ETERNUS DX - Features
This page provides an overview of the main features supported by the FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS DX series. It highlights their benefits and briefly describes each feature.
Supported products are shown on each feature page.
The white paper below also provides their features and benefits.
ETERNUS DX Features - Safety
High-speed replication
| Advanced Copy functions | Online high-speed backup |
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| Advanced Copy EC | Function to maintain a synchronized copy of operation volumes |
| Advanced Copy OPC | Function to create a operation volume copy at any specific time |
| Advanced Copy QuickOPC | Function to create an initial operation volume copy and then only copy subsequent updated data |
| Advanced Copy SnapOPC, SnapOPC+ | Function to create a operational copy of data items before they are updated. |
| Fast Recovery | This function recovers data quickly by relocating the data in a failed drive to other drives quickly when a drive error occurs. |
| Online high-speed backup/recovery for GlobalServer environments | Backup for GlobalServer environment using the Advanced Copy function |
| Cooperative database data protection | Backup using DB and the Advanced Copy function |
| Smart backup operation with VSS | Backup using VSS and the Advanced Copy function |
| Nearline disk drives | The ideal media for archiving and Disk to Disk backup |
Disaster recovery
| Remote Copy using Fibre Channel Interface | Disaster Recovery by Remote Location Backup |
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| Remote Copy using iSCSI Interface | Disaster Recovery by Remote Location Backup |
| Remote Copy Disk Buffered REC over Low bandwidth Networks | Remote Copy Disk Buffered REC over Low bandwidth Networks |
Non-stop operation
| Component redundancy and hot swap | ETERNUS DX/ETERNUS AF have full redundant configuration and hot-maintenance capability. |
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| Reverse Cabling | Increasing storage system availability |
| Storage Cluster | The Storage Cluster function enables operations to continue even if one storage system fails by switching to other storage systems. |
| Advanced RAID for assured data access even during a disk failure | In ETERNUS DX/ETERNUS AF, each member disk drive of a RAID group is located in a different Drive Enclosure. |
| ETERNUS Multipath Driver | Path failover |
| PRIMECLUSTER GD | Inter-unit mirroring for even higher storage availability |
| PRIMECLUSTER | Cluster system support |
| Cyclic CM | Non-stop operation with multiple controllers |
| I/O RAS | Failure effect minimization by component isolation in GlobalServer environments |
| DVCF and File Duplication Controller | GlobalServer volume duplication between ETERNUS DX/ETERNUS AF storage systems |
| VRMGR | GlobalServer volume copy during operation |
| Hot Standby | Prevention of operational halts caused by hardware problems on a GlobalServer |
Data Integrity
| Data Block Guard | Data block check codes for improved data integrity |
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| DB (Data Base) Data Guard | Improved data reliability combined with Oracle DB |
| Disk drive patrol | Disk drives and data integrity checking |
| Cache Guard | Cache data protection during power failures |
| Redundant Copy | Preventive exchange while maintaining redundancy |
| Copy-back and copy-back-less operation | Data recovery and redundancy restore |
| Global Hot Spare | Efficient management of hot spare disk drives between different RAID groups |
| Dedicated Hot Spare | Hot spare disk use dedicated to a specific RAID group |
Security
| Host Affinity | Disk access settings for each host interface adopter |
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| Data Encryption | Data Encryption in the ETERNUS DX/ETERNUS AF |
| Robust security using SSL / SSH | Encrypted transmission of information over a network |
ETERNUS DX Feature - Performance
| Solid State Drives (SSD) | Low-power, highly reliable and high performance drives |
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| RAID | Technologies that improve performance and avoid data loss caused by disk failure: RAID0, 1, 1+0, 5, 5+0, 6 |
| Quality of Service (QoS) | Maintaining service levels of high-priority tasks |
| Quality of Service Automation | Automated resource management according to business priorities |
| Extreme Cache | Extreme Cache (SSD cache built in a controller) significantly increases the read cache capacity. |
| Extreme Cache Pool | The Extreme Cache Pool function uses SSDs as the secondary cache to improve the read access performance. |
| I/O offloading | Improve the maximum random access performance |
| Bind-in-Cache | Accelerated I/O access for GlobalServer environment |
| Work Volume Load Sharing | Efficient disk utilization for GlobalServer environment |
| High Speed Search function | Reduced overheads between GlobalServer CPU and ETERNUS DX |
ETERNUS DX Feature - Efficiency
Drive Space Efficiency
| Deduplication/Compression | Reduce data in real-time in storage system |
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| Compression | Reduce data in real-time in ETERNUS DX900 S5 and DX8900 S4 |
Virtualization
| Thin Provisioning | Storage capacity virtualization |
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Automatization
| Automated Tiering | Investment optimization in combination with ETERNUS SF Storage Cruiser software |
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Storage Migration
| Non-disruptive Storage Migration | Storage migration without stopping a business server. |
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| Storage Migration (online/offline) | Reduce downtime for data migration |
File Sharing
| PRIMECLUSTER | File sharing between UNIX servers |
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Energy saving
| Eco-mode | Stopping the rotation of low accessed disk drives |
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Scalability
| Logical Device Expansion | Non-stop RAID group capacity expansion |
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| RAID Migration | Non-stop LUN migration to different RAID groups |
| Different disk drives in the same drive enclosure | Efficient space management |
| High Density drive enclosure | High density drive enclosure for large capacity usage |
Unified SAN and NAS
| Unified SAN and NAS | Storage for SAN/NAS unified environment - ETERNUS DX |
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Administration
| Easy setup, management and administration through GUI /CLI | Setup, management and administration of storage |
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| ETERNUS SF | Integrated management software for ETERNUS |
ETERNUS DX Feature - Compatibility
| Different disk drives in the same drive enclosure | Efficient space management |
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| VVOL (VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes) | Easier deployment of VMs needs sophistcated storage arrays |
| VAAI (vStorage APIs for Array Integration) | Performance Improvement in virtualized server environments |
| VMware® Site Recovery Manager (SRM) | Data protection solutions |
