HP EVA4100 User Manual

QuickSpecs

HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array Family

Overview

The HP 4100/6100/8100 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) 4100/6100/8100 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 mid­range 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-to­end 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. This ranges
from an EVA4100 Starter Kit for affordable, fast and easy small SAN deployment, 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.

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Overview

HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array Family

EVA4100 2C1D and EVA4100

Starter Kits

HP EVA4100 Starter Kit for HP

BladeSystems

(BladeSystems sold separately)

EVA6100 2C4D

EVA6100 File Services

(EVA4100 & EVA8100 File

Services also available)

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HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array Family

EVA8100 2C2D* EVA8100 2C6D*

*These drawings are informational only and represent a storage centric configuration. The actual configuration may differ depending
on the components being racked with the EVA (for example when using the EVA8100 multiple product part number and/or having
servers racked with an EVA the configuration will be racked from the bottom of the rack and up). If a customer has a specific racking
requirement they should use the Factory Express option to define the configuration.

EVA8100 2C12D

What's New

The new EVA 4100/6100/8100 arrays support:

Industry leading automatic LUN growth and shrink with Dynamic Capacity Manager
Factory configured EVA8100 options to support multiple products in the same rack
Up to 240TB of connectivity with 450GB High Performance and 1TB FATA drives
Support for HP Storage Essentials Standard Edition SRM Software for efficient management of the HP EVA and SAN
infrastructure HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition (ISEE) Remote Data Collection, which captures information about your EVA
configuration and proactively identifies problems to prevent reactive service requests or system downtime.
Heterogeneous Fiber Channel SAN support for Apple Mac OS X

Scaleable Enterprise class storage support from 1TB to 240TB for Mac OS X
Local replication support

HP EVA end-to-end performance monitoring and analysis with HP Storage Essentials SRM Performance Pack Software

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Product Highlights

HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array Family

Application Environment

Local Data Replication -­HP StorageWorks Business
Copy EVA

Remote Data Replication -­HP StorageWorks
Continuous Access EVA

Easy array management
and configuration -- HP
StorageWorks Command
View EVA

Application block and file
storage

RAID supported

Number of controllers
Cache

(per controller pair)
Host Connectivity

Number of Host Supported
(Single Path/Dual Path)

Host Ports,
(per controller pair)

Host Port Speed
Device Ports

(per controller pair)
Device Path Aggregate

Bandwidth
Back-end switch

(per array)
Switched device shelves

Drives per enclosure

Drive types
(mixed in enclosure)

Supported disks, min-max

Capacity

EVA4100 Starter Kits

and EVA4100 SAN

Starter Kit

Complete, ready to go

small SAN Kit

yes yes yes yes

yes yes yes yes

HP CV EVA media kit

included and 4-1 TB LTUs

(up to 4-TBs licensing

included) ; up to 16 EVAs

yes yes yes yes

Vraid1, Vraid 0+1,

Vraid5, Cross Vraid

2 2 2 2

4GB 4GB 4GB 8GB

Fibre Channel, iSCSI and

Direct Connect

512/256 512/256 512/256 512/256

4 4 4 8

2 or 4 Gb 2 or 4 Gb 2 or 4 Gb 2 or 4 Gb

4 4 4 8

8 Gb 8 Gb 8 Gb

0 0 2 4

1 device shelf included,

1 to 4

14 (8-146 GB 15K rpm

or 8-300 GB 10K rpm

FC HDDs included)

High Performance Fibre

Channel and Fibre

Attached Technology

Adapted (FATA)

8 to 56 8 to 56

1.2 to 56TB 1.2 to 56TB

Vraid1, Vraid 0+1,

Vraid5, Cross Vraid

Fibre Channel, iSCSI and

High Performance Fibre

Channel and Fibre

Attached Technology

EVA4100 EVA6100 EVA8100

Entry

up to 16 EVAs up to 16 EVAs up to 16 EVAs

Fibre Channel, iSCSI and

Direct Connect

1 to 4 4 to 8

14 14 14

Adapted (FATA)

