What is 3PAR Peer Persistence?

Peer Persistence is a 3PAR feature that enables your chosen flavour of hypervisor, either Hyper-V or vSphere to act as a metro cluster. A metro cluster is a geographically dispersed cluster that enables VM’s to be migrated without interruption from one location to the next with zero down time.

Which capability does peer Persistence provide to HPE 3PAR storage systems?

HPE 3PAR Peer Persistence Software allows you to break the boundaries of storage, enabling your hosts, and data to move freely across data centers without impacting your business applications.

What is peer motion in 3PAR?

HPE 3PAR Peer Motion Utility is a command line utility that provides a set of commands for performing the migration operations from source HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage to destination HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage. Data migration. Data migration operations can be triggered at Host level or Volume level.

How do I set up 3PAR?

Launching the HP 3PAR Service Processor Setup Wizard

  1. Verify the service processor is powered on.
  2. Click the Set up the Service Processor link in SmartStart wizard step 2, Set up systems.
  3. Enter the SP IP address and click Ok.
  4. On the browser window, enter setupusr in the User Name box, and leave the password box blank.

What is active peer persistence?

The Peer Persistence software allows you to use both their primary and secondary sites in an “active-active mode” thereby putting your secondary site to a much active use than just using it as an expensive insurance policy against disaster.

What is nimble peer persistence?

Nimble Peer Persistence supports both upstream and downstream volume replication. The volumes are grouped into Volume Collections (VolCol). A VolCol may either be upstream or downstream.

What is 3PAR Federation?

In summary Storage Federation is about creating a relationship between a number of 3PAR systems which then allows volumes to be migrated between systems with a single click, you can think of this technology as like a VMotion on the storage side.

How do I connect to 3PAR sp?

Establish an SSH session to the SP.

  1. Enter the following settings: Host Name (or IP address): 10.255. 155.52 for iLO or 10.255. 155.54 for Service (SPMAINT) Login Name: administrator. Password (Use iLO password)
  2. At the prompt, enter vsp and press Enter.

What is the use of 3PAR Service Processor?

The HP 3PAR Service Processor monitors the HP 3PAR StoreServ 20000 and enables remote monitoring and remote servicing of the array. The Service Processor leverages the industry-standard HTTP over Secure Sockets Layer (HTTPS) protocol to secure and encrypt data communication.

How do I enable SSH in 3PAR storage?

Enable the provider

  1. Using SSH, enter the IP address of the 3PAR array:
  2. Log in using the username and password setup on the array. The defaults are 3paradm/3pardata.
  3. Enter setcim. This command can be used to start or stop the provider.

How do I restart my 3PAR processor?

Rebooting the SP

  1. On the main menu, select Service Processor.
  2. On the Actions menu, select Reboot.
  3. Follow the instructions on the dialog that opens.

What is a VSP in 3PAR?

3PAR VSP (Virtual Service Processor) software for 3PAR8450.