HP 3000 Enterprise Virtual Array - Manual (Page 18)

• Dual– and multi–node cluster support provided for host–level fault tolerance and high system
availability.
• Support for active-active failover, allowing the use of industry popular multipathing solutions and
native host bus adapters.
Performance
Outstanding self-tuning performance includes:
• Virtualization technology—Vraid, enables data to be distributed from 8 to 240 disks to increase
disk spindle count far beyond traditional RAID sets. This virtualization method also optimizes
storage for the best performance of a specific configuration and application. Enterprise Virtual
Array eliminates tedious management functions to provide the best performance possible.
• Both online high-performance disk drives and FATA (Fibre Attached Technology Adapted) disk
drives.
• State-of-the-art controller software that improves performance, increases capacity, and allows for
easy dynamic storage expansion.
Scalability
The EVA5000 provides:
• Up to 32 TB of usable capacity. Total maximum raw capacity will vary based upon the
redundancy (Vraid) selected.
• A maximum of 240 disk drives
• Support for 1024 virtual disks
The EVA3000 provides:
• Up to 22.4 TB of raw capacity (2C4D configuration using 400 GB FATA disks).
• A maximum of 56 disk drives
• Support for 1024 virtual disks
All models support the following disk capacities:
• 300 GB FC disk drives
• 250 GB, 400 GB, and 500 GB FATA disk drives
• 146 GB FC disk drives
• 72 GB FC disk drives
• 36 GB FC disk drives
For the most current information on supported disk drives, see the HP StorageWorks Enterprise
Virtual Array 3000/5000 release notes. See “ Related documentation ” on page 13 for links to
this document.
Operating system support
• HP–UX
• Microsoft Windows 2003
• Microsoft Windows 2000
• HP Open VMS
• Tru64
• Sun Solaris
• IBM AIX
• Linux
• VMware
• Novell NetWare
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