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EVA4000
EVA4000EVA4000
EVA4000 EVA6000
EVA6000EVA6000
EVA6000 EVA8000
EVA8000EVA8000
EVA8000
Application Environment Entry Mid/High Business Critical
Local Data Replication -- HP StorageWorks
Business Copy EVA
yes yes yes
Remote Data Replication -- HP StorageWorks
Continuous Access EVA
yes yes yes
Easy array management and configuration --
HP StorageWorks Command View EVA
up to 16 EVAs up to 16 EVAs up to 16 EVAs
RAID supported Vraid1, Vraid 0+1, Vraid5,
Cross Vraid
Vraid1, Vraid 0+1, Vraid5,
Cross Vraid
Vraid1, Vraid 0+1, Vraid5,
Cross Vraid
Cache (per controller pair) 4GB 4GB 8GB
Host Ports, (per controller pair) 4 4 8
Host Port Speed 2 or 4 Gb 2 or 4 Gb 2 or 4 Gb
Device Ports, (per controller pair) 4 4 8
Back-end switch (per array) 0 2 4
Device shelves 1 to 4 4 to 8 2 to 18
Drives per enclosure 14 14 14
Drive types (mixed in enclosure) High Performance Fibre
Channel and Fibre Attached
Technology Adapted (FATA)
High Performance Fibre
Channel and Fibre Attached
Technology Adapted (FATA)
High Performance Fibre
Channel and Fibre Attached
Technology Adapted (FATA)
Supported disks, min-max 8 to 56 16 to 112 8 to 168 (one cabinet) up to
240 with utility cabinet
Capacity .5 to 28TB 1.2 to 56TB .5 to 120TB
I/O Requests per Second (IOPs) 141,000 141,000 >200,000
Maximum throughput (MB/s) ** 335 650 1500
EVA Capabilities
EVA CapabilitiesEVA Capabilities
EVA Capabilities Support for dual-ported 2 Gb/s FC disk drives and dual-ported Fibre Attached Technology
Adapted (FATA) drives
Support for Direct Attach connection to Windows servers without the need for SAN switches.
Support for integrated EVA iSCSI Connectivity Option direct for Windows and Linux or through the
SAN
Management of up to 1024 virtual disks (256 per HBA) ranging in size from 1 GB to 2 TB per
Virtual disk, in 1GB increments.
Dynamic capacity expansion (in 1 GB increments).
NOTE:
NOTE:NOTE:
NOTE: Requires Host Operating System Support.
Virtual disk data load leveling (non-disruptive background activity)
Distributed sparing of disk capacity.
Support for HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA remote replication (synchronous and
asynchronous).
Support for HP StorageWorks Business Copy EVA (Snapshot, and Vsnap, Snapclone 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)
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HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array Family
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Product Highlights
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