The HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays offer mid-range to enterprise customers leading high performance, high capacity and high availability "virtual" array storage solutions. These solutions reduce IT costs and complexity, save time, space and costs. They are supported by a powerfully simple management software suite making it easy for users to achieve highest levels of productivity. HP Storage Essentials Standard Edition SRM software, which simplifies managing EVA with SAN infrastructure is highly recommended.
Designed for the data center needing improved storage utilization and scalability, the EVA’s meet application demands for consistent high transaction I/O and provide easy capacity expansion, instantaneous replication, and simplified administration.
HP brings integrated iSCSI connectivity to the EVA and Remote Replication, SAN over WAN with Continuous Access EVA, Command View EVA Software to manage the iSCSI connectivity.
What's new
Support for 600GB 10K Fibre Channel and 450GB 10K Fibre Channel hard disk drives
Features & Benefits
Simplified management and lower cost of ownership
Need to simplify your management tasks? The EVA6100/8100 combined with HP StorageWorks
Command View EVA aggregates and automates management tasks
to easily provision storage when capacity changes with just
a few clicks. The EVA provides industry leading automatic
LUN growth and shrink with Dynamic Capacity Manager.
Need more capacity with lower cost of ownership? EVA provides lower total cost of ownership through savings in IT support and less unplanned downtime for more affordable data center management.
Investment protection:
State-of-the-art virtualization improves performance, disk usage, and allows for easy dynamic expansion. EVA's also offers support for integrated iSCSI connectivity, IP Distance Gateway for Continuous Access EVA, SAN over WAN and EVA File Services.
Snapclone, Snapshot and Delta Resync: Virtually instantaneous Snapclone and capacity-free Snapshot (Vsnap) and Delta Resync (Mirrorclone) allows immediate use of the clone copy, saving significant time. And provides a very efficient, low cost local data replication option. Saves disk space and improves disk efficiency and utilization.
Outstanding reliability and disaster tolerant
Want to manage the array from a single view point? The power of the HP tools, such as Storage Essentials and ProLiant Essentials, easily integrates your EVA into your overall management framework.
Need excellent reliability and availability? Shown to be reliable with most customers achieving 99.999% availability. Minimize planned downtime with online firmware upgrades and automated drive upgrades. EVA’s fully switched architecture provides industry leading multiple redundant paths from the controllers to the data.
Do you require disaster tolerant solutions? Superior business continuity solutions such as MetroCluster, Cluster Extensions, and Continuous Access journaling make EVA highly available.
Do you need to minimize the data center expenses? EVA can store 30% more data with the same amount of disk capacity. Integration with HP Dynamic Smart Cooling energy management system actively manages the environment to deliver cooling where it is needed most, saving costs.
Exceptional serviceability and HP support
Service and Support and Customer Self Repair: SAN management tools and Customer Self Repair to improve service levels and meet customer flexibility requirements. HP Systems Insight Manager server-storage management application, HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition (ISEE) provide proactive remote monitoring for high availability.
Need increased service delivery and support? Outstanding virtualization ensures the disks in the array are used efficiently, providing automated load leveling which eliminates stranded capacity, keeping drives busier, providing superior performance. New controllers with up to 24% improved performance.
