EMC Introduces CLARiiON CX4 Series

EMC Corporation has unveiled the new EMC CLARiiON CX4 Series of midrange storage systems. With a new architecture specifically optimised for VMware and other virtual server environments and designed to incorporate the latest technologies in drives, connectivity, processing power, thin provisioning and security, EMC is making it easy to consolidate and manage information using the least amount of energy.

The CLARiiON CX4 Series is a family of networked storage systems, with more than 300,000 systems installed and a midrange storage leading benchmark of ‘Five 9s’ of availability – 99.999 percent uptime. This series has a multitude of new features built-in that are ideal for virtual server environments – including VMware infrastructure. These include:

- Support of multiple application tiers on a single CLARiiON CX4 array. This is the result of a new 64 bit EMC CLARiiON FLARE storage operating environment utilising multi-core Intel processors that improve performance and double system scalability (up to 960 drives) for improved consolidation.

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- Support for dual-protocol Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage area network (SAN) connections with online expansion. EMC’s new UltraFlex technology also enables the CLARiiON CX4 Series to incorporate future connectivity technologies such as 8Gb/s Fibre Channel, 10Gb/s iSCSI and FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet). In addition, the CLARiiON CX4 Series with UltraFlex helps extend the flexibility of VMware environments by enabling the addition of I/O ports – along with storage capacity and performance – to the virtual infrastructure.

- Support for solid state disks (SSDs), which deliver sub-millisecond response times and are 98 percent more energy efficient on an IOPs (Input/Output operations Per Second) basis. The addition of flash drives to the CLARiiON CX4 Series provides the highest levels of performance for ‘tier 0’ storage requirements.

- Virtual (thin) provisioning capabilities that increase system utilisation and simplify the provisioning of storage by allowing administrators to present an application with more capacity than is physically allocated.

- Built-in disk spin down capabilities that will automatically place inactive drives in sleep mode and activate on demand to save energy.

- An adaptive cooling design and support for new low power one terabyte SATA disk drives that maximise energy efficiency.

- Integration with VMware Site Recovery Manager to form a simple, turnkey solution for VMware disaster recovery.

- Integration with the RSA enVision platform to provide an automated approach for the management of event data, maximise an organisation’s security posture and simplify compliance.