The HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) product family offers midsize to enterprise size customers leading performance, high capacity, and high-availability storage solutions for reducing IT costs and complexity. The EVA provides virtualized storage enabling capacity pooling, simplified management, automatic performance load balancing, dynamic configuration, and re-configuration.

The EVA4400's increased levels of sequential performance provides customers with improved data transfer rates for applications such as data warehousing, streaming video, high-performance technical computing, and backups and restores.

This white paper provides a high-level overview of the:

• Importance and differences related to cache and end-to-end performance numbers
• Performance summary associated with the EVA4400