The Enterprise Virtual Arrays are designed for the data center where there is a critical need for improved storage utilization and scalability. They meet application specific demands for transaction I/O performance for mid-range and enterprise customers. They provide easy capacity expansion, instantaneous replication, and simplified storage administration. The Enterprise Virtual Arrays combined with HP StorageWorks Command View EVA software provides a comprehensive solution designed to simplify management and maximize performance.

HP offers a full spectrum of complimentary HP StorageWorks EVA hardware, software product, solutions and HP services. This ranges from an EVA4000 Starter Kit for affordable, fast and easy small SAN deployment, EVA iSCSI Connectivity Option, Business Copy EVA, Continuous Access EVA and solution integration. In addition, the EVA warranty offering -- Foundation Service Solution, provides the base level of service included with most EVAs. HP Services provide additional offerings up to Critical Service, the support for mission critical environments.

The EVA Arrays:

• Affordable HP StorageWorks EVA4000 300GB 10K Starter Kit and EVA4000 300GB 10K SAN Starter kit includes a switch, HBA's, 8 Hard Disk Drives and Emulex's EZPilot software for quick deployment of an easy to use EVA-based SAN.
• SAN over WAN connectivity for protecting and replicating data between EVA systems with the HP StorageWorks IP Distance Gateway
  • By connecting islands of SANs over WANs, the IP Distance Gateway enables EVA Continuous Access replication over WAN (Asynchronous and Synchronous), SAN device sharing, data migration and other long distance data services
• Support for Apple Macintosh with the EVA iSCSI Connectivity Option
  EVA support for Windows XP operating system
• HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array File Services (EVA-File Services) provides easy cost effective storage consolidation with the introduction of block and file support for EVA customers
• Improvements in customer usability and supportability through new customer component replacement capability, disk drive code load enhancements and support improvement to online XCS upgrades.
  • Expanded hard disk drive customer self repair procedures supporting proactive drive replacement and drive firmware code load
• Worldwide implementation of EVA warranty support for Customer Replaceable Units (CSR) and Customer Self Upgrade (CSU) on the following Replaceable Units (RU).
  • For EVAs with a warranty entitlement start date of 2/12/2007 or later the following RUs and upgrades are supported as mandatory CSR and :
    • Hard disk drive replacement and firmware code load for new drive (CSU), if necessary
    • Replaceable Units within the controller enclosure - cache batteries, power supplies, fan, and operator control panel replacements, and bezel
    • EVAs also support the following RUs as optional CSR:
      • Cables, transceivers
      • Disk shelf - power supplies and fan

See Warranty and Services Included with the Product section of this document for more information

• XCS V6.1 for 2 and 4Gb EVA4000, EVA6000 and EVA8000
  • Improved reliability and availability
  • Operator Control Panel (OCP) security

• EVA4000 Starter Kits; SAN made easy. An affordable, ready to go, easy to manage and easy to deploy small SAN solution.
• Support for integrated application (block) and file storage solution, EVA File Services
• Support for dual-ported 2/4 Gb/s FC disk drives and dual-ported Fibre Attached Technology Adapted (FATA) drives
• Support for Direct Attach connection to Windows servers without the need for SAN switches.
• Support for integrated EVA iSCSI Connectivity Option direct for Windows and Linux or through the SAN
• Management of up to 1024 virtual disks (256 per HBA) ranging in size from 1GB to 2TB per Virtual disk, in 1GB increments.
• Dynamic capacity expansion (in 1GB increments).
  NOTE: Requires Host Operating System Support.
• Virtual disk data load leveling (non-disruptive background activity)
• Distributed sparing of disk capacity.
• Support for HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA remote replication (synchronous and asynchronous).
• Support for remote replications between current and earlier EVA generations
• Support for HP StorageWorks Business Copy EVA (Snapshot, and Vsnap (virtually capacity free shapshots), Snapclone, MirrorClone and Cross Vraid snapshots and Snapclone).
• Dual redundant controller operation for increased fault tolerance.
• Multiple Bus Failover Support using industry popular multiple path software.
  NOTE: Requires native OS multi-pathing support
• Battery-Back-Up for controller cache memory
• Asynchronous Disk Swap (hot swap)
• Clustered Server Support
• Mirrored Write-Back Cache Support
• Read-Ahead and Adaptive Read Caching Support
• Virtual RAID Arrays (Vraid0, Vraid1, Vraid5, Vraid 0+1)
• Support for local replication between Vraid types using Vsnap or Snapclone within a disk group or using Snapclone across disk groups (and Cross Vraid Snapshot and Snapclone)
• Online XCS software upgrade capability
• Online drive firmware upgrade capability
• Supports connection of up to 256 hosts
• Multi-Vendor Platform Support
• Controller Password Protection for Configuration Control
• Selective Storage Presentation and SAN-based Data Zoning (through switches).
• HP StorageWorks Command View EVA GUI Interface for management and monitoring (manages up to 16 EVAs).

