Fujitsu unveils ETERNUS DX200F

“Most flash storage arrays have been optimised to work for a specific storage workload or niche use case, and often times with questionable reliability, especially offerings from startups,” said Frank Reichart, Senior Director Product Marketing Storage Solutions at Fujitsu Technology Solutions. “The ETERNUS DX200F differs by providing a proven enterprise-grade, all-flash solution that is the perfect platform for a wide range of workloads – such as high-performance database, real-time data analytics, VDI and batch processing. More importantly, by delivering these flash capabilities starting at a single-digit euro-per-gigabyte system price, Fujitsu is offering a compelling reason for customers to adopt flash storage as a key part of their storage infrastructure plans.”

High Reliability With Business Continuity
The new ETERNUS DX200F leverages proven reliability technologies of the ETERNUS DX S3 platform, one of the true enterprise-grade storage array platforms on the market today. All major components are redundant, including power supply and storage controller, to allow for continuous operations or for component swaps during an unplanned event outage.

Removing storage I/O bottlenecks
ETERNUS DX200F shortens batch processing times and eliminates the problem of processing lags caused by high-frequency storage access in a virtual-server or virtual-desktop environment. It helps creating new business opportunities by enabling companies to run real-time analytics for big data, or to handle web traffic during peak times in a much smoother way.

Performance is achieved through the combination of solid-state drives and 12-gigabit per second (Gbps) SAS drive interfaces with exceptional transfer capability. Latency on the DX200F is extremely low, at less than 0.5 ms – ideal for I/O-intensive environments. The system architecture is optimised for high performance of business critical applications and infrastructures such as databases and virtualised environments, which typically use block sizes of 8 KB or more.

Improving Storage Efficiency
Using the remote copy feature of FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS DX Series disk storage systems, the ETERNUS DX200F can be easily backed up to an ETERNUS DX Series unit that uses nearline HDD disks. Furthermore, the DX200F comes with standard support for thin provisioning, enabling administrators to establish virtual capacity regardless of the physical capacity of the solid-state drives. This makes it possible to add physical disks as storage needs increase without changing capacity settings, thereby increasing the utilisation efficiency of storage resources and helping to optimise investments.