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

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.

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.

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00:00 Welcome and introduction

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

04:40 -10:00

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

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

15:00 – 20:00

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

20:00 – 25:00

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

25:00 – 30:00

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

30:00 – End

Collaboration Across Division
Alletra MP Discussion
Wrap-up

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