EMC launches the CLARiiON CX4 Series | | 2008-08-06 | | | EMC has unveiled its new range of midrange storage systems, the EMC CLARiiON CX4 Series.The CX4 series has a new architecture optimized for VMware and other virtual server environments, and designed to incorporate the latest (and future) technologies in drives, connectivity, processing power, thin provisioning and security.The Xeon-powered series will come in four versions, the CX4-960, CX-4120, CX4-240 and CX4-480. The suffix of each model’s product name indicates the maximum number of hard disks supported.The new systems feature EMC’s UltraFlex technology, which supports both dual-protocol Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage area network (SAN) connections in the same array and will allow easy connection to future technologies, such as Fibre Channel over Ethernet. In addition, flash disks, up to thirty times faster than conventional drives, will be available as an option from October, giving the CX4 series up to ten times the performance of the CX3 series.Other features include:- a new 64 bit embedded operating system, EMC CLARiiON FLARE, improving performance and doubling system scalability (up to 960 drives) for improved consolidation. - integration with VMware Site Recovery Manager to form a simple, turnkey solution for VMware disaster recovery, and new integrated continuous local and remote replication (CLR) features for EMC RecoverPoint/SE software.- CLARiiON Virtual Provisioning, which increases system utilization and simplifies the provisioning of storage by allowing administrators to present an application with more capacity than is physically allocated.- an adaptive cooling design and support for new low power one terabyte SATA disk drives that maximize energy efficiency. The new low power drives, which spin at a slower RPM, use 32 percent less energy per terabyte than traditional SATA drives.- disk spin down capabilities that will automatically place inactive drives in sleep mode and activate on demand to save energy. | |
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