The EVA4000 Starter Kit includes 1-2C1D 4U FC dual HSV200 controller assembly and 14-bay Model M5314B FC Drive Enclosure, 8-10K rpm disk drives (in either 146GB or 300GB capacities), dual-port 2/4Gb/s FC-AL, 1-inch (2.54 cm) drives, 1 CV EVA v6.0 media kit T3724D, 4-1 TB LTUs T3725A and firmware XCS 6.1. The EVA4000 Starter Kit is designed to address smaller SAN configurations that need affordable, fast and easy complete small-SAN deployment. The EVA4000 Starter Kit allows you to quickly implement a small-SAN with room to easily grow capacity using standard EVA4000 components (drives, shelves, etc.) as needed up to 28TBs.

The EVA4000 SAN Starter Kit includes all of the above from the EVA4000 Starter Kit. In addition, it includes 4 HP StorageWorks HP StorageWorks FC2142 4Gb PCI-e HBA's, 1 HP StorageWorks 4/8 Base SAN Switch, 8 4Gb SFPs, , 4 StorageWorks LC/LC 15m Cables, 4 StorageWorks LC/LC 2m Cables and Emulex's EZpilot software. This starter kit provides an all-inclusive simplified and automated SAN solution optimized for Microsoft Windows. EZPilot, used in conjunction with Command View EVA, streamlines and automates the deployment of your SAN . The EVA4000 SAN Starter Kit allows you to easily and quickly implement a SAN based with EVA and its best in class usability. With the basic SAN components and management software in place, you can grow your SAN environment easily and on your terms. NOTE: The EVA4000 SAN Starter is not available in EMEA.

The EVA4000 packaging consists of a 4U FC dual HSV200 controller assembly and 14-bay Model M5314B FC Drive Enclosures. The EVA4000 is designed to address moderate capacity needs ranging (from 0.57 - 28TB) as well as high performance options in commercial environments.
The EVA6000 packaging consists of a 4U FC dual HSV200 controller assembly and four 14-bay Model M5314B FC Drive Enclosures. The EVA6000 is designed to address moderate capacity needs ranging (from 1.15 - 56TB) as well as high performance options in commercial environments.

The EVA4000 Starter Kits, EVA4000 and EVA6000 configurations allow a wide range of configuration options. The bundled models offer flexible factory rack-mounting options in either a standard 42U cabinet (based on the HP 10000 G2 Series Rack- or a choice of 42U extended and 36U heights). The new factory racking options allow the EVA4000 Starter Kits, EVA4000 and EVA6000 to be factory integrated into cabinets with a wide variety of other HP offerings such as servers and tape back-up offerings.

The EVA4000/6000 are also available as a Controller Pair Assembly, individual M5314B Drive Enclosures, and Optional FC Dual Loop Switches to accommodate adding EVA4000/6000 subsystems to existing EVA configurations, other supported HP field racking choices and to support qualifying customer-supplied racks. The Rack System/E cabinets (choice of 41U, 33U and 25U heights) and 5642 (42U) Rack Cabinet System are supported for field installation.

The EVA8000 packaging consists of a 4U FC dual HSV210 controller assembly, 14-bay HP StorageWorks Model M5314B FC Drive Enclosures, four FC Loop Switches (optional for 2C2D model, standard for 2C6D and 2C12D models) packaged in a 42U HP 10000 G2 Series Rack. The EVA8000 is designed to address moderate to large capacity needs ranging (from 2 - 18 drive enclosures, 0.56 - 120TB) as well as high performance options in commercial environments.

