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ETERNUS DX8000 series Disk Storage Systems ： Features
The successor product is ETERNUS DX8700 S2.
Large scale storage consolidation for the most demanding environments.
In today's business world, your company faces many challenging issues including increasing data storage and management costs. Then there is compliance with new laws, regulations and internal governance that make data protection and security enhancement more important. Plus corporate social responsibility issues requiring you to tackle ever more important environmental requirements.
With best-in-class performance, scalability, and reliability, ETERNUS DX8000 series provide large-scale storage consolidation, and a range of storage solutions that take care of these issues and drastic increase your investment efficiency.
Scalability / Business continuity
Non-stop operation
- Component redundancy and hot swap
(for GlobalServer and Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - High availability multi-controller configuration - Cyclic CM
(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) - Automatic faulty drive isolation - High Reliability, High Performance Fibre Switch
(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) - 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)
Scalability
- 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) - Different disk drives in the same drive enclosure
(for Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server)
Performance
- 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)
Data integrity and security
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
- 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)
Backup
- 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
- 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)
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)
Approaches to environmental issues (Green IT)
Energy-saving
- Power consumption reduction - Eco-mode
(for Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server) - Low-power, highly reliable and high performance Solid State Drives (SSD)
- Efficient SAN Management - ETERNUS SF Storage Cruiser
Enhanced operational efficiency
Flexible operation / administration
Administration
- Cooperation with VMware - Performance improvement in virtualized server environments
- Centralized management of disk storage systems - ETERNUSmgr
(for Mission Critical IA/UNIX/Industry Standard Server)
Data Sharing
- File sharing among UNIX servers - PRIMECLUSTER
(for UNIX Server)
