HP StorageWorks Arrays

New
Consolidation and Performance

Mar09

All-in-One
XP Family
family

EVA Family
MSA Family
Midrange
Entry level flexible and scalable Fibre Channel
simple, affordable & fault tolerant storage
Array technology
• scalable modularity
• clustering & shared storage • high availability
• minimal infrastructure • heterogeneous
• DtS conversion • ease of administration
• price/availability • price/scalability
Enterprise
maximize performance, scalability
and availability
• non-stop operation
• high connectivity
• high scalability
• high efficiency
• universal connectivity and
heterogeneity

Scalability, Availability and Business Continuity

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Introducing the
Enterprise Virtual
Array Family
 The EVA success story 50’000th EVA sold in July 2008

EVA 8400

Enterprise EVA 5000 EVA 8000 EVA 8100

Virtual Array

EVA 6400

EVA 6000 EVA 6100

EVA 4400

Current EVA Arrays

EVA 3000 EVA 4000 EVA 4100

11/2001 5/2003 5/2005 6/2007 2/2008 3/2009

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HP EVA4400, 6400 and 8400
Leading in Array Virtualization and ease of use
− Based on proven EVA virtualization since 2001
− Much higher densities
• EVA8100 -> 168 disks in 36u - EVA8400 -> 216 disks in 36u
− 4Gbps end-to-end architecture
− High availability with hot plug drives, disk enclosures, controllers,
power supplies, fans and cables
− 99.999% planned uptime EVA8400
− RAID Support: Vraid0, Vraid1, Vraid5 and now Vraid6
− 32TB LUN size support
− Support for native and industry standard multipathing solutions
− Online controller and disk firmware upgrade support
− Allows data tiering with your choice of ultra fast SSD, high
performance FC and high capacity/lower cost FATA drives
− Efficient Dynamic Capacity Management capabilities
− Proven and robust local and remote replication:
• Business Copy EVA EVA6400
• Continuous Access EVA
EVA4400

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EVAx400 Overview
Feature EVA4400 EVA6400 EVA8400
Controller HW HSV300/300-S HSV400 HSV450
2u - dual controllers 4u - dual controllers 4u - dual controllers
Cache 4GB 8GB 14 or 22GB
Min/max # of Drives 8 / 96 8 / 216 8 / 324
Max LUN size 32TB
Disk Enclosures type M6412, M6412A* M6412A* M6412A*
min/max 1/8 2 /18 3 / 27
Available Disk types, SSD 72GB
sizes and speeds
FC 15k rpm 146 / 300 / 450GB
FC 10k rpm 400GB
FATA 7.2k rpm 1000GB
Max # of LUNs 1024 2048

* M6412A is compatible/interchangeable with M6412 used in the EVA4400

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EVAx400 Overview
Feature EVA4400 EVA6400 EVA8400
# of Host Ports 4 @ 4Gb 8 @ 4Gb 8 @ 4Gb
# of Device Ports 4 @ 4Gb 8 @ 4Gb 12 @ 4Gb
Host Attach native FC and
iSCSI connectivity option
RAID Type Vraid1 (10), 5 (50) & 6 (60)
Business Copy Snapshots (up to 64/LUN)
Snapclones
Mirrorclones
Cross V-raid snapshots
Continuous Access Synchronous 3:1 Synchronous 4:1
Asynchronous 3:1 Asynchronous 4:1
Data in place upgrades EVA6400 or 8400 (14 EVA8400 NA
or 22GB Cache) (14 or 22GB Cache)

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EVA8400 controllers
2 Controllers with 8 x 4Gb Host Ports, 12 x 4GB Device Ports

• 2 HSV450 controllers - 2u per controller

• 14 or 22 GB Cache - 7 or 11 GB per controller
• 8 4Gb FC front end ports - 4 per controller
• 12 4Gb FC back end port - 6 per controller
• 4 cache mirror ports - 2 per controller

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EVAx400 disk enclosure - M6412A
• 2U enclosures with 12 disk bay (3.5“ FC/FATA)
• 2 switched I/O modules
• 4 Gb end-to-end
• No CAN bus and EAB required anymore
− Enclosure management through FC using SCSI Enclosure Services (SES)
• The M6412A is compatible/interchangeable with M6412 that was used in the EVA4400 until
now

Front view

Rear view

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EVAx400 3.5” Disk Types
• Ultra high performance SSD drives
− 72 GB Solid State
• Ultimate performance - access time 20 - 120 microseconds!!
• Min 6 max 8 per EVA - in separate disk group
• High performance FC disk drives
− 146 GB 15k rpm
− 300 GB 15k rpm
− 450 GB 15k rpm
• High performance - high duty cycles
• Standard performance FC disk drives
− 400GB 10k rpm
• medium cost - good performance - high duty cycles
• Near online FC disk drives (FATA)
− 1 TB 7.2k rpm
• Low cost - but still a lot of FC/SCSI disk specifics
• Sweet spot is low duty data
• Backup staging, clones, archiving, low access data

All drives have dual ported 4Gb interfaces and can be installed in same enclosures and slots

