HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array familyAccelerate into virtually boundless storage

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Today’s businesses are faced with challenges such asexponential storage growth, accelerating managementcosts, the need to consolidate to reduce costs, and theinability to hire additional staff. When shortfalls producea domino effect across your network, decreasingscalability and availability, and increasing complexityand downtime, what is your response? Traditionally, youwould resign yourself to storage shortfalls, availabilityinterruptions, and complaints. Enter HP StorageWorksEnterprise Virtual Array 3000 (EVA3000) and EnterpriseVirtual Array 5000 (EVA5000), the ideal solution forconsolidated, enterprise-class, open-systems environments.The EVA3000 and EVA5000 offer forward-thinkingtechnologies giving CIO’s, IT managers and networkadministrators the ability to dramatically reduce their totalcost of ownership (TCO) by maximizing storage capacity,simplifying management, increasing manageability andavailability and delivering high performance on a localand enterprise-wide basis. The EVA3000 and EVA5000advanced technology gives you the proven security,scalability and global support you’ve come to expect fromthe industry leader HP. We conquer the boundaries oftraditional storage offering industry-leading evolutionarystorage technology that literally reinvents enterprisestorage. Now you can breakthrough to virtual withabsolute confidence.

Scale without limits How does the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrayfamily maximize your storage and capacity to positionyour business for continuing growth? By optimizing yourstorage with HP VersaStor Technology, a storage solutionenhanced with virtualization that provides the ability toput information to work anywhere, anytime making your business “opportunity ready.” It also improvesoperational capabilities by supporting global informationaccessibility. And, by insuring business uptime, you willimprove customer service levels. The EVA3000 andEVA5000 virtual network storage technology allows foralmost limitless business flexibility. This cutting-edgetechnology makes storage management simple with allcapacity in the array appearing as a single pool ofstorage. This eliminates stranded capacity, reducescomplexity and maximizes existing resources, thusincreasing the administrator’s productivity. EVA is a high performance, high capacity and high availability“virtual” RAID storage solution, which allows existing ITadministrators to easily manage their ever-growingamounts of mission-critical data more effectively.

A trio of amplified performance—EVA, Vsnap and SnapcloneWith Virtually Capacity-Free Snapshot (Vsnap), youeliminate both the backup window and the need to buyexcessive storage for replication. Your Vsnap LUN startsoff small and dynamically grows as you store more datain it—no need to lock out large amounts of space.Snapclone gives you the ultimate data mining solution. A Snapclone integrates the best features of Vsnaps and clones with automation. Rather than waiting for thecopy (clone) to complete, the EVA Snapclone provides

“Consolidation of our IT environment brought new challengeswhen it came to availability and disaster protection. We hadto make absolutely sure that our data centers had no singlepoint-of-failure. For our SAN storage platform we chose theEnterprise Virtual Array system. We are currently storing 80%of our business critical data on HP StorageWorks systems. Weexpect to increase to 100% within the next three years.”– E.H. Ubels, MBA, Chief Information Officer, Deloitte & Touche Netherlands

Breakthrough to virtual

Choosing an HP StorageWorks array

Modular SAN Array 1000

Enterprise

Mid-range

Entry-level

Virtual Array

Enterprise Virtual Array 3000

Enterprise Virtual Array 5000

Disk Array XP

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immediate access to the copy even as it is being built—virtually “instantly.” The benefits and value of Snapclonetechnology are:

• Availability: it enables application and live testing ofdata immediately without disrupting business operations

• Replication: a clone or physical copy of a productionvolume is created as a “third mirror,” it can be brokenoff and mounted and copied to tape for archiving

• Recovery: in the event of a site disaster, the data on theclone can be placed onto tape and relocated

Growing boundlessThe EVA3000 and EVA5000 designs consolidateenterprise-class, open-systems environments improvingstorage utilization and scalability while meetingapplication specific demands for consistently hightransaction I/O and MB/sec data rate performance. The EVA system is an end-to-end 2 Gb Fibre Channel (FC)

solution utilizing FC-Switch Fabric for interfacing with thehost and 2 Gb FC to interface to the disk drives. The EVAuses FC disk drives with dual port access for redundancyand load. Both arrays are compatible with most of theearlier 1 Gb FC HBAs and SAN Switches, and the morerecent 2 Gb FC HBAs and SAN Switches.

