HPE Alletra MP High Reliability and Ultimate Performance Storage
Exceptional Performance – All-Active Architecture
HPE Alletra MP Storage delivers ultra-fast performance through its innovative all-active architecture:
- RDMA full-mesh interconnection between multiple controllers supports independent deployment of control and data nodes with all-active interconnection
- Unique all-active architecture with multi-node, massively parallel design enables concurrent data access across all controllers and ports
- End-to-end NVMe architecture supports front-end and back-end NVMe interconnection and NVMe SSDs, delivering ultra-low I/O latency
- Future-proof storage protocol and architecture designed for the next 5 to 10 years
Stability and Security – Uncompromised Operation
Ensures 100% data availability with comprehensive protection features:
- Multi-controller all-active redundant architecture delivers true active-active instant failover
- Evergreen technology experience enables upgrades without data migration, protecting initial investment
- Tolerates up to N/2 controller outages while ensuring zero data loss and non-disrupted application operation
- Independent cache power-fail protection mechanism guarantees no cache data loss without relying on BBU or capacitors
- Peer Persistence symmetric active-active capability enables seamless failover with active-active failover time ≤10 seconds
- Continuous data protection (CDP) and multi-copy cache data protection with three copies in dual-controller mode
- Multi-mode snapshot technology enables rapid data recovery
- Built-in intelligent ransomware detection engine with real-time encryption detection
- Snapshot virtual lock feature generates non-erasable read-only snapshots with configurable retention periods
- Disk enclosure protection ensures zero data loss during enclosure power failure or malfunction
- Simple, efficient and secure backup and disaster recovery across hybrid clouds
Intelligent Management – Simplified Operations
Streamlined management with cloud-like experience and automated workflows:
- Streamlined deployment completed in less than 20 minutes with automatic discovery and configuration
- LUN creation and provisioning completed in as little as 10 seconds
- Intelligent automated storage resource pool creation based on best practices
- Unified data service cloud platform for global monitoring and management from any device
- Automated, non-disruptive, policy-driven upgrades transparent to applications
- Intelligent management platform with machine learning and big data analytics for capacity analysis, performance trending, and health monitoring
- Cloud-native resource provisioning automatically recommends suitable storage devices based on application requirements
- Unified SAN and NAS integration for consolidated data storage infrastructure
- Application-aware LUN assignment with performance monitoring for Oracle, SQL Server, VMware, Exchange, and other enterprise applications
- Intelligent storage resource adjustment based on application I/O load with data reconstruction time <15 minutes per TB
- Comprehensive capability assessment with performance headroom analysis and hot/abnormal LUN identification
Technical Specifications
| Storage Controller |
Globally decoupled architecture, supports scale-out on a per-controller basis, with a maximum of 32 controllers |
| Storage Cache (per dual-controller pair) |
512 GB ~ 1TB |
| Drive Type |
NVMe SSD, supports a maximum single drive capacity of 61.44TB |
| Maximum Drive Count |
Up to 384 NVMe SSDs |
| RAID & Redundancy |
Supports multiple RAID modes including RAID 6, RAID 60, Enclosure RAID, etc. Guarantees no data loss and maintains online data access in the event of single-drive, dual-drive, or even multi-drive failure |
| Maximum LUN Count (per dual-controller pair) |
65536 |
| Supported Host Port Types |
64Gb FC / 32Gb FC / 16Gb FC / 8Gb FC / 100GbE / 25GbE iSCSI / 10GbE iSCSI, etc. |
| Back-End Ports (per dual-controller pair) |
4 * 100GbE NVMe-oF |
| Supported Operating Systems |
AIX / HP-UX / Solaris / Windows / Linux, etc. |
| Virtualization Support |
Supports VMware, CAS, Citrix, Hyper-V and other virtualization platforms, along with value-added features |
| IP Protocol Support |
Supports both IPv4 and IPv6 |
Storage Software (Standard, No Capacity Limitation)
- Replication & Active-Active Suite: Volume-based synchronous replication, asynchronous replication, active-active, and 3DC disaster recovery
- Data Optimization Suite: Snapshot, cloning, QoS (Quality of Service) priority optimization, and Peer Motion
- Security Suite: Ransomware detection, virtual domain, and virtual lock software