FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS DX8900 S4

FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS DX8900 S4 is the perfect platform to consolidate storage in data centers by providing leading performance headroom, business continuity and automated operation capabilities. It facilities the transition to full flash-configurations and allows the efficient management of flexible data service levels in terms of capacity, speed and costs.

Features & Benefits

Features	Benefits
Flexible scalability in capacity and performance	Future-proof scale-out architecture and upgrade options meet current and future business requirements Flexible combination of flash and disk media for different workloads of deployments Data center storage consolidation Superior performance by design Turbocharge performance via NVMe cache
Relentless Business continuity	Replication and Storage Cluster to avoid planned or unplanned downtimes Transparent failover for 100% data insurance and non-stop operations Intelligent snapshot functionality for backup Non-disruptive migration System availability of 99.9999%
Automated Management of Data Service Levels	Manage data service levels by business objective Automation of monitoring and adjustment Guaranteed service levels Data compression without performance impact
Transition to a Full Flash Data Center	Flash-optimized data center storage system Complete management compatibility using ETERNUS SF Management software

Technical details

Type	High-end disk storage system for large enterprises
Random access performance	10M IOPS (8KB Random Read Miss)
Host Interfaces	Fibre Channel (16 Gbit/s, 32Gbit/s) iSCSI (10 Gbit/s, 1 Gbit/s)
Maximum Disk Drives	6,912 SSD, SAS and Nearline SAS in a mixed configuration (3.5" / 2.5")
Maximum Storage Capacity	141,558 TB
No. of host interfaces	4-384 ports [FC(32Gbit/s, 16Gbit/s)], 4-192 ports [iSCSI(10Gbit/s, 1Gbit/s)]
Max. no. of hosts	8,192
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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ETERNUS DX8900 S4 data sheet

ETERNUS DX Comparison Chart

Datasheets

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Flyer: Top Reasons to invest in ETERNUS DX S4

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Case Studies

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Berendsen Fluid Power easily and effectively automates key repair projects by implementing RunMyProcess

Berendsen Fluid Power migrates its core cylinder repair processes to an automated FUJITSU RunMyProcess platform, which has improved efficiency by 40 per cent.Tags:
Saudi Arabia , Industry: Healthcare

The new Thin Client VDI infrastructure at King Fahad Medical City is more efficient, significantly cost-effective, and highly reliable

Since its foundation in 2004, KFMC has relied on a traditional client-server model for its user devices. Over 1,000 fully-featured PCs were spread across the facility for use by doctors, nurses and administration. However, there were numerous risks and costs attached to managing and maintaining this estate.Tags: Storage Solutions , Virtualisation
Asia , Vietnam , Industry: IT Industry

Cloud Starter Kit easily sets up Fujitsu Local Cloud Platform in Vietnam

To adjust to current industry changes for ICT, FVL looked to provision cloud services. However in doing so, FVL faced a number of challenges regarding a lack of expertise and the need for reliability, flexibility and expansion of the cloud based solution.Tags: Cloud Solutions
Germany , Industry: Education

PRIMERGY Scale out servers and ETERNUS DX200 helps Josefs-Gesellschaft to grow and to integrate new partners

Migration from IBM storage servers to Fujitsu ETERNUS and simultaneously replacing 52 existing blade servers with 16 Fujitsu PRIMERGY CX Scale-out servers.Tags: Server High-Availaibility , Storage Solutions
Asia , Philippines , Industry: Automotive

Honda Parts Manufacturing Corporation profits from new PRIMERGY and ETERNUS virtualized infrastructure

HPMC had a traditional physical server infrastructure which was energy-intensive and took up lots of space. When this hardware approached end-of-life, the company decided to modernize its approach to IT and introduce a virtualized environment.Tags: Database Management

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Press Release

Oslo,juli 16, 2013

Fujitsu ETERNUS DX Adds up to 50 Percent Performance at No Extra Cost and Shattering the 1,000,000 IOPS Ceiling

Fujitsu today announces several enhancements to the ETERNUS DX family of disk-based storage systems to significantly broaden and deepen access to performance-hungry scenarios such as business analytics, data bases and online transaction processing (OLTP).

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