Mid/High

Vraid1, Vraid 0+1,

Vraid5, Cross Vraid

Direct Connect

High Performance Fibre

Channel and Fibre

Attached Technology

Adapted (FATA)

16 to 112

1.2 to 112TB 1.2 to 240TB

Business Critical

Vraid1, Vraid 0+1,

Vraid5, Cross Vraid

Fibre Channel, iSCSI and

Direct Connect

High Performance Fibre

Channel and Fibre

Attached Technology

Adapted (FATA)

8 to 168 (one cabinet) up

to 240 with utility cabinet

16 Gb

2 to 18

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HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array Family

I/O Requests per Second
(IOPs)

Maximum throughput
(MB/s)

**

EVA Capabilities

154,000 154,000 154,000 225,000

1380 1380 1380 2450

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:

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:

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

Requires Host Operating System Support.

Requires native OS multi-pathing support

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HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array Family

Enterprise Virtual Array
Product Packaging

The EVA4100 Starter Kit includes 1-2C1D 4U FC dual HSV200-B controller assembly and 14-bay Model
M5314C FC Drive Enclosure, 8 disk drives (in either 146GB 15K or 300GB 10K capacities), dual-port
2/4Gb/s FC-AL, 1-inch (2.54 cm) drives, 1 CV EVA media kit, 4-1 TB LTUs T3725A and firmware XCS

6.110. The EVA4100 Starter Kit is designed to address smaller SAN configurations that need affordable,
fast and easy complete small-SAN deployment. The EVA4100 Starter Kit allows you to quickly implement
a small-SAN with room to easily grow capacity using standard EVA4100 components (drives, shelves,
etc.) as needed up to 28TBs. In EMEA, this kit includes Installation and Startup Service. This service is
available separately in all other regions.

The EVA4100 SAN Starter Kit includes all of the above from the EVA4100 Starter Kit. In addition, it
includes 4 HP StorageWorks HP StorageWorks FC2142 4Gb PCI-e HBA's, 1 HP StorageWorks 4/8
Base SAN Switch, 8 4Gb SFPs, 4 StorageWorks LC/LC 15m Cables, 4 StorageWorks LC/LC 2m
Cables and Emulex's EZpilot software. This starter kit provides an all-inclusive simplified and automated
SAN solution optimized for Microsoft Windows. EZPilot, used in conjunction with Command View EVA,
streamlines and automates the deployment of your SAN. The EVA4100 SAN Starter Kit allows you to
easily and quickly implement a SAN based with EVA and its best in class usability. With the basic SAN
components and management software in place, you can grow your SAN environment easily and on
your terms.

The EVA4100 Starter Kit for HP BladeSystems includes 1-2C1D 4U FC dual HSV200-B controller
assembly and 14-bay Model M5314C FC Drive Enclosure, 1 CV EVA media kit T, 4-1 TB LTUs T3725A
and firmware XCS 6.110. The EVA4100 Starter Kit for HP Bladesytstem is designed for HP BladeSystems
environments that need affordable, fast and easy complete small-SAN deployment. This Starter Kit allows
you to quickly implement a small-SAN with room to easily grow capacity using standard EVA4100
components (drives, shelves, etc.) as needed up to 28TBs. This Starter Kit must be purchased in
conjunction with an HP BladeSystems. In EMEA, this kit includes Installation and Startup Service. This
service is available separately in all other regions.

NOTE:

NOTE:

The EVA4100 Starter Kit for HP BladeSystems is not available in EMEA.

The EVA4100 SAN Starter is not available in EMEA.

The EVA4100 packaging consists of a 4U FC dual HSV200-B controller assembly and 14-bay Model
M5314C FC Drive Enclosures. The EVA4100 is designed to address moderate capacity needs ranging
(from 1 - 56TB) as well as high performance options in commercial environments.

The EVA6100 packaging consists of a 4U FC dual HSV200-B controller assembly and four 14-bay
Model M5314C FC Drive Enclosures. The EVA6100 is designed to address moderate capacity needs
ranging (from 1 - 112TB) as well as high performance options in commercial environments.

