The HP 6100/8100 StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array family is an enterprise class storage array system designed to aggregate and automate your array management tasks to manage more storage capacity with fewer resources. EVA is designed specifically for customers in the business critical, enterprise marketplace and is a highly available and highly reliable "virtual" array storage solution. Not only does this solution save time, space and costs compared to traditionally architected storage, it is supported by a powerfully simple suite of management software making it easy for users to provision storage and the achieve highest level of productivity.

The Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) 6100/8100 family is designed for the data center where there is a critical need for improved storage utilization and scalability. The EVA meets application specific demands for transaction I/O performance for mid-range and enterprise customers. It provides easy capacity expansion, instantaneous replication, and simplified storage administration. The Enterprise Virtual Array combined with HP StorageWorks Command View EVA software provides a comprehensive solution designed to simplify management and maximize performance.

With HP Storage Essentials Standard Edition SRM Software, you have an affordable and complete Storage Resource Management solution to efficiently manage EVA and SAN infrastructure via a unified and integrated server and storage, secure web-based tool set. Standard Edition SRM software is designed for small to medium HP Storage-based SANs and it discovers HP EVA and SAN infrastructure devices with a big picture topology view of the entire EVA ecosystem including HP EVA, HP MSA, and HP ProLiant Storage Servers (NAS), HBAs, servers and fabric switches, and it provides an holistic view of storage from the application level including Oracle, MS SQL, Exchange, InterSystems Cache' and Sybase for quicker problem resolution. The software solution reduces SAN complexity, helps optimizes SAN capacity, automates manual intensive tasks, increases IT staff efficiency and simplifies end-to-end troubleshooting monitoring and reporting. For heterogeneous and multivendor SANs, you can use HP Storage Essentials Enterprise Edition Software. The new Storage Essentials SRM Performance Pack Software provides advanced end to end performance monitoring from the application to the disk drive for multiple HP EVA SANs and arrays while increasing overall performance and reducing bottlenecks and failures.

HP offers a full spectrum of complimentary HP StorageWorks EVA hardware, software product, solutions and HP services Including the MPX200 Multifunction Router provides 1 GbE and 10 GbE iSCSI, EVA iSCSI Connectivity Option, Business Copy EVA, Continuous Access EVA, Dynamic Capacity Management 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 new EVA 4100/6100/8100 arrays support:

• Support for the new 600 GB15K RPM Fibre Channel hard disk

• Excellent reliability and availability. HP's data shows that most customers are achieving 99.999% availability with the EVA 4x00/6x00/8x00
• 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 storage servers without the need for SAN switches. SAN support for integrated EVA iSCSI connectivity options with Windows and Linux, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris, VMware. 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 Management support to expand (in 1GB increments) and shrink LUNs.
  NOTE: Requires Host Operating System Support.
• Virtual disk data load leveling (non-disruptive background activity)
• Distributed sparing of disk capacity.
• Fully switched controller to disk path
• 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
• Hardware based Virtual RAID (Vraid) provides improved RAID performance and the benefits of virtualization to grow and shrink RAID volumes (Vraid0, Vraid1, Vraid 0+1, Vraid5, Vraid 0+5, Vraid 6 & Cross Vraid Snaps)
• 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).
• Monitor and control health, HP EVA end-to-end SAN performance and monitoring, storage utilization and reporting for all key HP EVA and SAN infrastructure including servers, storage, HP MSA, HP EML E-series tape, HP ProLiant Storage Servers (NAS), HBAs, switches, applications and monitor the entire backup from a single interface with HP Storage Essentials SRM Standard Edition Software

The EVA8100 is designed to address moderate to large capacity needs ranging (from 2 - 18 drive enclosures, 1 - 240TB) as well as high performance options in commercial environments.
The EVA4100/6100 and EVA8100 are also available as a Controller Pair Assembly, individual M5314C Drive Enclosures, and Optional FC Dual Loop Switches to accommodate adding EVA4100/6100 subsystems to existing EVA configurations, other supported HP field racking choices and to support qualifying customer-supplied racks. The 5642 (42U) Rack Cabinet System is supported for field installation.