The EVA8000 is also available as a Controller Pair Assembly, individual M5314B Drive Enclosures, and Optional FC Dual Loop Switches to accommodate adding EVA8000 subsystems to existing EVA configurations, other supported HP field racking choices and to supported qualifying customer-supplied racks. The Rack System/E cabinets (choice of 41U, 33U and 25U heights) and 5642 (42U) Rack Cabinet System are supported for field installation.

The EVA4000 Starter Kits, EVA4000/EVA6000/EVA8000 provide support for industry-leading Operating System platforms including: HP-UX, HP OpenVMS, HP Tru64 UNIX, Windows 2000 Server & Advanced Server, Windows 2003 Standard/Enterprise (32/64-bit) and Extended (32/64-bit), /DataCenter (64-bit), Sun Solaris, Linux, IBM AIX, Novell NetWare and VMware.
NOTE: See Operating System, Cluster and High Availability Compatibility matrix for Operating System version detail.

The EVA family's redundant architecture and value added software is designed to eliminate single-points-of-failure from server to storage in clustered or single server configurations with multi-pathing.

HP StorageWorks Continuous Access provides disaster tolerant replication across a Fibre Channel SAN. Continuous Access EVA performs real-time replication between HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays of the current and earlier generations. Continuous Access EVA provides the highest level of FC SAN data protection to customers in order to meet disaster tolerant business continuity implementation goals. Through the use of MAN/WAN Fibre Channel SAN extensions, Continuous Access EVA provides 24x7 protections against disaster like scenarios, in campus, metro or continental networks. Thus, enabling business protection against unforeseen events.

HP StorageWorks Disaster Tolerant Solution for mySAP Business Suite on EVA offers a business continuance solution for SAP environments, where data integrity and value added functionality are high priorities. Best practices for implementing remote mirroring of an SAP database as part of an overall data protection strategy with SAP applications can be found at: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/solutions/dtmysapeva/index.html

The HP StorageWorks IP Distance Gateway provides SAN over WAN connectivity for protecting and replicating data between EVA systems. By connecting islands of SANs over WANs, the IP Distance Gateway enables CA replication (Asynchronous and Synchronous), SAN device sharing, data migration and other long distance data services. At the core of providing long distance data services is the ability to copy, move and replicate data locally and over long distances. However, SANs have limited distance capabilities (10km) and IT managers need to share, protect and move data over greater distances than 10km, routers and switches that link SANs over IP WANs is the weapon of choice for most IT managers. The IP Distance Gateway uses the FCIP (Fibre Channel Internet Protocol) standard to extend SAN connectivity over the WAN.

• Low Cost SAN over WAN Connectivity
• High Performance with data compression and load balancing
• Support for FCIP for SAN extension
• Bridges SANs for all FC Fabrics
• Supports two Ethernet and two Fibre Channel ports
• Concurrent FC and IP traffic in High Availability mode
• Integrated management with HP StorageWorks mpx Manager
• Supports High Availability Options
• Fabric and Direct Attach support

http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/disk_storage/index.html

HP Metrocluster with Continuous Access EVA and Continentalclusters are integrated solutions that offer minimal downtime by rapid site recovery with automatic failover of application services (via Serviceguard) and automatic data consistency checking and read/write enabling of remotely mirrored storage in the event of a fault, failure, or disaster
http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/4171-0-0-0-121.html

HP StorageWorks Cluster Extension EVA software is a full-site disaster tolerance solution designed for mid-range storage array implementation. A disaster tolerant solution for Windows 2003 and now Linux environments, Cluster Extension EVA integrates, automates, and synchronizes server cluster failover operations with the remote replication management capabilities of HP Continuous Access EVA for a disaster tolerant solution for EVA arrays whether used as primary storage or in a tiered-storage configuration.
http://www.hp.com/go/clxeva

HP StorageWorks Disaster Tolerant Solution for mySAP Business Suite on EVA offers a business continuance solution for SAP environments, where data integrity and value added functionality are high priorities. Best practices for implementing remote mirroring of an SAP database as part of an overall data protection strategy with SAP applications can be found at: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/solutions/dtmysapeva/index.html

The HP StorageWorks Business Copy is a local replication application for the EVA family. It incorporates Virtually Capacity-free Snapshot (Vsnaps), standard snapshots and Snapclone capabilities with an improved user interface to assist the storage administrator. This product is indispensable for critical data center operations such as non-disruptive backups, frequent snapshots of high value databases, and data mining. The bottom line benefits include improved disk capacity utilization and increased business continuity, data availability, and productivity savings.