HP StorageWorks EVA3000Leveraging limited resourcesThe EVA3000, the mid-range member of the HPStorageWorks disk array family, is a high performance,high availability “virtual” RAID storage solution servingthe intermediate storage needs of the enterprise and mid-range storage market. Engineered for customers whoneed to start small and grow in small increments duringthe life cycle of the array, the EVA3000 offers up to 8 TB with 56 drives. It provides reliable performance,superior scalability and consistent availability, making it the ideal solution for customers who expect steady, but not excessive growth over the next couple of years.The EVA3000 provides enterprise-class functionality formid-range environments and addresses the challenges of an environment where performance and businesscontinuance needs are incrementally increasing andbudget controls are a concern.

HP StorageWorks EVA5000Data consolidation in one virtual environmentRemoving the time, space and cost boundaries oftraditionally architected storage, the EVA5000 is a highperformance, high capacity and high availability “virtual”RAID storage solution for the enterprise-class marketplace.This powerhouse of performance lets you maximize yourstorage assets and optimize administration efficiency. HP StorageWorks EVA5000 is the answer for customerswho currently employ high capacities or who plan toaccelerate to over 56 drives. It’s the ideal solution forcustomers who expect rapid growth in the near future or

ENSAextended—storage evolvedThese future-ready enterprisearrays are part of the “NetworkedStorage” component of theENSAextended architecture. HPStorageWorks ENSAextended isthe strategic blueprint for buildingan adaptive storage infrastructure,offering numerous products acrossour computing portfolio. EVAtechnology is storage evolved, with the EVA3000 and EVA5000you get enterprise-class storagesolutions for mission-criticalenvironments—mandatory dataconsolidation and acceleratedstorage capacity.

during the life cycle of the array. Plus, the EVA5000 letsyou easily grow your storage to 240 drives or 35 TB. Itsolves the challenges inherent in ever-increasing capacityand replication requirements, demands for extremeperformance, escalating business continuance needs andlower TCO. The EVA5000 is designed for the data centerwhere there is a critical need for improved storageutilization, scalability and performance. The EVA5000ensures your data is there when you need it, meeting yourbusiness needs in an optimized and stress-free way.

EVA software—get the most from your dataBoth the EVA3000 and EVA5000 require a base copy of HP StorageWorks VCS software and HP OpenViewStorage Management Appliance for management. Foradditional functionality and features, the followingsoftware can be added:

• HP StorageWorks Business Copy EVA: A localreplication software product for EVA arrays providingSnapshot and clone setup and management; itcombines the former VCS Snapshot product licensetogether with an improved management capability,formerly known as HP StorageWorks Enterprise VolumeManager (EVM) into a single orderable product.

• HP StorageWorks Secure Path: A family of highavailability, multi-pathing software that eliminates singlepoints-of-failure in HP SAN-based storage infrastructures.

• HP OpenView Storage Area Manager: A suite ofproducts to manage capacity, availability, performanceand charge-back of your entire SAN.

• HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA: A storage-based solution that copies data online and in real-time to remotely located array systems via astorage area network.

EVA—accelerate into virtuallyboundless storageHP is the industry leader in storage solutions and with the introduction of the Enterprise Virtual Array family, weonce again raise the bar on industry standards. HP offersthe following advantages:

Leadership in space savings: • Maximum performance with Vraid features:

–Enables up to twice the typical open systems capacityutilization

–Minimizes the purchase of unusable capacity

–Allows incremental capacity to support growth withoutplanning for downtime

–Provides state-of-the art design to improveperformance, disk usage and allows for easy dynamicstorage expansion

Leadership in time savings:• Virtually instantaneous Snapclone features:

–Allows immediate use of the clone copy, savingsignificant time

–Provides virtually instantaneous clones of virtual disksto allow for immediate, efficient mirroring and datarepositories, in addition to seamless data migrationand data sharing

