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ETERNUS DX8000 series Disk Storage Systems : Specifications

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.


GENERAL SPECIFICATION

ETERNUS DX8400 ETERNUS DX8700
Host-interface Fibre Channel (Max 8 Gbit/s) and/or iSCSI (1 Gbit/s) and/or OCLINK (Max.17 Mbit/s) and/or FCLINK (Max. 2 Gbit/s) (*Note 1)
Number of Controller Modules (CM) 2 or 4 2 or 4 or 6 or 8
Number of Channel Adapters (CA) each CM with 1 or 2 or 4 CA
Number of Connectable Hosts max 64 Initiator per CA Port, 1024 per System
- Notes: Channel Adapters FC CA, iSCSI CA, OCLINK CA, FCLINK CA mixable within CM
Each FC CA with 2 or 4 host-interfaces 8 Gbit/s FC
Each iSCSI CA with 2 host-interfaces 1 Gbit/s iSCSI
Each OCLINK CA (Fujitsu Mainframe only) with 2 host-interfaces 17 Mbit/s OCLINK
Each FCLINK CA (Fujitsu Mainframe only) with 2 host-interfaces 2 Gbit/s FCLINK
Number of FC host-interfaces 4 - 64 16 -128
Number of iSCSI host-interfaces 4 - 32 4 - 64
Number of OCLINK host-interfaces 4 - 32 4 - 64
Number of FCLINK host-interfaces 4 - 32 4 - 64
- Notes: Host-interfaces mixed configurations possible
Cache memory capacity 8 - 256 GB 32 - 512 GB
RAID levels 0, 1, 1+0, 5, 6
Number of drives 16 - 1020 64 - 2760
- Notes: Max. number of Enterprise SSD 32 (plus hot spares)
Max. Physical storage capacity 2008 TB 5456 TB
Max. Logical capacity with RAID5 1558.1 TB 4250.6 TB
FC disk drives (15,000rpm) for Unix/Industry Standard Server 600 GB / 450 GB / 300 GB
FC disk drives (15,000rpm) for Global Server 146 GB / 73 GB / 36 GB
SATA disk drives (7,200rpm) for Unix/Industry Standard Server 2 TB / 1 TB / 500 GB (*Note 2)
Enterprise SSD (Enterprise-class Solid State Drives) for Unix/Industry Standard Server 400 GB / 200 GB
Enterprise SSD for Global Server 200 GB / 146 GB / 73 GB
Drive interface Fibre Channel (4 Gbit/s)

*Note 1: FCLINK/OCLINK are used for the configuration linked to Fujitsu GlobalServer.
*Note 2: The sale of 500GB (7,200rpm) SATA disk drives was terminated on June 30, 2011.

INSTALLATION SPECIFICATION

ETERNUS DX8400 ETERNUS DX8700
Dimensions (W x D x H) Floor stand 740 x 995 x 1,800 mm 1,360 x 995 x 1,800 mm
with max. expansion cabinets 3,840 x 995 x 1,800 mm 10,040 x 995 x 1,800 mm
Service Area Front: 850 mm or more, Rear: 850 mm or more,
Left: 50 mm or more, Right: 0 mm
Maximum Weight Floor stand 4,230 kg 10,930 kg
Power Voltage AC 200 - 240 V
Power Phase Single
Power Frequency 50 Hz / 60 Hz
Maximum Power Consumption 36,700 W (39,500 VA) 96,400 W (103,700 VA)
Maximum Heat Generation 132,200 KJ/H 347,100 KJ/H
Environmental Conditions: Temperature (Operating) 5 - 35°C
Environmental Conditions: Humidity (Operating) 20 - 80% RH

SUPPORTED RAID LEVELS

RAID 0 Data striping on several disk drives
RAID 1 Mirrored disk drives
RAID 1+0 Data mirroring, then striping of the data over several disk drives
RAID 5 Striping with distributed parity
RAID 6 Striping with distributed double parity

MANAGEMENT

Interfaces: 100BASE-TX/10BASE-T
Supported protocols: SNMP, SMI-S
Administration Web-Environment

SUPPORTED CONFIGURATIONS

A wide range of host operating systems, servers as well as applications is supported.
For a detailed support matrix check http://ts.fujitsu.com/products/storage/matrixEP.html

COMPLIANCE WITH STANDARDS

Safety, Quality and Environmental Standards CSA60950-1, UL60950-1, EN60950-1, IEC 60950-1, ISO9001, ISO14001, GOST-R
Electromagnetic Compatibility FCC Class A, CE Mark, EN55022 Class A,
VCCI Class A(for Japan), AS/NZS CISPR 22 Class A (for Australia/New Zealand)
Electromagnetic Immunity EN55024

Compliance note: There is general compliance with the safety requirements of all European countries and North America.
National approvals required in order to satisfy statutory regulations or for other reasons can be applied for on request.
Compliance link: https://sp.ts.fujitsu.com/sites/certificates/default.aspx

Environmental considerations

SUPER Green product provision

ETERNUS DX8400 / DX8700 are SUPER Green products that over achieve (by 1000%) the Japanese power saving evaluation standard (2007) [when using 600GB (15,000rpm) disk drives] and meet Fujitsu's stringent environment assessment standards including resource savings and recyclable design.