EMC Symmetrix V-Max Series

with Enginuity
Revolutionary Evolution of the Worlds
Most Trusted Storage Platform

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Why EMC Symmetrix V-Max Series?

New

Purpose-built for the virtual data

center
Combines high-end capabilities with
unmatched levels of scale, ease of use,
and automation to enable virtual
environments

Lowest cost of ownership

Reduce costs and deliver higher service
levels via scale-out and tiering

Unprecedented performance and

scale
Start small and scale out resources to
provide performance on demand with
predictable service levels

Unmatched application availability

Provide 24x 7 operations across all
storage tiers

Secure information infrastructure

The worlds most trusted

storage platform

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Built-in capabilities to meet security and

compliance requirements

Symmetrix V-Max Tiered Storage Platform

Symmetrix V-Max: Worlds Most Scalable High-End Storage Array

V-Max SE: High-End Entry Point

48 to 360 disks
Single V-Max Enginetwo directors
FICON, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, Gigabit
Ethernet connectivity
Up to 128 GB global memory

96 to 2,400 disks, up to
2 PBthree times more
usable capacity
One to eight V-Max
Engines (16 directors)
Up to 1 TB (512 GB
usable) global mirrored
memory
Twice the host ports
Fibre Channel, iSCSI,
Gigabit Ethernet, FICON
connectivity (up to 128
ports*)
Twice the back-end
connections for Flash,
Fibre Channel, and SATA
drives (up to 128 ports)
Quad-core 2.3 GHz
processors to provide
more than twice the IOPS
Virtual Matrix architecture
connects and shares
resources across director
pairs, providing massive
scalability

CAPACITY AND PERFORMANCE SCALABILITY

*Combinations may be limited or restricted based on configuration
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Todays Data Centers:

Mix of Physical and Virtual Technology
Physical/Legacy
Environment

Transition to Virtual Environment

Reduce capital and
operational expenditures
Increase flexibility to be
more responsive to the
business
Improve service levels

From Managing Infrastructure Technology

To Providing Infrastructure Services

Trade-off between cost and functionality

Provide right level of service at the right cost

Manage physical devices

Manage policies

High availability for critical Tier 1 applications

Nondisruptive operations across all tiers

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New Virtual Matrix Architecture Revolutionizes

High-End Storage Capabilities

A high-availability Symmetrix
director pair provides the base
configuration

Virtual
Matrix

Virtual Matrix architecture

enables CPU, memory, disks,
and host ports to be shared
across all directors
Additional Symmetrix director
pairs can be added to scaleout system resources

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Symmetrix V-Max:
Purpose-Built for the Virtual Data Center
New

Enabling IT to provide high-end storage

capabilities as value-added services
Reduce cost and deliver service levels via
scale-out and tiering
Management abstraction enables ease, speed,
and automation
Deliver 24x7 application availability

Microsoft Windows, mainframe,

UNIX, VMware
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Reduce cost and deliver

higher service levels via
scale-out and tiering

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Reduce Costs and Deliver Higher Service

Levels via Scale-Out and Tiering
New

Incrementally scale storage capabilities

Dynamically grow to twice the performance, twice the
connectivity, and three times the usable capacity for
consolidation

Lower costs and optimize service levels

Tiering via second-generation Flash and SATA drives
combined with transparent mobility

Reduce cost while increasing performance

The only high-end array with multi-core processor technology
to lower cost per IOPS

Virtual
Matrix

Revolutionary Virtual
Matrix architecture
Worlds first scale-out enterprise
storage array

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Incrementally Scale Storage Capabilities

V-Max provides twice the performance, twice the connectivity, three
times more capacity compared to industry-leading Symmetrix DMX-4
Save money and
increase service level
agreements
Optimize performance
and cost based on
service levels

Manage more with

fewer resources
Leverage common
management and
functionality

Consolidate multiple arrays

into a single Symmetrix V-Max
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Reduce power and

footprint
Support multiple tiers
without multiple arrays

Lower Costs and Optimize Service Levels

Identifying Flash and SATA drive targets
Device Activity Reports Identify Target Devices for Flash and SATA Drives
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210
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190
180
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160
150
140
130
120
110
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0

Flash drive
targets?

