Podcast #136: HPE XP8 Goes Ten Years With No Downtime

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Brian visits HPE in northern California and has a chance to sit down with Rupin Mohan, Sr. Director (GM) Primary OEM Business at HPE.

This week, Brian welcomes a true veteran of the storage industry. Rupin Mohan is the Sr. Director (GM) Primary Storage OEM Business at HPE and recently met with Brian at one of HPE’s northern California locations to discuss the HPE XP8 Storage system. Naturally, the main topic centers around the fact that the XP8 has achieved an uptime of ten years without a single outage.

<span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span> Rupin’s background within the storage industry is extensive. He has spent over 26 years with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and is focused on “results-driven” business outcomes. He possesses a deep technical knowledge of flash memory, Fibre Channel, enterprise storage, and many other facets of storage technologies.

Rupin is also a member of the Board of Directors and Marketing Chairman of the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) and a member of the Board of Directors for the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).

This is an engaging discussion about how Rupin and his team hit a ten-year milestone of zero downtime on the XP8. Rupin describes his team’s effort to ensure customers’ 100% availability.

This shorter-than-usual podcast lasts only 32 minutes, so try to take it all in if you have the time. If you are strapped for time, as most of us are, we have broken the podcast down into 5-minute intervals. So hop around if you need to.

Other StorageReview resources:

• HPE XP8 On-site video
• XP8 Technical paper

00:00 Welcome and introduction

• Introducing the HP XP8
• Ten Years of Uptime
• Mission-Critical Environments
• Scalability, Performance, Reliability

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04:40 -10:00

• Design For Availability
• First Disaggregated System
• Minimum Configuration
• Customization
• Hybrid options
• Uptime and Optimal Performance.

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10:00 – 15:00

• XP8 in Mainframe and Open Systems
• HP NonStop Systems Support
• XP8’s Position in HP’s Portfolio
• Legacy System Support
• Lounging Under the GreenLake Umbrella

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15:00 – 20:00

• Hybrid Strategy
• Keeping It On-premises
• Legacy Systems Support
• MP Personas
• Built For Diverse Workloads

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20:00 – 25:00

• Data Migration
• XP8 External Storage Feature
• Simplifying IT Admin Tasks
• Intuitive Management
• 100% Service Attach Rate
• Ensuring Proper Installation

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25:00 – 30:00

• Financial Impact of Downtime
• XP8 Market Stability
• High-End Market Is Not Going Away
• Keeping Businesses Alive

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30:00 – End

• Collaboration Across Division
• Alletra MP Discussion
• Wrap-up

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