EMC Storage Product Knowledge Sharing

Lets talk about SRDF feature in DMX for disaster recovery/remote replication/data migration. In today’s business environment it is imperative to have the necessary equipment and processes in place to meet stringent service-level requirements. Downtime is no longer an option. This means you may need to remotely replicate your business data to ensure availability. Remote data replication is the most challenging of all disaster recovery activities. Without the right solution it can be complex, error prone, labor intensive, and...

EMC Brings Flash Drives in DMX-4 Frame I have attended EMC Live classroom for new series of symmetrix DMX-4. I thought to share depth new architectural knowledge to you all.EMC made a important announcement with respect to its 73 GB and 146 GB flash drives or solid state drives (SSD). Flash Drives and SSD represent a new solid-state storage tier, “tier 0”, for symmetrix DMX-4. In addition to that EMC will offer Virtual Provisioning for Symmetrix 3 and 4 as well 1 TB SATA II drives.With this announcement EMC became first storage...

This is new series of Symmetrix family with many new features a high performance, DMX (Direct Matrix Architecture). I will discuss what DMX Architecture is later.There are two models in DMX-4 series the DMX-4 and the DMX-4 950. DMX-4 supports full connectivity to open system and mainframe hosts like ESCON and FICON.The DMX-4 950 represents a lower entry point for DMX technology providing open system connectivity with FICON connection for mainframe hosts.The DMX-4 is the world’s largest high end storage array, allowing configure...