3PAR InServ Storage Servers — T400 & T800

3PAR InServ® Storage Servers utilize the 3PAR InSpire® Architecture to deliver a simple yet powerful, dynamically tiered storage array for open systems. Central to the design is a high-bandwidth, low-latency backplane that unifies cost-effective, modular, and upgradeable components into a highly available and autonomically load-balanced cluster. The revolutionary, zero-detection capable 3PAR Gen3 ASIC uses Thin Built In™ technology to maximize capacity utilization while maintaining high performance levels.

Tightly-Coupled Cluster
3PAR's tightly clustered InSpire Architecture eliminates the price premiums and scaling complexity associated with monolithic and modular array architectures. Customers can start small and affordably—with as few as two Controller Nodes—yet grow non-disruptively and massively within a single, dynamically tiered system. Storage purchasing, training, and management are greatly simplified.

Full-Mesh Interconnect
A full-mesh, completely passive backplane provides a dedicated 1.6-Gigabyte per second data path between the 3PAR Gen3 ASIC in each InServ Controller Node. This low-latency, high-bandwidth interconnect allows each application workload to be distributed and shared across all system resources in a massively parallel fashion. Tight coupling results in high and predictable levels of performance for all workloads—even under failure conditions—as well as high utilization rates for purchased resources.