• Automatic, self-tuning performance

• No data micro-management

• Truly scalable capacity and performance

• Configuration flexibility

• Improved and more consistent user service levels

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“The EVA3000 brings all of the enterprise features enjoyed by the EVA5000 into a mid-range price point. We feel very confident in our ability tosucceed with this product.”– Dhruv Gulati, Executive VP, Lilien Systems

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Leadership in cost savings:• Superior management features:

–Allows management of larger SAN configurations,reducing management time and lowering costs

–Realizes as much as a 15-fold improvement inproductivity with outstanding self-tuning performance;accomplishes more in less time, scales capacity

on-demand and minimizes data administration

• Higher actual capacity utilization

• Dynamic LUN and Pool Expansion

• More disks per Controller Pair

• Simplified storage administration

• Minimized performance tuning

• Centrally managed independent servers with HPStorageWorks Command View storage utilitymanagement software

• Capacity provisioned by attributes (size, redundancy),not physical details

• Manage at the pool level, not disk level

• Add just-in-time capacity on the fly

• Automatic, transparent data redistribution and RAIDlevel load balancing to optimize performance

“We need much greater density behind fewer controllers, so we use the EVA forconsolidation. This gives us the latitude tobuild very large SANs at a much lower pricepoint. We believe it’s a rock-solid product.”– Greg Cherry, Technical System Leader, Acxiom Corporation

Technical specifications

HP StorageWorks VCS software

Controller cache

Battery backup for cache

Host interface

Host ports per controller

Drive interface

RAID levels

Maximum disks supported

Fibre Channel switches

Peak I/O and sustained MB throughput

Disk drives, interface

Disk Drives, capacity – spindle speed

Rotational latency

Average read/write seek time

Track-to-track read/write seek time

Operating systems supported

HP StorageWorks EVA3000

FC Switch support, VCS v3.0 for HSV100 base; Snapshot capabilities available through Business Copy for EVA; remote datareplication capabilities available through Continuous Access for EVA

2 GB standard

Up to 96 hours

Fibre Channel Switched Fabric

Dual 2 Gb FC enabled with VCS v3.0 for HSV100 (running at 1 Gb with 1 Gb switches and HBAs)

Two 2 Gb FC-AL ports per controller in redundant pairs

Vraid0, Vraid1, Vraid5

56 per Controller Pair

64, 32, 16 and 8-Port Optical

Up to 162K IOPS and up to 335MB/sec throughput per Controller Pair

Dual-port 2 Gb FC-AL

The EVA3000 supports the following operating systems: Microsoft®Windows NT®, Microsoft Windows® 2000, HP-UX, SUN Solaris, HPTru64 UNIX®, HP OpenVMS, IBM AIX, Linux and Novell NetWare

36 GB 10K rpm 72 GB 10K rpm 146 GB 10K rpm 36 GB 15K rpm 72 GB 15K rpm

2.99 msec 2.99 msec 2.99 msec 2.0 msec 2.0 msec

4.7 / 5.2 msec 5.1 / 5.55 msec 4.9/5.5 msec 3.8 / 4.2 msec 3.8/4.2 msec

0.6 / 0.9 msec 0.6 / 0.9 msec 0.55/0.75 msec 0.3 / 0.4 msec 0.4/0.6 msec

HP StorageWorks EVA5000

Fibre Channel Switch support, VCS v3.0 and v2.0a base; Snapshot capabilitiesavailable through Business Copy for EVA; remote data replication capabilitiesavailable through Continuous Access for EVA

2 GB standard

Up to 96 hours

Fibre Channel Switched Fabric

Dual 2 Gb FC enabled with VCS v3.0 (running at 1 Gb with 1 Gb switches and HBAs)

Four 2 Gb FC-AL ports per controller in redundant pairs

Vraid0, Vraid1, Vraid5

240 per Controller Pair

64, 32, 16 and 8-Port Optical

Up to 162K IOPS and up to 560 MB/sec throughput per Controller Pair

Dual-port 2 Gb FC-AL

The EVA5000 supports the following operating systems: Microsoft Windows NT,Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition, HP-UX, SUN Solaris, HP Tru64 UNIX, HP OpenVMS, IBM AIX, Linux and Novell NetWare

