of data structure. The next is Chunklets. In StoreServ, a chunklet is 1GB of contiguous. space on a physical disk. RAID is implemented at the chunklet level.

Who bought 3PAR?

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
3PAR produced computer data storage products, including hardware disk arrays and storage management software. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise after an acquisition in 2010.

What is ASIC in 3PAR?

3PAR ASIC Overview
Let’s start at the beginning, an ASIC stands for Application Specific Integrated Circuit, this describes quite succinctly what it is – an integrated circuit which has been customised for a specific use.

How do you reclaim space from a CPG?

Login to 3PAR CLI as an admin user and run the command showsys -space to see the space details. Run the compactcpg -dr CPG_Name command for all the CPGs and you will be able to find out which CPG(s) need to be compacted to reclaim space.

How do I check free space on my HP 3PAR?

Raw Space

  1. Open up your 3PAR Management Console.
  2. Select systems from the navigation pane.
  3. Highlight the name of your SAN in the management tree.
  4. In the management window choose the capacity tab.

How do I replace my 3PAR Controller?

Replacing a controller node in HPE Primera 600 – YouTube

How do you create a CPG?

Creating a CPG – 3PAR Management Console

  1. In the management pane select Provisioning and then from the common actions pane select Create CPG.
  2. Next you will see a welcome screen which has alot of useful info on creating CPG’s, if you do not want to see this again click the skip this step tick box and click next.

What is Chunklets?

Noun. chunklet (plural chunklets) A small chunk. (statistics, computer science) A group of data points belonging to the same constraint cluster.

What is a collection of physical disk Chunklets arranged as rows of RAID sets?

A logical disk is a collection of chunklets arranged as rows of a RAID set.

How do I reclaim storage on HP 3PAR?

Here I have shown the process step by step: Login to 3PAR CLI as an admin user and run the command showsys -space to see the space details. Run the compactcpg -dr CPG_Name command for all the CPGs and you will be able to find out which CPG(s) need to be compacted to reclaim space.

What is host persona in 3PAR?

Host personas are tied to the host name and identified by the host persona. number. You can set the host persona number when the host is created or modify it later. Use the. HP 3PAR CLI commands or the HP 3PAR Management Console to display, create, modify, and.

What is set size in 3PAR?

In a 3PAR system it is best practice that setsize defined in CPG is a divisor of the number of disks in the CPG. The setsize defines basically the size of a sub-RAID within the CPG. For example a setsize of 8 in a RAID 5 means a sub-RAID uses 7 data and one parity disk.

What is Chunklets 3PAR?

3Par Chunklet
This is what happens in a 3PAR system, whenever a disk is added to the system it is divided into 1GB blocks of space called Chunklets. Prior to the 7000 and 10,000 series the chunklet size was 256MB, the reason for the increase to 1GB was to reflect the growing size of disks.

How do I access 3PAR storage?

Logging in to the Administrator Console

  1. Log in to SSMC (see, Accessing SSMC). If this is the first time you have logged in to SSMC, select Administrator Console in the dialog boxthat appears.
  2. Enter the SSMC administrator user name and password.
  3. Click Login. The Administrator Console displays in a new browser window.

How do I set up HP 3PAR Storage?

To set up the Service Processor and HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage system, end user must access the setup wizards directly.
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  1. Insert the HP 3PAR SmartStart DVD.
  2. Copy the SmartStart file to the local system.
  3. Open SmartStart, and follow the instructions.

What is TPVV in 3PAR?

HPE 3PAR Storage Systems – How Much Raw or Physical Space Is Used by a Thin Provisioned Virtual Volume (TPVV)