The EVA4100 Starter Kits, EVA4100, EVA6100 EVA8100 configurations allow a wide range of
configuration options. The bundled models offer flexible factory rack-mounting options in either a standard
42U cabinet (based on the HP 10000 G2 Series Rack- or a choice of 42U extended 36U and 22U
heights). The new factory racking options allow the EVA4100 Starter Kits, EVA4100, EVA6100 and
EVA8100 to be factory integrated into cabinets with a wide variety of other HP offerings such as servers
and tape back-up offerings. The EVA8100 bundled models consists of a 4U FC dual HSV210-B controller
assembly, 14-bay HP StorageWorks Model M5314C FC Drive Enclosures, four FC Loop Switches
(optional for 2C2D model, standard for 2C6D and 2C12D models). The EVA8100 factory racking
options allow the EVA8100 to be factory integrated into cabinets with a wide variety of other HP
offerings such as servers and tape back-up offerings.

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

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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.

HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array Family

Multi-Vendor Platform

Designed for No-Single­Point-of-Failure

HP StorageWorks
12000 Virtual Library
System EVA Gateway

The EVA4100 Starter Kits, EVA4100/EVA6100/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, Novell NetWare ,VMware and
Apple Mac OS X.

NOTE:
version detail.

The EVA family's redundant architecture and value added software is designed to eliminate single-points­of-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.

See Operating System, Cluster and High Availability Compatibility matrix for Operating System

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.

http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/disk_storage/disk_to_disk/vls/index.html

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HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array Family

Remote Replication
Solutions
(Software options)

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

http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/disk_storage/index.html

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HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array Family

Disaster Tolerant Solutions
(Software options)

Local Replication Solutions
(Software options)

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

http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/4171-0-0-0-121.html

HP StorageWorks Cluster Extension EVA software is a full-site disaster tolerance solution designed for mid­range 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.

http://www.hp.com/go/clxeva

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 StorageWorks EVA
Dynamic Capacity
Management Software

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

.

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HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array Family

EVA with HP Storage
Essentials Storage
Resource Management
Software Family

EVA with HP Storage
Essentials SRM
Performance Pack
Software

Application Recovery
Manager (AppRM)

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.

http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/e-suite/index.html

New, HP Storage Essentials SRM Performance Pack Software combined with Storage Essentials SRM
Enterprise Edition Software monitors end to end 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 HP 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.

http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/e-suite/performance_pack.html

Application Recovery Manager (AppRM) automates restoration of application databases such as
Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server. In the event of failure or corruption, it restores your business
application database to the moment before an outage. Application Recovery Manager delivers a stand
alone solution to augment your existing backup software strategy.

http://www.hp.com/go/apprm

HP Storage Essentials
Standard Edition SRM
Software

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

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HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array Family

EVA iSCSI Connectivity

EVA iSCSI support is available through the EVA iSCSI Connectivity Option. This powerful solution
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 EVA4100 Starter Kit with the iSCSI
Connectivity Option provides an affordable, robust and highly available simple iSCSI solution for smaller
budgets.

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.

EVA File Services

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.

or 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

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modules, FC interconnect cables between the internal modules, power cords for all modules, and
mounting hardware for all modules, installation and startup.

HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array Family

NOTE:
EVA8100.

For more information:

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12667_div/12667_div.HTML
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks

EVA File Services are factory integrated and requires the purchase of an EVA4100, EVA6100 or

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.

EVA with HP Systems
Insight Manager Software

Clustered Server and High
Availability System
Support

Multi-Server Shared
Support for Storage
Consolidation

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

Dual and multi-node cluster support is provided for host level fault tolerance and high system availability.
See the Operating System, Cluster and High Availability Compatibility table for operating system specific
support.

Heterogeneous and homogeneous host support provides the ability to share storage between multiple
servers. The EVA provides storage access control (i.e. Selective Storage Presentation or LUN masking)
assuring that a host cannot access data belonging to a different host. SAN-based zoning is also
supported.

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Single-pathing
per host)

Enclosure Capacity

Utility Pricing solutions for
StorageWorks EVA

(Single HBA

Single-pathing (or single HBA per host) support is provided for all supported operating systems (but may
be version dependent). Use of single-pathing, which does not offer a redundant path option, should be
used with care. Failure of the single HBA will result in loss of access for that host until the HBA is
replaced.