NOTE: Addition of FC Loop Switches to an EVA4100 (1 to 4 M5314C FC Drive Enclosures) creates an EVA6100 and requires purchase or upgrade of Command View, Business Copy and Continuous Access EVA licenses.

NOTE: The EVA8100 2C2D comes without loop switches. Loop switches are required when adding more than 4 shelves.

The EVAEVA6100/EVA8100 provide support for industry-leading Operating System platforms including: HP-UX, HP OpenVMS, HP Tru64 UNIX, Windows 2000 Server & Advanced Server, Windows 2003 Professional, Windows 2003 Standard/Enterprise (32/64-bit) and Extended (32/64-bit), /DataCenter (64-bit), Sun Solaris, Linux, IBM AIX, VMware and Apple Mac OS X.
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.

Expanding the power of the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA), the HP StorageWorks 12000 Virtual Library System EVA Gateway accelerates backup performance in complex SAN environments while improving overall reliability. Integrating seamlessly into existing backup applications and processes by emulating popular tape libraries and tape drives, the HP VLS 12000 EVA Gateway matches the existing data protection environment, removing the need to change backup software or monitoring policies. Additionally, because the VLS EVA Gateway uses HP EVAs as the storage pool, ease of use is maintained throughout the system. By emulating multiple tape drives simultaneously, more backup jobs can be done in parallel resulting in reduced backup times and, because the data resides on disk, single file restores are exceptionally fast.

The HP Virtual Library System EVA Gateway simplifies your SAN environment by providing more virtual devices and leveraging existing switches and HP EVA infrastructure. The result is the ability to vastly increase scale yet reduce the complexity of shared storage while maintaining the manageability of the system. As your environment changes, the HP Virtual Library System EVA Gateway adapts to it - host masking and mapping ensure that only the appropriate hosts have access to the HP Virtual Library System.

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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. Information on implementing remote mirroring of an SAP database as part of an overall data protection strategy with SAP applications can be found at: http://h71028.www7.hp.com/erc/downloads/4aa1-5683Enw.pdf

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

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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
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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.
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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://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/4AA1-5683ENW.pdf

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.

HP StorageWorks EVA Dynamic Capacity Management Software is a comprehensive software solution that automates storage provisioning and improves capacity utilization on the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) family. Designed for the enterprise market, EVA Dynamic Capacity Management Software uses advanced automation to automatically "right-size" the file system and storage volumes to ensure the highest levels of capacity utilization are achieved while reducing ongoing storage administration needs.

For more information, visit:
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/eva_dcm/index.html.

HP Storage Essentials SRM Enterprise Suite and HP Storage Essentials SRM Standard Edition Software integrates with HP Systems Insight Manager to provide advanced server and storage management capabilities. HP Storage Essentials Suite Software features a base management console and an expanding portfolio of value-add plug-ins to assist in managing EVA across the enterprise.

HP Storage Essentials Suite delivers integrated heterogeneous and multivendor functionality for network (Arrays, DAS, SAN, NAS, HBAs, switches) management, storage resource management, reporting, capacity metering, provisioning and application infrastructure monitoring.
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HP Storage Essentials Standard Edition Storage Resource Management Software and Systems Insite Manager with Command View EVA software provides a total solution that allows midsize businesses with limited IT staff to see the big picture thereby reducing SAN complexity. It supports Windows and Linux servers with small to medium HP storage based SANs including HP EVA, HP MSA, HP NAS, HP EML Tape, HBAs and fabric devices. HP Standard Edition SRM Software unified server and storage tool-set automates complex and manual storage process and tasks with auto discovery, visualization and topology mapping for quick device identification. HP Standard Edition SRM Software solution integrates with a rich assortment of HP software including Systems Insight Manager, and HP Essentials software. With the new Storage Essentials SRM Performance Pack you can monitor end-to-end performance of up to 2 EVA as part of the licensing for Storage Essentials SRM Standard Edition Software.

