Available immediately, EMC’s flagship VMAX array has been re-engineered to offer two new all-flash models: the EMC® VMAX 450 and EMC VMAX 850. Both models are specifically designed to take full advantage of the superior performance, density and economies of scale offered by cutting-edge flash storage media. In addition, EMC will add improvements later in the year to compress data in real time, which will result in significant capacity efficiencies.
More Than Just Performance Improvements
VMAX All Flash is engineered specifically to capitalize on the performance of flash and the economics of today’s latest large-capacity SSDs, introducing technology such as Write Folding that improves flash durability while simultaneously delivering peak performance. Multi-dimensional scalability is achieved through its V-Brick ‘building block’ architecture. Each V-Brick contains one VMAX engine and starts with 53TB of usable capacity that can be scaled up to 500TB in 13TB increments. Multiple V-Bricks can be combined to scale out to a maximum of eight VMAX engines and 4PB. The VMAX All Flash 450 can be configured to include one to four V-Bricks and the VMAX All Flash 850 up to eight V-Bricks, allowing customers to scale-out performance and ports easily.
Building on overwhelmingly positive customer feedback for the simplified pricing and packaging of its XtremIO all-flash arrays, EMC is extending its Xpect More Program to offer customers simplified planning, deployment and management for the new VMAX All Flash array. The Xpect More Program offers the unique combination of a lifetime flat-price maintenance model and lifetime flash endurance protection. This not only removes many typical barriers to adoption of new technologies, it gives customers the ability to plan future procurement in a more predictable and efficient manner.
Both the VMAX All Flash 450 and VMAX All Flash 850 leverage the world-class data services of the VMAX family and come in two appliance-like package offerings. The base-level F package includes:
· Thin Provisioning
· QoS
· Embedded Unisphere
· VVols support and SnapVX™ technology
· AppSync® data protection software to address Copy Data Management (CDM) needs
For customers who require a broader range of native data services, the FX package also includes:
· The complete suite of EMC SRDF® software for remote replication
· Controller-based Data at Rest Encryption (D@RE)
· EMC ViPR® Suite (both Controller and SRM) for Software-Defined automated provisioning, management, and monitoring
· EMC CloudArray® software to link non-critical data between VMAX and cloud storage services
· EMC eNAS technology for file storage
· The newly launched EMC Unisphere® 360 for simple, consolidated storage management of up to 200 VMAX arrays in a single data center
EMC ProtectPoint™ data protection software can be added to any configuration of VMAX All Flash to perform direct backup between VMAX and EMC Data Domain® protection storage, without the need for traditional backup infrastructure. This avoids the typical data protection bottlenecks that can prevent flash storage platforms from reaching their potential.
Flash For Mission-Critical Environments
VMAX All Flash delivers millions of IOPS and sustains under 500 microseconds of latency for read/write workloads while supporting up to 150GB/s of bandwidth. With a native set of rich data services, VMAX All Flash is designed to support the most mission-critical systems and applications with world-class business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities that deliver six-nines availability through EMC SRDF remote replication technology. Customers can simplify their business continuity plans by consolidating workloads onto a single VMAX All Flash to protect vital information and run native data services.
VMAX All Flash supports a broad ecosystem of applications and systems including: Oracle, VMware, Microsoft and OpenStack as well as support for IBM Mainframe and iSeries. As customers move towards a Software-Defined Data Center and look for simple integration into management and orchestration platforms, VMAX All Flash provides RESTful APIs to facilitate data center integration.
Orderable today, EMC’s Converged Platforms Division (VCE®), will also deliver the VMAX all-flash platform in the VCE® Vblock® and VxBlock™ 740 Systems, providing customers with the fastest, lowest risk path to a modern data center. In addition, the VMAX All Flash is orderable as a VCE Technology Extension to existing Vblock and VxBlock Systems and VCE Vscale™ Fabric implementations, providing customers with a path to significantly extend the performance and capabilities of their current VCE-enabled data centers.