The EVA provides one of the highest density disk storage solutions in the industry. The EVA8100 in the
42U HP 10000 G2 Series Rack supports up to twelve 3U 14-bay M5314C FC disk enclosures for a
maximum capacity of 168 disk drives and a maximum storage capacity of 168 TB of disk capacity. An
expansion cabinet allows users to expand with another six enclosures for a total of up to eighteen disk
enclosures, up to 240 disks, and up to 240TB.

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.

10K rpm Drive Support

15K rpm Drive Support

Please contact your local HP representative for further information

The EVA supports 300 GB 10K rpm dual-ported 2 Gb/s FC disk. The EVA4100 Starter Kits or EVA4100
will support up to 56 disk drives. The EVA6100 will support up to 112 disk drives. An EVA8100 will
support up to 240 disk drives. The EVA arrays will support single or mixed drive capacities and types
(high performance and FATA) within an enclosure. HP recommends using the same drive type (the same
capacity) within a disk group because virtualization allocates space proportionate to the highest capacity
drive with in the group.

The EVA also supports 146 GB, 300GB and 450GB15K rpm dual-ported 2/4 Gb/s FC disk drives.
The EVA arrays will support single or mixed drive capacities and types (high performance and FATA)
within an enclosure. HP recommends using the same drive type (the same capacity) within a disk group
because virtualization allocates space proportionate to the highest capacity drive within the group.

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FATA Drive Support

Fibre Channel Technology

The EVA supports 500GB and 1TB dual ported 2 Gb/s Fibre Attached Technology Adapted (FATA) disk.
An EVA will support a full configuration of FATA disk drives. The EVA4100 Starter Kits,
EVA4100/6100/8100 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 back­up. 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 EVA4100 Starter Kits and EVA4100/6100/8100 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 cable and up to 10 kilometers (6.21 miles) @ 1 Gb/s when using long wave cable.
The EVA4100 Starter Kit and EVA4100/EVA6100/EVA 8100 with XCS v6.1100 for HSV200 and
HSV210 are 4 Gb/s enabled on each FC path, but will also support 2 Gb/s FC paths for backwards
compatibility. Storage Area Networks (SANs) can be constructed using FC switches/directors for fabric
connectivity (currently up to a maximum of 20 FC switches supported).

Fibre Channel
Switch/Director Support

Transfer Speeds

Easy Installation

Support for up to twenty FC switches operating at 2 Gb/s and FC switches operating at 4 Gb/s allow
the full benefits of a storage area network (SAN), providing 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. The EVA4100 Starter Kits and EVA4100/6100/8100
supports 4 Gb/s FC enabled with XCS vv6.110.
For more information on specific support specifications see the following Switch URL:

http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/saninfrastructure/switches.html

The EVA4100 Starter Kits and EVA4100/6100 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 EVA4100 Starter Kits and EVA4100/6100/8100 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.

NOTE:
EVA4100 Starter Kits, but are highly recommended.

Except in EMEA, installation and start-up services are not included in the purchase of the

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Fault Recovery -- HP
Continuous Access EVA
for Disaster Tolerance
Applications

High Availability/ Fault
Tolerance/
Hot pluggable support

HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA remote copy functionality is available for use with the
EVA4100 Starter Kits and EVA4100/6100/8100 arrays. For additional information about Continuous
Access EVA visit:

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 EVA4100 Starter Kits EVA4100/6100 and 4 for the
EVA8100). Each EVA4100/6100 controller has two FC device ports and the EVA8100 controller has
four FC device ports. For the EVA4100 Starter Kits and EVA4100/6100/8100 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.

http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/software.html

On the EVA4100 Starter Kits and EVA4100 each port connects to one FC I/O module on a drive
enclosure. Up to four drive enclosures can be connected in a FC loop arrangement with a controller pair
and connect to one port of up to 56 drives. With the two FC ports per controller, each controller can
connect to both ports on up to 56 disk drives for redundant paths to all 56 drives. 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 drives can be arranged, 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.

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