The development lab over at Veritas has acquired one of 3PAR's S800 arrays, to consolidate several EMC Clariion boxes. The lab -- which is using the S800 to stress-test Veritas's cluster file system -- works in tandem with the firm's integration lab, which is where products from different vendors are finally put through their paces in order to make it on to Veritas's hardware compatibility list.
The Veritas integration lab runs all the major arrays including EMC Symmetrix systems, HDS Lightning boxes, IBM Sharks, and Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) T3s, which the development lab has to share. 3PAR's S800 competes with these systems.
"We were not getting enough time on the high-end arrays, so we decided to make a little purchase ourselves," says Ashvin Kamaraju, director of file system engineering at Veritas.
He picked 3PAR's S800. "We like it so far," he says. "It's been very stable and the price is good." If he recommends it to the integration lab, which isn't guaranteed, 3PAR then stands a good chance of making it on to Veritas's recommended suppliers list. "The [integration] lab is much more conservative than we are, as it caters directly to our customers. Our group is on the leading edge of technology."
From what he's seen of 3PAR's Storage Performance Council benchmark numbers, Kamaraju says 3PAR's results are impressive. The company claims its system can pump 47,001.49 Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS), which is double HP's recently announced benchmark record (see 3PAR Claims Benchmark Title, HP Fiddles With Cache, and HP EVA Breaks Record
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