22 April 2009
Olivia Devina Sutedjo
Olivia Devina Sutedjo
Introducing HP EVA 6400 & 8400
The HP StorageWorks 6400/8400
Enterprise Virtual Arrays (EVA6400/EVA8400) are members of the EVA product line which offers a high-performance, scalable, and highly-available virtualized array.
EVA6400/EVA8400 are a fully virtualized Business Class SAN arrays that provide enhanced real-world performance, higher connectivity, high storage density, excellent capacity utilization, and easier management of on-demand storage activities. The EVA6400/EVA8400 are easy to set up, configure, re-configure, manage, repair, and upgrade for those customers concerned about array complexity. The EVA6400/EVA8400 are the best arrays for virtualized server environments (VMware, HyperV, and Xen).
On the day of announcement, HP will announce these new features and functionality:
Solid State Disk Drive — Provides fast access to critical data. The SSD provides the highest performance of any drive type and relieves performance bottlenecks. SSD drives have less than half the power consumption of a 15K drive. It also has reduced cooling requirements. SSD drives have no moving parts, built in wear leveling.
Disk arrays can fall into several categories :
Network Attached storage (NAS) arrays
Network attached storage is a hard disk storage system on a network with its own LAN IP address. NAS arrays provide file-level access to storage through such protocols as CIFS and NFS.
Modular Storage Area Network (SAN) arrays
A SAN is a dedicated network, separate from LANs and WANs, that is generally used to connect numerous storage resources to one or many servers. SAN arrays provide block-level access to storage through SCSI-based protocols such as Fibre Channel and iSCSI. Modular storage systems typically consist of separate modules, which afford some level of scalability, and can be mounted in a standard rack cabinet. Modular storage systems are also sometimes referred as departmental.
EVA6400/EVA8400 are a fully virtualized Business Class SAN arrays that provide enhanced real-world performance, higher connectivity, high storage density, excellent capacity utilization, and easier management of on-demand storage activities. The EVA6400/EVA8400 are easy to set up, configure, re-configure, manage, repair, and upgrade for those customers concerned about array complexity. The EVA6400/EVA8400 are the best arrays for virtualized server environments (VMware, HyperV, and Xen).
On the day of announcement, HP will announce these new features and functionality:
Solid State Disk Drive — Provides fast access to critical data. The SSD provides the highest performance of any drive type and relieves performance bottlenecks. SSD drives have less than half the power consumption of a 15K drive. It also has reduced cooling requirements. SSD drives have no moving parts, built in wear leveling.
Disk arrays can fall into several categories :
Network Attached storage (NAS) arrays
Network attached storage is a hard disk storage system on a network with its own LAN IP address. NAS arrays provide file-level access to storage through such protocols as CIFS and NFS.
Modular Storage Area Network (SAN) arrays
A SAN is a dedicated network, separate from LANs and WANs, that is generally used to connect numerous storage resources to one or many servers. SAN arrays provide block-level access to storage through SCSI-based protocols such as Fibre Channel and iSCSI. Modular storage systems typically consist of separate modules, which afford some level of scalability, and can be mounted in a standard rack cabinet. Modular storage systems are also sometimes referred as departmental.