HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array
(EVA) software
Data sheet
HP StorageWorks EVA storage
software and disaster-tolerant
solutions help enable high
availability for your mission-critical
environments. You can rest easy
knowing that HP software solutions
protect your application data while
ensuring high system availability.
These solutions integrate into your
applications and servers to help
simplify storage management
activities, improve capacity
utilisation, automate backups and
data protection and utilise your IT
staff and resources better.
Storage device management
software
HP StorageWorks Command
View EVA
Discover, monitor and configure your HP
StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) disk
arrays from a single Web-based console giving
strong control over your HP Storage environment
Want to reduce IT costs and management complexity
for your arrays and SANs? Need to be ready for the • Flexible connectivity with multi-SAN discovery:
next set of changes?
HP StorageWorks Command View EVA Software
provides you with a powerfully simple storage
management experience. It automates and
aggregates storage management to reduce
complexity and increase productivity. Quickly
and easily automate tasks such as configuring
RAID groups.
Provisioning capacity is simple, and you can
dynamically expand LUNs and add drives on-line
without downtime to quickly meet changing business
needs. HP StorageWorks Command View EVA
Software is a comprehensive software suite designed
to simplify array provisioning and management of
all HP StorageWorks EVA family of storage array
products. You can easily create Vdisks and grow or
shrink LUNs, all without downtime. Command View
EVA Software allows you to replicate data with
snapshots for immediate use. And you can feel
secure about your data with the industry-leading
security features.
Features and benefits
Reduce IT costs and management complexity
• Comprehensive software for EVA management:
Comprehensive software suite includes everything
needed for managing an EVA from provisioning
data quickly, to adjusting LUNs and creating Vdisks
and RAID groups with just a few mouse clicks.
• Reduced management costs: Flexible connectivity
with expanded multi-SAN discovery increases
value and lowers management costs compared
to managing traditional arrays. Software includes
a powerful scripting utility for documenting and
automating EVA configuration tasks.
Provides lower management costs compared to
managing traditional arrays.
• Deployment options for EVA4400: Server-based
management or Array-based management with the
EVA4400.
HP StorageWorks Command View EVA: Simple to manage
Easily provision your EVA storage and replicate
your data
• Quickly add physical disk drives: Quick and easy
addition of physical disk drives containing exact
capacity for immediate use
• Easy creation of Vdisks: Easily create Vdisks and
add capacity without downtime
• No application downtime: Dynamically grow and
shrink LUNs without application downtime
• Instant data replication: Replicate data by instantly
creating snapshots for immediate application usage
Industry-leading security features
• Access levels: Two levels of access Administrator
(read/write) and User (read-only)
• Logging support: Audit logging support for user
actions and events that change system state
• Protection against unauthorised storage: LUN
security for protection against unauthorised
storage access
HP SmartStart for EVA Storage
Making the installation of the HP StorageWorks
Enterprise Virtual Array 4000 (EVA4000) array
family both simple and easy
Would it not be invaluable to have a simple tool
that walks you through set-up of a new storage
area network (SAN) advanced disk array that saves
provisioning and set-up time?
HP SmartStart for EVA Storage is a configuration
utility that simplifies the installation for the HP
StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array 4000
(EVA4000) family. Installing both HP StorageWorks
Command View EVA Software and HP
StorageWorks Command View EVAperf Software.
SmartStart for EVA Storage then assists you in
the first provisioning of your new storage.
Easy-to-follow instructions with on-screen help to
set-up your storage in a few mouse clicks, also
helping with the installation of HBA drivers, Multi-
pathing I/O (MPIO) drivers and the Storage System
Scripting Utility (SSSU) in a Windows environment.
The EVA family is known for its array management
ease-of-use. HP SmartStart for EVA Storage continues
in that tradition, adding simplified set-up for new users
of the EVA4000 family of storage arrays.
Features and benefits
Easy-to-use software for setting up your EVA4000
family storage array in a Windows environment
• Simplified set up with on-screen help:
Comprehensive on-screen directions and help at
every step of the installation and set-up process
for HP Command View EVA Software and HP
Command View EVAperf Software, all in just a
few mouse clicks.
• Help for novice EVA users in a Windows
environment: HP SmartStart for EVA Storage
is designed specifically for new EVA4000
family storage array customers looking for a
software package that helps them self-install EVA
management software on their Windows 2003 or
Windows 2008 server.
• Detailed driver installation support: After
installation of the management software, HP
SmartStart for EVA Storage will assist in HBA
driver installation, followed by Multi-pathing I/O
(MPIO) driver install and then leading the customer
through installation of the Storage System Scripting
Utility (SSSU), used for custom storage actions.
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• Removes the mystery of presenting storage for
use: With HP Command View EVA Software
and drivers installed, SmartStart for EVA Storage
will walk you through the initialisation process,
creating LUNs, provisioning the storage and then
presenting it to the server application. Your storage
is now fully ready for use.
Adaptive provisioning
HP StorageWorks EVA Dynamic
Capacity Management Software
Eliminate the need for on-going storage
administration to improve capacity with an
enterprise-class provisioning solution using the ease
of configuration of HP StorageWorks Enterprise
Virtual Arrays
HP StorageWorks EVA Dynamic Capacity
Management Software provides a comprehensive
solution that automates storage provisioning
and improves capacity utilisation for the HP
StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA)
family. Designed for the enterprise market,
EVA DC-Management Software uses advanced
automation to automatically ‘right-size’ the
supported file system and the EVA virtual disk (Vdisk)
