HP StorageWorks 8000 Enterprise Virtual Array

The HP StorageWorks 8000 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA8000) is the largest of three new members in the EVA family - the EVA4000, the EVA6000 and the EVA8000. The EVA8000 is a high performance, high capacity and high availability "virtual" RAID storage solution for the high-end, business critical, marketplace that removes the time, space and cost boundaries of traditionally architected storage. The EVA8000 is designed for the data center where there is a critical need for improved storage utilization and scalability while meeting application specific demands for consistently high transaction I/O and MB data rate performance, seamless capacity expansion, instantaneous replication, and simplified storage administration.
  

EVA8000 2C2D

EVA8000 2C6D

EVA8000 2C12D

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What's New
The new EVA8000 Array

Three base models: 2C2D, 2C6D and 2C12D
Each model comes installed in a 42U graphite cabinet, with a pair of HSV210 controllers, 2, 6 or 12 M5314A disk drive enclosures (depending on the model), a set of four FC-AL switches (in 2C6D and 2C12D models, and optional for 2C2D model), mounting hardware and cables.
New and improved M5314A 14-bay disk drive enclosure, with mounting hardware and cables, for expanded factory built configurations or for field upgrades
EVA8000 Controller Pair, with a pair of HSV210 controllers, mounting hardware and cables for field installation
HP StorageWorks EVA4000/6000/8000 v5.0a controller media kit (XCS v5.030)
Support for many of the industry popular multi-pathing software solutions
Support EVA iSCSI solution offering
HP Systems Insight Manager included with EVA8000


Overview   Product Highlights   Models   Service and Support, HP Care Pack, and Warranty Information   Family Information   Configuration Information and Configuration Rules   Technical Specifications

Product Highlights

Fibre Channel (FC) Technology The EVA takes advantage of the benefits of Fibre Channel (FC) in distance, performance and connectivity. The use of optical Fibre cabling allows distances between connected segments of a SAN to be up to 500 meters @ 1 Gb/s; 300 meters @ 2 Gb/s using short wave multi-mode cable and up to 10 kilometers (6.21 miles) @ 1 Gb/s when using long wave cable. The EVA8000 with EVA XCS v5.0 is 2 Gb/s enabled on each FC path, but will also support 1 Gb/s FC paths for backwards compatibility. Storage Area Networks (SANs) can be constructed using 8, 16, 32 or 64-port FC switches for fabric connectivity (currently up to a maximum of 20 FC Switches supported).
The EVA8000 can support up to 240 FC disk drives at 2 Gb/s transfer rates.

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Enterprise Virtual Array Product Packaging The EVA8000 packaging consists of a 4U FC HSV210 dual controller assembly, 14-bay HP StorageWorks Model M5314A FC Drive Enclosures, four FC Loop Switches (optional for 2C2D model, standard for 2C6D and 2C12D models) packaged in a 42U cabinet. The controller and drive enclosures are independent of each other to allow a wide range of configuration options. The EVA8000 is designed to address moderate to large capacity needs ranging (from 2 - 18 drive enclosures, 0.56 - 72 TB) as well as high performance options in commercial environments. The models are factory rack-mounted in a 42U EVA cab (based on the HP rack 10000 series) via the Factory Integration process (See Configuration Information and Configuration Rules, for details).

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Multi-Vendor Platform The EVA8000 provides support for industry-leading Operating System platforms including:
HP-UX, HP OpenVMS, HP Tru64 UNIX, Windows 2000 Server & Advanced Server, Windows 2003 Standard/Enterprise (32/64-bit) and Extended/DataCenter (64-bit), Sun Solaris, Linux, and IBM AIX.
(Support for Novell NetWare and VMware is planned for August 2005.)
NOTE: See Operating System, Cluster and High Availability Compatibility matrix for Operating System version detail.


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Designed for No-Single-Point-of-Failure The EVA8000 redundant architecture and value added software eliminates single points of failure from server to storage in clustered or single server configurations with multiple pathing.


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Disaster Tolerant Replication (Software option) HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA provides disaster tolerant replication across a Fibre Channel SAN. Continuous Access EVA performs real-time replication between HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays. Continuous Access EVA provides the highest level of FC SAN data protection to customers in order to meet disaster tolerant business continuity implementation goals. Through the use of MAN/WAN Fibre Channel SAN extensions, Continuous Access EVA provides 24x7 protections against disaster like scenarios, in campus, metro or continental networks. Thus, enabling business protection against unforeseen events.