HP OpenView Storage Volume Growth provides the ability to easily expand basic disk volumes on Windows 2000 or Windows Storage Server 2003 systems without disrupting the application environment or impact the user's data. This host based product supplements the volume expansion capabilities of the Enterprise Virtual Array providing a complete end-to-end solution.

EVA iSCSI support is available through the EVA iSCSI Connectivity Option. This powerful solution provides iSCSI connectivity to an EVA utilizing the EVA's existing Fibre Channel infrastructure.
The HP StorageWorks EVA iSCSI Connectivity Option extends the advantages of Fibre Channel SANs into smaller departments and remote locations. This EVA option allows customers to incorporate iSCSI servers within SANs without requiring additional storage arrays or management costs. Use the EVA's Command View software to manage the iSCSI connectivity to the array and mount the iSCSI device in the same rack as the array. For small-SAN deployment the EVA4000 Starter Kit with the iSCSI Connectivity Option provides an affordable, robust and highly available simple iSCSI solution for smaller budgets.

For more information and operating system support:
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/evaiscsiconnect/index.html

The EVA also supports the ProLiant iSCSI Feature Pack with a ProLiant DL380 G4 or DL585 Storage Server. This product combination creates an iSCSI storage solution that is capable of hosting application storage (block), file, and print services on a single platform. The iSCSI Feature Pack is powerful and easy-to-use software that adds iSCSI target functionality to HP ProLiant Storage Server (NAS) devices. In addition, the DL380 and DL585 ProLiant Storage Servers are the perfect platforms from which to run Command View EVA, You can stretch your investment even further when you combine iSCSI connectivity, EVA management and NAS file and print serving capabilities in the same server.

For more information:
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/nas.html

HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array File Services (EVA-File Services) is an integrated application (block) and file storage solution. It can serve both block and file data concurrently with high availability and scalable performance. The EVA-File Services is supported by a powerfully simple suite of management software making it easy for users to achieve high levels of productivity.

The EVA-File Services is designed for mid-range and enterprise customers wanting a single storage solution for their block and file data, improved storage utilization, scalable throughput performance to meet application specific demands for consistent high transaction I/O, easy capacity expansion, instantaneous replication, simplified storage administration and high availability. Because the EVA- File Services can serve both block and file data concurrently with high availability and scalable performance, customers can use the EVA- File Services to consolidate their individual silos of storage to gain flexibility, reduce IT costs and complexity as compared to traditionally architected storage solutions.

The EVA- File Services supports both CIFS (windows) and NFS file serving. EVA- File Services is available factory integrated into the HP EVA4000/6000/8000 arrays. The EVA- File Services is delivered as an easy to install, easy to manage and easy to support solutions that helps customers lower their TCO and minimize the complexity of their storage environment.

The EVS- File Services includes redundant HP StorageWorks 4/8 Base SAN Switches, 1 HP Procurve Ethernet switch, 16 HP 4Gb Short Wave Transceivers, Ethernet interconnect cables between the internal modules, FC interconnect cables between the internal modules, power cords for all modules, and mounting hardware for all modules, installation and startup.

NOTE: EVA File Services are factory integrated and requires the purchase of an EVA4000, EVA6000 or EVA8000.

• The EVA- File Services integrates and simplifies providing a single storage solution for application (block) and file data delivering high utilization and lower TCO
• The EVA- File Services uses a single set of management tools that can be invoked from anywhere, anytime, resulting in a very operationally efficient environment to manage.
• Combining state-of-the-art application (block) data performance and file serving performance, that can scale as needs dictate, the EVA- File Services offers customer's aggregate performance levels far in excess of traditional file servers and NAS appliances.
• With the EVA- File Services you never "run out of space" because additional capacity can be added quickly and easily with any combination of high performance Fibre Channel and/or low cost FATA drives.
• EVA File Services uses state-of-the-art virtualization which improves performance, disk usage and TCO while the single, shared pool of storage allows for easy dynamic expansion, which automatically distributes data to avoid potential hot spots.
• With fully redundant components such as SAN switches, array controllers, and file serving nodes built into every unit, the EVA- File Services is perfect for demanding mid-range and enterprise storage applications.

