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ETERNUS DX8700 S2 series Disk Storage Systems ： Features
For information on former ETERNUS DX8000 series models, click here
The Flexible Data Safe for Dynamic Infrastructures
The ETERNUS DX8700 S2 enterprise disk storage system, with powerful Intel Xeon processors and multi-dimensional scalability, is purpose built for large enterprises.
Data Sheets
- PDF ETERNUS DX8700 S2 data sheet (134KB)
PDF Technical White Paper : ETERNUS DX Feature Set (6,809KB / November 2012)
Safety
ETERNUS DX S2 is "The Flexible Data Safe".
High-speed replication
- Online high-speed backup - Advanced Copy functions
(for GlobalServer and Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server)
- High-speed replication - Advanced Copy EC
(for GlobalServer and Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - High-speed replication - Advanced Copy OPC
(for GlobalServer and Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - Advanced Copy function Partial copying - QuickOPC
(for Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - Advanced Copy function Partial copying - SnapOPC / SnapOPC+
(for Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server)
- High-speed replication - Advanced Copy EC
- Online high-speed backup/recovery for GlobalServer environments
(for GlobalServer) - Backup using DB and the Advanced Copy function
(for Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - Smart backup operation with VSS
(for Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - Archiving and disk to disk backup using Nearline disk drives
(for Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server)
Disaster Recovery
- Remote Copy using Fibre Channel Interface (Remote Advanced Copy function (REC))
(for GlobalServer and Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - Remote Copy using iSCSI Interface (Remote Advanced Copy function (REC)
(for GlobalServer and Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - Remote Copy Disk Buffered REC over Low bandwidth Networks
(for Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server)
Non-stop operation
- Component redundancy and hot swap
(for GlobalServer and Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - Advanced RAID organization for ensuring data access even during a disk failure
(for GlobalServer and Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - Path failover - ETERNUS Multipath Driver
(for Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - Inter-unit mirroring for even higher storage availability - PRIMECLUSTER
(for UNIX Server) - Cluster system support - PRIMECLUSTER
(for UNIX Server) - High availability multi-controller configuration - Cyclic CM
(for GlobalServer and Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - Failure localization for minimized system impact - I/O RAS
(for GlobalServer) - Highly available system - DVCF and File Duplication Controller
(for GlobalServer) - Improved operational continuity with online volume copy - VRMGR
(for GlobalServer) - Continuous system operation - Hot Standby
(for GlobalServer)
Data Integrity
- Data block check codes for improved data integrity - Data Block Guard
(for GlobalServer and Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - Improved data reliability combined with Oracle DB - DB (Data Base) Data Guard
(for UNIX Server) - Enhanced data reliability - Disk drive patrol
(for GlobalServer and Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - Cache data protection during power failures - Cache Guard
(for GlobalServer and Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - Pre-failure replacement with redundancy - Redundant Copy
(for GlobalServer and Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - Hot spare disk use between different RAID groups - Global Hot Spare
(for Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - Hot spare disk use dedicated to a specific RAID group - Dedicated Hot Spare
(for Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server)
Security
- Access security - Host Affinity
(for Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - Information security by Data Encryption
(for GlobalServer and Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - Robust security using SSL/SSH
(for GlobalServer and Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server)
Performance
Dynamic and virtualized infrastructures depend on highest storage performance
Performance
- Low-power, highly reliable and high performance Solid State Drives (SSD)
(for GlobalServer and Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - Quality of Service (QoS)
(for Mission Critical IA/UNIX/PC servers) - Accelerated I/O access - Bind-in-Cache
(for GlobalServer) - Efficient disk utilization - Work Volume Load Sharing
(for GlobalServer) - Reduced search overheads between GlobalServer and disk storage system - High Speed Search function
(for GlobalServer)
Efficiency
ETERNUS DX S2 is green, cost efficient and easy to manage
Virtualization
- Storage capacity virtualization "Thin Provisioning"
(for Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server)
Automatization
- Investment Optimization by Automated Tiering
(for Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server)
Energy-saving
- Power consumption reduction - Eco-mode
(for Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server)
Environmental Friendly
- Regulatory compliant / Lead-free solders
ETERNUS is compliant with the RoHS directive, adopted by the European Union that
restricts the use of specific hazardous substances in electrical and electronic
equipment, including lead, hexavalent chromium, mercury, cadmium, polybrominated
biphenyl (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE). The solder used on all
printed circuit boards is also lead-free. - Green Products
This product cleared our company's original evaluation standard which followed global environmental measures
Security
- Non-stop RAID group capacity expansion - Logical Device Expansion
(for Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - Non-stop LUN capacity expansion - LUN Expansion
(for Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - Non-stop LUN migration to different RAID groups - RAID Migration
(for Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - LUN consolidation between different RAID groups - LUN Concatenation
(for Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server)
Administration
- Easy setup, management and administration through GUI/CLI
(for Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server)(for GlobalServer and Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - Integrated management software for ETERNUS Disk storage systems - ETERNUS SF Storage Cruiser
(for Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - Real-time storage space visualization that enables stable infrastructure operation - ETERNUS SF Disk Space Monitor
(for Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server)
Data Sharing
- File sharing among UNIX servers - PRIMECLUSTER
(for UNIX Server)
Compatibility
Answering tomorrows questions today.
- Different disk drives in the same drive enclosure
(for Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - Cooperation with VMware - Performance improvement in virtualized server environments
(for Mission Critical IA//Industry Standard Server)
Learn More
- [White papers] Gartner Storage Optimization Blueprint (PDF/1,501KB)
- [White Papers] IDC Analyze the Future : What to Consider When Investing in High-End Storage Systems (PDF / 121KB)
- ETERNUS DX8700 S2 enterprise disk storage system scores highest ever mark in both throughput and price performance ratio for high-end systems
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