D8C 46D 270 4C6 D73 D8A 44C 2EE 4A6 356 5A3 BF2 96F

SATA II
targets?

8E3 857 7CB 73F 6B3

627 9FF A5E BAD C92 D22 DEF F0D F99 14D0 144D 13C9 1345 12C1 123E 11BA 1136 10B2 102F 0A6 01A

Devices Total IOPS (Maximum)

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Lower Costs and Optimize Service Levels

17%

Acquisition $

8 200 GB
Flash drives

528 146 GB
15K Fibre
Channel
drives

104 400 GB
10K Fibre
Channel
drives

32 1 TB SATA
drives

65 TB
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17 percent lower storage costs

And reduced maintenance and
software costs

38 percent more drive IOPS

And more aligned with workloads

32 percent less power and cooling

And more efficient use of space

384 fewer drives

144 Flash drives plus Fibre Channel drives
plus SATA drives versus 528 Fibre Channel
drives

65 TB
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Reduce Cost While Increasing Performance

Resources are dynamically
shared to maintain high,
predictable performance

With twice the performance

for applications that need it
when they need it
OLTP2 Workload
Full System Configurations
RAID 5 Fibre Channel Disks

V-Max
V-Max
Engine
Engine
Global Memory
CPU Resources

V-Max
Engine
IOPS

V-Max
Engine

2.6 times
more
IOPS

System Bandwidth

Symmetrix
DMX-4 4500
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Symmetrix
V-Max
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Management
abstraction enables
ease, speed, and
automation

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EMC ControlCenter 6.1

End-to-End Visibility and Control

EMC ControlCenter for Automated Discovery

and Reporting of Virtual Server Environments

Virtual Servers

End-to-end visibility and

control
Discover, visualize, and
manage relationships

Thin Devices

Monitor, provision, and

report on virtual servers

Thin Pool

Hitachi HiCommand
Device Manager

HP Storage
Essentials Suite

Storage Resource Management Capabilities

EMC ControlCenter

Show end-to-end mapping for virtual machines (VMs)

and storage resources

3 clicks <1 minute

N/A

N/A

Get a summarized view of all VMs and storage

resources

1 clicks <1 minute

N/A

N/A

Find orphaned storage

3 clicks <1 minute

N/A

N/A

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EMC Symmetrix Management Console 7.0 with

New Ease of Use Capabilities
Simplifies storage management for
the virtual data center
Quickly provision resources on demand

Auto-provisioning Groups
Virtual Provisioning
Enhanced Virtual LUN technology
SRDF replication

Ease of use
Tasks view (Menu)
Wizards
Templates

New management interfaces

Symmetrix Management Console and SMI-S on Service
Processor

New

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Complements ControlCenter Symmetrix

Manager and SYMCLI
Lightweight software requiring minimal host
resources
Web-based GUI
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Management Abstraction Enables Ease,

Speed, and Automation
Easy, quick, and automated storage
provisioning
Auto-provisioning Groups combines tasks by
drive, port, and initiator to reduce time and
complexity by 95 percent

Space-efficient, easy-to-manage capacity

Virtual Provisioning with new automation to easily
grow and reclaim storage

Nondisruptive mobility across storage tiers

Virtual LUN transparently moves information to
the right tiers and RAID types at the right time

Optimize throughput for virtualized

environments
EMC PowerPath/VE provides multipathing and
load balancing for both physical and virtualized
environments
New

Enginuity 5874

New Ease of Use Capabilities

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Simplify Management of Virtual Environments

Management abstraction enables ease, speed, and automation
VMware
Infrastructure

DRS
VMotion

HA
vStorage
VMFS

vCenter
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Quickly provision
resources
on demand
Nondisruptive
mobility of
applications
and data
Policy-based load
balancing across
physical resources
Centralized,
automated
management,
reporting, and
control

