FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS DX8700 S3

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The Fujitsu Storage ETERNUS DX8700 S3 is purpose-built for large enterprises and ideal for the data management of business-critical core applications and the consolidation of large-scale data centers. The Quad Star Architecture with 2 to 8 controllers provides storage capacity with up to 1536 disk drives and performance in the million IOPS range.

Features & Benefits

Features	Benefits
Flexible scalability in capacity and performance	Future-oriented scale-out architecture and upgrade options meet today's and tomorrow's business requirements Low cost of growth ensures investment protection Superior system utilization Large scale storage consolidation Leading performance by design
Automation to manage unpredictable data growth	Automatically aligned storage performance with business priorities Minimized manual tuning efforts Optimized service level fulfillment
Zero downtime for business critical data	Predictable and reliable operation through end-to-end redundancy, comprehensive high-availability and disaster resilience functions Multi-level disaster recovery with various snapshot concepts and remote replication between different models and generations Highest business continuity by transparent failover and non-disruptive maintenance as well as upgrade capabilities

Technical details

Type	High-end disk storage system for large enterprises
Random access performance	1M IOPS
Host Interfaces	Fibre Channel (16 Gbit/s) iSCSI (10 Gbit/s, 1 Gbit/s) FCoE (10 Gbit/s)
Maximum Disk Drives	1,536 SSD, SAS and Nearline SAS in a mixed configuration (3.5" / 2.5")
Maximum Storage Capacity	23,593 TB
No. of host interfaces	128 (FC), 64 (iSCSI/FCoE)
Max. no. of hosts	8,192
Supported RAID levels	0, 1, 1+0, 5, 5+0, 6
Drive interface	Serial Attached SCSI (12 Gbit/s)
Thin Provisioning	Yes
Automated Storage Tiering	Yes
Remote Copy functionality	Synchronous and asynchronous

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