storage volume to the needs of an application.
This dramatically improves capacity utilisation
by allowing the administrator to simply specify a
capacity utilisation range for each Vdisk. In some
cases, EVA DC-Management Software can more
than double storage utilization when compared
to traditional storage provisioning methods where
utilisation may be as low as 20–40 per cent.
Configuring EVA DC-Management Software policies
takes just seconds with its effortless wizards and
advanced automation. The simple ‘set and forget’
provisioning not only reduces the resource cost of
on-going storage provisioning, but also allows for
the potential postponement of additional capacity
purchases due to increased storage utilisation. This
also helps to reduce the operational costs of powering
and cooling unnecessary storage while helping
the environment by lowering the organisation’s
carbon footprint.
Features and benefits
Ability to ‘right-size’ the file system and the storage
volume to the needs of an application
• Automated provisioning for increased storage
utilisation: File systems and storage volumes are
automatically expanded on-line as application
needs increase, or shrink to reclaim unused
capacity that can returned to the disk group for
use by other applications.
• Simple and quick set up and configuration: It
takes just seconds to configure, or change policies
throughout multiple volumes. Once they are set,
capacity provisioning and reclamation are automatic
allowing the administrator to focus on other
business-critical tasks.
• Reduces capital and operational expenses:
Achieving higher capacity utilisation rates
reduces the need to purchase additional storage
capacity and software licenses. In addition,
higher utilisation results in less power and cooling
requirements by reducing the number of disk
drives required.
Improves capacity utilisation by simply specifying a
utilisation range of the Vdisk
• Accelerates storage consolidation: Improved
capacity utilisation allows more applications to be
deployed on the same storage array.
• Management flexibility for greater control: The
flexible architecture allows the administrator to easily
switch between automatic and manual modes to
quickly adapt to changing business needs.
• Protects valuable data: Valuable data is protected
by integrating host and storage operations during
expand and shrink cycles.
Storage replication software
HP StorageWorks Business Copy
EVA Software
Combines management simplicity and advanced
local replication technologies to improve application
availability and reduce the backup window for the
HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA)
HP StorageWorks Business Copy EVA Software, an
array-based application that utilises a powerfully
simple HP StorageWorks Replication Solutions
Manager (RSM) user interface, creates, manages
and configures local replication on the full EVA
product family to meet business continuity and
regulatory requirements. Business Copy EVA
Software shares an integrated management
interface with HP StorageWorks Continuous Access
EVA Software. The RSM manages all local and
remote replication features throughout the full EVA
array storage family. The combination of the Business
Copy EVA Software’s unique Snapclone and Vsnap
local replication technologies with an unparalleled
easy-to-use RSM interface, businesses now can
achieve new IT efficiencies.
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HP StorageWorks Replication Solutions Manager Software: Manages both remote and local replication
Business Copy EVA Software simply makes
managing replication easier, resulting in the ability
to make business continuity:
• Less expensive through faster, automated space
efficient methods
• More accessible to other groups that can
non-disruptively use production data for other
key business activities
• Less labour-intensive service a much greater value
to IT and its resources
With the new Instant Restore capability
organisations can now quickly and easily restore
a source volume if it should become corrupted.
The flexible and cost-effective license model offers a
simple means to achieve growth without limits when
business needs change.
Features and benefits
Simple to manage and configure
• Simple to manage and configure: HP
StorageWorks Business Copy EVA Software uses
an advanced management interface, where
users can quickly configure and manage local
replication with up to 7x less effort.
• Tight application integration: Quickly restore a
Microsoft Exchange or SQL database with
HP Application Recovery Manager solution.
• Advanced replication technologies: Vsnap,
Snapclone and MirrorClone provide fast,
non-disruptive point-in-time data copies.
• Simply assign disk group and RAID to match
protection levels to business value: Improve
application availability through non-disruptive
restore of on-line volumes.
• Flexible and versatile: Improve operations by
allowing extended access to non-disruptive, read/
writable copies of production data to other users
and servers.
Cost-effective business continuity solution
• Quickly restore on-line volumes: Customers can
quickly recover a corrupted Vdisk.
• Instant Snapclones and Snapshots: Snapclones
provide the unique ability to allow immediate
access to clones. Vsnaps are true space-efficient
snapshots that allocate space as needed. Both
technologies provide the optimum use of
storage capacity.
• Cost-effective business continuity: Accelerated
return on investment is achieved through advanced
replication technologies that use storage capacity
wisely while protecting your applications.
• HP Replication Solutions Manager security:
Flexible security model that allows simplified,
role-based Operating System authentication and
user administration with audit capabilities.
Advanced replication technology
• Match replica protection level to business need:
Customers can create a Vsnap or Snapshot of a
source and choose to keep it at the same RAID
level, choose a different RAID and place it in a
different disk group based on business needs.
Snapclones can be presented to different disk
groups including FATA.
• MirrorClone with fast resync: MirrorClone now
allows a user to pre-normalise a mirror and then
fracture the mirror to create an instantaneous
byte-for-byte clone. MirrorClone also maintains its
relationship with the source volume accelerating
the re-sync time.
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 HP StorageWorks Continuous
Access EVA Software
Protects valuable data by replicating from one
HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) to
another – providing advanced disaster recovery with
