HP offers EVA owners a special upgrade program

    HP StorageWorks Enteprise Virtual Array (EVA) mid-range modular disk arrays are well known in our IT industry. Launched since 2001 (the first generation EVA was launched under the Compaq brand, and Digital Equipment Corporation began its development), these arrays provide powerful functionality for virtualizing disk space and ensuring the constant availability of data for business-critical applications.

    Many owners of disk arrays after the purchase are faced with the problem of lack of free storage capacity, because due to budgetary constraints, most often the array is bought in the configuration that approximately corresponds to the current volume of accumulated application data. In order to help such customers cope with the constant growth of data volumes and maximize the impact of storage investments, HP has developed an EVA trade-in or upgrade upgrade program that offers EVA owners special prices to purchase additional Fiber Channel hard drives , special software or to replace obsolete arrays with the latest generation systems.

    This includes, but not limited to, new 400 and 600 GB low-power drives, terabyte FATA hard drives (which combine the mechanics of SATA drives with Fiber Channel interface), as well as solid-state SSD drives that can significantly increase data access speeds. It should be noted that compared to the hard drives that EVA was equipped with two years ago, the new hard drives reduce the cost of storing one terabyte of data and reduce the overall power consumption and heat dissipation of the array, so such an upgrade will be doubly beneficial for EVA owners.

    The possibilities of upgrading a disk array using the EVA trade-in or upgrade program are not limited to disks only. For EVA, HP has developed several additional software packages that improve storage efficiency and availability. For example, Business Copy EVA and HP Continuous Access EVA packages provide local and remote replication of data stored on EVA, respectively, and Dynamic Capacity Managment software increases or decreases the size of the logical volume depending on changing application requirements.

    This software is offered to EVA customers as options purchased for a fee, so it has not been installed on many arrays already in operation - someone because of the owners of the EVA array did not buy it, because before its applications did not require such powerful software functionality, and others were not able to buy this software due to lack of funds allocated for IT. These EVA owners can now purchase Business Copy, Continuous Access, and Dynamic Capacity management through the EVA trade-in or upgrade program. Therefore, if an HP client has introduced new applications that require high availability and flexible management of the logical volume size, he is offered the opportunity to get software that implements these functions at a significant discount compared to the price on the price list. Moreover,

    The second part of the EVA trade-in or upgrade program is designed for owners of disk arrays of the previous two generations of the array. By modern standards, their controllers have too slow processors, so they do not support the functionality of the current generation. It makes no sense to upgrade these arrays, so HP offers its customers to replace their old systems with third-generation EVA. It is enough for the owner of the old EVA to sign a statement on decommissioning this array and then he will be able to purchase a new EVA array at a special price.

    HP does not dismantle and remove the old system and does not impose any restrictions on the time when the old EVA should be stopped, so its owner can conveniently transfer the data stored on it to a new array. In addition, the HP service department is ready to help you carry out such data migration so that this process is transparent to business critical customer applications, and these services are provided at a significant discount, and in some cases even for free.

    Details of the EVA trade-in or upgrade program can be found at hp.ru/promo/EVATradeInOrUpgrade .

    In future posts, we’ll talk about the MSA Evolution upgrade program for HP StorageWorks MSA2000 owners.

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