HP Alletra Storage

HP Alletra

Data is so valuable to companies and organizations, and to all people in general, that losing it can disrupt life and work. Accelerating innovation, improving the customer experience, and increasing operational efficiency require a change in the data storage infrastructure.

This change was made by HP with the introduction of the HP Alletra service and its up-to-date licenses. Because this service provides optimal speed with easy access and also reduces costs for organizations. Experience has also shown that organizations prefer to use the cloud because of their ease of use and lower cost. So they tend to transfer all their data to the cloud system wherever they are. In other words, without proper cloud computing, your infrastructure may not keep pace with today’s business.

HP uses the new software-based data services to meet the business needs of its customers, instead of using the traditional internal data storage system previously implemented in organizations. One of the company’s best products, HP GreenLake, was one of the first cloud solutions offered by competing technology companies. This solution was used for internal storage and data management in cloud storage. HP GreenLake presents HP’s latest data storage innovation. This solution allows users to switch from a local data center to a cloud-based model. HP GreenLake has an integrated data operation solution. The solution could combine cloud data services, central management console and HP Alletra to create a new native cloud data infrastructure.

Optimization with HP Alletra

HP Alletra is the latest component of HP’s cloud data infrastructure. Data Services Cloud Console securely manages Alletra and its licenses. So it can provide a cloud-based operational experience. Alletra consists of a set of systems optimized for specific workloads consisting of Alletra 6000/9000 servers that are all NVMe. Both of these models and the licenses that can be obtained have the architectural flexibility required to run a variety of programs without disrupting their performance. Alletra servers are one of HP’s newest products and are now available. The latest information released about HP Alletra is about 6,000 PCIe, which is currently in its fourth generation. Data sheets use different units for drive capacity. Although Alletra versions 6000 and 9000 look similar, these two products also have unique platforms.

Alletra 6000

The Alletra 6000 is derived from Nimble, HP’s all-predictive flash storage technology. This solution has 24 slot drives with 3.5-inch compartments. These separate drives may have capacities of 1.92, 3.84, 7.68 or 15.36 terabytes. So the maximum capacity of the Alletra 6000 is about 368 terabytes. In comparison, the base case for the Nimble has 48 drive positions, including AF20, AF40, AF60 and AF80. The Alletra 6000 is licensed but uses AMD processors with fourth-generation PCIe interfaces and the ability to increase the number of lines. According to HP, these improvements make the Alletra up to three times faster than the Nimble. The amount of DRAM for the controller is increased in five models of the 6000 series and is as follows:

• Model 6090: 896 GB
• Model 6070: 448 GB
• Model 6050: 256 GB
• Model 6030: 128 GB
• Model 6010: 64 GB

Models 6050, 6070 and 6090 consider storage class memory as cache. The 6090 has a scalable system with a capacity of four standard 6090 arrays, each with two all-flash shelves. Therefore, the maximum raw storage capacity of a full-scale system is 3.26 petabytes. The 6000 series of this licensed solution supports triple RAID with a 32 Gbps fiber channel. It may also have a total of 1, 10, 25 and 100 Gigabit ports, which include active and ready-to-use controllers. The number of controllers is divided equally between these two types of controllers.

Alletra 9000

The Alletra 9000 is based on the HP Primera intelligent storage system. This intelligent system can combine standalone performance with high flexibility. The Alletra 9000 has 48 drive slots, which look thinner than the 6000 slots. In this solution, Ethernet ports support speeds of 10 Gbps or 25 Gbps. The FC ports also support 16 Gbps or 32 Gbps. The arrangement of the cooling fans on the back of the device is also different from the Alletra 6000. The Alletra 9000 series currently includes the 9060 and 9080 models. It should be noted that both use small SSD (SFF) drives. The raw capacity of these drives may be 1.92, 3.84, 7.68 and 15.36 terabytes. Therefore, the maximum storage capacity of both models in the 9000 series, assuming the use of 48 15.36 terabyte drives, is about 656 tebytes or 721.3 terabytes.

The 9000 series supports a variety of drives including NVM Express (NVMe) drives, the first non-destructive interactive partition (FiPS), and encrypted NVMe FIPS. The 9060 has 256GB (275GB) of cache per controller node. While the 9080 model has 768 GB (824.6 GB). Both models may have two or four controllers. But the 9080 will be significantly faster for memory-limited operations with any of the configurations. According to the latest datasheet provided, the 9000 model does not yet support storage class memory.

Note: All the mentioned features can be activated using HP license tiers.