For more information on HP Storage Essentials Software visit: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/std-suite/index.html

EVA iSCSI support is available through the HP StorageWorks MPX200 Multifunction Router and the EVA iSCSI Connectivity Option. These powerful solution provides iSCSI connectivity to an EVA utilizing the EVA's existing Fibre Channel infrastructure.

The HP StorageWorks MPX200 Multifunction Router extends the FC SAN investment with integrated multi-protocol support, allowing customers to incorporate iSCSI servers without requiring additional storage arrays or management costs. The MPX200 offers simultaneous iSCSI and Fibre Channel support with 10GbE and 8Gb/s FC technology, providing modular multi-protocol SAN designs with increased scalability, stability, ROI and simpler to manage, secure storage solution for virtualized server environments. MPX 200's enterprise-class high-availability design provides dual hot-plug power supplies and router blades for no single point of failure. MPX200, integrated in same rack, allows customers to connect up to 4 EVA's to a single MPX200,reducing the complexity and cost of iSCSI connectivity to EVA storage arrays

The HP StorageWorks MPX200 Multifunction Router provides 1 GbE and 10 GbE iSCSI connectivity to the EVA and enables modular multi-protocol SAN designs with increased scalability, stability, and ROI on storage infrastructure.

The MPX200 Multifunction Router enables organizations to integrate low-cost Ethernet connected servers with an EVA storage system by bridging the iSCSI protocol to the Fibre Channel protocol. This capability allows iSCSI servers to leverage shared SAN resources, improving asset utilization and enabling new applications. This integration greatly reduces the cost of connecting servers to centrally managed storage and helps provide a cost-effective solution to introduce utility computing into the enterprise.

An EVA with multi-protocol support also provides network storage at reduced infrastructure costs. Small and medium businesses now have a lower entry point to take advantage of SAN benefits. Large enterprises may also deploy multi-protocol SANs in departments and remote offices.

Key Benefits:

• Delivering SAN-like benefits over the Ethernet IP network, the HP StorageWorks MPX200 Multifunction Router enables access to block storage across up to 4 EVA storage systems from an Ethernet IP network.
• Provides customers a flexible and cost effective way to connect stranded servers to existing Fibre Channel storage, increasing return on investment.
• Enterprise-class high availability design provides dual hot-plug power supplies and router blades for no single point of failure.
• Modular software and hardware design enables easy upgrades to enable additional protocols or to add more ports.
• Unmatched performance: 8 Gbps Fibre Channel, 1 GbE and 10 GbE iSCSI ports deliver best in class performance.
• Advanced installation and configuration wizards allow set up in less than 25 minutes.
• Power efficient: typically dissipates 200W for a dual blade configuration.
• Extend access to FC SANs across Ethernet networks with the virtues of an FC SAN including:
  • Consolidated storage
  • Improved disk utilization
  • Improved IT efficiency

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

The EVA also supports select ProLiant Storage Servers (i.e. NAS) connected as file/print/iSCSI gateways. The ProLiant DL380 G5 x64 SAN Storage Server and DL585 G2 Storage Server each feature Microsoft's Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 operating system that includes Microsoft iSCSI Software Target standard, while other DL380 G5 Storage Server models offer optional support for Microsoft iSCSI Software Target. Microsoft iSCSI Software Target leverages existing management expertise and inexpensive Ethernet infrastructure to deliver IP-based block access to an EVA or Fibre Channel SAN. So ProLiant Storage Servers with iSCSI target functionality not only add file and print services to your EVA investment, but they help you save even more by enabling tiered (Fibre Channel and iSCSI) block access for application servers.

In addition, any ProLiant DL380 G5 Storage Server or DL585 G2 Storage Server is a perfect platform from which to run Command View EVA. You stretch your investment even further when you host EVA management, file and print services, and iSCSI connectivity all from the same ProLiant Storage Server gateway solution.

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

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 EVA4100/6100/8100 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 EVA4100, EVA6100 or EVA8100.

