Maximum disksize EVA 4000 and EVA 5000

[piet_10]

Hi,

Does anyone know what the largest disks are I can use in an EVA4000 and EVA5000 ?

I would like to use 2 TB SATA disks, but cannot find if this is supported.

Do I need to have a specific version of the XCS controller software ?

[Steven Clementi]

The EVA5000 runs VCS 3.x or 4.x
The EVA4000 runs XCS 5.x or 6.x

These EVA's use FATA disk's, not SATA disk's.

I believe the largest FATA disk topped out at 500GB for these EVA's, or maybe it was 250GB.

Controller Firmware should be at the latest for best disk support.


Steven

[hvhari]

These are old arrays.
Maximum support is for 300GB FC disks for these models.

Quick specs - EVA 4000 : http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12234_div/12234_div.HTML
Quick specs - EVA 5000 : http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11006_div/11006_div.HTML

[Bhavnish Kamboj (BK)]

Supported disks are:

72 10K rpm
146 GB 10K rpm
300 GB 10K rpm
72 GB 15K rpm
146 GB 15K rpm
250 GB FATA

Max capacity of array is 16.8TB

[Bhavnish Kamboj (BK)]

Above provided info by me is for EVA4000..


For EVA5000 its below:

36 GB 10K rpm
72 GB 10K rpm
146 GB 10K rpm
300 GB 10K rpm
36 GB 15K rpm
72 GB 15K rpm
146 GB 15K rpm
250 GB FATA

[john_347]

Hi all,

Under vcs3.110 on the EVA5000 you can 500 GB Fata drives.

regards

jc

[piet_10]

Thank you all for your comments.

Currently I am using the mentioned 500 GB disks, but I would like to upgrade and use 2 TB disks.

Although I understand this is not possible, so I will have to look for another solution, probably much more expensive, since I want to upgrade the storage on both SAN's and in this case I will need 2 new SAN's right ?

[Víctor Cespón]

There are no 2 TB disks for any EVA model yet.

EVA 3000/5000, with lastest firmware support up to 500 GB FATA
All the other EVAs support 1 TB FATA as maximum.

[piet_10]

Ok,

Thanks, I will look for another solution.