HP StorageWorks Disaster Tolerant Solution for mySAP Business Suite on EVA offers a business continuance solution for SAP environments, where data integrity and value added functionality are high priorities. Best practices for implementing remote mirroring of an SAP database as part of an overall data protection strategy with SAP applications can be found at:



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Local Replication Solutions (Software options) The HP StorageWorks Business Copy EVA is a local replication application for the EVA8000. It incorporates Virtually Capacity-free Snapshot and Snapclone capabilities with an excellent user interface to assist the storage administrator. This product is indispensable for critical data center operations such as non-disruptive backups, frequent snapshots of high value databases, and data mining. The bottom line benefits include improved disk capacity utilization and increased business continuity, data availability, and productivity savings.
HP OpenView Storage Volume Growth provides the ability to easily expand basic disk volumes on Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 systems without disrupting the application environment or impact the user's data. This host based product supplements the volume expansion capabilities of the EVA providing a complete end-to-end solution.


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EVA iSCSI Solution A powerful solution which provides iSCSI connectivity to an EVA without the need to install extensive Fibre Channel infrastructure. The iSCSI EVA solution brings the powerfully simple EVA, with industry leading disk utilization and ease of use, to the iSCSI market. EVA in an iSCSI environment offers the standard high availability features and can be connected to both an iSCSI network as well as a Fibre Channel SAN. The EVA product family includes the data replications offerings of Business Copy EVA and Continuous Access EVA. Basic Business Copy local data replication and basic Continuous Access remote replication functionality, within the EVA, can be used for data acquired over the iSCSI link.

For companies that have not had the resources or expertise to deploy a Fibre Channel Storage Area Network architecture, They can now deploy an iSCSI EVA storage solution that connects application hosts to storage using an Ethernet-based network. This solution enables companies to realize better storage utilization, simplified management, and resulting cost savings that can be achieved from consolidating storage and centralizing management while leveraging their existing Ethernet infrastructure as a storage network.

Consisting of an EVA, HP ProLiant DL380 G4 or DL585 Storage Server and the HP ProLiant iSCSI Feature Pack this product combination creates an iSCSI storage solution that is capable of hosting application storage (block), file, and print services on a single platform. The iSCSI Feature Pack is powerful and easy-to-use software that adds iSCSI target functionality to HP ProLiant Storage Server (NAS) devices. Unlike environments with separate file, print, email, and database servers, or environments using proprietary technologies, this approach delivers single-platform manageability, easy scalability, and centralized backup. It provides investment protection by enabling low-cost storage consolidation using industry-standard hardware and software on existing Ethernet infrastructure. The DL380 G4 and DL585 ProLiant Storage Servers are the perfect platforms from which to run Command View EVA, You can stretch your investment even further when you combine iSCSI connectivity, EVA management and NAS file and print serving capabilities in the same server.
The HP iSCSI Storage Server solution is ideal for small or medium businesses that wish to take advantage of the simplification of storage consolidation and are application-focused on Microsoft?Exchange, Microsoft?SQL, or Oracle Database. It is easy-to-use and affordable, yet delivers powerful functionality usually reserved for higher-priced and more complex storage architectures.

For more information:





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EVA with HP Systems Insight Manager EVA with HP Systems Insight Manager
Enclosed as an accessory with all StorageWorks arrays is HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM). HP SIM is the foundation for HP's unified server-storage strategy -- it is packaged as a no-cost, customer installable management application and is derived from the heritage of Compaq Insight Manager, HP Toptools, and HP Servicecontrol. HP SIM runs on HP Windows, Linux, and HP-UX and provides discovery and identification, fault management, security administration, asset reporting, and centralized configuration management across heterogeneous servers, storage and infrastructure. HP SIM is easily extensible, integrating other HP management products and value-add plug-ins such as the ProLiant Essentials, Integrity Essentials, and Server Essentials.

HP SIM relies on industry standards like SMI-S, SNMP, SSH, WBEM, and WMI to detect and report heterogeneous device attributes. HP SIM may also be configured to launch array specific applications for configuration, reporting and replication. For more information on HP Systems Insight Manager see:




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Clustered Server and High Availability System Support Dual and multi-node cluster support is provided for host level fault tolerance and high system availability. See the Operating System, Cluster and High Availability Compatibility table for operating system specific support.

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Multi-Server Shared Support for Storage Consolidation Heterogeneous and homogeneous host support provides the ability to share storage between multiple servers. The EVA provides storage access control (i.e. Selective Storage Presentation or LUN masking) assuring that a host cannot access data belonging to a different host. SAN-based data zoning is also supported.

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Single-pathing (Single HBA per host) Single-pathing (or single HBA per host) support is provided for all supported operating systems (but may be version dependent). Secure Path is not required for single-pathing. Use of single-pathing, which does not offer a redundant path option, should be used with care. Failure of the single HBA will result in loss of access for that host until the HBA is replaced.

