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The document describes the InForm software suite that runs on 3PAR storage systems. It includes the InForm operating system which runs independently on each controller node, a command line interface, and management console. It enables features like thin provisioning, thin persistence, virtual copies, remote copy, and dynamic optimization. The storage servers utilize a cluster approach with multiple controller nodes that present a single highly available storage system to hosts.

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2 - Software Architecture 3par

The document describes the InForm software suite that runs on 3PAR storage systems. It includes the InForm operating system which runs independently on each controller node, a command line interface, and management console. It enables features like thin provisioning, thin persistence, virtual copies, remote copy, and dynamic optimization. The storage servers utilize a cluster approach with multiple controller nodes that present a single highly available storage system to hosts.

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Software Architecture

Divakar - Deployment Support Engineer


3DC
3PAR Software's
InForm Operating System Suite
Fine Grained Reservation-less Dedicate-
Persistent Cache Autonomic Groups Host Personas
Virtualization on-Write

InForm Management
Wide Striping Thin Copy Reclamation RAID MP (Multi-Parity) Scheduler
Console

Full Copy Rapid Provisioning LDAP Access Guard

InForm Additional Software InForm Host Software


3PAR Mgr for VMware Recovery Mgr VMware
Thin Provisioning Thin Persistence
vCenter

Thin Conversion Virtual Lock Recover Mgr SQL Recovery Mgr Exchange

Recovery Mgr Oracle Multi Path IO W2K3


Virtual Domains Remote Copy

Virtual Copy Dynamic Optimization System Reporter Multi Path IO IBM AIX

System Tuner Adaptive Optimization Host Explorer


InForm OS
The InForm Software Suite is the core set of storage management software

InForm Operating System, independent instances of the operating system


running on each controller node.

InForm Command Line Interface, command line user interface for


monitoring, managing, and configuring 3PAR InServ Storage Servers

InForm Management Console, graphical user interface for monitoring,


managing, and configuring 3PAR InServ Storage Servers
Access Guard, provides volume security at logical and physical levels by enabling you to
secure hosts and ports to specific virtual volumes

3PAR Autonomic Groups, allow domains, hosts, and volumes to be grouped into a set
that is managed as a single object. Autonomic groups also allow for easy updates
when new hosts are added or new volumes are provisioned. If you add a new host to
the set, volumes from the volume set are autonomic ally provisioned to the new host
without any administrative intervention. If you add a new volume or a new domain to
a set, the volume or domain inherits all the privileges of the set.
Inform OS
Persistent Cache, allows InServ Storage Servers to maintain a high level of
performance and availability during node failure conditions, and during hardware
and software upgrades. This feature allows the host to continue to write data and
receive acknowledgments from the storage server if the backup node is unavailable.
Persistent Cache automatically creates multiple backup nodes for logical disks that
have the same owner.
Optional Software Features
Virtual Domains are used for access control. Virtual Domains allow you to limit the
privileges of users to only subsets of volumes and hosts in an InServ Storage Server
and ensures that virtual volumes associated with a specific domain are not exported to
hosts outside of that domain

Thin Provisioning allows you to allocate virtual volumes to application servers yet
provision only a fraction of the physical storage behind these volumes. By enabling a
true capacity-on-demand model, a storage administrator can use 3PAR Thin
Provisioning to create Thinly-Provisioned Virtual Volumes (TPVVs) that maximize asset
use.

Thin Conversion converts a fully-provisioned volume to a Thinly-Provisioned Virtual


Volume (TPVV). Virtual volumes with large amounts of allocated but unused space are
converted to TPVVs that are much smaller than the original volume. To use the Thin
Conversion feature you must have an InServ F-Class or T-Class Storage Server, a 3PAR Thin
Provisioning license, and a 3PAR Thin Conversion license.
Optional Software Features
Thin Persistence keeps InServ Thinly-Provisioned Virtual Volumes (TPVVs) small by
detecting pages of zeros during data transfers and not allocating space for the zeros.
This feature works in real-time and analyzes the data before it is written to the
destination TPVV. To use the Thin Persistence feature you must have an InServ F-Class
or T-Class Storage Server, a 3PAR Thin Provisioning license, a 3PAR Thin Conversion
license, and a 3PAR Thin Persistence license.

Remote Copy is a host-independent, array-based data mirroring solution that


enables affordable data distribution and disaster recovery for applications. With this
optional utility, you can copy virtual volumes from one InServ Storage Server to a second
InServ Storage Server. 3PAR Remote Copy currently requires the use of the InForm CLI.
Virtual Copy allows you to take instant virtual copy snapshots of existing volumes.
It uses copy-on-write technology so that virtual copies consume minimal capacity.
Virtual copies are presentable to any host with read and write capabilities. In
addition, virtual copies can be made from other virtual copies, providing endless
flexibility for test, backup, and business-intelligence applications.
Optional Software Features
Dynamic Optimization allows you to improve the performance of virtual volumes
without interrupting access. Use this feature to avoid over provisioning for peak system
usage by optimizing the layout of your virtual volumes. With 3PAR Dynamic Optimization
you can change virtual volume parameters, RAID levels, set sizes, and disk filters by
associating the virtual volume with a new CPG.

What are currently Enabled?


cst_T400 cli% showlicense
License key was generated on Thu Jan 28 16:45:46 2010
License features currently enabled:
Domains
Dynamic Optimization
Inform OS – Cluster
InServ Storage Servers utilize a cluster-based approach

The cluster of Controller Nodes presents to the Hosts a single, highly available,
high performance Storage System.

InServ Storage Server features a high-speed, full mesh, passive system backplane
that joins multiple Controller Nodes (the high-performance data movement
engines of the InSpire Architecture) to form a cache-coherent, active-active cluster.
Inform OS resides on each of the Controller Nodes Local Disk Drive

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