Installation guide

This reference architecture includes additional conventional storage recommendations for these

multiple non-production environments. However, you can substitute an existing SAN solution or add

additional VMA arrays to satisfy these non-production requirements.

HP P6300 EVA – The HP P6000 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) is an enterprise class virtual storage

array family for midsized customers at an affordable price. With built in virtualization, the P6000

EVA is designed to improve capacity utilization and be easy to manage, which lowers the cost of

ownership compared to traditional arrays. These arrays have high performance, scale easily, and are

highly reliable and available. The P6000 EVA is a trusted platform for enterprise application

consolidation with solutions for Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server, Oracle, and SAP. It also is a

great platform for all non-production environments.

The HP P6000 EVA family is the next generation of EVA with two new models: P6300 EVA and

P6500 EVA. The P6000 EVA family supports Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk drives with a wide

range of Small Form Factor (SFF) SAS drives, Large Form Factor (LFF) SAS drives, or combinations of

both, to better match customer storage capacity, performance, power, and availability needs. The

P6000 EVA models are available with Fibre Channel host ports only, or Fibre Channel and 1Gb/s

iSCSI host ports, or Fibre Channel and 10Gb/s iSCSI/FCoE host ports. P6000 EVA is also very

energy efficient, with high efficiency power supplies for both the controllers and disk drive enclosures,

with temperature sensing, self-adjusting variable speed fans.

HP P6000 Command View management software now includes Thin Provisioning, which helps reduce

the storage capacity required, to help reduce the number of disks needed, and thus reduce power

and cooling costs. P6000 EVA also offers robust local and remote replication capabilities with HP

P6000 Business Copy and HP P6000 Continuous Access software. P6000 Business Copy now also

supports Dynamic LUN and RAID migration, where in one step the user can change the characteristics

of an existing LUN, such as size, RAID type, or disk type while the host I/O operation is active. This

feature is useful, for example, to move data to more space efficient storage tiers or to move a heavily

accessed LUN to a different disk group to improve performance.

The reference configurations deploy two disk groups within the EVA. For example, the

test/development database volumes are in one disk group and the archive logs, flashback recovery,

and RMAN backup volumes are in the second disk group. HP 6300 Enterprise Virtual Arrays are

configured and managed using the HP Command View EVA Software.

Note:

Always check HP’s Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge (SPOCK)

compatibility and interoperability matrix for a “configuration set” of

Storage Area Network (SAN) components. It is also very important to

examine the notes in each section, because they may further limit or clarify

supported configurations.

See http://www.hp.com/storage/spock (requires an HP Passport account).