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Enclosure Capacity The EVA8000 provides one of the highest density disk storage solutions in the industry with up to 168 disk drives per cabinet along with four FC loop switches. The 42U Graphite EVA8000 cabinets support up to twelve 3U 14-bay M5314A FC disk enclosures for a maximum capacity of 168 disk drives and a maximum storage capacity of 50.4 TB of disk capacity using 300 GB high performance drives and a pair of HSV210 controllers. An expansion cabinet allows users to expand with another six enclosures for a total of up to eighteen disk enclosures, up to 240 disks, and up to 72 TB per EVA8000.

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Pricing solutions for StorageWorks EVA HP offers a spectrum of offerings allowing customers to align their payments according to the usage of storage capacity.


For customers requiring assistance in managing their storage infrastructure, Managed Storage Solution (MSS) meets that need while providing the option to acquire storage on a utility model. Customers have the ability to choose other options like Backup/Restore, Data Availability, Local Copy and Remote Copy services. All these capabilities are offered at a $/GB/Month fee.
For customers whose need is best described by predictable growth, Pay per forecast (PPF), offered from HP Financial Services, is an ideal fit. It is a step lease based solution where the payments are structured upfront according to the customer's forecasted growth.
For EMEA customers with predicable growth that need ease of acquisition of capital equipment, Capacity-based Payments offered by HP should be proposed.
For even further demanding financial needs of customers, HP Financial Services are ready to craft a customized solution for them.

Please contact your local HP representative for further information


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EVA8000 Capabilities Support for up to 240 disk drives per EVA8000 controller pair.
Support for up to 14 devices per disk enclosure,
Support for up to 12 disk enclosures in a cabinet and up to 18 disk enclosures per controller pair (with an expansion cabinet).
Support for up to 168 devices per 42U EVA cabinet and up to 240 with a utility cabinet.
Support for dual-ported 2 Gb/s FC disk drives and dual-ported Fibre Attached Technology Adapted (FATA) drives.
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
Support for Direct Attach connection to Windows servers without the need for SAN switches.
Dynamic capacity expansion (in 1 GB increments)
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 (Vsnap) and Snapclone.
Dual redundant controller operation for increased fault tolerance
Industry popular multiple bus failover support
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).
Support for local replication between Vraid types using Vsnap or Snapclone within a disk group or using Snapclone across disk groups
Non-disruptive XCS software upgrade capability (enhanced rolling upgrades).
Supports connection of up to 256 hosts.
Multi-Vendor Platform Support.
Controller Password Protection for Configuration Control.
Selective Storage Presentation and SAN-based Data Zoning (through switches).
HP StorageWorks Command View EVA GUI Interface for management and monitoring (manages up to 16 EVAs).


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10K rpm Drive Support The EVA8000 supports 72 GB, 146 GB, and 300 GB 10K rpm dual-ported 2 Gb/s FC disk drives at full-rated transfer rates. An EVA controller pair will support up to 240 disk drives of single or mixed drive capacities and types (high performance and FATA).

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15K rpm Drive Support The EVA8000 supports 72 GB and 146 15K rpm dual ported 2 Gb/s FC disk drives at full rated transfer rates. An EVA8000 controller pair will support up to 240 disk drives of single or mixed drive capacities.

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FATA Drive Support The EVA8000 supports 250 GB dual ported 2 Gb/s Fibre Attached Technology Adapted (FATA) disk. An EVA8000 controller pair will support up to 240 total disk drives.

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Fibre Channel Technology The EVA8000 takes advantage of the benefits of FC in distance, performance and connectivity. The use of optical Fibre cabling allows distances between connected segments of a SAN to be up to 500 meters @ 1 Gb/s; 300 meters @ 2 Gb/s using short wave multi-mode cable and up to 10 kilometers (6.21 miles) @ 1 Gb/s when using long wave cable. The EVA8000 with XCS v5.030 for HSV200 is 2 Gb/s enabled on each FC path, but will also support 1 Gb/s FC paths for backwards compatibility. Storage Area Networks (SANs) can be constructed using FC switches/directors for fabric connectivity (currently up to a maximum of 20 FC switches supported).

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Fibre Channel Switch/Director Support Support FC SAN switches operating at 2 Gb/s allow the full benefits of a storage area network (SAN), providing exceptional connectivity while increasing the effective bandwidth of the network. Supported SAN features include Zoning for communication isolation and Inter-Switch Links (hops) up to 10 km. The EVA8000 supports 2 Gb/s FC. For more information on specific support specifications see the following Switch URL:


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Transfer Speeds The EVA8000 has four FC host interfaces per HSV210 controller; eight for a controller pair. Each controller-to-host interface is 2 Gb/s. The controllers are also compatible with 1 Gb/s and 2 Gb/s FC switches, HBAs, servers and other storage solutions.

