The EVA3000 provides a service portfolio combining hardware and service into a single part number to rapidly deploy the EVA and maintain a solid storage platform. HP offers a full spectrum of complimentary EVA hardware and software product service solutions ranging from the three year Foundation Service Solution, the base level of service included in most EVA offerings, to Critical Service, HP's support for mission critical environments.

• EVA3000/5000 Series v4.0 Controller Media (VCS v4.0) provides support for:
• Industry popular multipathing
• Business Copy enhancements - 3-phase snapclone, instant restore and RSM Topology Manager
• Availability enhancements

• Outstanding self-tuning performance ensures consistency in meeting application service level agreements, allowing your users/clients to accomplish more in less time, scale capacity on-demand and minimize data administration overhead.
• State-of-the-art controller software with virtualization technology helps improve performance, increases disk utilization efficiency, and allows for easy dynamic storage expansion, all of which helps lower costs.
• Virtually Capacity- Free Snapshot (Vsnap) function can save storage administrators significant disk space and improve disk utilization efficiency.
• Virtually Instantaneous Snapclone copy capability allows immediate use of the clone copy and can save customers significant savings of time.
• Enhanced versatility and cost effectiveness provided by the ability to perform Snapclones between high performance disks and the FATA disks.
• EVA allows for increased flexibility and improved capacity utilization by supporting changing the Vraid type with Cross Vraid Snapshot and Snapclone, within the same disk group and Cross Vraid Snapclone across disk groups. Cross Vraid Snapclone also supports changing the Vraid type when Snapcloning from a high performance disk group to a FATA disk group.
• Single part number, integrated modules make ordering easy and assures that the storage solution meets customer requirements upon arrival
• Easy to use management tools which allow management of larger SAN configurations with more servers and more storage solutions, reduces management time up to 15x and substantially lowers costs
• EVA Foundation Services solution quickly deploys a highly available Enterprise Virtual Array storage platform into production and delivers ongoing hardware and VCS support.
• Through the EVA's no charge Instant Support Enterprise Edition (ISEE) remote monitoring capabilities, the EVA has the ability to provide self-monitoring and diagnosis and it will transmit status information to an HP service centre for proactive problem resolution.

Enhance EVAs inherent features with these HP products and services for added value:

• The HP StorageWorks Business Copy EVA
  • Comes complete with an improved User Interface and
  • Supports Virtually Capacity Free Snapshot (Vsnap) function which can save customers significant disk space and improve disk utilization efficiency
  • Includes Virtually Instantaneous Snapclone copy capability allowing immediate use of the clone copy providing customers significant time savings
• Leading edge HP Continuous Access EVA perform point-in-time local replication with highly available Fibre Channel (FC) multi-path support, dual FC fabric nearline data protector and campus, metro or continental SAN extensions.
• Business application specific solutions, in line with HP Information Lifecycle Management strategy, that support your business goals and help with the challenge of data management:
  • Rapid Backup for mySAP Business Suite on EVA
  • Disaster Tolerance Solution for mySAP Business Suite on EVA
• HP Critical Service (CS) for EVA is a comprehensive support solution designed for businesses running mission critical applications which cannot tolerate downtime without significant business impact. HP Critical Service provides the right combination of proactive and reactive services designed to maximize availability and performance. This includes a 6-hour call to repair commitment. Availability is limited. Certain qualifications are required for eligibility.

The EVA3000 takes advantage of the benefits of FC in distance, performance and connectivity. The use of optical Fibre cabling allows distances between connected segments of a SAN to be up to 500 meters @ 1 Gb; 300 meters @ 2 Gb using short wave multi-mode cable and up to 10 kilometers (6.21 miles) @ 1 Gb when using long wave cable. The EVA3000 with VCS is 2 Gb enabled on each FC path, but will also support 1 Gb FC paths for backwards compatibility. Storage Area Networks (SANs) can be constructed using FC switches for fabric connectivity (currently up to a maximum of 20 FC switches supported).

The EVA3000 packaging consists of a 3U FC dual controller assembly and 14-bay HP StorageWorks Model M5314A FC Drive Enclosures. The controller and drive enclosures are independent of each other to allow a wide range of configuration options. The EVA3000 is designed to address moderate capacity needs ranging (from 1 - 8 TB) as well as high performance options in commercial environments. The bundled models are factory rack-mounted in either an EVA cab (based on the HP rack 10000 series - choice of 42U, 36U and 22U heights) or Rack System/E cabinets (choice of 41U, 33U and 25U heights) via the Factory Integration process (See Configuration Information & Configuration Rules, for details). The Controller Pair Assembly and Accessory Kit are available to accommodate adding EVA3000 subsystems to existing EVA3000 configurations and to support qualifying customer-supplied racks.

