QuickSpecs

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NOTE: See Operating System, Cluster and High Availability Compatibility matrix for Operating System version detail.
*The maximum single disk group size is 400TB. So two disk groups are required beyond 400TB.
EVA Capabilities
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EVA Capabilities Virtualization abilities allow for easy management and excellent capacity utilization
Scale and re-configure your EVA capacity as your business grows and changes
Excellent reliability and availability established for the EVA architecture. HP's data shows that most
customers are achieving 99.999% availability with the EVA 4x00/6x00/8x00 architecture
Support for integrated application (block) and file storage solution with EVA file services offerings
Support for dual-ported 4 Gb/s FC disk drives and 4 Gb/s dual-ported Fibre Attached Technology
Adapted (FATA) drives and dual ported Solid State Drives (SSD)
Support for Direct Attach connection to Windows storage servers without the need for SAN
switches. SAN support for integrated EVA iSCSI connectivity options with Windows, HP OVMS,
Linux, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris, and VMware.
Supports up to 2048 LUNs (up to 256 per HBA) ranging in size from 1GB to 32TB per Virtual
disk, in 1GB increments.
Dynamic Capacity Management support to expand LUNs up to 2TB (in 1GB increments) and
shrink LUNs 2TB or less.
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NOTE: Requires Host Operating System Support.
Virtual disk data load leveling (non-disruptive background activity)
Distributed sparing of disk capacity
Proactive migration of data from a failing drive into unused space or spare space
Redundant FC-AL loops from each controller to dual disk ports
Support for HP Continuous Access EVA remote replication (synchronous and asynchronous).
Support for remote replications between current EVA generations
Migration support via remote replications between current and earlier EVA generations
Support for Data-in-place upgrades from EVA4400 to EVA6400 and EVA8400 or EVA6400 to
EVA8400
Support for HP Business Copy EVA (Snapshot, and Vsnap (virtually capacity free snapshots),
Snapclone, MirrorClone and Cross Vraid snapshots and Snapclone).
Dual redundant controller operation for increased fault tolerance.
Multiple Bus Failover Support using industry popular multiple path software.
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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
Hardware based Virtual RAID (Vraid) provides improved RAID performance and the benefits of
virtualization to grow and shrink RAID volumes (Vraid0, Vraid1, Vraid 0+1, Vraid5, Vraid 0+5,
Vraid 6 & Cross Vraid Snaps)
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NOTE: Vraid0 should be used with care in select application. It provides no data redundancy and
can result in data loss. Vraid0 is not supported on SSDs.
Support for local replication between Vraid types using Vsnap or Snapclone within a disk group or
using Snapclone across disk groups (and Cross Vraid Snapshot and Snapclone)
Online XCS software upgrade capability
Online drive firmware upgrade capability
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 Command View EVA GUI Interface for management and monitoring (manages up to 16 EVAs).
QuickSpecs
HP 6400/8400 Enterprise Virtual Arrays
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Product Highlights
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