EVA4400详细介绍创新.pptVIP

Provisioning - From Initialization through Host Attachment For this study, provisioning is the creation of an accessible storage space, as well as the division of that space and its attachment to a host or server. Provisioning begins once the storage system has been physically installed, connected to the storage and management networks, and initialized. The chart on the following page shows the relative cumulative results for all three vendors. As you can see, the HP EVA system is clearly more efficient by all four measurement criteria. While the cumulative results are based on different criteria, this representation shows how all four factors interact for administrative complexity and time spent. HP Create Disk Groups — On initialization, the HP EVA system creates a default Disk Group comprised of all the active disks on the system. This Disk Group is ready for use immediately, though it can be reconfigured if desired. Among the reasons for multiple disk groups is the need to keep similarly performing disks together — i.e., 15 K disks in their own group and 10 K disks in another. The EVA recognizes the different disk types and creates separate disk groups automatically. If disk groups are to be created manually, it takes 2 steps with about 10 clicks and only 10 seconds for each group created. Adding hosts — Hosts are discovered and identified by the World Wide Name (WWN) and are added to the Hosts Group and presented to the VDisk. This takes 2 steps with 7 clicks and about 10 seconds. Create VDisk — This task creates the virtual disk and assigns it to a host. When creating a VDisk, RAID level, Size (capacity), and so forth are configured within a single interface. All other functions required for attaching the storage to the host are automatic. Creating a VDisk takes 2 steps with 12 clicks and takes about 25 seconds. Totals: Three operations comprising 6 steps, 26 clicks, and about 45 seconds. In real time — counting pauses between tasks provisioning storage and a