HP EVA4100 SAN Starter Kit: Bundled with Emulex EZPilot™ software and Emulex LightPulse® LPe1150 HBAs for small and medium businesses.

The EVA4100 SAN Starter Kit (HP P/N #AH052A), combines best-in-class fibre channel (FC) solutions from Emulex, HP, and Brocade. The HP StorageWorks EVA4100 SAN Starter Kit removes the perceived complexity associated with installing and managing SANs.

Emulex's LightPulse® LPe1150 4Gb/s HBAs (HP part/model #A8002A/FC2142SR) and EZPilot software are integrated with the HP StorageWorks EVA4100 SAN Starter Kit offering small-and-midsize enterprise customers an affordable, high-performance and easy to deploy and manage StorageWorks-based SAN.

Designated as a Microsoft Simple SAN solution, the HP Storage Works EVA4100 SAN Starter Kit is targeted for entry-level and first-time SAN users and designed to make SANs easier to deploy and manage. By incorporating the Emulex LPe1150, the EVA4100 SAN Starter Kit will scale as the customer's needs expand, both in capacity and features. This avoids costly hardware changes and ensures long-term investment protection.

Emulex's EZPilot software simplifies SAN management and features an intuitive wizard that installs and deploys HBAs, switches and storage arrays. EZPilot enables streamlined installation of all SAN components (HBA, switch and storage array) in just a few "clicks". Utilizing Microsoft's Virtual Disk Service (VDS) and Multi-Path I/O (MPIO) technologies, EZPilot features an intuitive storage manager for discovery, allocation and assignment of storage to Windows or Linux-based servers.

This offering demonstrates HP's, Emulex's and Brocade's commitment to provide easy to use, scalable, and affordable FC storage area network solution for the small to medium sized businesses and enterprises.