ease of management
Do you need to plan for advanced Disaster
Recovery with simple configurations and
management? HP StorageWorks Continuous Access
EVA Software provides an array-based application
that uses advanced replication technologies
to replicate data over distance between HP
StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays. The HP
StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA utilises the
powerfully simple graphical user interface (GUI)
provided by Replication Solutions Manager (RSM)
Software to create, manage and configure remote
replication on the whole HP StorageWorks EVA
family of storage arrays. With the combination
of unique remote replication technologies and the
unparalleled easy-to-use RSM Software interface,
organisations can be confident their information is
protected in the event of a disaster. Furthermore,
Continuous Access EVA Software provides the
necessary components to solve organisations
business continuity objectives in a cost-effective and
easily deployable package.
Features and benefits
HP StorageWorks Advanced disaster recovery
Replication Solutions • Business continuity: HP StorageWorks Continuous
Manager Software Access Software helps enable compliance to
business continuity and regulatory goals. Using
is a recovery
advanced replication technologies, information is
solution for business protected from disaster or unplanned downtime.
application data • Integrates with disaster tolerant solution: Provides
designed to improve a fully automatic failover/failback of storage
the efficiency of your and servers by integrating with disaster tolerant
IT resources. solutions such as HP StorageWorks Cluster
Extension EVA Software, Metro Cluster and
Continental Cluster products.
Simple to manage and configure
• Simple management software: Continuous Access
EVA (Software) shares the exclusive unified, HP
Replication Solutions Manager Software, with HP
Business Copy EVA Software. This interface offers
users a simple control point that utilises job engines,
wizards and host integration and an Interactive
Topology Manager that reduces workload
and errors.
• Reduces configuration time and errors: RSM
provides automated scripts which reduce
configuration time, number of clicks, steps involved
in replication and job engines, wizards that makes
configuration simple, thereby reducing workload
and errors
Flexible and Versatile
• Both Synchronous and Asynchronous replication
modes: Continuous Access EVA offers both
synchronous and asynchronous modes of data
transfers. These two replication modes provide
flexibility in recovery time and recovery point
objective planning.
• Single management interface for whole EVA
family: Single management interface that supports
the full EVA product family and integrates with
HP Business Copy EVA.
HP StorageWorks Replication
Solutions Manager Software
Simplify the way you replicate, protect and share
data in HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays
(EVA) – reducing the time, number of clicks and
steps required for configuration.
Need a simple way to replicate data between
your HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays?
HP StorageWorks Replication Solutions Manager
Software provides a powerfully simple graphical
user interface (GUI) to create, manage and
configure remote/local replication on the whole
HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA)
family. The Replication Solutions Manager Software
integrates with HP Business Copy EVA Software and
HP Continuous Access EVA Software for local and
remote replication. This results in a unique, cost-
effective disaster recovery solution, with less effort to
configure and service value to IT and its resources.
Automated scripts, wizards and Interactive
Replication Topology Viewer reduce complexity and
provide greater flexibility of executing tasks.
Features and benefits
Simple to manage and configure
• Reduces configuration time: The Replication
Solutions Manager Software provides automated
scripts which reduce the configuration time,
the number of clicks and the steps involved in
configuring replication.
• Reduces configuration errors: The Replication
Solutions Manager uses job engines and wizards
that make configuration simple reducing workload
and errors.
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 • Simple security model: The Replication Solutions
Manager offers a simple security model that
allows role-based Operating System authentication
and user administration with audit capabilities.
Flexible and Versatile
• Supports full EVA product family: Single
management interface that supports the full EVA
product family
• Unified management interface: The RSM software
provides a unified management interface that
integrates with HP Business Copy EVA and HP
Continuous Access EVA for both local and remote
replication
Quick recovery solutions
HP offers solutions that HP Data Protector Software:
protect your valuable Zero Downtime Backup and Instant
information against
the threat of downtime
Recovery
– whether planned or Zero Downtime Backup and Instant Recovery
unplanned – making
automate restoration of application databases
such as Exchange, Microsoft SQL, SAP and Oracle
your operations in the event of failure or corruption, and restores
resilient, regardless data to the moment before an outage. Powered by
of external or internal Data Protector software technology, these software
components can be used in a Data Protector backup
events.
environment, or as a standalone solution to augment
your existing backup software strategy by delivering
application-integrated data recovery.
In Windows environments, Volume Shadow Copy
Service (VSS) provides the means to create on-line
point-in-time copies of open files from a file server or
backup application, or within Exchange or Microsoft
SQL application environments. Zero Downtime
Backup integrates with VSS to make non-disruptive,
point-in-time copies of databases for recovery
in minutes, not hours as required by traditional
recovery from tape. A single deployment supports
Microsoft-compliant quick recovery using the VSS
framework for Exchange and Microsoft SQL with
HP EVA disk arrays.
Features and benefits
• Recovery in minutes: Improve application
availability by creating volume shadow copies of
application databases while the application is still
running. You can also experience data recovery
in minutes rather than hours, as in traditional
recovery from tape, with recovery-ready copies
stored within the disk array.
• Disk-to-disk reliability: Access an array-based
(disk-to-disk) solution for an accelerated, more
reliable recovery process. You can obtain data-
