The HP EVA4400 Challenge - Part 2

The EVA4400 challenge made me curious so I had to find out for myself. Is the CLARiiON really that bad? Get your stop watches ready and see for yourself.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• HP
• EMC
• EVA
• EVA4400
• CX
• Storage
• Management
• Ease
• of
• Use
• TCO
• CX3-10
• The
• Challenge
• Edison

[Jeterman5000]

Some were HP resellers and some were HP customers... But none of them had ever used an EVA or EMC box. That was the whole point of the test -- of course your guy can make the EMC CX seem easy. That is not a test. A juggler makes juggling look easy.

[EVARealUsers]

Yeah well that guy was me. I also had no prior storage management experience. So in a way I'm your perfect candidate. No doubt things like creating a LUN and expanding it are very easy on the EVA. But boy when it comes to more advanced stuff I had a different experience. For example, creating a demand-allocated snap with containers so I don't lose them easy? I don't think so! Oh and how do I get 'hot LUNs' onto the Flash drives on the new EVAs for example? Clones? Easy? Yeah right.

[Jeterman5000]

These are experts performing the tests. In the HP test, the users had no use of the EMC or HP storage system. That was a true test of simplicity. This one seems canned.

[EVARealUsers]

The folks who tested the EVA and CX were HP resellers. Well at least 5 of the 6. I hope they would know a thing or two about managing things they sell.

[Jeterman5000]

If EMC wants to put its CX4 against the latest EVA and run tests that typical storage adminstrators perform on a regular bases to see which is easier to administer, then we are willing to do it. EMC knows the EVA is easier to manage than the CX4. It's not a secret.