HP 3PAR X9000 File Serving Software (IBRIX) Implementation Guide (QL226-96987, June 2013)

1 Introduction

This implementation guide provides the information you need to configure HP 3PAR StoreServ

Storage system with the HP StoreAll 9300 Gateway Storage. General information is also provided

on the basic steps required to allocate storage on the HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage that can then

be accessed by the StoreAll 9300 for the creation of file archiving and object services. The guide

explains how to:

• Configure and discover HP 3PAR LUNs on the StoreAll 9300 host.

• Mount and unmount the file system.

• Set up various HP StoreAll features (see “HP StoreAll OS Software Usage” (page 24)).

HP StoreAll 9300 Gateway Software enables you to leverage your HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage

investments to provide scale-out file archiving and object storage services. Clusterable with other

HP StoreAll Storage models, it is hyperscale, harnessed, instant, economic storage for today’s and

tomorrow’s datacenter. Customers can scale massively without complexity to billions of files and

objects, 16 petabytes, and 1024 nodes in a single namespace with centralized management.

Bring structure to unstructured data with custom metadata tagging, data retention policies and

WORM, and autonomic protection for data durability.

Use StoreAll Express Query to extract value by performing file system analytics and finding files

more quickly and cost effectively than traditional methods. Scale down costs of storing data over

time with policy-based tiering and a modular architecture. Backend storage connectivity to 3PAR

StoreServ is via Fibre Channel HBAs. Client access is supported over NFS, CIFS and SMB, HTTP

and HTTPS, WebDAV, REST API Object Mode and File Compatibility Mode, and FTP and FTPS.

Cluster operations are managed through the HP StoreAll 9300 management console, which

provides both a GUI and CLI. Refer to the HP StoreAll Storage user, CLI, and installation guides

for details. This documentation is available on the HP Support Center website:

http://www.hp.com/support/StoreAllManuals

Other features of the StoreAll 9300 that are covered in this guide include data migration, the

segment rebalancer, segment evacuation, software snapshots, reclamation, remote replication,

data tiering, shares like HTTP, FTP, NFS, high availability, case insensitivity, and data retention.

New features available in HP 3PAR OS 3.1.2 include:

Dynamic Optimization With Dynamic Optimization, you can change a virtual volume’s

parameters, such as the RAID level, and associate them with a

new CPG.

Persistent Cache Persistent Cache software allows systems to maintain a high level

of performance and availability during node failure conditions

and during hardware and software upgrades.

Persistent Ports The Persistent Ports (or virtual ports) feature provides minimal I/O

disruption during an HP 3PAR Storage online upgrade or

node-down event.

Quotas Enable and disable quotas when a file system is created from HP

3PAR LUNs.

The information contained in this implementation guide is the outcome of careful testing of the

HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage with as many representative hardware and software configurations

as possible.

REQUIRED

For predictable performance and results with your HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage, the information in

this guide must be used in concert with the documentation set provided by HP for the HP 3PAR

StoreServ Storage and HP StoreAll 9300 Gateway Storage.