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SAN Storage & 3PAR Utility File Services

The ChallengeWith traditional technologies, NAS, Fibre Channel SAN, and IP-based SAN services are often deployed through proliferating silos of capacity. Associated problems with this approach include:

• Poor capacity utilization and overprovisioning of capacity to meet service levels.
• Inability to move capacity to/from block and file pools as needed.
• Significant administration to manage across multiple distributed storage pools.

Unique Solution Benefits3PAR^® offers a compelling alternative called Utility File Services. Thissolution is built on consolidating capacity and direct block access (via both Fibre Channel and iSCSI) onto the 3PAR InServ^® Storage Server—a single, massively scalable, tiered-storage array—and enabling file services deployed with proven NAS gateway partners.

Together with NAS gateway partners, 3PAR Utility File Services deliver unique solution benefits that include:

• Reducing IT capital costs through consolidation and flexible utilization of capacity.
• Simplifying administration with automatic management of finely virtualized capacity.
• Ability to adjust service levels easily, precisely, and on demand using 3PAR Dynamic Optimization.

3PAR's NAS gateway partners include: ONStor, NetApp, PolyServe, and IBRIX.