NetApp or EMC VNX released soon under great pressure

 Addition to competing with NetApp products, in addition, VNX5000 and 7000 also with IBM's XIV and HP 3PAR arrays there is competition.

In other words, we will discuss the high-end market for business customers and enterprise storage products introduced. EMC envisaged target is to product efficiency, performance, functionality and scalability excellence in all aspects such as infrastructure and / or storage of professional customers.

series of products in the VNX, EMC is also bundled with its storage software. Basic configuration includes Unisphere management, file deduplication and compression, block compression, virtual preparedness and SAN Copy. FAST Suite configurations include FAST VP, FAST Cache, UnisphereAnalyzer and Quality of Service Manager.

In addition, Security and Compliance suite, Local Protection Suite, Remote Protection Suite, Application Protection suite. Product package will be divided into Total Efficiency Pack, and Total Protection Pack. But the 5100 series can run the software limited - do not support FAST VP, VEE, FLR, Replicator or SnapSure software products.

also reported that prior to VNX These products will include the modules only support access to only support file access, and unified (the module supports file access and access), three storage form. Support the file access protocol for NFS, CIFS, MPFS (Celerra Multi-Path File System) and pNFS. Block access protocol for FC, FCoE and iSCSI, including 5100 series only supports FC. The product is current VNX CLARiiON and Celerra product migration path, while also continue to sell and support EMC CLARiiON and Celerra products. Which is the Celerra NS960 series VNX7500 and CLARiiON CX4-960 need to migrate to. 5700 and 5500 series is the successor NS-480 Celerra systems and CX4-480 and 240 arrays. The 5300,5200 and 5100 series will eventually replace NS-120, CLARiiON CX4-120 and AX4 products. From 5100-5700 the VNX5000 will be no damage upgrades.

before we have reported on behalf of VNX series products VNX 5700 is equipped with four SAS back-end bus. In only supports file access and unified storage access mode, it can have 2 to 4 and 3 data movement interface, configurable host I / O interface slot. In support of the module only access mode, it can be used to host 3 or 4 I / O interface slot. These interfaces can be used as a 4 slot 8Gbit / s Fibre Channel component pairs, two 10GbitE iSCSI component pairs, four 1GbitE iSCSI and two FCoE I / O component pairs. From the information shown in the table view, the model only supports file access only through 8Gbit / s Fibre Channel host interface connections. More information is now displayed, VNX5100 up to 75 hard disk loading, 5300,5500,5700,7500 series of hard drives loaded up to the number of 125,250,500 and 1000, respectively. All the drives have SAS interfaces, including enterprise-class SAS, SAS and solid-state drives near-line (SSD). It is estimated that these systems may have a SAS backplane, instead of using Fibre Channel arbitrated loop (Fibre Channel arbitrated loop).

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5000 and 7000 series products are perfect to meet the needs of virtualization, and support VSphere and Microsoft's virtualization software, Oracle and VMware virtualization software and virtualization through VMware View Desktop. [Editor: Yuan Shaolong]

Bit the last few days has reported net EMC VNX upcoming series of unified storage products, with more release date draws near, on EMC unified storage products VNX series also disclosed more details, EMC VNX Series family of products from low-end VNXe3000 series began, to the end of the VNX5000 series, the final launch of high-end VNX7000 series, will correspond to NetApp's FAS2000, FAS3000 and FAS6000 series, which means that the past would advocate a unified storage with NetApp to great pressure of market competition, EMC and even values of each series of products more than the NetApp value of the corresponding products, in order to reflect their superiority.

VNX5100 series does not have the I / O slots, and 5300,5500,5700,7500 series with the I / O slots are 4 ~ 8,4 ~ 13,6 ~ 18 and 6 42. As previously speculated, they are to only support file access, block access or only supports the storage form of both the sale of two. To support file access, 5100-7500 Series X-blade has increased the number of controllers - 0,1 ~ 2, respectively (each blade 6GB / system memory); 1 to 3 (per blade 12GB); 2 ~ 4 (per blade 12GB); 2 ~ 8 (per blade 24GB). The support block access to the storage processor (SP) did not increase the number, or two, but the increased memory capacity of each SP, and 5100 for the 4GB, 5300 for the 8GB, 5500 for the 12GB, 5700 for the 18GB, and 750 per SP memory capacity of a 24GB.