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EVA Capabilities
Excellent reliability and availability. HP's data shows that most customers are achieving 99.999%
availability with the EVA 4x00/6x00/8x00
EVA4100 Starter Kits; SAN made easy. An affordable, ready to go, easy to manage and easy to
deploy small SAN solution.
Support for integrated application (block) and file storage solution, EVA File Services
Support for dual-ported 2/4 Gb/s FC disk drives and dual-ported Fibre Attached Technology
Adapted (FATA) drives
Support for Direct Attach connection to Windows storage servers without the need for SAN
switches. SAN support for integrated EVA iSCSI Connectivity Option 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
Virtual RAID Arrays (Vraid0, Vraid1, Vraid5, Vraid 0+1)
Support for local replication between Vraid types using Vsnap or Snapclone within a disk group or
using Snapclone across disk groups (and Cross Vraid Snapshot and Snapclone)
Online XCS software upgrade capability
Online drive firmware upgrade capability
Supports connection of up to 256 hosts
Multi-Vendor Platform Support
Controller Password Protection for Configuration Control
Selective Storage Presentation and SAN-based Data Zoning (through switches).
HP StorageWorks Command View EVA GUI Interface for management and monitoring (manages
up to 16 EVAs).
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
QuickSpecs
HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array Family
Product Highlights
DA - 12745 Worldwide QuickSpecs — Version 5 — 2.26.2008
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