Auto-provisioning
Virtual Provisioning

Tier 1

PowerPath

Tier 2

Virtual LUNs

PowerPath

PowerPath

ControlCenter
and VMware
vCenter Server
Plug-in
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Easy, Quick, and Automated Storage

Provisioning for Virtual Servers with a Single
Action
Traditional Mapping and Masking

Auto-provisioning Groups

HBA

HBA

HBA

HBA

HBA

Port A

HBA
HBA
HBA

HBA
HBA

DEV

DEV

DEV

Port B
Port C

HBA
HBA

HBA

Port D

HBA

DEV

DEV

DEV

DEV

DEV

DEV

40 Individual Masking
Operations
5 ESX servers x 2 HBAs x
4 storage ports

Port A

HBA

HBA

DEV

DEV

DEV

DEV

DEV

DEV

DEV

DEV

DEV

Port B
Port C

HBA
HBA

New

Port D

HBA
HBA

Single Setup to Build

and Associate Groups

~160 clicks to complete

15 clicks to complete

Includes initial configuration and

repeated for every change or add

Simplifies initial configurations and

all future changes and additions

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Easy, Quick, and Automated Storage

Provisioning
Auto-provisioning Groups simplifies initial configurations and all
future changes and additions
1
3
5

2
4
6

1
2

Create Initiator Group

Add/Remove Initiator

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3
4

Create Port Group

Add/Remove Port

5
6

Create Storage Group

Add/Remove Device
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Space-Efficient, Easy-to-Manage Capacity

New Enginuity 5874

Symmetrix Virtual Provisioning provides spaceefficient, easy-to-manage capacity on demand

Improves storage utilization

ESX 1
10 TB

ESX 2
10 TB

Reduces storage provisioning complexity and

overhead

ESX 3
10 TB

4 TB
3 TB

3 TB

Physical
allocation

New automation to easily

grow and reclaim storage
Drain physical devices to shrink storage pools

Common
Storage Pool

Create four-times larger volumes (up to 256 GB)

Virtually provision all tiers and RAID levels

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Space-Efficient, Easy-to-Manage Capacity

Provision Capacity
with Fewer Steps

Number of Clicks
0

131

New

244

495
Hitachi
USP V

7
10
Symmetrix 15

50
Time to Provision (Min.)

96%
Fewer
Clicks

1,000

Provision Capacity
in Less Time

V-Max

8.5

80%
Less
Time

New

15

22
Hitachi
USP V

5
Symmetrix
V-Max

2
2

Test Case
Create pool, add 10 TB of storage, and enable pool
Create 158 thin volumes and associate to a pool
Map thin volumes to 32 ports
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Create thin volumes

Create and enable pool
Map devices to 32 ports
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Nondisruptive Mobility Across Storage Tiers

Moves Information to the Right Tiers and
RAID Types at the Right Time
New Enginuity 5874

Flash

Any RAID Type

Virtual LUN Technology

Executes and monitors migrations across
all drive and RAID types
No disruption to data protection, replication,
or application availability during migration

V-LUN

Fibre
Channel

Any RAID Type

V-LUN

SATA

Any RAID Type

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Enables further tiered

storage consolidation
Optimize back-end layout for
performance
Continuous operations during
migration
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Nondisruptive Mobility Across Storage Tiers

Competitors LUN Migrations

Symmetrix Virtual LUN Technology

10K FC RAID 1

15K FC RAID 1

10K FC RAID 1

Flash RAID 5

LUN-10

LUN-10

LUN-10

LUN-10

LUN-12

LUN-11

LUN-13

LUN-12

LUN-12

LUN-12
V-LUN

LUN-11

LUN-13

LUN-11

LUN-13

LUN-11

LUN-13

SUSPEND
Replication

BCV/SRDF R2

LUN-10

LUN-12

LUN-10

LUN-12

LUN-11

LUN-13

LUN-11

LUN-13

Remote replication is suspended, and data is

unprotected during migration
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Data is fully protected during entire migration

with no impact to local or remote replication
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Optimize Throughput for Virtualized

