HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array 3000/5000 Release Notes VCS V4.007 (5697-6486, July 2007)

VCS Media Kit for

dual HSV controllers

The following items are included in the HP StorageWorks EVA3000 / 5000 Series 4.0 Controller Media

Kit:

• Upgrade Licens

• HP StorageWorks EVA3000/5000 VCS 4.007 system software CD. Also included on this media

is VCS 3.028.

• HP StorageWor

ks Enterprise Virtua l Array 3000/5000 Documentation CD

HP StorageWor

ks Command View EVA 5.0.3 or 6.0.2 is required to access all the features and beneﬁts

provided by VCS 4.007.

NOTE:

The EVA3000/5000 ships with VCS 3.028 pre-in stalled. The EVA3000/5000 Series 4.0 Controller

Media Kit cont

ains both 4.007 and 3.028 system software, enabling you to choose the VCS versi on

that support

s your multipathing conﬁguration.

Supported system conﬁgurations

For complete information on supported conﬁgurations, refer to the H P StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual

Array 3000/5000 QuickSpecs, which can b e downloaded from the appropriate website:

ttp://h18006.www 1.hp.com/storage/disk_storage/index.html

Supported operating system speciﬁcations

Detailed system speciﬁcations for each supported operating system are included in a series of

Connectivity Installation and Reference Guides and associated Connectivity Release Notes. You can

download the information necessary for your o perating environment at the appropriate web site:

ttp://www. hp.com/support/manuals

Click Disk Storage Systems under Storage and then select either HP StorageWorks 3000 Enterprise

Virtual Array or HP StorageWorks 5000 Enterprise Virtual Array under EVA Disk Arrays.

Supported disks

Table 4 lists the supported Fibre Channel disks.

NOTE:

• The information in this table is curr ent as of the date the document was published.

• To maintain your storage system at the most current conﬁgu ration, H P recommends that all disk

drives use the recommended version of ﬁrmware.

• A m ini mum of eight disks is required to create a disk group. Additional disks may be added up

to the established disk group limits.

• A disk group cannot contain both online (high performance) disks and FATA disks. It must contain

only one t ype of disks.

Using FATA disk drives

FATA drives are designed for lower dut y cycle applications such as near online data replication for

backup. These drives should not be used as a replacement for EVA’s high performance, standard duty

HP StorageWorks 3000/5000 Enterprise Virtual Array release notes (VCS 4.007)