Each HSV210 controller pair interfaces with four FC-AL switches which in turn interface with up to 240 disk drives. With the FC-AL switches, each controller can connect to each FC drive A and B port. So each controller has a redundant path to each drive.


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Easy Installation The EVA8000 predefined models ship from the factory fully configured! After unpacking, they can be plugged into power sources, connected to the FC SAN, enabled and configured with a storage management server and they are ready for use. Installation and start-up services are part of the EVA Foundation Service Solution warranty.

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Fault Recovery -- HP Continuous Access EVA for Disaster Tolerance Applications HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA remote copy functionality is available with this release of XCS v5.0. For additional information about Continuous Access visit:

Continuous Access is a controller-based application that performs real-time replication between HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays. The solution is enhanced to perform remote replication, and deliver high data availability and performance to users on Fibre Channel based campus, metro or continental Storage Area Networks (SANs).

HP StorageWorks Disaster Tolerant Solution for mySAP Business Suite on EVA offers a business continuance solution for SAP environments, where data integrity and value added functionality are high priorities. Best practices for implementing remote mirroring of an SAP database as part of an overall data protection strategy with SAP applications can be found at:


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High Availability/ Fault Tolerance/
Hot pluggable support
All EVA8000s are configured with dual HSV210 controllers that operate in a redundant mode. Each controller has four Fibre Channel (FC) host ports. In the event of a path failure, the alternate paths to the controller can be utilized with the use of multi-path software in the Operating System or in Secure Path software. Each controller has four FC device ports. Each port connects to a FC loop switch which in turn connects up to one FC I/O module on up to nine drive enclosures and to one port of up to 120 disk drives. With the four FC ports, each controller can connect to both ports on up to 240 disk drives for redundant paths to all 240 drives. Each controller also has dual redundant hot plug power supplies and dual redundant hot plug blowers. Each controller has hot plug cache batteries to maintain cache contents for up to 96 hours in case of a total power failure.
The M5314A FC drive enclosure has dual redundant hot plug FC IO modules that allow the controllers to distribute I/Os between the two modules and provides redundant paths should either FC I/O module become unavailable. The enclosure also has dual redundant hot plug power supplies and dual hot plug blowers. The enclosure also has a hot plug Environmental Monitoring Unit (EMU) to monitor and report the condition of the power supplies and fans. The EMU can be replaced without affecting I/O operations.

EVA8000 configurations, with more than four drive enclosures, are configured with two pairs of FC-AL switches connected between the two controllers and the drive enclosures. Up to nine drive enclosures can be redundantly connected to each pair of switches, which are redundantly connected to each controller. Each loop switch is independently powered and cooled. Should one loop switch fail, it can be replaced while I/Os continue through the remaining redundant loop switch.

The FC disk drives have dual FC ports which can be redundantly accessed by each controller. The drives are hot plug. The drives can be arranged, using redundant Vraid1 or Vraid5 protection, so that a drive failure will not cause loss of data. Optional virtual sparing can be configured so that a drive failure will trigger an automatic rebuild of the Vraid1 or Vraid5 protection using the virtual spare.

All EVAs have dual redundant power distribution. Two independent power cords distribute power through two Power Distribution Units (PDUs) to each side of the EVA cabinets and to each power supply of the controllers, to each power supply of the drive enclosures and to two of the four FC loop switches. Each cabinet power cord can be connected to independent power sources. For maximum availability, a customer should provide redundant power from independent power circuit breakers, independent power lines from the power company and even independent power companies.


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Integration All EVA8000 models can interface with 2 Gb/s or 1 Gb/s capable FC Switched Fabric SANs. They can co-exist in the same FC SAN with EVA3000/5000 and/or EVA4000/6000 FC storage solutions.

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Manageability HP StorageWorks Command View EVA provides the capability to manage the EVA8000 and is installed on the Storage Management Appliance or management server. This powerful tool provides an easy mechanism to manage up to 16 EVA units in a SAN configuration. Command View EVA is purchased separately from the XCS media kit.

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Performance Fibre Channel host connections provide up to 200 MB/s bandwidth for each path. Each controller has four Fibre Channel host ports (eight ports in a redundant pair of controllers) assuring the availability of bandwidth for the most stringent applications. In addition, up to 8 GB of data and control cache per controller pair ensures high performance. Dual mirrored port write caching capability, with battery backed cache, maintains optimal performance while assuring data integrity in the event of a failure.