consistent, zero-downtime, point-in-time copies with
database integrity check to detect potential errors
or corruption.
• Pinpoint restoration: Create point-in-time copies of
application databases and allow recovery through
the log file beyond the time of the last shadow
copy. You can also restore it to a recovery point
objective of zero (RPO = 0) or stop short of any
corruption.
• Operational efficiency: Offload I/O from the
recovery server to accelerate time-to-recovery.
• Administrative efficiency: Remove the need
for separate storage and business application
administrators, providing a common interface
that serves multiple business applications and
automated processes – making management
simple.
• Financial efficiency: HP protects your investment
by taking advantage of the value of an established
strategy.
• Environmental efficiency: Establish a foundation
for feature enhancements and added platform
support.
Disaster-tolerance solutions
System downtime can mean lost productivity,
lost revenue, lost customers and lost opportunities.
HP offers business continuance solutions that
protect your valuable information against the
threat of downtime – whether planned or
unplanned – making your operations more resilient.
HP business continuity software solutions include
disaster tolerance locally and remotely to keep
corporate information available.
Our proven strategies, services and technologies
can reduce your exposure and vulnerability. Defend
your operations against downtime threats and
ease your recoveries with HP business continuance
software solutions such as:
HP StorageWorks Cluster Extension
EVA (CLX EVA)
HP StorageWorks Cluster Extension EVA (CLX EVA)
is the world’s first, full-site disaster tolerance software
solution designed for the mid-range storage or
tiered enterprise storage markets. HP CLX EVA
specifically integrates with HP Continuous Access
EVA and Microsoft ® Cluster Service for Windows
environments or HP Serviceguard for Linux®
environments. In doing so, HP CLX EVA is capable
of automatically making the decision of whether it
is appropriate for the cluster software to failover
the application from one cluster node to another.
Since it also monitors the health of the storage,
HP CLX EVA provides services such as swapping
the personalities of the replicated disk pair to
facilitate read/write access to the disaster recovery
(DR) group LUNs when necessary.
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Features and benefits
• Fully automatic failover and failback: Automated
failover and failback reduces the complexity
involved in a disaster recovery situation. It is
protection against the risk of downtime, whether
planned or unplanned.
• Dual OS support: Integrates with HP Serviceguard
for Linux in Red Hat and SUSE Linux environments
and Microsoft Cluster Service in Windows
environments.
HP Metrocluster with HP
StorageWorks Continuous Access
EVA
HP Metrocluster software integrates with the
array-based HP EVA Continuous Access for data
replication to provide automatic and bi-directional
failover of business-critical data and applications
located up to 600 kilometres apart with EVA
storage. As a result, both data centres can
be active, protected and capable of handling
application failover for each other.
Features and benefits
• Automatic bi-directional failover: Primary and
standby data centres can be designed to act as
backup for each other, depending upon where the
disaster strikes. Applications failover automatically
minimising downtime.
• Single interface for applications and Oracle
databases: Disaster tolerance for critical
applications as well as Oracle RAC databases
within the same Metrocluster environment with its
new Site Aware Disaster Tolerant Architecture.
Need for a single DT software provides better
asset utilisation and lower TCO.
• Network and solution flexibility: It is possible to
have different network subnets at the two data
centres. It offers solution deployment options of
raw volumes or cluster file system (CFS).
• Integration with virtualisation solutions:
Metrocluster can be integrated with HP Virtual
Server Environment (VSE) suite of products to
provide benefits of workload management,
Capacity Adviser, Utility pricing, Partitioning
Continuum solutions, and much more.
• Based on Serviceguard portfolio of products: This
helps in investment protection and lower TCO
as Metrocluster is based on the basic clustering
software from HP on HP-UX.
HP Continentalclusters
HP Continentalclusters software integrates with the
array-based HP EVA Continuous Access for data
replication to provide manual and bi-directional
failover of business-critical data and applications
over unlimited distance. It also features bi-directional
push-button failover giving your IT staff complete
control over when to initiate a failover.
Features and benefits
• Unlimited distances supported: With
Continentalclusters, the two data centres can be
at any distance from each other. This means that a
data centre in another country or continent can act
as a standby for your data centre.
• Integrates Oracle, Oracle RAC and Oracle Data
Guard: Continentalclusters can integrate different
versions of single instance Oracle databases,
Oracle RAC and Oracle Data Guard databases.
HP Services
HP Technology Services, trusted professionals to
boost availability and avoid costly downtime, with
your HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array
(EVA) software storage solution.
Recommended Services
• HP Support Plus 24 Service – for a higher
return on your storage technology, this 3-year
combined reactive support option delivers
integrated on-site hardware/software support
services available 24x7.
• HP Proactive Select Service – to improve IT
performance and manageability through the use
of cost-effective flexible proactive services.
• HP StorageWorks Disk Array Installation and
Startup Service – or smooth startup, this service
provides hardware and software installation.
Related Services
• HP Proactive 24 (P24) – for improved stability,
availability and operational effectiveness, this
3-year, integrated hardware and software
support service combines industry leading
technical assistance with proactive account
services.
• HP SAN Solution Service – for expertise when
implementing a new or extending existing SAN,
based on size and complexity, this solution
offers three levels of service options.
For more information about HP services and
support, contact your HP sales representative or
HP-authorised Channel Partner or, visit
www.hp.com/hps/storage
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 HP EVA Disaster Tolerant Solutions at a glance

