Provides enterprises the ability to reduce the management burden of traditional storage with a high-performance disk array tuned for the most popular applications in a fully virtualized environment.
Want to tune your storage for the most visible applications in your complex enterprise environment? EVA provides designed-in virtualization to support your most critical applications as well as your bulk storage needs.
HP 6400/8400 Enterprise Virtual Array automatically improves performance by placing data across more disk drives with tiered storage and tightly integrates replication when using highly visible software applications. The ease of management using HP Command View Software results in less time spent on maintenance and administrative intervention. Higher capacity utilization provides improved performance and manageable storage in a more consolidated environmental footprint.
The EVA6400/8400 allows you to virtualize everything and seamlessly provision your storage when growing your applications. Add virtual servers and EVAs to dynamically build a complete virtualized IT environment—virtual storage for virtual servers tuned for your environment.
What's new
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The EVA6400 is no longer available. However add-on FC drive enclosures, FC drives, and EVA software is still available.
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Support for new 2TB FATA drive
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Support for P6000 Command View v10.0 which includes a new GUI refresh, ability to aggregate multiple arrays (SBM and ABM) into a single pane of glass, and Performance Advisor integration
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Support for controller firmware XCS 10.0 with new Thin Provisioning and LUN/RAID Migration features
Features
Tune Business Application Environments
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Adapts to improve performance by placing data across more spindles and automatically re-leveling when new storage is added. EVA solutions tightly integrate local and remote replication with highly visible software applications. EVA offers tiered storage for the most effective use of storage dollars.
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Allows IT to focus on innovation by reducing the amount of management resources needed to support, provision and maintain your storage environment when compared to traditional storage. Expanding and shrinking data files is as easy as a few mouse clicks resulting in less administrative intervention.
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There is no need to pre-allocate storage capacity due to the management burden imposed by a traditional storage architecture. With the EVA's easy management you can add disks when you want and manage disk capacity and utilization with Dynamic Capacity Management Software.
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EVA offers Business Copy EVA and Continuous Access EVA Software for local and remote replication needs. The EVA solution improves data availability and business agility and supports business continuance and disaster tolerant environments for your key business applications.
The Best Array for Virtualized IT Environments
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The EVA allows you to seamlessly provision storage while growing your applications by adding virtual servers and EVAs dynamically.
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EVA virtualization allows you to use the power and speed of all your drives by spreading data across all the disks in the storage array.
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Remove the guesswork from your purchasing decisions. No need to purchase disks that would be allocated but not in use. The flexibility of EVA virtualization allows you to grow or shrink your storage dynamically as your business needs change. EVA uses all the drives for the highest disk utilization.
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With new Thin Provisioning software, gain efficiencies in capacity utilization, saving disk space compared to traditional provisioning.
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As the lifecycle for data changes, use the dynamic LUN migration feature to easily move data to less expensive storage, all with no interruption to the application.
Total Solutions for Your Environment
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HP offers total solutions for your datacenter, including servers, EVAs, array integrated software, services and support for iSCSI, file and print, backup with Virtual Library System (VLS), data migration with SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP).
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Integration of applications and operating systems with tested and proven solutions brings simplicity to your complex and changing environment.
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HP Factory Express can configure your entire order (SAN/POS/servers/backup) in a rack, AND securely load your data prior to shipment saving time and money by providing a fully configured greener solution.
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