Today Fujitsu announced two new storage systems that are part of its ETERNUS DX family, the ETERNUS DX8700 S3 and DX8900 S3. These new storage systems are designed to handle unpredictable data growth and give companies peak storage performance. The larger of the two, the DX8900 S3, has performance numbers in the 4 million IOPS range and has a capacity up to 14PB.
Today Fujitsu announced two new storage systems that are part of its ETERNUS DX family, the ETERNUS DX8700 S3 and DX8900 S3. These new storage systems are designed to handle unpredictable data growth and give companies peak storage performance. The larger of the two, the DX8900 S3, has performance numbers in the 4 million IOPS range and has a capacity up to 14PB.
Third platform computing is making storage planning highly unpredictable. Organizations need scalability, flexibility, performance, and they need to keep costs down. Fujitsu’s new ETERNUS DX systems aim to address these concerns. The systems work on a flexible pay-as-you-grow architecture that enables customers to build up storage capacity ‘just in time,’ so there won’t be any unnecessary overprovisioning of storage or the cost associated with such overprovisioning.
Capacity and price are only one side of the equation when it comes to enterprise usage of storage systems. The system needs to always be available and be able to withstand issues such as disk failure, without causing downtime. The new systems have zero-downtime functions that enable it to cope with multiple component failures without any interruption to service, including complete system or site failure (in conjunction with ETERNUS storage cluster).
The new ETERNUS DX systems have a unique set of automation that contributes to a faster return on investment. The systems have an automated quality of service management that allocate performance according to business priorities. This technology can also be used to support service level management for virtual servers. The systems also come with tremendous amounts of memory cache, up to 6TB, and SSD cache, up to 67TB. The solutions are also ideal for consolidating all data into one system. The ETERNUS DX systems provide ample capacity for any demanding virtualization environments and extensive high-availability and disaster recovery capabilities.
ETERNUS DX8900 S3 specifications:
- Architecture: Scale-out
- Storage controllers: 2 – 24
- Maximum storage capacity: 13,824TB
- Maximum disk drives: 4,608
- Maximum cache memory (DRAM): 6TB
- Maximum second-level cache (SSD): 67.2TB
- Maximum connectable hosts: 8,192
ETERNUS DX8700 S3 specifications:
- Architecture: Scale-out
- Storage controllers: 2 – 8
- Maximum storage capacity: 4,608TB
- Maximum disk drives: 1,536
- Maximum cache memory (DRAM): 1TB
- Maximum second-level cache (SSD): 22.4TB
- Maximum connectable hosts: 8,192
Availability
The ETERNUS DX8700 S3 and DX8900 S3 are expected to be generally available on August 1, 2015.
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