QuickSpecs

What's New
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What's New
The new EVA 4100/6100/8100 arrays support
Better capacity management and the ability to automatically provision storage with new LUN shrink and grow capabilities
Data center storage management that is affordable and less complex with EVA's virtualization abilities. New ROI/TCO analysis
shows benefits driven by savings in IT support, and the avoidance of costs associated with downtime.
Improved reliability and availability. HP's data shows that most customers are achieving 99.999% availability with the EVA
4x00/6x00/8x00. Following HP's EVA Availability Best Practices can help customers achieve this result.
New EVA's fully switched architecture and multiple redundant paths from the controllers to the disk drives provide better data
availability compared to traditional arbitrated loop connectivity. New fully switched connectivity is unique to the EVA.
New controllers with 50 to 70% improvement in cache throughput and up to 24% improved performance, especially in
transaction oriented applications such as Microsoft Exchange and banking and other financial services.
Rack independent EVA8100. The flexibility to choose the right rack for your environment is extended to the EVA8100.
Enhanced hard disk drive firmware upgrade capabilities.
Support for HP Storage Essentials Standard Edition SRM Software for efficiently managing 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.
QuickSpecs
HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array Family
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