EMC SYMMETRIX VMAX SERIES

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EMC SYMMETRIX VMAX SERIES

Accelerate transformation to the hybrid cloud


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The Worlds Most Trusted Storage System

Powerful. Trusted. Smart.

More Than 20 Years Running the Worlds Most Critical Applications

VM and z/OS integration,

DARE, FAST VP,

Federated Live Migration

Secure Erase, Audit,

Service

ICDA, RAID, NDU

SRDF Consistency

Groups

TimeFinder, PowerPath

AutoSwap, SRDF over

Fibre Channel

Concurrent SRDF,

SRDF/Star, GDDR

Symmetrix

4000

Symmetrix

5500

Symmetrix

3000/5000

Symmetrix

8000

Symmetrix

DMX-1, -2

Symmetrix

DMX-3, -4

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Symmetrix VMAX 40K

3X performance and 2X scale Dense Configuration Option

System Bay Dispersion Federated Tiered Storage

FAST VP for System z and IBM i

RecoverPoint Splitter

Efficient: FAST VP,

FLM, 100% VP,

RecoverPoint Splitter

Symmetrix

VMAX 20K

Symmetrix

VMAX 10K

New


The Symmetrix VMAX Series


Transforming the Hybrid Cloud

Trusted Enterprise-class availability, data integrity, and security

Smart Self-tuning and optimized for hybrid cloud environments

Powerful Highest levels of scalability and performance to handle the most demanding workloads


Symmetrix VMAX 40K

Bigger, better, faster

3X performance and 2X capacity

2.5 SAS drive support

400 drives in standard 24 cabinet

System Bay Dispersion

Flexible expansion for space-constrained data centers

eMLC Flash Drives Latest Flash technology to

reduce TCO


Front End Back End Front End Back EndFront End Back End Front End Back End

Engine Comparison

VMAX 20K VMAX 40K

2.8 GHz Xeon Westmere

24 CPU cores per Engine

Up to 256 GB Global Memory

Quad Virtual Matrix Interface

PCIe Gen2 Interconnects

2.3 GHz Xeon Harperton



Dual Virtual Matrix Interface


Enginuity

Inside

Front End Back End Front End Back End

VMAX 10K

2.8 GHz Xeon Westmere



Dual Virtual Matrix Interface



Powerful Scale and Consolidation

VIRTUALMATRIX

Massive scale-out

Transform your hybrid cloud

environments

Engine 1

Up to 8 Engines


Symmetrix VMAX 40K Bigger, better, faster

3X more bandwidth More performance for cache miss I/Os per

second

2X more usable capacity Up to 4 PB with 3.5 drive configurations

Up to 2.8 PB with 2.5 drive configurations

2X more global memory Improved cache and FAST efficiency


11.8 ft /

3.6 m

11.8 ft /

3.6 m

Dispersion available for 3.5 and 2.5 configurations

Symmetrix VMAX 40K Dense Option 3,200 2.5 drives in eight storage bays

82 ft / 25 m Flexibility

with System Bay Dispersion

33% more drives

33% less space

35% less weight

27% less power

18.5 ft / 5.6 m

Than equivalent 2,400-drive VMAX 20K

10 storage bays

27.5 ft / 8.4 m

Can mix 2.5 drives and 3.5 drives in a VMAX 40K array


2.5 Enterprise MLC (eMLC) Flash Drives

2008 2010 2012

88% lower $/GB over four years

$/GB vs. SLC Flash

Same performance, durability, and

reliability

20% lower SLC

eMLC


Powerful Scalability for Hybrid Cloud Worlds most scalable high-end storage arrays

14 Engines 18 Engines

Array Specifications 48 CPU cores 512 GB cache memory 64 Fibre Channel front-end ports Dual Virtual Matrix 1,560 drives, 1.5 PB usable

Business Requirements Multi-controller architecture Enterprise RAS Ease of use is built in Scale-up and scale-out design

Array Specifications 128 CPU cores 1 TB cache memory 128 Fibre Channel front-end ports Dual Virtual Matrix 2,400 drives, 2 PB usable

Business Requirements High scale, capacity, and

performance Standard and Virtual Provisioning Encryption Mainframe and IBM i

18 Engines

Array Specifications 192 CPU cores 2 TB cache memory 128 Fibre Channel front-end ports QUAD Virtual Matrix, PCI Gen2 2,400 3.5 drives, 4 PB usable 3,200 2.5 drives, 2.8 PB usable