For more information:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12667_div/12667_div.html
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks

Enclosed as an accessory with all StorageWorks arrays is HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM). HP SIM is the foundation for HP's unified server-storage strategy -- it is packaged as a no-cost, customer installable management application and is derived from the heritage of Compaq Insight Manager, HP Toptools, and HP Servicecontrol. HP SIM runs on HP Windows, Linux, and HP-UX and provides discovery and identification, fault management, security administration, asset reporting, and centralized configuration management across heterogeneous servers, storage and infrastructure. HP SIM is easily extensible, integrating other HP management products and value-add plug-ins such as the ProLiant Essentials, Integrity Essentials, and Server Essentials.

HP SIM relies on industry standards like SMI-S, SNMP, SSH, WBEM, and WMI to detect and report heterogeneous device attributes. HP SIM may also be configured to launch array specific applications for configuration, reporting and replication. For more information on HP Systems Insight Manager see:
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/netsys.html

HP Storage Essentials Suite delivers integrated heterogeneous functionality for network (Arrays, DAS, SAN, NAS) management, storage resource management, provisioning and application infrastructure monitoring.

http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/e-suite/index.html

HP offers a spectrum of offerings allowing customers to align their payments according to the usage of storage capacity.

• For customers requiring assistance in managing their storage infrastructure, Managed Storage Solution (MSS) meets that need while providing the option to acquire storage on a utility model. Customers have the ability to choose other options like Backup/Restore, Data Availability, Local Copy and Remote Copy services. All these capabilities are offered at a $/GB/Month fee.
• For customers that want to build and manage their own storage utility, Utility Ready Storage (URS) provides customers with storage that never runs out; priced as the customer uses it; and is easy to procure. URS pricing is based on $/GB/Month of average allocated capacity over the customer's minimum commitment. URS provides a unique opportunity to allow customers access to storage when they need it, permitting them to adapt to their changing business needs.
• For customers whose need is best described by predictable growth, Pay per forecast (PPF), offered from HP Financial Services, is an ideal fit. It is a step lease based solution where the payments are structured upfront according to the customer's forecasted growth.
• For even further demanding financial needs of customers, HP Financial Services are ready to craft a customized solution for them.

Please contact your local HP representative for further information

FATA drives are designed for lower duty cycle applications such as near on-line data replication for back-up. These drives should not be used as a replacement for EVA's high performance, standard duty cycle, Fibre Channel drives. Doing so could shorten the life of the drive.

Please see the following URL for more information on FATA drives, their uses and their benefits
http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/5982-7353EN.pdf

The EVA4000 Starter Kits and EVA4000/6000 has two FC host interfaces per HSV200 controller; four for a controller pair. The EVA8000 has four FC host interfaces per HSV210 controller; eight for a controller pair. Each controller-to-host interface is 4 Gb/s. The controllers are also compatible with 2 Gb/s and 4 Gb/s FC switches, HBAs, servers and other storage solutions.

Each EVA controller pair interfaces with M5314B drive enclosures either directly or through fibre channel loop switches. With 2 (for EVA4000/6000) and 4 (for EVA8000) device ports per controller and dual FC I/O modules per drive enclosure, each controller can connect to each FC drive A and B port. So each controller has a redundant path to each drive.

The EVA4000 Starter Kits and EVA4000/6000/8000 predefined models ship from the factory fully configured. After unpacking, they can be plugged into power sources, connected to the FC SAN, enabled and configured using Command View EVA and they are ready for use.

Installation and start-up services are part of the EVA Foundation Service Solution warranty and are available on most of the EVA4000/6000/8000 offerings.

NOTE: Installation and start-up services are not included in the purchase of the EVA4000 Starter Kits, but are highly recommended.

HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA remote copy functionality is available for use with the EVA4000 Starter Kits and EVA4000/6000/8000 arrays. For additional information about Continuous Access EVA visit: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/software.html

Continuous Access EVA is a controller-based application that performs real-time replication between HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays. The solution is enhanced to perform remote replication, and deliver high data availability and performance to users on Fibre Channel based campus, metro or continental Storage Area Networks (SANs).

