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HP EVA arrays

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brianmat

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I'm seeing some EVA 4000 / EVA 4400 setups on eBay for what appears to be reasonable prices. The 10k FC drives for these seem to also be a good price for being in the 10k range since our MD3000i requires the right firmware drives (extra $$$).

My questions are:

1. Are the EVAs licensed on any software or hardware that would prevent getting and HSV300 or HSV200 and having it "just work"? As always HP's site is frustrating to navigate.

2. Will the HP M5214 drive array work with the HSV200/300? Again, finding a compatibility matrix is proving to be less than straightforward.

Our environment is all ESX 4.1 since the MD3000i isn't on the HCL for ESX 5. The EVA4400 setup does show up as ESX 5 compatible though, so I would prefer to go in that direction but since we are version locked for the moment the EVA4000 (and lower price tag) would be fine as well.

3. Can you use the HP M5214 as a JBOD device or is it firmware locked to only work with the HSV controller? Since this would be backup and file server storage I would be fine with doing a Napp-It all-in-one setup to serve the disk space as long as we could use some of the cheap M5214s out there with a good FC card.
 
brianmat said:
since our MD3000i requires the right firmware drives (extra $$$).
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Sorry I have no idea on the other stuff.. and personally haven't used any of the Dell gear - but I thought that Dell removed that restriction on their storage arrays?
 
MarkL said:
Sorry I have no idea on the other stuff.. and personally haven't used any of the Dell gear - but I thought that Dell removed that restriction on their storage arrays?
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I believe that was the case also...

Maybe a firmware update will remove your restrictions?
 
Actually, to add to this.. I know it's possible at least with MD1000's because I had a customer borrow a 1tb WD Green drive last week as an emergency to throw into their MD1000..
 
I believe this is true of the MD3000 but not the MD3000i (which is the iSCSI version). Those are still (AFAIK) keyed to the firmware of the drives. That's putting a 1TB 7200 RPM drive at just over $200 each at the moment.
 
I use both MD1000's and MD3000i's and run regular SATA drives in the MD1000. The MD3000i however needs the damn dell firmware drives. I really wish there was an unsupported, firmware/debug enable feature that would disable that but have had no luck finding anything.
 
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