Mid-range solutions Enterprise solutions

HP EVA Cluster Extension HP Metrocluster EVA HP Continentalclusters

Operating system (OS) support Windows , Linux

®
HP-UX HP-UX

Maximum distance 500 km (300 mi) and 20 ms round trip time 300 km (187 mi) Unlimited
between EVAs

Automated failover and failback Yes Yes No

Cluster size Up to 8 total nodes (2 sites*) Up to 16 total nodes (2 sites*) Up to 64 total nodes (4 sites*)

Bi-directional failover Yes Yes Yes

Replication software HP EVA Continuous Access HP EVA Continuous Access HP EVA Continuous Access

Replication mode Synchronous Synchronous Synchronous

*Two main data centres and a third location for the quorum server or arbitrator nodes

HP StorageWorks Cluster Extension EVA, HP Customer technical training

Metrocluster with Continuous Access EVA and HP
Consider education as an integral part of your
Continentalclusters offer high levels of protection and
strategy to get a better return on investment for your
disaster tolerance for enterprise, tiered-enterprise
HP storage solution. HP offers a range of training
and mid-range storage environments. These solutions
classes on storage software, networking, archiving
enable integration of extended high-availability
and disk storage systems. Our classes are available
server clustering with HP remote mirroring
in many delivery modalities from traditional
technologies. This strategy reduces downtime and
instructor-led classes at one of our 80 training
provides rapid site recovery with automatic failover
centres worldwide to on-site training customised to
of application services, automatic data consistency
your needs or on-line. www.hp.com/learn/storage
checking and read/write enabling of remotely
mirrored storage. For more information, refer to
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