HP StorageWorks Disaster Tolerant Solution for mySAP Business Suite on EVA offers a business continuance solution for SAP environments, where data integrity and value added functionality are high priorities. Best practices for implementing remote mirroring of an SAP database as part of an overall data protection strategy with SAP applications can be found at: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/solutions/dtmysapeva/index.html

All EVA are configured with dual HSV controllers that operate in a redundant mode. Each controller has redundant Fibre Channel (FC) host ports (2 for the EVA4000 Starter Kits EVA4000/6000 and 4 for the EVA8000). Each EVA4000/6000 controller has two FC device ports and the EVA8000 controller has four FC device ports. For the EVA4000 Starter Kits, EVA4000/6000/8000 in the event of a path failure, the alternate paths to the controller can be utilized with the use of multi-path software in the Operating System or in Secure Path software.

On the EVA4000 Starter Kits and EVA4000 each port connects to one FC I/O module on a drive enclosure. Up to four drive enclosures can be connected in a FC loop arrangement with a controller pair and connect to one port of up to 56 drives. With the two FC ports per controller, each controller can connect to both ports on up to 56 disk drives for redundant paths to all 56 drives. On the EVA6000 each port connects to a FC loop switch which in turn connects to one FC I/O module on up to nine drive enclosures and to one port of up to 112 disk drives. On the EVA8000 each port connects to a FC loop switch which in turn connects up to one FC I/O module on up to nine drive enclosures and to one port of up to 120 disk drives. With the four FC ports, each controller can connect to both ports on up to 240 disk drives for redundant paths to all 240 drives.

EVA8000 configurations, with more than four drive enclosures, are configured with two pairs of FC-AL switches connected between the two controllers and the drive enclosures. Up to nine drive enclosures can be redundantly connected to each pair of switches, which are redundantly connected to each controller. Each loop switch is independently powered and cooled. Should one loop switch fail, it can be replaced while I/Os continue through the remaining redundant loop switch.

The HSV controllers also have dual redundant hot plug power supplies and dual redundant hot plug blowers. Each controller has hot plug cache batteries to maintain cache contents for up to 96 hours in case of a total power failure.

The M5314B FC drive enclosure has dual redundant hot plug FC I/O modules that allow the controllers to distribute I/Os between the two modules and provides redundant paths should either FC I/O module become unavailable. The enclosure also has dual redundant hot plug power supplies and dual hot plug blowers. The enclosure also has a hot plug Environmental Monitoring Unit (EMU) to monitor and report the condition of the power supplies and fans. The EMU can be replaced without affecting I/O operations.

The FC and FATA disk drives have dual FC ports which can be redundantly accessed by each controller. The drives are hot plug. The drives can be arranged, using redundant Vraid1 or Vraid5 protection, so that a drive failure will not cause loss of data. Optional virtual sparing can be configured so that a drive failure will trigger an automatic rebuild of the Vraid1 or Vraid5 protection using the virtual spare.

All EVAs have dual redundant power distribution. Two independent power cords distribute power through two Power Distribution Units (PDUs) to each side of the EVA cabinets and to each power supply of the controllers and to each power supply of the drive enclosures and to each of the FC loop switches. Each cabinet power cord can be connected to independent power sources. For maximum availability, a customer should provide redundant power from independent power circuit breakers, independent power lines from the power company and even independent power companies.

This powerful tool provides an easy mechanism to manage up to 16 EVA units in a SAN configuration. Industry leading security enhancements in Command View now allows administrators to take advantage of Windows domains and local groups. Command View integrates with Windows Active Directory to authorize and authenticate users. In addition, all user actions and events that change system state are logged. Administrators can now use the audit logging capabilities to see who did what and when.

The Command View EVA media kits and license are required with all EVA models. HP Command View EVA requires a License to use (LTUs) equal to, or greater than the total raw capacity of each array. For the HP EVA4000 Starter Kits, Command View EVA software is included as well as licensing for up to 4 TBs as part of the bundled offering.

NOTE: HP Command View EVA software and up to 4-1 TB License to Use (LTU) are included in the EVA4000 Starter Kits.

Fibre Channel host connections provide up to 200MB/s bandwidth for each path. Dual mirrored port write caching capability, with battery backed cache, maintains optimal availability while assuring data integrity in the event of a failure.

Each HSV200 controller (for EVA4000 Starter Kits, EVA4000/6000 configurations) has two Fibre Channel host ports (four ports in a redundant pair of controllers) assuring the availability of bandwidth for the most demanding applications. In addition, up to 4GB of cache per controller pair ensures high performance.

Each HSV210 controller (for EVA8000 configurations) has four Fibre Channel host ports (eight ports in a redundant pair of controllers) assuring the availability of bandwidth for the most stringent applications. In addition, up to 8GB of cache per controller pair ensures high performance.

