Up to 10 m6612 or m6625 are supported with the eva p6300p6350. Retired products sold prior to the november 1, 2015. The eva p6000 offers high performance, high availability, and robust data protection. A broad term, storage provisioning incorporates manual and automated mechanisms used to allocate server storage space within a networked computing environment. Thin provisioning will allocate storage when you needs itminimizing wasted space reduced total cost of ownership the unique virtual architecture of the p eva allows up to twice the normal effective. Thin provisioning is most commonly used in centralized large storage systems such as sans and also in storage virtualization environments where administrators plan for both current and.
The p6300 is expected to support five sff shelves or 10 lff shelves, while the p6500 will support 10 sff and 18 sffs. This is a natural extension of the snapshot deletion mechanism, which is applied even without thin provisioning. But vmware thin provisioning has some complications, including issues related to how space from deleted data is handled. Hp p6000 enterprise virtual array systems storage blades.
This ease of use translates into savings for the customer. Hp p6000 enterprise virtual array storage networks. Virtual controller software xcs xcs 1100 or later version xcs 1100 or later version. Hp p6300 eva dual fc cntlr qk740a call 0845 4593871 for. With new thin provisioning software, gain efficiencies in capacity utilization, saving disk space compared to traditional provisioning. Jan 22, 2020 thin provisioning will allocate storage when you needs itminimizing wasted space reduced total cost of ownership the unique virtual architecture of the p eva allows up to twice the normal effective capacity utilization of traditionally architected storage offerings. Thin provisioning requires extra license but with the p63006500 it comes with the normal cv license online migrations change vraid lvl or disk group without impacting io cool manage it over fcoe so via an mpx200 for example eva30005000 events not propogated to windows event log i knew it. The management moduleapplies to the eva4400, p6300 eva, and p6500 eva only. The hp p6000 enterprise virtual array systems family is the recognized leader when it comes to array management. In a thintothin scenario, you need to be careful that the configuration for a new storage array isnt sized using the thin provisioning savings assumption of a thicktothin scenario.
With esxi, you can use two models of thin provisioning, array. Eva3000, eva5000, eva4000, eva6000, eva8000, eva4100, eva6100, eva8100, eva4400, eva6400. The p6300 eva is broadly used across many industries with a variety of applications and with robust operating system compatibility. Virtual controller software xcs xcs 1100 or later version management software. As data ages, use the p6500 eva dynamic lun migration. Hp p6000 enterprise virtual array disk drive firmware support 56971869, april 2012. Hp p6000 command view software now includes thin provisioning, which helps. Under the new eva was also the xcs software updated and is now more stable and effi competitive. Modern allflash arrays now, as a necessity, need to feature data efficiency technologies such as deduplication, compression, and thin provisioning to help managedown the cost of storage in a world of constant storage growth.
The hp eva p6000 is an easytouse, capacityenhanced storage system with builtin virtualization to help consolidate storage and simplify your it. Hp eva p6000 storage appliance business systems international. The key thing to note is that the storage is zeroed on demand and data written out. It is now available for r the eva400060008000 eva410061008100 and the version of xcs tion 6240 and for r the eva 440064008400 and eva xcs version of the p6000 10. However, thin provisioning relates to physical computing environments. Hp announces end of life for virtual array p6000 family.
The eva p6000 systems will no longer be orderable after january 31, 2014. As with storage systems, in vmware, thin provisioning helps allocate disk space efficiently, which lowers storage capacity needs and costs. Through cv it looks like it has previosuly been configured with a static address, even with my laptop on the same subnet as the static address i cant get onto the web interface. See improved storage density with builtin thin provisioning and a smaller footprint in. Storage provisioning is the process of assigning storage capacity to servers, computers, virtual machines or any other computing device. Each storage pool has its own soft size and hard size.
