VNX-F All Flash Array Data Sheet

EMC VNX-F ALL FLASH ARRAY
Purpose-built for price, density & speed
ESSENTIALS
• Incredible scale & density with
up to 172 TB usable flash
capacity in 6U @ 28.63 TB/U
• Consistent high performance up
to 400K IOPs and 580K TPM
@ <1.5ms response time
• Affordable configurations at less
than $5/usable GB and
$0.25/transaction
As flash prices continue to drop, flash technology is quickly becoming more
accessible to organizations of all types and sizes. As a result, flash-based
storage solutions have motivated IT organizations enough to consider and
exploit the use of flash in their data centers for targeted applications such as
OLTP, RDBMS, Server Virtualization, and Virtual Desktops. Customers are
looking to storage vendors for innovations to solve the price/performance and
density challenges that have typically hampered flash storage adoption. EMC has
always led the flash market and continues to be a leader with its significant and
broad flash storage portfolio (see Gartner SSA Magic Quadrant) and continues to
make investments in flash and flash-based solutions. EMC’s Flash Everywhere
approach includes a rich portfolio of flash arrays, hybrid flash arrays, and flash
in the server that are cost-effective, reliable, scalable, and innovative to directly
• MCx™ multi-core optimization
unlocks the power of flash
address a wide range of workload and application needs.
• Simplified deployment with
pre-configured solutions
built for price, density, speed, and a comprehensive set of management tools.
• Optimized for virtualization by
the #1 provider of VMware®
integration* and the 1st storage
platform to support Microsoft
Server 2012 Hyper-V 3.0
environments
The EMC® VNX-F™ - VNX-F5000 and VNX-F7000 - all flash arrays are purposeWith starting usable capacities as low as 2.8TB, the VNX-F family can affordably
scale to 172 TB. The VNX-F delivers consistent performance - 400K IOPS and
580K TPMs @ <1.5ms response times with some configurations available for less
than $5/usable GB. The VNX-F7000 also includes a new 120 drive disk enclosure
with 1.6 TB SSDs (172 TB), which will enable the VNX-F7000 to scale to 28.63
TB/RackU delivering the best all flash density in its class.
• Management simplicity with
EMC Unisphere™ Management
Suite
• Data At Rest Encryption
(D@RE) controller-based
encryption supporting any drive
type and speed.
• Local and remote protection
software options to ensure
business availability
VNX-F7000 3U 120-drive Disk
Array Enclosure (DAE)
VNX-F5000 & VNX-F7000
Purpose-Built All Flash Arrays
PURPOSE-BUILT
The purpose-built VNX-F5000 and VNX-F7000 all flash arrays leverage the
patented VNX2 architecture with MCx™ multicore optimization software to
deliver consistent flash storage performance (up to 400K IOPS) for OLTP and
data warehouse database workloads where price, density, and speed matter
most.
VNX-F systems are powered by the latest Intel Multi-Core Xeon E5-2600 series
with a 6-Gb/s SAS back-end delivering incredible firepower and efficiency. The
VNX-F5000 and VNX-F7000 block-based systems are pre-configured with RAID
5 protection. They both support block protocols (Fibre Channel, FCoE, iSCSI),
400 GB, 800 GB, and 1.6 TB enterprise multi-cell (eMLC) flash drive technology,
8.8 GB/s bandwidth, and are built for 5-9’s availability. They also include
Unisphere Management Suite—Unisphere, Unisphere Central, Unisphere
Analyzer, Unisphere QoS, and VNX Family Monitoring and Reporting.
DATA AT REST ENCRYPTION
The VNX-F5000 and VNX-F7000 Data-At-Rest-Encryption (D@RE) uses
Controller-Based Encryption, which provides the flexibility to support any drive
types, speeds and capacities – including flash drives – as a non-disruptive
software upgrade. VNX-F also allows the option of turning on encryption, nondisruptively, at any point in time (including after populating the array with
data).
VNX-F D@RE encrypts all data written to disk, protecting data access against
unauthorized drive removal (lost or stolen drives). VNX-F D@RE, encrypts at the
drive level, i.e. every drive will have its own unique encryption key that is
managed through an embedded encryption key manager. All current and future
VNX drive types (SSDs, SAS and NL-SAS), drive speeds and drive capacities are
supported with VNX D@RE.
CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY TO KEEP THE
BUSINESS RUNNING
The VNX-F is architected to provide five-nines availability for applications
requiring dedicated storage resources. VNX-F all flash arrays include:
•
Mirrored write cache, where each storage processor contains both primary
cached data for its LUNs and a secondary copy of the cache for its peer
storage processor
•
Battery backup to allow for an orderly shutdown and cache de-staging to
vault disks to ensure data protection in the event of a power failure
•
Pre-configured RAID5 protection—which distributes the data across the total
amount of disks, increasing performance and at the same time providing
redundancy.
•
Proactive hot sparing enhances system robustness and delivers maximum
reliability and availability
•
Redundant data paths, power supplies, drive connections, and storage
processors—all with non-disruptive field-replacement capabilities
•
Continuous system monitoring, call-home notification, and advanced remote
diagnostics
MANAGE, MONITOR, AND TUNE YOUR
STORAGE ASSETS WITH EASE
EMC Unisphere makes it easy to manage VNX-F systems from anywhere with a
simple, integrated user interface. The Unisphere dashboard is a single screen for
at-a-glance management and reporting, enabling administrators to gain instant
and actionable knowledge about what’s occurring across the entire environment.
