HPE XP7 Mainframe Tiering Suite

HPE XP7 Mainframe Tiering Suite consists of Smart Tiers software and Smart Manager for MF software

HPE XP7 Smart Tiers software improves storage performance and controls costs by transparently migrating data to appropriate tiers of storage within the HPE XP7 Storage. Smart Tiers manages data in thin provisioning pools. It monitors performance at the page level and can migrate the data online to a different tier, automatically or manually, based on policies. Smart Tiers supports up to three tiers per pool. Smart Tiers supports external storage, which allows users to setup inexpensive external storage as one of the storage tiers for infrequently accessed data. RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 6 are supported.

Real Time Tiering: Smart Tier further enhances its tiering capability through real time tiering enhancement. Apart from period based tiering ranging from 30 minutes to 24 hour cycle, with real time tiering, the cycle time is reduced to seconds and sub-seconds level providing rapid response to workload changes. This is specifically beneficial for applications which experience a sudden surge in usage and require the Smart Tier monitor cycle to be less than 30 minutes to respond rapidly to the sudden increase in application usage.

HPE XP7 Smart Manager for Mainframe software provides centralized management of Smart Tiers volumes in a mainframe environment. It works together with Smart Tiers to help mainframe users conveniently and easily manage the location of volumes by tier. It allows mainframe storage administrators to transparently manage the location of volumes in a Smart Tiers pool such that SLA requirements can be satisfied. With Smart Manager for Mainframe your storage resources can be further optimized and efficiently utilized.