The HP P6000 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) is an enterprise class virtual storage array family for midsized customers at an affordable price. With built in virtualization, P6000 EVA is designed to improve capacity utilization and be easy to manage, which lowers the cost of ownership compared to traditional arrays. These arrays have high performance, scale easily, and are highly reliable and available. P6000 EVA is a trusted platform for enterprise application consolidation with solutions for Microsoft Exchange and SQL, Oracle, and SAP. It also offers integration with virtual server platforms from VMware, Microsoft and more, plus broad operating systems support.

The HP P6000 EVA family is the next generation of EVA with two new models: P6300 EVA and P6500 EVA. The P6000 EVA family supports Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk drives with a wide range of Small Form Factor (SFF) SAS drives, Large Form Factor (LFF) SAS drives, or combinations of both, to better match customer storage capacity, performance, power, and availability needs. The P6000 EVA models are available with Fibre Channel host ports only, or Fibre Channel and 1Gb/s iSCSI host ports, or Fibre Channel and 10Gb/s iSCSI/FCoE host ports. P6000 EVA is also very energy efficient, with high efficiency power supplies for both the controllers and disk drive enclosures, with temperature sensing, self-adjusting variable speed fans.

HP P6000 Command View now includes Thin Provisioning, which helps reduce the storage capacity required, to help reduce the number of disks needed, and thus reduce power and cooling costs. P6000 EVA also offers robust local and remote replication capabilities with HP P6000 Business Copy and HP P6000 Continuous Access software. P6000 Business Copy now also support Dynamic LUN and RAID migration, where in one step, the user can change the characteristics of an existing LUN, such as size, RAID type, disk type while the host I/O operation is active. This feature is useful, for example, to move data to more space efficient storage tiers or to move a heavily accessed LUN to a different disk group to improve performance.

Related Solutions:

Microsoft Windows Server Platforms, Redhat Linux, Suse linux, Oracle, Vmvare

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HP P6000 Enterprise Virtual Array Systems
HP EVA P6000 details live from HP Discover 2011