Unisphere’s single sign-on automatically discovers all VNX-F and VNX and EMC
RecoverPoint SE installations in the environment for seamless configuration.
One of the most significant capabilities of Unisphere is the integrated support
ecosystem. The speed-dial-like capability provides users with immediate online
access to support tools, best practices, software downloads, live chat support,
ordering spares and submitting service requests.
Unisphere Central allows customers to monitor the health, alerts and
performance of large numbers of VNX-F, VNX, and VNXe, systems along with
XtremCache™ deployments across a central console. Capabilities include an
easy-to use customizable dashboard that aggregates system information like
capacity, CPU utilization, health, and alerts. Users can see key system
performance metrics for each system and can categorize dashboards by host,
VMware and Hyper-V VMs as well as by storage types. Users can easily launch
Unisphere and access the full suite of management on each VNX-F system.
VNX Family Monitoring and Reporting (M&R) software provides basic
monitoring and reporting capabilities of VNX-F systems. M&R automatically
collects block storage statistics along with configuration data, and stores them
into a database that can be viewed from dashboards and reports. This solution
can retrieve information from one or several (up to 10) VNX-F and VNX storage
systems. M&R provides preconfigured reports on storage performance and
capacity. Users can change the report configurations and export them into
various formats. Easily installed, Monitoring and Reporting can run in physical
and virtual environments.
EMC Quality of Service Manager (QoS Manager) software is integrated
seamlessly with the Unisphere web-based management interface to let you
centrally and dynamically manage and allocate storage-system resources to
meet your application service level requirements including response time,
bandwidth, and throughput – with no host footprint. Essentially, QoS Manager
allows you to prioritize applications (should you want to run multiple workloads
on the VNX-F) and set specific performance service level targets per application.
QoS Manager is capable of allocating and monitoring VNX-F system performance
resources on an application-by-application (you can actually look at multiple
metrics in parallel) basis helping to discover bottlenecks. For the admin, this
helps provide a way to control and meet their application IO service level
requirements (LUN by LUN; I/O Type Read or Write; and I/O Size) in
environments where multiple applications may share the same VNX-F storage
resources. All the VNX-F performance data that’s gathered by QoS Manager is
presented in simple and clear charts describing application performance analysis
and trending. In addition to displaying real-time data, QoS Manager allows you
to archive performance data for offline trending and analysis
VNX-F ALL FLASH ARRAYS FOR VIRTUAL
ENVIRONMENTS
Regardless if the environment is VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V,
OpenStack, or Xen-based, the VNX-F ensures successful deployments of
virtualized infrastructures through all phases of implementation. EMC is the #1
provider of VMware integration and the 1st to provide storage support with
Microsoft Server 2012 Hyper-V 3.0 environments.
EMC Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) for VMware vSphere™ plug-ins, VASA
(vSphere API for Storage Awareness), and VAAI (vStorage APIs for Array
Integration) provides both administrators with visibility into the entire
environment. Each can use their familiar management interface to view both
virtual and physical resources, transparently provision storage, integrate
replication, and access and offload all storage functions to the array.
EMC Storage Integrator (ESI) is an agent-less, no-charge plug-in enabling
application-aware storage provisioning for Microsoft Windows server
applications, Hyper-V, VMware and Xen Server environments. It provides the
ability for administrators to easily provision (using wizards) VNX-F block storage
for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft SharePoint in a Windows environment for
physical & virtual environments.
EMC Storage Analytics (ESA) delivers a single, end-to-end view of virtualized
infrastructures (servers to storage) powered by the VMware® vRealize
Operations™ analytics engine. ESA delivers actionable performance analysis and
proactively facilitates increased insight into storage resource pools to help detect
capacity and performance issues so they can be corrected before they cause a
major impact. ESA provides increased visibility, metrics and a rich collection of
storage analytics for EMC VNX-F storage infrastructures in VMware virtual
environments.
THE INDUSTRY’S MOST EXTENSIVE
STORAGE SOFTWARE OFFERINGS
The VNX-F optional software is available to ensure customers have all of the
necessary capabilities to protect and manage their VNX-F information. The VNX
Suites include snap shot and replication capabilities, automated application
copies for assured recovery, data at rest encryption, and monitoring and
alerting. All VNX-F software is managed through Unisphere.
Optional VNX-F software includes:
•
Data Protection Suite—Easily create block storage snapshots and perform
asynchronous and synchronous replication
•
RecoverPoint—Ensure application operational and disaster recovery using
local/remote data replication with continuous data protection for recovery to
any point.
•
Data At Rest Encryption (D@RE)—Controller-based encryption with
support for all drive types
•
EMC Storage Analytics (ESA)—Proactive storage analytics for VMware and
VNX environments
CONTACT US
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VNX products, services, and
solutions can help solve your
business and IT challenges,
contact your local
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© Copyright 2013, 2014 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Published in the USA. 11/14 Data Sheet H12585.5
EMC believes the information in this document is accurate as of its publication date. The information is subject to change without notice.
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