Overview

Command View EVA Software offers storage administrators a powerfully simple, single storage management solution for all of their EVA management needs. It automates and aggregates storage management to reduce complexity and increase productivity. Growing capacity is simple; an administrator can easily and dynamically expand LUNs and add physical drives online to quickly meet changing business needs without application downtime. Management costs are further reduced with easy and fast configuration of (LUNs) and RAID sets. Performance monitoring provides real-time analysis and collection of historical performance data allowing for identification of bottlenecks and keep applications running at optimized levels. For mission-critical applications take advantage of proactive remote services by integrating with the HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition and HP Solutions Center support to enable 24x7 uptime.

What's New

• HP StorageWorks Command View EVA Software now supports the new HP 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA4400).
• HP StorageWorks Command View EVA Software now supports new EVA firmware, XCS v9.0. Command View v8.0 is required to take advantage of XCS v9.0 improvements.
• HP SmartStart for EVA Storage Media Kit simplifies startup of your new EVA4400, getting you up and running in just a few mouse clicks.
• Command View media kits and all License To Use (LTUs) are available for electronic delivery.

Features & benefits

• Simplicity – Reduce IT costs and management complexity: The HP StorageWorks Command View EVA Software simplifies EVA management by automating and aggregating array storage with fewer administrative steps and fewer items to manage. You can easily and dynamically expand LUNs online, instantly configure LUNs and RAID groups with just a few keystrokes.
• Comprehensive scripting reduces training and simplifies repetitive tasks: Command View EVA Software ships with the HP Storage System Scripting Utility software (SSSU), a powerful scripting utility. The SSSU provides a host to array communications bridge for documenting and automating EVA local and remote configuration tasks.
• Flexible connectivity with expanded multi-SAN discovery increases value and lowers management costs: HP Command View EVA Software suite increases value by offering Fibre Channel and or iSCSI connectivity for increased investment protection. And with expanded multi-SAN device discovery across up to 6 SANs; reducing the number of management serves required to manage the EVA while significantly lowering management costs.
• Agility—Quickly configure and provision storage and instantly replicate data: Instantly provision logical virtual disks from the available pool of storage—adding the right amount of capacity to meet changing business demand. You can easily and efficiently create Snapshots and quickly create remote mirrors for fast data replication, all without compromising downtime.
• Enhanced asynchronous replication and MirrorClone support: Enhanced asynchronous replication greatly increases support for long distance replication. Also MirrorClone provides an alternative to a snapshot by allowing the user to make a full, byte-for-byte, point-in-time copy of a source LUN. MirrorClone will track all changed blocks and can re-sync with the original LUN.
• Proactive remote support and 24x7event management: HP StorageWorks Command View EVA Software ships with HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition, so EVA events are immediately identified and mapped through proactive, continual automatic discovery and notification of events 24x7 to the HP Solutions Center enabling maximum EVA availability and health.
• Comprehensive performance monitoring software aids in reducing performance bottlenecks: With HP StorageWorks Command View EVAPerf Software, you can analyze a variety of EVA Performance metrics such as host connection, port status, physical disks, and displays read and write histograms, virtual disks and replication metrics. Graph them using Windows PerfMon so you quickly identify performance bottlenecks.
• Industry leading Security features: Command View EVA integrates with Windows Active Directory and provides two levels of access: administrator (read write) and user (read only). Command View EVA supports audit logging of user actions and events that change the state of the system. Take advantage of single sign on from HP Systems Insight Manager.
• LUN security for protection against unauthorized storage access: Provides protection against unauthorized access to specific volumes (LUNs) and the LUN security is totally transparent to the servers, operating systems and applications eliminating the need to use precious host cycles to constantly monitor authorization.
• Reduce end-to-end SAN management complexity: Now available with EVA, HP Storage Essentials SRM software guides you through the big SAN picture. It reduces SAN complexity by automating complex and manual tasks and automatically discovers and visually displays all the physical components in an easy topology view.