Business Requirements Highest scale, capacity, performance Flexibility with System Bay Dispersion Standard and Virtual Provisioning Encryption Mainframe and IBM i


Transforming the Hybrid Cloud

Trusted Enterprise-class availability, data integrity, and security

Smart Self-tuning and optimized for hybrid cloud environments

Powerful Highest levels of scalability and performance to handle the most demanding workloads


Enginuity 5876 and 5876 Q4 2012 SR For Symmetrix VMAX 10K, 20K, and 40K

RecoverPoint Integration Heterogeneous CDP and CRR for Symmetrix VMAX

Virtual Provisioning, FAST VP for System z and IBM i

Automate storage tiering for all environments

EMC Unisphere for VMAX Common management

across platforms

Federated Tiered Storage External storage

as a FAST VP tier

Purpose-Built for the Hybrid Cloud

TimeFinder Enhancements Space-efficient snaps for Virtual Pool (VP) devices

SRDF Enhancements Expanded interoperability to VMAX 40K and 20K, and thick/thin replication

FAST VP Compression Up to 50% storage savings for inactive data

Host I/O Limits Policies that manage FE performance for storage groups


Federated Tiered Storage (FTS) Simplify Management and Operations

Consolidate heterogeneous storage under VMAX control

FAST VP, EMC SRDF, EMC TimeFinder, Virtual LUN, VAAI

Extend the life and value of storage assets

Assure data integrity for external arrays with validation checksums

Free with Enginuity 5876 (or later)

Available with VMAX 10K, 20K, 40K

FTS


Federation with Symmetrix VMAX and EMC VPLEX

VPLEX

AccessAnywhere

Site 1 Site 2 Build active/active data centers

Enable high availability with automatic failover/failback

Optimize with dynamic workload mobility

Consolidate and simplify storage under Symmetrix VMAX control

Enable Symmetrix features for other storage

Leverage existing Symmetrix expertise

Symmetrix VMAX

SRDF

FTS

FTS


EMC SRDF Family Trusted remote replicationinformation availability 24x7

Protects against local and regional disruptions

Increases application availability by reducing downtime

Improves recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs) with automated restart solutions

Mission-critical proven with numerous testimonials and references

Tens of thousands of licenses shipped

SRDF Family

SRDF/S Synchronous for

zero data exposure

SRDF/A Asynchronous for

extended distances

SRDF/DM Efficient Symmetrix-to-Symmetrix data mobility

SRDF/Star Multi-site replication

option

SRDF/AR Automated Replication

option

SRDF/CE Cluster Enabler option

Cascaded SRDF and SRDF/EDP Extended Distance

Protection

Concurrent SRDF Concurrent

SRDF/CG Consistency Groups

SRDF for VMAX 10K SRDF capability for mission-

critical Symmetrix VMAX 10K environments


SRDF Enhancements Support for two-site

Supports 10K, 20K, 40K

Three-site configuration

Supports VMAX 40K and 20K, DMX-4/DMX-3

Thick/thin replication

Supports 10K, 20K, 40K

Star configuration Supports 10K, 20K, 40K (20K,

40K for System z)

Two-Site

Three-Site Cascaded Concurrent

Star VMAX 10K

to VMAX 40K or 20K

New

IBM System z VMAX 40K or 20K

Thick Thin


Additional VMAX Enhancements New

4 Tiers for FAST VP with Federated Tiered Storage

and compression

Real-time analysis provides continuous

optimization

Flash

Fibre Channel

SATA/SAS

FTS

Time Finder/VP Snap

Time Finder/ VP Snap

TimeFinder/VP Snap off of R2

>2:1 compression


RecoverPoint Integration

Multi-platform array replication Between VMAX 40K, 20K, 10K; VPLEX; VNX

RecoverPoint continuous data protection (CDP), continuous remote replication (CRR), and concurrent local and remote (CLR) for entire Symmetrix VMAX series

RecoverPoint Splitter for VMAX 40K, 20K, 10K

Simpler and more efficient than host or fabric splitter


Key Benefits of SRDF and RecoverPoint

Gold standard for mission-critical environments

Application consistency for federated datasets

Multi-site and Star configurations

Any-to-any replication, including VPLEX

Any EMC storage to any EMC storage

Granular data protection (recovery to any point in time)

SRDF

RecoverPoint


The Worlds Most Trusted Storage System

Secure Access

Two-factor authentication and

access controls

Secure Audit

Tamper-proof logs and RSA Envision

Secure Data

Data in flight Data at rest


Symmetrix Data-at-Rest Encryption In-the-array, hardware-based data encryption

Encrypts all data Every drive, every type

Hardware AES256 fixed block No performance impact

FIPS 140-2 Validated (#1610)

Trusted RSA Key Manager Embedded or external

FIPS 140-2 Validated: A Certification Mark of NIST, which does not imply product endorsement by NIST, the U.S., or Canadian

Governments.


