Solution brief

Consolidate home directories to improve workforce productivity HPE 3PAR File Persona Software Empower and enable users while increasing security Efficient: Improve your primary storage efficiency and control • One-third the data center footprint and significant power savings • One converged capacity eliminates Challenge Truly converged storage for wasted block or file space reservation home consolidation Localized data with inadequate and Effortless: Simplify your storage inefficient protection and control HPE 3PAR StoreServ is highly efficient, deployment and administration Every IT organization has a need to store • Autonomic provisioning of all capacity flash-optimized storage engineered for and manage user-generated data such as the true convergence of block, file, and • Single, simple, and streamlined business documents, images, audio, and administration of block, file, and object access. HPE 3PAR object access video files. Traditionally, this has been done and converged controllers incorporate in local home directories on individual users’ multi-protocol support into the heart Bulletproof: Deploy your file shares laptops and desktops resulting in higher of the system architecture. This unique with confidence than necessary client device costs, ineffective • Resilient Mesh-Active architecture solution delivers tightly integrated, truly and intrusive backup processes, complex converged storage for provisioning both • Mission-critical proven HPE and time-consuming restore processes, and block volumes for server workloads and file poor data governance. IT needs a solution and object shares for client workloads such that maximizes workforce productivity while as home directory consolidation—efficiently, ensuring that data is effectively protected, effortlessly, and without compromise. secured, and controlled—all with minimal cost and effort. HPE 3PAR File Persona HPE 3PAR File Persona Software is a Consolidate user directories feature of the HPE 3PAR OS that enables a rich set of file protocols and core file data Centrally manage user data with services on a converged 3PAR StoreServ efficiency, high availability, and security Storage. Unlike other solutions, this truly Home directory consolidation allows the converged solution extends the architectural personal directories of multiple users to be benefits of HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage stored on centralized network-accessible file for primary storage workloads using its storage while still enabling the data to be default Block Persona to home directory accessible even when the user is offline from consolidation, user and group shares, content the network. Consolidating thousands of management and collaboration, custom users’ home directories on network storage cloud applications, data preservation and increases IT control and data governance governance and in a way that is simple to at lower cost, and increases workforce deploy and administer. productivity through higher availability and unencumbered backup and restore of data. Solution brief

Simplify home directory Replication and disaster recovery via Achieve greater HPE 3PAR Remote Copy protects against consolidation site failures. Share-based and Network Data storage efficiency HPE 3PAR File Persona Software simplifies Management Protocol (NDMP)-based backup HPE 3PAR File Persona improves storage home directory consolidation for physical of user data and configuration information efficiency through its use of truly converged desktops and virtual desktop users provides additional protection. controllers that require as little as one-third by supporting a broad range of user the data center space as other so-called authentication services and client operating Improved IT control and data security unified systems, truly agile capacity, and key By taking advantage of the included user systems including Microsoft® Windows®, data compaction innovations of HPE 3PAR quota policies and quota management, IT can Apple OS X, and various brands of ® and StoreServ Storage such as built-in zero better control the growth of user-generated UNIX®. Integration with Microsoft-based IT detection, industry-leading HPE 3PAR Thin data. For improved security, HPE 3PAR File environments is enhanced through support Provisioning and HPE 3PAR Thin Persistence. Persona makes sure that users can only view for Access-based Enumeration, Folder With the addition of HPE 3PAR Adaptive the subset of directories and files stored on Redirection, Offline Files, Roaming User Optimization and HPE 3PAR Dynamic the centralized network storage that they are Profiles, the Microsoft Management Console Optimization software, you can extend actually authorized to access. Moreover, the and DFS-Namespace. granular performance and capacity efficiency centralized home directories can be backed by to your consolidated home directories in the Federal Information Processing Standard Workforce productivity all the time addition to your block workloads. HPE 3PAR File Persona allows the seamless (FIPS) 140-2 certified HPE 3PAR StoreServ Overall, HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage redirection of users’ local home directory and Data-at-Rest Encryption using self-encrypting addresses a broad spectrum of server user data for VDI users to highly available drives as an optional additional measure to workloads via the default Block Persona and centralized network storage. Files can be prevent unauthorized data access. client workloads such as home directory transparently cached locally on users’ laptops consolidation via the optional HPE 3PAR File and desktops for when there is no or poor Effortless provisioning Persona—efficiently, effortlessly, and without network connectivity. Files that are created and administration compromise. or modified when the user is offline, are then autonomically resynchronized with users’ Truly converged storage management is centralized home directory when network provided by the single, streamlined HPE 3PAR Learn more at connectivity is restored. Transparent failover StoreServ Management Console and powerful, hpe.com/storage/3parfilepersona of client connections via the included latest scriptable HPE 3PAR Command Line Interface generation of file protocols enables users to (CLI) and programmatic WSAPI interface. This almost continuously access their files even in simplifies the provisioning and administration the event of a storage controller failure. of block volumes for server workloads and file and object shares for client workloads. Simplified data protection with confidence Storage administrators can effortlessly HPE 3PAR File Persona simplifies data manage their home directory consolidation protection for users and administrators alike. environment from the file shares themselves Antivirus scan services provide integration to the snapshots for user-driven file with third-party antivirus software for a recovery, antivirus scan services, and quota malware-free environment. User-driven management. In comparison to other so-called file recovery from point-in-time file store unified systems, HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage snapshots empowers users to effortlessly with HPE 3PAR File Persona is twice as easy restore deleted and previous versions of files to provision and twice as easy to monitor in without requiring administrator intervention. one-third the data center space.

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