EMC Corporation today announced it has made a quantum leap forward in its flagship enterprise storage platform, with the announcement of the new VMAX All Flash, the first-to-market all-flash storage array to natively support block, file, open systems and mainframe with the ability to scale up to four petabytes (PB) of data. More than just improving raw performance, VMAX All Flash arrays build on the legendary reliability and flexibility of the VMAX platform, while offering total cost of ownership (TCO) less than traditional enterprise disk arrays.Recognized by customers as the most-trusted storage array in the industry, EMC is extending the world-class VMAX data services to VMAX All Flash, complete witha dramatically simplified management experience. Its appliance-based packaging now includes both hardware and software and its maintenance pricing is flat for the life of the array.
Available immediately, EMC’s flagship VMAX array has been re-engineered to offer two new all-flash models: the EMC®VMAX450 and EMC VMAX 850. Both models arespecifically 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 onthe 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 simple purchasing and configuration resulting from its V-Brick ‘building block’ architecture. Each V-Brick contains one VMAX engineand starts with 53TB of usable capacity.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-outperformance and ports easily by adding additional V-Bricks. Additional scale-up capacity can be achieved by adding 13TB Usable Flash Capacity Packs, further simplifying the experience for organizations managing growing data volumes.
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-packaging 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
EMC ProtectPoint™ data protection software can be added to any configuration of VMAX All Flash to perform direct backup between VMAX and DataDomain® protection storage, without the need for traditional backup infrastructure, avoiding the data protection bottleneck that can prevent flash storage platforms from reaching their potential.
VMAX All Flash is easy to plan, deploy and manage, thanks to its simple packaging and the Xpect More Program, EMC’s lifetime flat-price maintenance model, which enables customers to plan their future procurement model in a much more predictable and efficient manner. The lifetime maintenance price protection offered for VMAX All Flash contributes to improved TCO throughout the service lifecycle of the system.
Flash For Mission-Critical Environments
VMAX All Flash delivers millions of IOPS and sustains under 1millisecondof 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 including: Oracle, VMware, Microsoft and OpenStack. 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.
EMC is also expanding its industry-leading converged infrastructure portfolio to capitalize on the latest all-flash technology. The VCE®Vblock® and VxBlock™ 740 Systems are immediately orderable with VMAX All Flash, providing additional options for customers looking to architect a modern data center with an all-flash converged infrastructure. In addition, the VMAX All Flash is orderable as a VCE Technology Extension to existing Vblock and VxBlockSystems and VCE Vscale™ Fabric implementations and should be generally available later this year, providing customers with a simple, assured path to significantly extend the performance and capabilities of their VCE-based data centers.
According to a customer of this service, Ari Bose, Chief Information Officer, Brocade, “As Brocade expands into new markets, our requirement for consistent low-latency, high-performance data storage is growing rapidly. But we can’t afford to, compromise performance, reduced resiliency or lack of native data services. We have a long and trusted relationship with EMC and its VMAX platform, so VMAX All Flash will allow us to meet our evolving needs. The simple planning and deployment for scale-out and scale-up flash storage, supported by the enterprise data services that we rely on from EMC, make VMAX All Flash the optimum solution for our needs.”
Speaking on the benefits, Guy Churchward, President,Core Technologies, EMC Corporation, “2016 is the Year of All-Flash for primary storage and EMC is marking this milestone with the VMAX All Flash – a completely re-engineered platform that leverages extremely dense flash drives, paired with the power and simplicity of the VMAX data services platform. VMAX All Flash is designed for the modern data center – delivering monster IOPS and consistent sub-millisecond latency while offering world-class six-nines availability in a footprint that is up to 92% less than our previous generation VMAX with comparable storage capacity. The new VMAX All Flash has made a quantum leap forward in capability, performance and cost efficiency. And it only marks the beginning of EMC’s all-flash future.”