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 MCx multi-core optimization unlocks the power of flash Simplified deployment with pre-configured solutions Optimized for virtualization by the #1 provider of VMware integration* and the 1 st storage platform to support Microsoft Server 2012 Hyper-V 3.0 environments 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 address a wide range of workload and application needs. The EMC VNX-F - VNX-F5000 and VNX-F7000 - all flash arrays are purposebuilt for price, density, speed, and a comprehensive set of management tools. With 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 1 st 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 To learn more about how EMC VNX products, services, and solutions can help solve your business and IT challenges, contact your local representative or authorized reseller or visit the EMC Store EMC 2, EMC, the EMC logo, EMC Proven, AppSync, Avamar, CLARiiON, Celerra, MCx, Unisphere, VNX, VNXe, VPLEX, and XtremCache are registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and other countries. VMware, vcenter, and vsphere are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc., in the United States and other jurisdictions. 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. DATA SHEET