Thin provisioning is managed for each storage pool independently. Dynamic lun migration allows you to change raid type or size without application interruption. This over provisioning of storage leads to higher capital expense more disks and also higher operating expense more floor space, power and cooling cost. Click here to view a list of documents available for hp 4400 enterprise virtual array. Thin provisioning is called sparse volumes in some contexts. As data ages, use the p6300 eva dynamic lun migration feature to easily.
See improved storage density with builtin thin provisioning and a smaller footprint in your data center with 2. The newly introduced hp p6000 enterprise virtual array eva software includes thin provisioning functionality with multiple benefits which significantly enhances the value of the p6000 eva. The hp eva p6000 storage is an easytouse, capacityenhanced storage system with builtin virtualization letting you consolidate storage and simplify your it. The hp p6000 enterprise virtual array eva is a well known san product. Thin provisioning contrasts with the traditional model, called thick provisioning. Hp, eva, p6000, storage systems, thin provisioning, data protection, snapshot. P6300 command view ltu is included with the preconfigured eva p6300 and p6350 combo kits or starter kits and cannot be ordered separately. Combined with your favorite database, email, erp or other applications, the eva p6000 provides an integrated endtoend solution that helps drive your business. Thin provisioning is a storage area network san management process where the storage capacity for a device is reserved and allocated on demand through a shared storage pool. When the storage system is managed by an instance of serverbased hp p6000 command view, hpe strongly recommends to store or update the password in hp p6000 command view immediately after creating or changing the password on the storage system. Windows server thin provisioning features serve as interfaces between. It also offers integration with virtual server platforms from vmware, microsoft, and more, plus broad operating systems support. The p6000 eva is a trusted platform for enterprise application consolidation with solutions for microsoft exchange and sql, oracle, and sap.
The eva family provides virtualized storage enabling capacity pooling, simplified management, automatic performance load balancing, dynamic configuration, and reconfiguration. Hp p6000 command view, hp p6000 business copy, hp p6000 continuous access and hp p6000 thin provisioning require a valid license key configuration to be in compliance with the end. The hp eva family includes a lot of disk array management features. As data ages, use the p6300 eva dynamic lun migration feature to easily move it to less expensive. In thin provisioned disks, the size of the vmdk at any point in time is as much as the amount of data written out from the vm. The p6300 eva can support up to 10 drive enclosures for a total of 120. Factory reset management module on eva p6300 hewlett. Because the p6000 eva has builtin virtualization, it is easy to provision storage, add storage, and protect data. Thin provisioning will allocate storage when you needs itminimizing wasted space reduced total cost of ownership. When the storage system is managed by an instance of serverbased hp p6000 command view, hpe strongly recommends to store or update the password in hp p6000 command view immediately after creating or. Resources are allocated to volumes within this storage pool without any limitations imposed by other storage pools. View and download hp eva p6000 firmware support online. P6300 license alerts hewlett packard enterprise community.
Thin provisioning is most commonly used in centralized large storage systems such as sans and also in storage virtualization environments where administrators plan for both current and future storage requirements and often overpurchase capacity, which can result in wasted storage. The information in this document, including products and software versions, is current as of the release date. Hp p6000 thin provisioning software hp p6000 smartstart software hp dynamic capacity management software storage replicationha software. Logical disk volume up to 32tb with additional features to expand, shrink and snap. P6000 eva arrays thin provisioning resources bitcon it. Thin provisioning create and managethin provisioned virtual disks. Hp p6300 eva dual fc cntlr qk740a call 0845 4593871. Thin provisioning is an endtoend storage provisioning solution that offers justintime allocations. Customers who have purchased eva p6350 and p6550 storage systems will be supported until january 31, 2019, 5 years after the obsolescence date, and may purchase additional hardware and software. In this video, storage expert howard marks explains how vmware thin provisioning works and discusses two key considerations. With hp 3par thin technologies, customers can expect efficient. Hp p6000 thin provisioning software solves this problem by allowing an administrator to assign more virtual space to an application than what actually exists on the p6000 eva. In data storage terminology, thin provisioning is the term used to describe the consolidation and automated process of allocating just the exact required amount of server space at the time it is required.
