EVA8000 is the largest of three new members in the EVA family - the EVA4000, the EVA6000 and the EVA8000. The EVA8000 is a high performance, high capacity and high availability "virtual" RAID storage solution for the high-end, business critical, marketplace that removes the time, space and cost boundaries of traditionally architected storage. The EVA8000 is designed for the data center where there is a critical need for improved storage utilization and scalability while meeting application specific demands for consistently high transaction I/O and MB data rate performance, seamless capacity expansion, instantaneous replication, and simplified storage administration.