Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced enhancements to HPE XP7 Storage. The enhancements to XP7 are centered around improving performance and data reduction/capacity utilization that will result in greater consolidation and lower total cost of ownership.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced enhancements to HPE XP7 Storage. The enhancements to XP7 are centered around improving performance and data reduction/capacity utilization that will result in greater consolidation and lower total cost of ownership.
Several companies are making the move to all-flash or higher levels of flash in the data center. Not only do they get a performance uptick, the newer SSDs can comer in much higher capacities with 15TB currently available and 60TB and 100TB are on the horizon. HPE sees the customers need for hybrid and all-flash and is enhancing its XP7 storage to serve these needs. HPE claims that the new enhancements extend the XP7’s performance and availability while increasing affordability. HPE states that its XP7 platform will become more affordable to customers through data reduction that is now available for both its hybrid and all-flash configurations.
New enhancements to the HPE XP7 Storage architecture include:
- 60% greater performance (up to 4.8 million IOPS) to support large, mission-critical applications and large-scale consolidation
- Improved all-flash affordability at $1.20 per usable GB
- Greater density with new 14TB flash module devices (FMDs), which also support hardware-accelerated inline data compression.
- New software-based deduplication and compression capabilities available across FMDs, SSDs, and HDDs
- New and improved XP7 Performance Advisor software for intuitive performance monitoring and troubleshooting
- Improved high availability options and new data migration packages delivered via software for easy migration from legacy XP systems to HPE XP7 Storage
Availability and pricing
The new HPE Gen 2 XP7 Storage controllers, flash module devices software-based compression and deduplication can be ordered now. Gen 2 XP7 controllers start at $20,800. The 7TB and 14TB FMDs start at $22,200. And the Software-based compression and deduplication starts at $11,600 per XP7 frame.
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