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July 16, 2007
EMC upgrades!
EMC2 is rolling out a lot of upgrades to their overall storage product line, most importantly to an enterprise-level person like me, on the Symmetrix product line:
The big deal for me is the Symmetrix DMX-4 Product line, which will make some huge leaps over the already-formidible DMX-3 line:
- 4GB/s end-to-end: The DMX-3 line had 4gig front end cards for a while now, but the FC-AL back end was 2gig. The 4s will have 4gig on the back.
- Support for SATA II drives (750s): This is big for the Symm. The DMX-3s will also support 500GB SATAs.
- Faster RAID 5 and 6: up to 30% faster. More and more Symm users are opting for RAID arrays rather than mirror pairs (the original fault-tolerant Symm configuration), so this is big.
- Faster SRDF: 33% faster SRDF/S at 100km.
- Faster TimeFinder: 10x faster local replication (because of the new back end)
Additionally, there will be a several feature enhancements related to SRDF in the new microcode released for the DMX-4s that will also be available as upgrades for DMX-3s.
EMC Control Center (ECC) is also upgrading this summer as well, from 5.2 to 6.0.
El Reg has the details on the rest of the product line in the article, but the Symm stuff is near and dear to my heart, since I teach TimeFinder, SRDF, and Control Center.
Posted by Edward J. Branley at July 16, 2007 2:27 PM
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