EMC introduces new VNX unified storage systems
EMC Corporation has introduced new range of VNX unified storage systems that define the definition and economics of midrange storage. The new VNX5200, VNX5400, VNX5600, VNX5800, VNX7600, VNX8000 and VNX-F raise the bar for application performance, storage
The new VNX Series leverages the latest Intel Sandy Bridge technology and features powerful new MCx (multi-core optimization) software that is flash optimized and accelerates the performance of virtualized applications.
This boosts application performance, along with the EMC VNX’s industry leading storage integration with VMware vSphere (VNX is #1 for file, block and unified for the third year in a row according to a recent Wikibon study) makes VNX the ideal platform for organizations aggressively adopting virtualization, EMC said.
Enabled with MCx software, the new VNX Series is designed to address the high-performance, low-latency requirements of virtualized applications, which is the most common use case for midrange solutions. MCx software takes full advantage of the latest Intel-multi core processing technology to optimize flash by distributing all VNX data services across all cores (up-to 32). This is a new approach for midrange arrays—enabling the new VNX to deliver the performance of the previous generation at only one-third the price.
With a single VNX system powered by MCx, customers can achieve:
- More-than the performance of 4 previous generation systems combined—or 580,796 SPECsfs2008 nfs Ops/Sec (Overall Response Time = 0.78 msec) according to the latest SPECsfs results.
- More-than 3X performance for transactional NAS applications (such as VMware over NFS) with 60% faster response time than previous VNX systems.
- More than 735K concurrent Oracle and SQL OLTP IOPS—4X more than previous VNX systems.
- More than 6,600 virtual machines—a 6X improvement from the previous generation.
- More than 3X the bandwidth—up to 30GB/second for Oracle and SQL data warehousing than previous generation.
New VNX Series systems and XtremSW Cache 2.0 are now available. The VNX-CA solution and the XtremSW Cache 2.0 cache coherency for Oracle RAC capability are scheduled to be generally available in the fourth quarter of 2013. The new VNX Series and XtremSW Cache are available through EMC and its channel partners. In addition, the new online EMC Store (store.emc.com) offers an additional resource that makes it easier and faster for customers to research EMC products, compare features, review list prices, and request quotes.
