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Ease of management
Easy-to-use st
orage management tools:
Software tools that allow you to m anage larger SAN congurations with m ore servers and more
storage solutions
HP-supplied di
sk drives conform to the enclosure-initiated Enclosure Services Interface (ESI)
State-of-the-art controller software
Completely integrated congurations with a single part number, plus disk drives and storage
system software
Data availability
Redundant hardware design a nd value—added software eliminate single points of failure from
server to storage in clustered or single server congurations with multipathing.
Full suppor t for local and remote data replication using optional HP StorageWorks Business Copy
EVA and HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA applications.
Dual– and multi–node cluster support provided for host–level fault tolerance and high system
availability.
Support for active-active failover, allowing the use of industry popular multipathing solutions and
native host bus adapters.
Performance
Outstanding self-tuning performance includes:
Virtuali
zation technology—Vraid, enables data to be distributed from 8 to 240 disks to increase
disk spin
dle count far beyond traditional RAID sets. This virtualization m ethod also o ptimizes
storage for the best performance of a specicconguration and application. Enterprise Virtual
Array eliminates tedious management functions to provide the best performance possible.
Both online high-performance disk drives and FATA (Fibre Attached Technology Adapted) d isk
drives.
State-of-the-art controller software that improves performance, increases capacity, and allows for
easy dynamic storage expansion.
Scalability
The EV A5000 pro v ides:
Up to 32 TB of usable capacity. Total maximum raw capacity will vary based upon the
redundancy ( Vraid) selected.
A maximum of 240 disk drives
Support for 1024 virtual disks
The EV A3000 provides:
Up to 22.4 TB of raw capacity (2C4D conguration using 400 GB FATA disks).
A maximum of 56 disk drives
Support for 1024 virtual disks
All models support the following disk capacities:
300 GB FC disk driv es
250 GB, 400 GB, and 500 GB FATA disk drives
146 GB FC disk drives
72 GB FC disk drives
36 G B FC disk drives
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Enterprise Virtual Array description