The HPE Configuration and Pricing Tool (CPT) is the presales application designed to quickly configure, validate, and price HPE solutions, including complex storage arrays like 3PAR. It generates detailed proposals and BoMs, directly addressing the need to reduce presales configuration time and improve accuracy.

HPE Nimble Storage, powered by the cloud-based AI of HPE InfoSight, is designed for predictable performance, especially with all-flash arrays. Its key differentiator is proactive, predictive analytics and autonomous management, which is ideal for unpredictable, performance-sensitive workloads and aligns with the customer’s need for predictive issue prevention.

A core architectural principle of HPE Primera is its 100% data-availability design. This includes redundant, active/active components with no single points of failure, which is a key operational differentiator from legacy architectures that might have passive components or require downtime for maintenance.

Remote Copy (specifically synchronous or periodic asynchronous replication) is the primary feature for data protection and disaster recovery. For rapid recovery, frequent, application-consistent snapshots can be integrated with replication to provide Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) suitable for tier-1 applications.

Virtual Domains on HPE 3PAR provide secure, multi-tenancy and performance isolation. They allow the storage to be partitioned into separate logical domains for different departments or customers, ensuring that workloads in one domain cannot impact the performance or security of workloads in another, which is crucial for consolidation projects.

The core of Nimble’s adaptive flash architecture is its Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL) and the intelligence of InfoSight. It doesn’t just tier data reactively; it uses predictive analytics to learn I/O patterns and proactively promote hot data to low-latency flash, optimizing performance automatically without administrator intervention.

HPE Primera, combined with the Peer Persistence feature (enabling transparent failover between arrays in different locations) and Online Import (for non-disruptive data migration), is engineered for the highest levels of availability. This combination is specifically marketed for mission-critical apps requiring 100% uptime and zero planned downtime for operations like upgrades and migrations.

The primary operational and financial benefit of Thin Provisioning is increased storage utilization efficiency. It allows the customer to allocate more logical capacity to hosts than is physically purchased upfront, delaying capital expenditure. This reduces costs and simplifies capacity planning, as physical capacity is only consumed as data is actually written.

The HPE Storage Plug-in for vSphere (formerly the HPE 3PAR/VMware Plug-in) is the specific software component that provides deep integration. It enables and optimizes advanced VMware features such as VAAI (for offloaded operations) and supports vVols (virtual volumes), providing centralized management and policy-based control from the vSphere Client.

The HPE Configuration and Pricing Tool (CPT) is the presales application designed to quickly configure, validate, and price HPE solutions, including complex storage arrays like 3PAR. It generates detailed proposals and BoMs, directly addressing the need to reduce presales configuration time and improve accuracy.0