HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array.......
When your business is ready for server & storage technology........, it can be a challenge to know where to begin. HP’s comprehensive range of server & storage solutions are designed to complement every stage of your business growth. From easy to own entry level servers to highly expandable & scalable products & services, HP allows you to focus on the business by providing reliable, hassle-free technology.
Why the EVA 4400 storage system......it Delivers virtual storage for the midsize customer providing enhanced performance, better capacity utilization, and easier management of on-demand storage activities.
Powerful Performance
  • Affordable enterprise-class storage array: The EVA4400, the newest member EVA family, is easier to install, upgrade and repair, at an affordable price for midsized customers.
  • Improves capacity usage, reduces management time: Reduces complexities of installations typically found in traditional arrays by employing EVA virtualization capabilities to improve your management resources.
  • Easy to install and repair: Installation is quick and easy, taking only a few hours, freeing you to manage your business priorities and not your storage solution. You can easily upgrade, repair and replace components yourself, without the need for a service call.
  • Spend less time managing storage: Command View EVA and Dynamic Capacity Management software make it easy to manage the array and storage provisioning.
Easy Integration
  • Lower cost of ownership: Contributing to an attractive Total Cost of Ownership, the EVA4400 is more affordable and less complex than traditional arrays.
  • Simplifies integration of leading business apps: EVA4400 Solution Blocks provide blueprints for integration with Microsoft Exchange, Oracle and SAP that combines the right server, storage and application components for quick deployment of typical business intelligence, disaster recovery, mail and messaging applications as well as other projects.
  • Keeps pace in the agile world of virtual servers: In a dynamic VMware environment, the most complimentary storage is that which can respond quickly to change. The EVA4400, because it is so easy to configure and provision storage, is the better SAN solution.
Reliable and Available
  • Complete solution for storage and servers: Combined with HP BladeSystem, the EVA4400 provides a complete solution where storage and servers are managed together. This offers a simple management and resource solution for customers.
  • Easy and robust disaster recovery: Local and remote replication software, Business Copy EVA and Continuous Access EVA, protect data so in the event of a service disruption, recovery is quick and easy.
  • High availability for planned uptime: Customers can expect 99.999% availability with dual-redundant architecture of high-end arrays supports robust local and remote replication capabilities.

HP offers a Storage Solution for every business requirement.....Let DCC work with you on your requirements!
   
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Overview of the 6400 and 8400 Storage Solution
  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 StorageWorks 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 StorageWorks 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
• HP StorageWorks 6400 Enterprise Virtual Array and HP StorageWorks 8400 Enterprise Virtual Array 14/22GB 10GbE iSCSI offering
• Support for 10GbE iSCSI which supports FCIP for SAN over WAN remote data replication using HP Storage Works Continuous Access EVA software and heterogeneous Array Data Migration capability
• Support for Cluster Extension EVA Support for Microsoft Hyper-V Live Migration for transparent End-user application migration across data centers - across both servers and storage

Features

Tune Business Application Environments

Automatically adaptable performance
• 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.

Easy management with HP Command View EVA Software
• 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.

Drive storage utilization to unprecedented levels
• 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.

Integrated local and remote replication
• 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

Change ready storage for change ready servers
• The EVA allows you to seamlessly provision storage while growing your applications by adding virtual servers and EVAs dynamically.

No stranded performance
• 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.

No stranded capacity
• 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.

Total Solutions for Your Environment

Extensive hardware and software offerings
• 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)

Robust integration
• Integration of applications and operating systems with tested and proven solutions brings simplicity to your complex and changing environment.

Configure an entire datacenter in a single rack
• 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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