The HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array Starter Kits offer midsize customers with limited storage administration resources, an affordable single part number package with enterprise-class array functionality that's simple to order, simple to deploy, and simple to manage. Designed to reduce the complexity and total cost of ownership of traditional arrays, the EVA4400 is ideal for customers who are looking for a reliable, available, and cost effective storage solution. EVA4400 Starter Kits include disk drives and all necessary accessories as part of the package.

The EVA4400 delivers all the business benefits of virtualization such as ease of management, superior capacity utilization, and self-tuning performance that have made the EVA product family one of best selling arrays in its class. The EVA4400 provides broad operating system support and is built on the EVA4100/6100/8100 architecture with dual-redundant design and offering 99.999% availability. Plus, it supports the robust local and remote replication capabilities of Business Copy and Continuous Access EVA allowing customers to configure for disaster tolerance and the ability to easily keep applications on-line during backup and restore. The EVA4400 delivers real value to customers with cost savings that include easy set up, installation and configuration, and self-repair capabilities. EVA4400 also offers tiered storage so you can match the value of data to your business needs with support for high-performing fibre channel drives or lower priced FATA drives. With the flexibility to attach to iSCSI and FC SAN networks, you can deploy networking technologies that make sense for your environment. With Command View management software and storage provisioning capabilities of Dynamic Capacity Management software, customers spend less time managing their storage and more time managing their business. EVA4400 Starter Kits provide the easiest way to order, set up and install the EVA4400.

HP offers a full spectrum of complimentary HP StorageWorks EVA hardware, software product, solutions and HP services for the EVA4400. Connectivity Option, Business Copy EVA, Continuous Access EVA and solution integration. In addition, the EVA warranty offering -provides the base level of service to which you can add appropriate service option. HP Services provide additional offerings up to Critical Service, the support for mission critical environments.

The EVA4400 Starter Kits now come with the 3 year HP Global Limited Warranty and Technical Support, which includes 3 years 9x5 hardware support, with next business day (NBD) response. The warranty for all drives is also changing to 3 years, parts only. The EVA4400 line now supports the new 300/450/600GB Reduced Power 10K rpm FC Hard Disk Drives. These new drives, in addition to bringing the largest 600GB 10K capacity point, provide improved reliability and better performance than previous 10K rpm drives. They also come with power technology improvements that automatically optimizes drive power at all activity levels reducing power and cooling costs. The newest drive technology, Solid State Disks (SSD), 72GB dual ported fibre channel, are now supported by the EVA4400. The minimum number of SSDs supported is 6 and the maximum is 8 per array.

• Support for 600GB 15K rpm Disk Drive available later in 2009
• Support for the HP StorageWorks MPX200 Multifunction Router
  • provides 1 GbE and 10 GbE iSCSI connectivity to the EVA
  • enables modular multi-protocol SAN designs with increased scalability, stability, and ROI on storage infrastructure
• HP StorageWorks 4400 Scalable NAS File Services offers EVA4400 with scalable file serving

• Easy to install and configure in just a couple of hours
• Virtualization abilities allow for easy management and excellent capacity utilization
• Start small and increase capacity as the business grows
• Business application and HP Bladesystem integration
• Array management with Command View
• Capacity management with Dynamic Capacity Manager
• Robust local and remote replication capabilities with Business Copy and Continuous Access EVA
• High availability with hot plug drives, power supplies, fans, and industry failover software
• New embedded switch technology

NOTE:

1. All factory integrated must be ordered with a rack.
2. Field installed kits do not require a rack for purchase. Customers must provide their own rack or include one on their order.