Demystifying vmware thin provisioning searchstorage. For p63x0 to p65x0 upgrade ltus, cv upgrade keys to the p65x0. With new thin provisioning software, gain efficiencies in capacity utilization, saving. Continuing to build on this success are the h p eva p6300p6350 and hp eva p6500p6550models. Builtin virtualization, easy provisioning and data protect are included. For hp eva4400, p6300 eva, p6350 eva, p6500 eva, and p6550 eva storage systems, password protection is set using the hp p6000 control panel. Continuing to build on this success are the h p eva p6300 p6350 and hp eva p6500p6550models. Hp upgrades eva midrange san array, launches virtualization.
The same software features are supported on the eva p6000 and the eva440064008400. Customers who have purchased eva p6350 and p6550 storage systems will be supported until january 31, 2019, 5 years after the obsolescence date, and may purchase additional hardware and software upgrades until january 31, 2017. Thin provisioning ltu this ltu enables the thin provisioning feature. Join an itso residency project and help write a book in your area of expertise, while honing your experience using leadingedge technologies. It enables improved storage density with builtin p6000 thin. Provisioning software, and a smaller footprint in your data center. Save disk space compared to traditional provisioning by using new p6300 thin provisioning software to improve capacity utilization efficiency. Hp p6000 command view now includes thin provisioning, which helps reduce. Hp p6000 enterprise virtual array systems disk storage systems. These new technologies are a boon for the customer in terms of saving money, but add some complexity to the process of planning for storage purchases and. Thin provisioning is also known as virtual provisioning. Hp p63x0p65x0 enterprise virtual array installation guide.
Hp p6000 command view now includes thin provisioning, which helps reduce the. View abm and a p6300 command view ltu thin provisioning software and dynamic capacity management software, supporting the eva p6000s and previous eva models, included with p6000 command view large lun support including the ability to shrink and grow a lun greater than 2tb integrated with business copy and thin provisioning. Bulitin thin provisioning software helps lower capacity requirements and costs. Thin provisioning is a mechanism that applies to largescale centralized computer diskstorage systems, sans, and storage virtualization systems. Storeserv for the eva administrator the pain free and risk free evolution for eva. The hp p6000 eva will have thin provisioning and native iscsi support for the first time, as well as support for 2. Hp p6000 business copy and hp p6000 continuous access software. The eva p6300p6350 can support up to 10 drive enclosures for a total of 120 lff. A thin volume, if you create a 20 gb c drive, uses a minimal amount of the disk on the underlying array and then allocates space as that disk is being written to unless were talking about a disk system that itself does thin provisioning and that does zero reclamation that takes space in the disk that was zeroed out and returns it back to. The password for hp eva4400, p6300 eva, p6350 eva, p6500 eva, or p6550 eva affects access by external applications such as serverbased hp p6000 command view.
The p6000 eva offers multiprotocol support to your san with 8 gbs fibre channel, 1 gbs iscsi, and 10 gbs iscsifcoe options. Since thin provisioning is designed to allocate exactly what is. Overview hp p6000 command view software manages eva p6000 storage easily, and provision storage quickly to address the changing business requirements. Thin provisioning allows space to be easily allocated to servers, on a justenough and justintime basis. When a thin provisioned disk grows, a scsi reservation takes place. Hp eva is supported by a powerful, yet simple suite of management software that makes it easy for users to provision storage and achieve improved levels of productivity. Hpe free software is now downloadable at this site in a new section named.