Environments
Native Path Management

PowerPath/VE Multipathing

Minimal Path Management

Enterprise Path Management

ESX Server

ESX Server

Active channels
Standby channels

Storage Ports

VMware only
Limited failover
capability
Basic load balancing

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ESX Server

ESX Server

PowerPath

PowerPath

All channels are active

and used to load balance

Storage Ports

Fully heterogeneous including

Microsoft Hyper-V, Linux
Proactive failover management
Constantly optimizes IO paths
based on changes in path
loads
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Deliver 24x7
application availability

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EMC TimeFinder Family

Industry-Leading Local Replication
Highly integrated with all industryleading applications, including

Oracle
Microsoft
VMware
SAP
IBM

Highly recommended with the SRDF

family to enhance application
availability for disaster restart
requirements

TimeFinder Family
TimeFinder/Clone
Ultra-functional, highperformance copies

TimeFinder/Snap
Economical,
space-saving copies

TimeFinder/Clone
Emulation
Enables use of existing
TimeFinder/Mirror
scripts

TimeFinder/CG
Consistency
Group

TimeFinder/EIM
Exchange Integration
Module option

TimeFinder/SIM
SQL Integration Module
option

Overall best functionality when

compared to other major array-based
local replication products
Tens of thousands of licenses shipped

Most breadth and depth for array-based local replication

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EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF)

Family
Industry-Leading Remote Replication
Protects against local and regional
disruptions
Increases application availability by
reducing downtime
Minimizes/eliminates performance impact
on applications and hosts
Independent of hosts and operating
systems, applications, and databases
Improves recovery point and recovery time
objectives (RPOs and RTOs) with
automated restart solutions
Mission-critical proven with numerous
testimonials and references
Tens of thousands of licenses shipped

SRDF Family
SRDF/S
Synchronous for
zero data exposure

SRDF/Star
Multi-site replication
option

SRDF/CE
Cluster Enabler option

SRDF/AR

SRDF/A
Asynchronous for
extended distances

SRDF/DM
Efficient Symmetrix-toSymmetrix data mobility

Automated Replication
option

SRDF/CG
Consistency Groups

Cascaded SRDF
and SRDF/EDP
Extended Distance
Protection

Concurrent SRDF
Concurrent

EMC offers choice and flexibility to meet any service-level requirement

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Deliver 24x7 Application Availability

Nondisruptive operations for always-on
application service level requirements
Zero data loss asynchronous replication
New affordable SRDF capability delivers synchronous protection at
asynchronous distances

Up to two-times more efficient distance replication

New built-in compression reduces WAN costs

Automate protection for virtual server environments via VMware

vCenter Site Recovery Manager integration and EMC Replication
Manager support
Enables advanced SRDF protection capabilities for virtual environments

Symmetrix: the worlds most trusted

storage platform
SRDF familyindustry-leading remote replication
Exclusive, three-site data replication with continuous protection
New, cost-effective zero data loss extended distance protection
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SRDF/Extended Distance Protection

Zero Data Loss Asynchronous Replication
No hosts or
R2 capacity
required

SRDF/A
SRDF/S
R1

R21

Primary array

Pass-through
array

WAN

R2

Out-of-region
site

Increased protection: No data loss RPO and faster RTO at remote site
More affordable: Pass-through system reduces server and capacity costs
Investment protection: Symmetrix DMX-3 and DMX-4 supported as source and
target
Competitive differentiation: SRDF-exclusive capability
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New Enginuity 5874 Replication Capabilities

New

New compression capabilities reduce

bandwidth requirements by up to 2x
WAN

Up to two-times more efficient distance

replication
New built-in compression reduces WAN costs

New

Faster replication
Accelerated replication tasks and recovery times
Up to two-times faster processing of copy updates

New

More SRDF groups

More SRDF scalability
Supports replication requirements for larger environments
Achieves more granular application control

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128 groups

250 groups
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Why Symmetrix V-Max Series?

Purpose-built for the virtual
data center
Lowest cost of ownership
Unprecedented
performance and scale
Unmatched application
availability
Secure information
infrastructure

The worlds most trusted

storage platform

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