Enterprise-class services and supportHP believes services are an essential part of everybusiness solution. We are proud of our award-winningtechnology and services, and strive to meet the 24x7availability needed by many modern computingenvironments. We emphasize the value of warranty as avital component to protect customers from “manufacturingdefects,” thus ensuring their investment in a product for adefined period of time and scope. In addition, ongoingservice and support protect businesses by ensuring thetechnology performs to a pre-selected level of availability.HP adheres to a proactive service approach and throughthis we are able to help you achieve a higher level ofavailability; it has been our experience that availabilityimprovements translate into meeting or exceeding ServiceLevel Agreements (SLAs) with our valued businesspartners. More importantly, upgrades to the standardfactory warranty allow you the choice of service level thatmeets your expectations and the level of availability yourequire to meet your business needs.

Hardware warrantyThe EVA Foundation Service Solution is included with allEVA models and provides:

• Installation and Startup including physical installation,virtual disk design and configuration of the EVA; thisincludes: service planning, service deployment,Installation Verification Testing (IVT) and a customerorientation session

• 3-years of 24x7 onsite hardware support with a 4-hourresponse commitment

• 3-years of 24x7 VCS phone-in support with 2-hour callback response commitment and VCS update service

• 3-years of 24x7 Automated Event Notification andremote problem intervention

• Post-warranty on-site maintenance coverage—variousoptions for duration, coverage and response time

The HP StorageWorks EVA3000and EVA5000 advancedtechnology gives you the provensecurity, scalability and globalsupport you’ve come to expect fromthe industry leader HP.

HP StorageWorks EVA5000 HP StorageWorks EVA3000

Software warranty• 90-day HP StorageWorks VCS limited warranty

• Optional software services

–Warranty uplift options

–Stand-alone telephone support—up to 24x7, up to 30minute call back response time

–Subscription services—providing updates to newsoftware license rights

Hardware/software Installation and Startup Services• Pre-installation consulting and planning

• Hardware installation, configuration and verification

• Installation, configuration and verification of VCS andother HP OpenView software

• Service tools installed, configured and verified

• Customer orientation

• Performance consulting to ensure maximum usage ofdeployed technology in a changing environment

• Available selectively in various worldwide geographic locations

Services may vary by location, please see the warrantyinformation for your country or contact your local HPsales organization for details.

Certain restrictions and exclusions apply.

Professional servicesProfessional Services are available to assist you through a variety of stages within the project lifecycle: defining the scope of the project, building plans to meet businessrequirements, designing a workable and adaptabletechnology platform, implementing and managing to give you the best results immediately and in the future.These services are tailored for targeted markets, including

communications, finance, manufacturing, serviceproviders, e-applications, e-commerce and e-infrastructure.Professionals with industry specific experience work withindividuals within your business teams and developworking partnerships that yield the skills and knowledgeeach business needs to optimize its investment.

HP Proactive Remote Support Services Proactive Remote Support Services identifies problemsand solves them quickly. This set of enterprise-widesupport solutions enables multiple-system managementfrom a single location. Proactive services include planningand configuration services, installation and start-upservices, and a service that automatically reports failuresand likely failures. Proactive Remote Support Servicessaves your staff time by proactively addressing repair and fault-management issues.

HP Enhanced Proactive Service Solution Includes Proactive Service Solution services plus: 2C2D – Single engagement of SAN Solution DeploymentService for up to 32 SAN ports, one operating system,and 4 hosts.

Contact info for resellersHP provides industry-leading support to our partners, at any time, through programs like the HP ReferralProgram. The best online resource for our resellers and partners is the HP business partner site at:http://thenew.hp.com/country/us/eng/support.html

For more informationFor more detailed information on the HP StorageWorksEVA visit: http://h18000.www1.hp.com/storage/arraysystems.html

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“With HP pioneering the industry with itsstate-of-the-art virtualization capabilities and EVA technology, we look for this sameenterprise-class functionality delivered to themid-range market with the new EVA3000…”Rich Baldwin, President, CEO, NTH Generation Computing, Inc.

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