ACE Data Recovery to Extract Data From HP FC EVAs

ACE Data Recovery (ACE Data Group, LLC.), a Texas-based company with a data recovery lab in Houston, TX, completed a recovery case from a legacy HP Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) FC storage system.

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The HP EVA 4100 family reached EOL support back in the 2014. This failed array held procurement data for a big corporate identity uniform provider. ACE guarantees the confidentiality and privacy of customer data, works under NDA and never release clients’ names without their permission.

“The EVA RAID failed in January of 2018. Since that time, the client looked for data recovery options,” said Don Wells, GM, ACE Data Recovery. “All attempts to recover data from RAID by our competitors failed. The client contacted ACE in February 2019 to retrieve his data back.“

ACE Data Recovery’s R&D department has experience in custom solution development for their clients.

“The internal smart array structures can differ depending on model inside the same family of storage systems,” said Fedir Bandurin, ACE RAID recovery engineer. “Third party recovery tools for HP EVA 6500 were unable to extract data from HP EVA 4100 model. The FC media added extra complication to the case. HP provides great virtual arrays redundancy. We discovered that array initially was created as an 8 drives RAID-5. After drives started failing one by one, all the data was merged by the EVA controller to 4 drives degrading RAID-5 configuration. Our team was able to develop a solution for this particular case and extract 100% of required data from the raw drives.“

VMWARE’s vmdk files with the customer’s procurement data archive were recovered and returned to the client after data verification process.

ACE Data Recovery has success rate in recovering data from various legacy media, such as SAN, NAS, or dDASr arrays from HP, IBM, Dell EMC and others, regardless of the drives interface and original file system.

The company is also able to retrieve data from tape archives in tape drives formats including DLT, LTO, DDS, Travan, etc.