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The value of the
EVA
virtualization
The value of the EVA virtualization
The EVA is designed to automatically adapt to changing
workloads, provide ease of use and very high availability.
Ease of use
• Intuitive web-interface
• Unifies storage into a common pool
− Shared RAID levels
− Shared spare capacity
• Simple Vdisk (LUN) creation and presentation
• Straight forward local and remote-copy setup
Operational efficiency TCO
• Significantly increase utilization and reduce
stranded capacity
(LUN Growth and Shrink, DCM)
• Different RAID levels in same disk group
• Less investment, maintenance cost and power
consumption
* Also see the EVA availability whitepaper:
http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/4AA1-4202ENW.pdf?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN
Availability*
• Enterprise-class availability (99.999%)
• Reconfiguration without downtime
• HP RSP remote alerting and support
Improve performance – service more
customers
• Dynamic pool and Vdisk (LUN) expansion
and downsizing
• Wide striping across all disks in group
− Eliminates I/O hot spots
− Provides optimal Vdisk performance
• Automatic load leveling
• Automatic re-leveling and re-striping when number
of disks in a group changes
Traditional Disk Array Approach

RAID Controller
Traditional Disk Array Approach

RAID Controller
Disk Groups
& RAID Level

RAID1 RAID5
Dedicated
Spare Disk(s)

Spare
Traditional Disk Array Approach

Presented
0 1 2 LUNs

RAID Controller

RAID1 RAID5
LUN 0

Spare
LUN 2
LUN 1
Traditional Disk Array Approach
RAID levels in separate small Disk Groups, dispersed LUNs, beware of hot-spots

Presented
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 LUNs

RAID Controller
Disk
RAID5 RAID0 RAID1 Groups
LUN 5
LUN 6

Spare
LUN 7 LUN 3
LUN 4

RAID1 RAID5
LUN 0
Spare

Spare
LUN 1
LUN 2 Disks
The HP way of virtualization
Disk groups, segments, block mapping tables & sparing

Block Mapping Enterprise Virtual Array Controller

Table

Reserved
Spare Capacity

Disk Group
The HP way of virtualization
Disk groups
An EVA can have

• 1 to 16 disk groups
• 8 to 240 disks
per disk group
The HP way of virtualization
LUN/vdisk allocation

Presented LUNs
1 2
Virtual Array Controller
LUN 2 (RAID5)
LUN 1 (RAID1)
The HP way of virtualization
LUNs/vdisks and their allocation
An EVA can have
• Up to 1024 LUNs
• LUN sizes from
− 1GB to 2TB
− in steps of 1GB
• Any combination of
− VRAID 0
− VRAID 1
− VRAID 5
The HP way of virtualization
Capacity upgrade and load leveling

1 2 3
Enterprise Virtual Array Controller
LUN 2
LUN 1 LUN 3
The HP way of virtualization
Capacity upgrade, disk group growth
The HP way of virtualization
Online Volume Growth and Shrinking*

1 2
Enterprise Virtual Array Controller
LUN 2
LUN 1

* EVA capability, requires OS/FS support; first OSes with shrink support: Windows Server 2008, HP-UX 11.23, 11.31
The HP way of virtualization
Online Volume Growth (Example Windows 2003)
EVA Command View

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Windows 2003 Disk Manager

Manual EVA LUN shrink
Enter SMALLER capacity

… and confirm … and done!

The HP way of virtualization
All RAID levels within a Disk Groups, optimal striping, no hot-spots

Presented LUNs
1 2 3

Spare Capacity Enterprise Virtual Array Controller

LUN 2
Block Mapping
Table LUN 1 LUN 3

Disk Group(s)
Array performance comparison
Traditional Array HP EVA
The performance of a single LUN is limited by the Each LUN can achieve the performance of all disks
number of disks of the RAID Group it belongs to. in the disk group.

Max
potential
performance
12 12 7 8 8 4 7 7 of a single
40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40
LUN in
disks

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Enterprise Virtual Array Controller
RAID Controller

RAID5 Group RAID0 RAID1 Group

Group
LUN 6 LUN 4 Disk Group 1
Spare

LUN 5
LUN 7 LUN 3

RAID1 Group RAID5 Group

Spare

LUN 0
LUN 2
LUN 1
VMware ESX DR with SRM
Production Site
• What does it do?
− Simplifies DR and increases reliability
Recovery Site
− Integrates VMware Infrastructure 3 with HP EVA
storage replication
Site
VirtualCenter Recovery − Makes DR protection a property of the VM
Manager
Site − Allowing you to pre-program your disaster response
Recovery VirtualCenter
Virtual Machines Manager − Enables non-disruptive DR testing
Virtual Machines
• Supported environments:
VMware Infrastructure − ESX 3.0.2 & April 2008 patch
VMware Infrastructure
− ESX 3.5 update ≥1 & April 2008 patch
Servers Servers
• Requirements:
EVA − EVA Disk Arrays
EVA − Continuous Access EVA (sync & async)
s − Business Copy EVA (for DR failover)
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nt − Command View EVA & SMI-S
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Prod LUNs
CA DR LUNs
BC Test LUNs
SVSP
Architecture

Data Path
Control Path

Virtualization Services
Data Path Modules
Manager Servers

Snapshot Clones Migration Thin provisioning Mirroring

LUNs

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EMC
LSI Proprietary
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SVSP components
Data Path Module (DPM)
-- 2 per SVSP Domain

SAN

Virtualization
Services Managers
(VSM)
-- 2 per Domain

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