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“Comparing high-end storage systems on 
the market, we determined that the 
StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array 
would give us more bang for our buck by 
providing the virtualization and 
management capabilities we needed most.” 
− Chris Beck, Network Administrator-Technology 
Services, City of Fontana, California 
“We must use what we purchase efficiently, so we 
steered away from anything with considerable 
management overhead,” says Chris Beck, Network 
Administrator-Technology Services, City of Fontana. 
“After comparing high-end storage systems on the 
market, we determined that the StorageWorks 
Enterprise Virtual Array would give us more bang for 
our buck by providing the virtualization and 
management capabilities we needed most.” 
The HP SAN functions harmoniously with an HP 
StorageWorks MSL5060 tape library for back up, 
along with the EVA and HP ProLiant servers driving the 
applications. The solution provided centralized storage 
for the City’s PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne enterprise 
resource planning (ERP) system. It also improved 
storage utilization and enabled the pooling and 
sharing of storage resources across applications and 
processes. With an adaptive storage environment, the 
staff could react faster to changes and growth by 
quickly provisioning storage with the EVA system’s user-
friendly software. 
Reelecting a proven storage winner 
Growth hit home when Fontana acquired 13,000 new 
residents in January 2007 as the result of an 
annexation program. Naturally, additional residents 
placed new demands on staff and technology 
infrastructure. To meet these and other demands, the 
City is migrating its financials, utility billing and human 
resources processes to a new ERP system. The 
SunGard Pentamation ERP system is a public sector 
product suite that better suits Fontana’s operations – 
with special functionality for municipal accounting and 
project tracking. 
Approximately 50 users create transactions in the ERP 
system, which connects to the data on the 
StorageWorks EVA with 12 TB of data storage 
capacity. The City originally purchased six disk shelves 
in the EVA enclosure and has since added six shelves 
and more hard drives. The disk array enables the 
partitioning of a virtual storage pool into disk groups 
and data virtualization across a disk group. HP 
storage virtualization results in exceptional speed and 
performance for all of the many Fontana systems 
sharing the EVA-based SAN. 
“We’re going strong with the StorageWorks EVA,” 
says Beck, “and operating on the same two disk pools 
that HP Services set up four years ago. We’ve added 
disks to those pools and are presenting virtual disks 
from the EVA to the Pentamation system. Everything is 
running great. Disk access is extremely fast.” 
Interested in high capacity at an attractive price, the 
technology team fills the EVA with 300 GB 10K rpm 
HP StorageWorks Fibre Channel hard drives. “As HP 
releases larger disks, we’ve been taking that route to 
get more capacity,” says Beck. 
While growing the EVA, Fontana added two HP 
StorageWorks 1500cs Modular Smart Arrays to the 
Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure. One houses static 
video data and geographic information system (GIS) 
data. The other handles disk-to-disk backups. Along 
with a mission-critical database cluster, additional 
applications sharing the HP SAN include public works, 
building permitting, utility billing, financial investment 
record keeping and records-management programs. 
Building permitting, business licenses, property tax