• EVA4400 Dual Controller array with embedded switches
• M6412A 12-bay HDD enclosure
• Eight 146GB 15K RPM disk drives
• Four Emulex 8Gb/s PCIe HBAs
• Command View EVA Media Kit and four 1TB License to Use
• SmartStart for EVA Storage
• XCS Firmware

• EVA4400 Dual Controller array with embedded switches
• M6412A 12-bay HDD enclosure
• Eight 146GB 15K RPM disk drives
• Four Emulex 8Gb/s PCIe HBAs
• Command View EVA Media Kit and four 1TB License to Use
• SmartStart for EVA Storage
• XCS Firmware

• EVA4400 Dual Controller array with embedded switches
• M6412A 12-bay HDD enclosure
• Eight 400GB 10K RPM disk drives
• Four Emulex 8Gb/s PCIe HBAs
• Command View EVA Media Kit and four 1TB License to Use
• SmartStart for EVA Storage
• XCS Firmware

NOTE: rack purchase required (only one rack for BladeSystem Matrix and EVA4400 order)

• EVA4400 Dual Controller array with embedded switches
• M6412A 12-bay HDD enclosure
• Eight 400GB 10K RPM disk drives
• Four Emulex 8Gb/s PCIe HBAs
• Command View EVA Media Kit and four 1TB License to Use
• SmartStart for EVA Storage
• XCS Firmware

• EVA4400 Dual Controller array
• M6412A 12-bay HDD enclosure
• Command View EVA Media CD and 4-1 TB License
• SmartStart for HP EVA Storage
• XCS Firmware
• Eight 146GB 15K RPM disk drives

• EVA4400 Dual Controller array
• M6412A 12-bay HDD enclosure
• Command View EVA Media CD and 4-1 TB License
• SmartStart for HP EVA Storage
• XCS Firmware
• Eight 146GB 15K RPM disk drives

• EVA4400 Dual Controller array
• M6412A 12-bay HDD enclosure
• Command View EVA Media CD and 4-1 TB License
• SmartStart for HP EVA Storage
• XCS Firmware
• Eight 450GB 10K RPM disk drives

• EVA4400 Dual Controller array
• M6412A 12-bay HDD enclosure
• Command View EVA Media CD and 4-1 TB License
• SmartStart for HP EVA Storage
• XCS Firmware
• Eight 450GB 10K RPM disk drives

The EVA4400 provides support for industry-leading Operating System platforms including: HP-UX, HP OpenVMS, Windows 2008, Windows 2003 Professional, Windows 2003 Standard/Enterprise (32/64-bit) and Extended (32/64-bit), DataCenter (64-bit), Sun Solaris, Linux, IBM AIX, Novell NetWare, 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.

The EVA4400 is easily installed and set up is simplified by using HP SmartStart for EVA Storage. This software installs necessary drivers, Command View EVA and provisions the storage in a Windows environment. Details on the installation process can be found in the EVA4400 Installation Guide at: http://bizsupport.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/supportmanual/c01419095/c01419095.pdf. Before attempting a customer installation, it is recommended that the manual be reviewed to ensure that the customer meets the prerequisites of knowledge and experience.

For more complex environments or where the customer prefers assistance, an Installation & Start-up service is recommended or may be required. HP recommends the purchase of the following Installation & Startup services when configuring or using:

• The EVA4400 into heterogeneous server environments. Purchase the EVA4400 Installation and Startup Service.
• Complex SAN environments. Purchase the SAN Solution Service.
• Continuous Access configurations*. Purchase the HP Data Replication Solution Service - Continuous Access EVA.
• Replication Solutions Manager. Purchase the HP Data Replication Solution Service - Continuous Access EVA or Business Copy EVA.
• HP's Remote Support Pack (RSP) for remote connectivity to HP. Purchase the HP EVA4400 Installation & Start-up service.

* The Replication Workload Profiler (RWP) process is also required.

NOTE: Customers who have completed the necessary training or who have gained the necessary experience with these environments may decide to not purchase the recommended Installation and Startup service.

HP requires the purchase of Installation & Startup services when using:

• Storage Essentials. Purchase the Storage Essentials Solution Service.

