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

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.