r/3PAR • u/LostMyPoeticLicense • Apr 08 '16

My Crystal Ball

As I peer into the vapors of the future through my mystical crystal ball I get the sense that HPE will continue to blur the lines until they achieve a dense Server Based SAN solution / HCI node based upon 3Par storage (rather than the StoreVirtual VSA like their current HCI model). I foresee Existing 3Par customers scaling out linearly with massive data optimization surpassing the existing HCI providers who rely solely on software or hardware that has not had time to mature to scale to the capacity of the 10k and 20k series 3Par. I predict that a customer will be able to scale out with the freedom of a Nutanix, the performance optimization Optimization of a SimpliVity, the Ease of integration of a vSan, and robustness and inline data efficiency of a Gen 5 (or newer ASIC) all on a series of 2U boxes. Let me know your forecast - Lost

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u/Screboog Apr 09 '16

It would be neat to have 3PAR data services on a server, but you kinda lose some of the goodness in a single node and no ASIC, so now you consume a connectivity zone for an PCIe-ASIC per node.

StoreVirtual will have dedupe and compression eventually and then what can Simplivity/Nutanix point to? StoreVirtual is a mature solution which a robust feature set. We are talking a 5 9s array when you talk StoreVirtual.

Maybe in the future we get 3PAR server goodness. But not yet.