A comprehensive list of Installation & Start-up services can be found at: www.hp.com/hps/storage

HP StorageWorks Continuous Access provides disaster tolerant replication across a Fibre Channel SAN. Continuous Access EVA performs real-time replication between EVA4400's. Continuous Access EVA provides the highest level of FC SAN data protection to customers in order to meet disaster tolerant business continuity implementation goals. For additional information about Continuous Access EVA visit: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/software.html

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/enterprise/cache/231355-0-0-0-121.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. Business Copy EVA creates point-in-time copies of storage volumes, called Business Continuance Volumes (BCVs) using the snapshot and cloning capabilities of the array firmware and provides multi-array local mirror management. 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. Additional features include licensing based on replicated (not total raw) capacity and a new improved management interface.

HP Business Copy EVA and HP Continuous Access EVA comes complete with HP Replication Solutions Manager, a graphical user interface and scripting environment, that greatly simplifies storage management by creating, running, and managing storage replication jobs using controller based snapshots, clones and remote mirroring.
With HP Replication Solutions Manager users easily can manage both remote and local replication across the full EVA product family. By virtually removing the complexity associated with both small and large replication environments, point-in-time copies and remote replication are managed and configured with just a few mouse clicks. To assist the user, Information on the replication environment is presented in a variety of views, including an interactive topology manager that allows each user to select their viewing preference. In addition, HP Replication Solutions Manager provides a scripting interface for additional flexibility.

As an option to HP Business Copy EVA, the user can simply replicate an Oracle database. HP Replication Solutions Manager will provide a graphical interface to view the components of the database to be replicated, and allow selection of a specified database. The replication manager will automatically suspend the Oracle application, and take a point in time copy (local or remote) of all associated array virtual disks. The replication manager will provide the option to restart the original Oracle database after the replicas have been initiated on the array. The user will be able to utilize the replication manager to present the replica to another host.

HP and VMware introduce an integrated disaster recovery solution featuring VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) - software designed to automate the recovery process - and the remote replication of HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA with StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays. The solution provides central management through VMware Virtual Center and enables more frequent testing. This solution also leverages your existing recovery site hardware to reduce operational cost of training. A solution fully integrated with HP servers, HP Storage and HP Services providing mid-market customers with a total business continuity solution. For more information: www.hp.com/go/storage/vmware

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 about DCM, please see the following:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/eva_dcm/index.html

The EVA4400 is the ideal solution for customers running Oracle, Exchange, SAP environments and those customers who are deploying virtual server technologies like VMware. Here's a description of two such solutions:

• JD Edwards

The HP and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne solution leveraging the HP BladeSystem and HP StorageWorks EVA4400, offers a single database and pre-integrated applications that help companies manage the core processes involving finances, people and equipment enabling them to make the best use of information and resources throughout the business. The HP and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne solution provides capabilities across a breadth of business processes, including customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management and supplier relationship management.

• Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS)

Designed to support the global economy (as well as mid-market companies with complex requirements), Oracle® E-Business Suite (EBS) on the HP BladeSystem server and the HP StorageWorks EVA4400 helps users think globally to make better decisions; work globally to be more competitive; and manage globally to lower costs, enhance security and increase performance. This right-sized, affordable business technology is built on a unified architecture with a single Oracle Database--providing a comprehensive, integrated set of business management and planning applications that allow organizations to manage their end-to end operations

For additional tested, industry leading configurations built on the EVA4400 and HP's Blade and Rack Servers, visit: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/eva4400sb/index.html

HP Storage Essentials Enterprise Suite and HP Storage Essentials Standard Edition SRM Software integrate with HP Systems Insight Manager to provide end-to-end advanced server and storage management capabilities. HP Storage Essentials SRM Suite software features a base management console and an expanding portfolio of value-add plug-in software to assist in managing EVA in heterogeneous SANs 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, business application and backup monitoring, capacity metering, provisioning and application infrastructure monitoring.
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/e-suite/index.html