Thin provisioning provides a way to create a virtual disk vdisk such that the operating system sees more capacity available than is physically allocated by the array. P6000 eva arrays thin provisioning technical white paper. Hp p6300 windows 2003 driver fixed issue in which a force failover command to a continuous access member leads to a controller termination. Updated best practices for exchange, sap, sql, and oracle solutions. This feature dynamicallyincreases the space allocated to a virtual disk. These arrays have high performance, scale easily, and are highly reliable and ava. A suite of tools for manipulating the metadata of the dmthin, dmcache and dmera devicemapper targets.
Up to 10 m6612 or m6625 are supported with the p6300 eva. Revised hp 440064008400 and hp p6300 6500 enterprise virtual array xcs controller software is released. There is a ton of information in the forums about thin provisioning, and the what is new in vmware vsphere 4. It requires planning for storage deployment and execution on the host and client application.
Two new models the p6300 and p6500 replace the p6400 and p8400 models, but the software that enables thin provisioning, tiering and iscsi support will be. Hp p6000 enterprise virtual array systems disk storage. As the lifecycle for data changes, use the p6000 eva dynamic lun migration feature to easily move data to less expensive storage, all with no interruption to the application. With built in virtualization, the p6000 eva is designed to improve capacity utilization and be easy to manage, which lowers the cost of ownership compared to traditional arrays.
The evas will support thin provisioning and this could be the reason why hp was so eager to buy 3par. I want to know everything theres to know about thin provisionning before i move my vms to thin. Windows server thin provisioning features serve as interfaces between the thin provisioning capable storage and the host server. So if you provision a 1 tb virtual drive and the vm only wrote 200gb then the size of the vmdk on disk is 200gb.
Will the eva440064008400 all support the new software features thin provisioning, dynamic lunraid migration, improved large luns which are now available for the new hp eva p6000 storage family. The shelves will also support the long awaited enterprise class ssds. Keywords 4aa32581enw, p6000 eva, continuous access software, business copy software, p6000 thin provisioning, builtin virtualization, hp cluster extension. With built in virtualization, the eva p6000 is designed to improve capacity utilization and be easy to manage, which lowers the cost of ownership compared to traditional arrays. The hp p6000 enterprise virtual array eva is an easytouse, capacityenhanced storage system with builtin virtualization letting you consolidate storage and simplify your it. P6300 eva combo kits and starter kits are also available to help you with. Jul 08, 2011 this over provisioning of storage leads to higher capital expense more disks and also higher operating expense more floor space, power and cooling cost. Planyourstorageconfiguration properplanningofthesystemstorageanditssubsequentperformanceiscriticaltoasuccessful deploymentoftheeva. See improved storage density with builtin thin provisioning and a.
If performance is the primary concern for a particular virtual machine, thin provisioned disks should not be used. Factory reset management module on eva p6300 does anyone know how to factory reset the management module on a p6300. Installation and startup the eva p6300 p6350 are designed to be customer self installable. As the lifecycle for data changes, use the eva p6000 dynamic lun migration feature to easily move data to less expensive storage, all with no interruption to the application. Hp eva p6000 storage is an enterprise class virtual storage array family for midsized customers at an affordable price. View and download hp eva p6000 specification online. The p6000 command view provides a comprehensive software suite that includes everything you need to manage an eva from provisioning data quickly, to.
An introduction to hp 3par storeserv for the eva administrator 8. Heres an opportunity to spotlight your skills, grow your career, and become a published authorall at the same time. Planyourstorageconfiguration properplanningofthesystemstorageanditssubsequentperformanceiscriticaltoasuccessful. The hp p6000 enterprise virtual array p6000 eva is an enterprise class virtual storage array family for midsized organizations at an affordable price. Thin provisioning hp p6000 thin provisioning software provides a host with virtual capacity volumes, allocating justenough actual area in the volume from a pool of physical capacity and justintime for a write request from the host. For details, refer to the get thin guarantee terms and. Hp p6000 command view, hp p6000 business copy, hp p6000 continuous access and hp p6000 thin provisioning require a valid license key configuration to be in compliance with the enduserlicenseagreement eula.
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