1. © 2014 IBM Corporation Integrated Multivendor Support for HP storage June 2014

2. © 2014 IBM Corporation Technical Support Services Background on HP storage  2007 – EVA expansion –4100, 62100, 8100 announced –Virtualized storage array for larger small and medium and enterprise mid-range –FC Access SAN  2008 – EVA expansion –4400 replaces 4100 entry level EVA after 8 months –SAN Virtualization Services Platform (HP’s version of SVC)  2009 – EVA expansion and key executive hired –6400 and 8400 models added with RAID 6 –Talk about adding Scale-out, David Donatelli joins HP storage from EMC  2010 new names and many acquisitions –New naming: MSA, entry level arrays will be called P2000 –Acquired Left Hand Networks iSCSI SAN renamed P4000 –EVA will become P6000 –Acquired SEPATON (spell it backward) VTL for it’s data deduplication –Acquired 3Par; HW accelerated storage, overlap middle of XP (LSI) and EVA –OEM’ed VSP from Hitachi and named it P9500 2

3. © 2014 IBM Corporation Technical Support Services IMS for HP storage (3Par and EVA) 3