• 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:
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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 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

The EVA6100 has two FC host interfaces per HSV200-B controller; four for a controller pair. The EVA8100 has four FC host interfaces per HSV210-B 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 M5314C drive enclosures either directly or through fibre channel loop switches. With 2 (for EVA4100/6100) and 4 (for EVA8100) 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 EVA6100/8100 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 EVA4100/6100/8100 offerings.

HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA remote copy functionality is available for use with the EVA4100/6100/8100 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://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/4AA1-5683ENW.pdf

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 EVA6100 and 4 for the EVA8100). Each EVA6100 controller has two FC device ports and the EVA8100 controller has four FC device ports. For the EVA6100/8100 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 EVA6100 each port connects to a FC loop switch which in turn connects to one FC I/O module on up to eight drive enclosures and to one port of up to 112 disk drives. On the EVA8100 each port connects to a FC loop switch which in turn connects up to one FC I/O module on the drive enclosures and to one port of up to 168 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.

EVA8100 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 M5314C 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 EVA, as a virtualized array, always provides striping of the drives across the entire disk group. The drives can then be arranged, using redundant Vraid1 or Vraid5 protection, so that a drive failure will not cause loss of data. Optional distributed sparing (virtual sparing) can be configured so that a drive failure will trigger an automatic rebuild of the Vraid1 or Vraid5 data set into spare space. The EVA sparing protection will utilize available disk space in the disk group and when that is exhausted, the established virtual spare space. This methodology of using unused capacity can give customers the ability to have many disk worth of spare space for maximum data availability protection and peace of mind.

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.

HP StorageWorks Command View EVA provides the capability to manage the EVA Array family in a SAN or direct connect Fibre Channel host attach configuration. HP Command View EVA software runs on a variety of server configurations; ProLiant DL380 G5 and DL585 G2 Storage Servers are the perfect platforms from which to run Command View EVA. ProLiant Storage Server gateway models (including the DL380 G5 x64 SAN Storage Server and DL585 G2 Storage Server) allow you to stretch your investment by combining EVA management, file and print services, and iSCSI connectivity all on the same platform.

The powerful Command View EVA 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.

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-B controller (for EVA6100 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-B controller (for EVA8100 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, , EVA4x00s, EVA6x00s and/or EVA8x00s) in any one fabric. An EVA controller pair will support up to 256 host connections (up to 1024 HBAs).

The EVA6100 will scale up to 112 disks (112TB using 1TB FATA disk drives, and 67.2TB using 600 GB high performance disk drives).

The EVA8100 will scale up to 168 disks in a single cabinet and with the addition of an optional utility cabinet, an EVA8100 will scale up to 240 disks (240TB using 1TB FATA disk drives, and 144TB using 600 GB 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 EVA6100/8100. 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 EVA8100 2C2D, 2C6D, and 2C12D, now allows customers to configure-to-order their new EVA8100 units from HP manufacturing.

HP StorageWorks EVA6100/8100 disk arrays can be connected as external storage devices behind HP StorageWorks XP disk arrays.

The XP24000/XP20000 simplifies the management of heterogeneous SAN environments through its ability to support up to 247 PB/ 96 PB respectively of external storage-all configured 'behind' a single XP. XP External Storage software uses advanced virtualization technology to allow storage administrators to host XP Disk Array LUNs on externally attached disk arrays. Any Fibre Channel port from any CHA pair installed in any slot can be used to connect to external storage EVA4100/6100/8100.

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 XP24000/XP20000, 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 HP StorageWorks XP External Storage Software web page at: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/extstxp/index.html.

HP StorageWorks EVA6100/8100 ships with XCS factory installed on new EVAs. XCS V6.2xx supports all 2 and 4Gb EVA4000/6000/8000 and EVA4100/6100/8100models The base XCS License to use for the EVA is contained in the hardware shipment.

HP StorageWorks EVA4x00/6x00/8x00 XCS controller media download is available from HP.com. These downloads are available for upgrades of existing 2 and 4Gb EVA4x00/6x00/8x00s. 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 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 minimum supported version of XCS on the EVA4100/6100/8100 is XCS V6.110

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.