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 (storage-servers-infrastructure) thereby reducing SAN complexity by depending on Excel spreadsheets or whiteboards to track and manage SAN storage and infrastructure. 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, integrated NAS and SAN management, business application monitoring including Oracle, Microsoft SQL, Sybase, InterSystems Cache', Microsoft Exchange Server and SAP Adaptive Computing Controller (ACC) environments path dependency identification, and end-to-end EVA SAN performance monitoring and analysis. For more information on HP Storage Essentials SRM Standard Edition Software visit: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/std-suite/index.html

HP Storage Essentials SRM Performance Pack Software combined with Storage Essentials SRM Enterprise Edition Software monitors performance along the complete path of business applications through underlying storage area networks (SAN) components, including host server, host bus adapter (HBA), fabric switch and Enterprise Virtual Array. A unified and simplified interface, helps EVA administrators increase efficiency, troubleshoot performance bottlenecks faster, and quickly visualize the big performance picture of their EVA storage, hosts and SAN infrastructure with real-time monitoring, historical trend analysis and trend extrapolation.

The SRM Performance Pack Software can be ordered separately on a per EVA basis for existing Storage Essentials SRM Enterprise Edition SRM customers, and for Storage Essentials SRM Standard Edition customers the SRM Standard Edition LTU includes licensing to monitor up to 3 HP EVAs. For more information on HP Storage Essentials SRM Standard Edition Software visit:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/std-suite/software.html?jumpid=
reg_r1002_usen

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 drive formats, the HP VLS12000 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

The HP Virtual Library System EVA Gateway offers advanced features such as Automigration which allows users to move data under the control of the VLS from the VLS storage to tape or another VLS. The VLS EVA Gateway will also be able to take advantage of data deduplication when that feature is launched in early 2008. For more information on the VLS EVA Gateway, please visit the link below.
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/disk_storage/disk_to_disk/vls/12000vls/index.html

EVA iSCSI support is available through the EVA4400 iSCSI Connectivity Option and the MPX200 Multifunction Router. These powerful solutions 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 EVA4400 Starter Kit with the iSCSI Connectivity Option provides an affordable, robust and highly available simple iSCSI solution for smaller budgets.

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

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

The HP StorageWorks 4400 Scalable NAS File Services offers scalable file serving performance for medium-sized customers that cannot afford any downtime for their business-critical applications. The HP 4400 Scalable NAS File Services is a fully factory configured storage solution that includes an HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array 4400 (EVA4400) with dual array controllers and 5.4TB of storage, two high performance file serving nodes, redundant Fibre Channel switches, management and replication software, and support for Windows or Linux. The HP 4400 Scalable NAS File Services does not have a single point of failure. It allows customers to transparently increase application throughput far in excess of traditional NAS products and easily grow storage capacity online without service disruption. The HP 4400 Scalable NAS File Services offers great total cost of ownership with a low initial purchase price and a shared data architecture that yields lower management expenses from a single shared pool of file serving nodes and storage

For more information:
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/scnas_4400/index.html

HP SIM is the foundation for HP's unified server-storage strategy -- it is packaged as value add software with EVA, it's a 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

The EVA supports 1TB dual ported 4 Gb/s Fibre Attached Technology Adapted (FATA) disk. An EVA will support a full configuration of FATA disk drives. The EVA4400 Starter Kits and the, EVA4400 can be configured with any combination of FATA and high performance disk drives; total raw capacity will vary based upon the redundancy (Vraid) selected. A minimum of eight FATA drives are required in a configuration.

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 EVA4400 models are 4Gb/s FC Switched Fabric enabled and are compatible with 8Gb/s, 4Gb/s or 2Gb/s FC Switched Fabric SANs with XCS V9.5. They can co-exist in the same FC SAN with EVA3000/5000 or EVA4x00/6x00/8x00 FC storage solutions and many other SAN devices. The EVA4400 with embedded switch model is 8Gb/s FC ready with XCS V9.5. The embedded switch is an 8Gb/s, 10 port B-series SAN switch for a total of 20 ports per controller enclosure. It supports N_port_ID virtualization (NPIV), required for HP BladeSystem c-Class Virtual Connect Fibre Channel module connectivity

The EVA4400 takes advantage of the benefits of Fibre Channel (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/s; 300 meters @ 2 Gb/s using short wave multi-mode, 150 meters @ 4 Gb/s and up to 10 kilometers (6.21 miles) @ 1 Gb/s when using long wave cable. Storage Area Networks (SANs) can be constructed using FC switches/directors for fabric connectivity. HP StorageWorks SAN B-series and C-series switches and directors provide exceptional connectivity while increasing the effective bandwidth of the network. Supported SAN features include Zoning for communication isolation and Inter-Switch Links (hops) up to 10 km.

