FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS DX500 S3

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The scalable, unified Fujitsu Storage ETERNUS DX500 S3 delivers leading storage performance and automated quality of service management enabling a maximum of system utilization. It is the perfect solution when consolidating data in large-scale databases, business critical applications and business analytics / big data as well for demanding server or desktop virtualization environments – all into one system.

Features & Benefits

Features	Benefits
Market-leading performance combined with automated performance management	Top-class performance enables large-scale storage consolidation delivering a fast ROI Automatically aligns storage performance with business priorities Delivers reliable and predictable quality of service for business-critical data Enables the operation of productive and analytical tasks in parallel on one storage system High scalability within the system and upgrade options to higher system-class and bigger systems support high data increases at low costs of growth and ensure investment protection
Rock-solid operation	Comprehensive high-availability, quality of service and disaster resilience functions ensure predictable and reliable operation System availability of 99.999% Flexible disaster recovery, including transparent failover, with a multitude of snapshot concepts and remote replication between different models and generations Extensive non-disruptive maintenance and upgrade capabilities reduce planned downtimes
Truly unified architecture	Unified SAN and NAS access drive system utilization improving ROI Unified management functions across the entire product line result in operational efficiency Unified connectivity supports a large range and many combinations of networking types Unified architecture allows flexible combinations of 2.5" and 3.5" disk types
Selective use of deduplication / compression	Decide on volume label whether to use it or not Capacity savings in hybrid and disk configurations

Technical details

Type	Unified disk storage system for small and mid-range enterprises
Host Interfaces	Fibre Channel (16 Gbit/s, 8 Gbit/s, 4 Gbit/s) FCoE (10 Gbit/s) iSCSI (10 Gbit/s, 1 Gbit/s) Ethernet (10 Gbit/s, 1 Gbit/s)
Maximum Disk Drives	528 SSD, SAS and Nearline SAS in a mixed configuration (3.5" / 2.5")
Maximum Storage Capacity	8,110 TB
No. of host interfaces	4/8 ports [iSCSI, FCoE, Ethernet(10Gbit/s], 4-16 ports [FC], 8/16 ports [Ethernet(1Gbit/s)]
Max. no. of hosts	4,096
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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