Support for industry-leading Operating System platforms including: HP-UX, HP Tru64 UNIX, HP OpenVMS, Windows 2000 (Advanced Server), Windows Server 2003 (Enterprise Edition), Sun Solaris, Linux, Novell NetWare, VMware and IBM AIX.

The EVA3000 redundant architecture and value added software eliminate single-points-of-failure from server to storage in clustered or single server configurations with multi-pathing.

Lite - Arrays - EVA3000
(Software option)

HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA provides disaster tolerant replication across a Fibre Channel SAN. Continuous Access EVA performs real-time replication between HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays. 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 Business Copy EVA (and Business Copy Upgrade) is a local replication application for the EVA3000. It incorporates Virtually Capacity-free Snapshot and Snapclone capabilities with an improved user interface to assist the storage administrator. This product is indispensable for critical data centre 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.
  
• HP StorageWorks Rapid Backup for mySAP Business Suite on EVA enhances backup procedures of SAP applications on the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays. This solution minimizes the impact on operations during backup to minutes - no matter which database size is in use. More information can be found at: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/solutions/rbmysapeva/index.html

For companies that have not had the resources or expertise to deploy a Fibre Channel Storage Area Network architecture, They can now deploy an iSCSI EVA storage solution that connects application hosts to storage using an Ethernet-based network. This solution enables companies to realize better storage utilization, simplified management, and resulting cost savings that can be achieved from consolidating storage and centralizing management while leveraging their existing Ethernet infrastructure as a storage network.

Consisting of an EVA, HP ProLiant DL380 G4 or DL585 Storage Server and the HP ProLiant iSCSI Feature Pack 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. Unlike environments with separate file, print, email, and database servers, or environments using proprietary technologies, this approach delivers single-platform manageability, easy scalability, and centralized backup. It provides investment protection by enabling low-cost storage consolidation using industry-standard hardware and software on existing Ethernet infrastructure. The DL380 G4 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.
The HP iSCSI Storage Server solution is ideal for small or medium businesses that wish to take advantage of the simplification of storage consolidation and are application-focused on Microsoft® Exchange, Microsoft® SQL, or Oracle Database. It is easy-to-use and affordable, yet delivers powerful functionality usually reserved for higher-priced and more complex storage architectures.
For more information:
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/inas/smbconsolidation.html
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/inas/index.html
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/storageservers.html

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 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 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

• Up to 14 devices per disk enclosure
• Support for dual-ported 2 Gb FC disk drives and dual-ported Fibre Attached Technology Adapted (FATA) drives
• 2 Gb host support
• Management of up to 512 virtual disks (256 per HBA) ranging in size from 1 GB to 2 TB per virtual disk
• Dynamic capacity expansion (allocate capacity in 1 GB increments)
  NOTE: Requires Host Operating System Support.
• Virtual disk data load leveling (non-disruptive background activity)
• Distributed sparing of disk capacity
• Support for Continuous Access EVA remote replication (synchronous and asynchronous)
• Support for Business Copy EVA Snapshot (Vsnap) and Snapclone
• Dual redundant controller operation for increased fault tolerance
• Multiple Bus Failover Support using industry popular multiple path software
• Battery Back-up
• 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)
• Non-disruptive VCS software upgrade capability (online upgrade)
• 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)
• Command View EVA GUI Interface for management and monitoring (manages up to 16 EVAs)
  

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

EVA3000/5000 Series v4.0 Controller Media Kit
The HSV100 controller (for the EVA3000) utilizes VCS v4.0 firmware, and Continuous Access EVA and Business Copy EVA as optional value added software. For host connections, select the Operating System kit from the web site appropriate for your operating system and VCS version you are using.
NOTE: As a convenience for customers the EVA3000 ships with VCS v3.028 pre-installed. EVA3000/5000 Series v4.0 Controller Media Kit contains both v4.0 and v3.028 firmware allowing the customer to choose the VCS version supporting their multipathing configuration.

NOTE: HP Command View EVA v4.1 is required to operate with the components of the EVA3000/5000 Series v4.0 Controller Media (VCS v4.0) kit. This kit is sold separately from the VCS kit. For more information on this product please see: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/cmdvieweva/index.html

NOTE: Choosing industry popular multipathing support with VCS v4.0 may require operating system and or HBA changes. Customers desiring to run VCS at v4.0 should indicate this when they contact HP Customer Services for installation assistance.