For more information on specific support specifications see the following SAN Infrastructure URL:
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/saninfrastructure/switches.html

The EVA4400 Starter Kits and EVA4400 have two FC host ports per HSV300 controller; four for a controller pair. Each controller-to-host interface is 4 Gb/s. The HSV300 controllers are compatible with 2 Gb/s and 4Gb/s FC switches, HBAs, servers and other storage solutions.

Each EVA controller pair interfaces with the M6412A drive enclosures. With 2 device ports per controller and dual FC I/O modules per drive enclosure, each controller has two connections to each FC drive A and B port. So each controller has a redundant path to each drive.

The EVA4400 can ship from the factory fully configured. After unpacking, it can be plugged into power sources, connected to the FC SAN, enabled and configured using HP SmartStart for EVA Storage and Command View EVA and it is ready for use. Installation and start-up services are not required but are available separately.

All EVA4400's are configured with dual HSV controllers that operate in a redundant mode. Each EVA4400 controller has two FC device ports. For EVA4400, 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 EVA4400, each port connects to one FC I/O module on a drive enclosure. Up to eight drive enclosures can be connected in a FC loop arrangement with a controller pair and connect to one port of up to 96 drives. With the two FC ports per controller, each controller can connect to both ports on up to 96 disk drives for redundant paths to all 96 drives.

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 M6412A 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. Environmental Monitoring Unit (EMU) functionality is built into the I/O module in the enclosure and monitors and reports the condition of the power supplies and fans.

The FC and FATA disk drives have dual FC ports which can be redundantly accessed by each controller. The drives are hot plug. drives can be configured, 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 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 400MB/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 HSV300 controller 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.

A storage management server can manage up to 16 EVA controller pairs (EVA4400, EVA 3000s, EVA5000s, EVA4x00s, EVA6x00s and/or EVA8x00s) in any one fabric. An EVA4400 controller pair will support up to 256 multi-pathed host connections (up to 1024 HBAs).

The EVA4400 will scale up to 96 disks (96TB using 1TB FATA disk drives, and 43.2TB using 450GB 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 EVA4400. Data center managers can customize server, storage and back-up configurations as well as using the residual cabinet U space to mount management servers, switches and have the peace of mind that it is built with HP factory precision manufacturing.

HP Storage Works EVA4400 disk arrays can be connected as external storage devices behind the HP StorageWorks XP family of 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.

Instead of seeing a confusing collection of dissimilar arrays, host systems perceive all the data to be stored inside the XP disk array. In effect, the XP becomes the storage controller for a flexible, multi-tiered collection of storage with a range of cost and performance capabilities. By configuring current or legacy storage systems behind a single XP24000/XP20000, data can be moved back and forth dynamically across tiers, all of which is invisible to the applications.

The XP'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 XP24000/20000 External Storage web page at: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/extstxp/index.html

HP StorageWorks EVA4400 ships with XCS V9.5 factory installed on new EVAs. The base XCS License to use for the EVA is contained in the hardware shipment.

HP StorageWorks EVA4400 XCS V9.5 controller media and the EVA4400 Release Notes are also available to download from:

http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/eva/index.html

HP StorageWorks Command View EVA is required software for the EVA4400. HP Command View EVA requires a License to use (LTUs) equal to, or greater than the total raw capacity of each array.

Install and configure Command View and the EVA 4400 with HP SmartStart for EVA Storage. Order this media kit when ordering an EVA4400.

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.