FAST VP: Automatically Optimizes Application Performance FAST Elements

Storage Tier: A shared storage resource with common characteristics

FAST Policies: Policies that manage data placement and movement across storage tiers

Storage Group: A logical grouping of devices for common management

Tier 3 1 TB SATA RAID 6 (14+2)

Storage Tier FAST Policies

3%

25%

100%

100%

100%

Tier 1 200 GB Flash RAID 5 (3+1)

Tier 2 146 GB 15K FC RAID 1

Platinum

Silver

Storage Groups

DB2_SG

Oracle_SG

Development_SG

Tier 4 FTS per vendor 80%

Bronze

20%


Intelligence for VMware Environments

Optimized for VMware

vSphere and VMware integration

Host offload with VAAI/VASA APIs

VMAX plug-in to admin through vSphere

SRM for automated recovery

EMC VSI or Unisphere end-to-end view

Performance optimized >1M IOPS for VMAX 20K >2M IOPS for VMAX 40K FAST VP

Virtual Pools for space- efficient datastores


EMC-standard look and feel

Unisphere for Symmetrix VMAX Management modernization

Contextual, simple to navigate

Easily provision, manage, and monitor


Ease of X VMAX Administration

DYNAMIC BACK-END

Eliminates locks, no more fast IML for configuration

adds and changes

Real-time array configuration changes

MANAGEMENT MODERNIZATION

Contextual navigation;

EMC-standard look and feel

SIMPLIFIED PROVISIONING

Provision 1 TB to a 16-node ESX cluster in seconds

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VMAX 5876


EMC ProSphere

Two clicks To search and see end-to-end

Understand capacity use and trends

Identify issues and assess impact

Analyze performancehost through array

Federated and scalable Manage more than 1.1 million volumes,

36,000 SAN ports, and 18,000 hosts

75% less hardware

0 agents

The ease of configuration, discovery, and the ability to collect end-to-end performance without agents is brilliant.

- Storage Engineer, multi-national investment firm


Extending VMAX Leadership

IBM DS8800 Hitachi VSP Symmetrix VMAX 20K

Symmetrix VMAX 40K

Announced October 2010 September 2010 May 2012 May 2012

Useable capacity 1.6 PB (3.5) 1.2 PB (2.5)

2.2 PB (3.5) 1.6 PB (2.5)

2.1 PB 4 PB (3.5) 2.8 PB (2.5)

Cache memory 384 GB 1 TB 1 TB 2 TB

Relative BW performance

0.85 0.93 1 3

FAST VP Movement size Movement

frequency

Easy Tier 1 GB 24 hours

Dynamic Tiering 42 MB 30 minutes

(Rec. 24 Hours)

FAST VP 7.5 MB Continuous

FAST VP 7.5 MB Continuous

Federated Tiered Storage

No Universal Volume Manager (UVM)

No external data integrity checking

Yes, with external data integrity checking

Yes, with external data integrity checking

Heterogeneous array replication

No No Yes, with RecoverPoint integration

Yes, with RecoverPoint integration

System Bay Dispersion

Not available Not available Not available Yes

Highest performance and capacity


VMAX 40K Software Suites Simplified ordering for trusted Symmetrix capabilities

Enginuity Suite Enginuity, Dynamic Cache

Partitioning, Symmetrix Priority Controls, Virtual Provisioning, VLUN, Optimizer, Federated Tiered Storage

Symmetrix Management Suite Unisphere, Symmetrix

Management Console/ Symmetrix Performance Analyzer, Symmetrix Manager, z/OS Storage Manager

TimeFinder Suite TimeFinder/Clone,

TimeFinder/Snap, TimeFinder VP Snap, Compatible Native Flash

FAST Suite FAST, FAST VP

SRDF Suite (Two-Site) SRDF/S, SRDF/A, SRDF/AR,

Compatible Peer

Advanced SRDF Suite SRDF Suite, Three-site, Star

ProSphere Suite ProSphere, Performance

Manager, SAN Manager, StorageScope

Data Migration Suite Open Replicator/Live

Migration, Open Migrator, SRDF-DM, Federated Tiered Storage, z/OS Migrator, Federated Live Migration

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