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For example, during the development of the EVA4400, the unit was subjected to: 

•  More than 300,000 hours of test time 
•  More than 400,000 “perturbations” 
•  Multiple hardware component failures, including controllers, disk drives, back-end loops, Fibre 

Channel cables, switches, servers, HBAs, intersite links, FC/IP gateways, and more 

•  More than 100 different test configurations, from simple to complex 

Our testing for the EVA4400 was the equivalent of the successful transfer of more than 55 petabytes 
(about the amount of data in 18 Libraries of Congress) to the EVA, checking the integrity of every byte 

of data as we continuously did everything we could to trip up the array. We pulled disk drives, cut 

power, fiddled with the operator control panel, injected loop errors into backplanes, and pulled out 

every cable we could find. And we wouldn’t ship the EVA until it passed our tests. 

 

Figure 6. This hot-plug test tool can remove and reinsert 180 disk drives per hour, part of an automated test sequence that 
requires no human contact during operation. 

 

 

Result: storage you can count on 

All of our incremental and closed-loop testing has a single goal: to deliver storage you can count on 

to unleash the potential of your data center and your business. HP StorageWorks positions the 

Enterprise Virtual Array as a 99.999% availability solution, and the data substantiates this figure. You 
can count on the HP StorageWorks EVA. 

”The fact that they have 1200 servers and 500 EVA arrays was pretty 
impressive but they also happen to have about 20PB of storage over that 
500 arrays... What HP’s EVA lab tells me is that they spare no expense to 
insure their product is literally bulletproof, bug proof, and works every time 
for their customer base. I must say I was pretty impressed.” 

—“The price of quality,” RayOnStorage Blog at 

 

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