If you've used the P4000 series before you might have been wondering when solid state drives would be available. After all, it seems like a relatively simple thing to take out the spinning disk and replace them with SSDs and presto! You may have even run the VSA version on SSD drives in order to get the simplicity and scalability of P4000 on solid state.
I can say that the wait was worth it. The engineers did a lot more than just put solid state drives into the current chassis. They designed a nicely balanced system that delivers great performance with all the scalability and ease of use that you know and love with LeftHand. A lot of thought and care was put into this system to make sure bandwidth (disk and network) would support the new drives. In the first look, neither of these have been a bottleneck which shows that HP has done their homework on this system.
One of the great new features is the SSD wear level monitoring. If you are worried about the life span of solid state drives, the system provides a wear gauge so you know where you stand in terms of write life on the drives. The other fantastic feature is the power usage. The P4900 with a high workload is drawing less power than the P4500 nodes do at idle!
For more information see HP's Blog Announcement here. It's certainly worth a conversation with your HP storage sales rep.
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