QuickSpecs

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EVA—combine simple
management with
performance and
availability
Management efficiency
With increases in storage capacity and continuous
expansion of digital content, storage management is
now a key issue for organizations today. The cost of
management represents a huge investment over time—
far more than the acquisition of the hardware and
software—so efficiency is essential.
The HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA)
family gives you management efficiency thanks to built-in
virtualization. This presents your storage capacity as a
“virtual” pool, which reduces the physical boundaries
between storage and server. It also allows multiple virtual
pools to be presented to the host, which simplifies
management and increases the flexibility in building
storage pools for application.
With virtualization in the EVA, you can save money by
not over-investing in or over provisioning disk capacity.
This is because the EVA supports dynamic capacity or
LUN expansions without taking the array offline. You can
always change the capacity presented to a server or
application to what’s needed at the time, and then grow
this capacity in parallel when required.
Furthermore, the EVA family (which now features a
broader choice of arrays than before) offers additional
connectivity through the use of industry-popular Multi-
pathing software such as MPIO, and massive scalability
that’s only limited by the size of today’s disk drives.
Plus, by adding software such as Business Copy or
Continuous Access, your EVA can assist your business
protection strategies, workload distribution and data
mining—giving you an even stronger foundation for
managing and accessing your data efficiently.
If you need increased performance
and greater flexibility for demanding
mission-critical applications, consider
the HP StorageWorks Enterprise
Virtual Array (EVA) family.