HP StorageWorks Virtual Array 7000 Family User and Service Guide (January 2005)
Table Of Contents
- Warranty Information
- Product Overview
- System Configurations
- Lowest Entry Point, Non-HA Minimum Configuration (VA 7100 only)
- Lowest Entry Point, Non-HA Minimum Configuration (VA 7410)
- Entry Level Non-Cluster With Path Redundancy (All VA arrays)
- Entry Level Cluster with Path Redundancy High Availability (VA 7410)
- Midrange Non-Cluster (All VA arrays)
- Midrange Non-Cluster (VA 7410)
- Midrange Non-Cluster with Full Storage Path Redundancy (All VA Arrays)
- Typical Non-Clustered with Path Redundancy (VA 7410)
- Typical Clustered Configuration (All VA models)
- Typical Clustered Configuration (VA 7410)
- HP-UX MC Service Guard or Windows 2000 Cluster (All VA arrays)
- Highly Redundant Cluster (VA 7410)
- Typical Highly Redundant Cluster (All VA models)
- Typical Highly Redundant Cluster (VA 7410)
- Troubleshooting
- Servicing & Upgrading
- Specifications & Regulatory Statements

Product Overview 17
Product Overview
Product Features
The arrays include the following features:
■ Scalability
The capacities for the different products and disk modules are listed in Table 3.
■ High performance
— 10K rpm & 15K rpm disk drives
— 1 or 2 Gbit/s native Fibre Channel (host to controllers/controllers to
back-end)
— High performance read/write IOPS and cache hits. See Table 4
Table 4 Read/Write & Cache Performance
*RAID 1+0 only
**RAID 5DP only
Table 3 Data Storage Scalability
Product
No.
18 GB
Disk Module
36 GB
Disk Module
73 GB
Disk Module
146 GB
Disk Module
VA 7100 72 GB min
270 GB max
144 GB min
540 GB max
292 GB min
1095 GB max
Not supported
VA 7110 72 GB min
810 GB max
144 GB min
1620 GB max
292 GB min
3285 GB max
584 GB min
6570 GB max
VA 7400 180 GB min
1895 max
360 GB min
3780 GB max
730 GB min
7665 GB max
Not supported
VA 7410 180 GB min
1895 max
360 GB min
3780 GB max
730 GB min
7665 GB max
1460 GB min
15,330 GB max
Product
No.
Random
Reads
Random
Writes
Sequential
Reads
Sequential
Writes
Cache
Hits
VA 7100 3,200 IOPS*
3,000 IOPS**
1,600 IOPS*
480 IOPS**
90 MB/s 45 MB/s 14,000 IOPS
VA 7110 7150 IOPS*
7100 IOPS**
3500 IOPS*
1050 IOPS**
160 MB/s 84 MB/s 15,500 IOPS
VA 7400 8,000 IOPS*
7,500 IOPS**
4,000 IOPS*
1,200 IOPS**
160 MB/s 80 MB/s 22,500 IOPS
VA 7410 11,000 IOPS*
11,000 IOPS**
5,500 IOPS*
1,100 IOPS**
330 MB/s 250 MB/s 30,000 IOPS