Owner's manual

These components work together to create an entire storage system solution. Management is
accomplished by accessing HP Command View EVA through your browser.
HP Command View
EVA
HP Command View EVA is the primary software application for managing the EVA. HP Command View
EVA is used to perform the following administrative tasks.
• Creating virtual disk families, including selection of Vraid level, cache policy, and host
presentation
.
• Managing the presentation of Vraid drives to hosts.
• Managing and monitoring storage system ha rdware.
• Creating sna
pclones and snapshots of virtual disks.
An online hel
p system is available within the interface, including page-level help.
Controller software
HP StorageWorks Virtual Controller Software (XCS) ma nag es all aspects of storage system operation.
XCS provides scalable capacity on-demand, improves performance, increases disk utilization efficiency ,
and allows for easy dynamic storage expansion. XCS is installed on the storage system and is also
included in the XCS for HSV Controller software kit.
XCS featur
es and functionality
• Support for up to 240 disk drives per controller pair
• Manageme
nt of up to 1024 virtual disks, ranging in size from 1 GB to 2 TB per virtual disk, per
disk pool
• Dynamic capacity expansion (if supported by your operating system)
• Virtual d
iskdataloadleveling
• Distributed sparing of disk capacity
• Virtually capacity-free snapshot (Vsnap)
• Virtual
ly Instantaneous Snapclone (VIS)
• Dual redundant controller operation for increased fault tolerance
• Multi-path failover support
• Batter
y backup for cache memory
• Asynchronous disk swap (Hot Swap)
• Clustered server support
• Mirror
ed write-back cache support
• Read-ahead and adaptive read ca ching support
• Virtual RAID storage system (Vraid0, V raid1, V raid5)
• Non-d
isruptive software upgrade capability
• Supports connection of up to 256 hosts
• Multivendor platform suppor t
• Cont
roller password protection for configuration control
• Selective storage presentation
• SAN-based data zoning
Optional software licensing
HP Business Copy and HP StorageWorks Continuous Access require a separate license for each controller
pair. Instructions for ob taining licenses are included with the software documentation.
Additional information about HP Business Copy and HP Continuous Access can be found online at
h
ttp://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/soft ware.html.
20
Enterprise Virtual Array description