A storage management server can manage up to 16 EVA controller pairs (EVA 3000s, EVA5000s, EVA4000 Starter Kits, EVA4000s, EVA6000s and/or EVA8000s) in any one fabric. An EVA controller pair will support up to 256 host connections (up to 1024 HBAs).

The EVA4000 Starter Kits and EVA4000 will scale up to 56 disks (28TB using 500GB FATA disk drives, and 16.8TB using 300GB high performance disk drives).
The EVA6000 will scale up to 112 disks (56TB using 500GB FATA disk drives, and 37.6TB using 300GB high performance disk drives).

The EVA8000 will scale up to 168 disks in a single cabinet and with the addition of an optional utility cabinet, an EVA8000 will scale up to 240 disks(120TB using 500GB FATA disk drives, and 72TB using 300GB high performance disk drives).

Configure to Order (CTO) options and the HP 10000 G2 Series Racks allow even greater server and device integration, flexibility and scalability for the EVA4000 Starter Kits and EVA4000/6000. Data center managers can customize server, storage and back-up configurations as well as using the residual cabinet U space to mount Storage Management servers, switches and have the peace of mind that it is built with HP factory precision manufacturing. The EVA8000 2C2D, 2C6D, and 2C12D, also allows customers to configure their new EVA8000 units from HP manufacturing with additional drive enclosures.

The XP12000 simplifies the management of heterogeneous SAN environments through its ability to support up to 32 PB of external storage-all configured 'behind' a single XP12000. HP StorageWorks External Storage XP software uses advanced virtualization technology to allow storage administrators to host XP12000 Disk Array LUNs on externally attached storage subsystems. Any Fibre Channel port from any CHIP pair installed in any slot can be used to connect to an external EVA4000 Starter Kits and EVA4000/6000/8000.

With external EVA storage, XP presents multiple tiers of storage to a wide range of host systems. Instead of seeing a confusing collection of arrays, host systems perceive all the data to be stored inside the XP disk array. In effect, the XP disk array becomes the storage controller for a flexible, multi-tiered collection of EVAs with a range of cost and performance capabilities. By configuring EVA storage arrays behind a single XP12000, data can be moved back and forth dynamically across tiers, all of which is invisible to the applications.

The XP12000's virtualization feature also reduces the total cost of storage ownership by:

• Exploiting common storage management across multiple vendors' systems
• Easily deploying a dual-vendor policy
• Facilitating simpler and lower cost data migrations
• Increasing storage utilization
• Extending the life of legacy storage

For more information please refer to the "XP10000/12000 External Storage Streams" document on External Storage located at: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/extstxp/index.html

HP StorageWorks EVA4000/6000/8000 ships with XCS V6.1 factory installed on new EVAs. XCS V6.1 supports all 2 and 4Gb EVA4000/6000/8000 models (HSV200 (for the EVA4000 Starter Kits and EVA4000/6000) and HSV210 for the EVA8000). The base XCS License to use for the EVA is contained in the hardware shipment.

HP StorageWorks EVA4000/6000/8000 XCS v6.1 controller media download is available from HP.com. These downloads are available for upgrades of existing 2 and 4Gb EVA4000/6000/8000s. The EVA Release Notes and Upgrading Product software Guide are also available from the same location.

NOTE: Review the Release Notes and Upgrading Product Software documentation and compatibility requirements of all installed Array Integrated Software completely before upgrading. Downgrading an EVA XCS version is not recommended without HP Service support. Contact HP Services if you have any questions.

XCS V6.1 is available for download at the "software & drivers" link:
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/eva/index.html

HP StorageWorks Command View EVA is required software for all EVA models. HP Command View EVA requires a License to use (LTUs) equal to, or greater than the total raw capacity of each array.

NOTE: The HP StorageWorks EVA4000/6000/8000 controller media kit is no longer a required purchase with a new EVA or available for sale. XCS upgrades are available as downloads from HP.com.
NOTE: The minimum supported version of XCS on the 4Gb EVA4000/6000/8000 is XCS V5.1.

The following matrix will assist in identifying some of the complimentary HP software products can be used along with the EVA to support various business applications. Please see your Sales Representative, or go to http://www.hp.com/ for more information on these valuable HP software products.

Just click on the product name and you will be linked to the product specification URL.