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Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer's Guide the Insider’S Guide to Evaluating Enterprise Midrange Arrays 2014 ENTERPRISE MIDRANGE ARRAY BUYER’S GUIDE THE INSIDER’S GUIDE TO EVALUATING ENTERPRISE MIDRANGE ARRAYS By Jerome Wendt and Ken Clipperton www.dcig.com © 2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. Licensed to HP for distribution. DCIG 2014 ENTERPRISE MIDRANGE ARRAY BUYER'S GUIDE THE INSIDER’S GUIDE TO EVALUATING ENTERPRISE MIDRANGE ARRAYS TableTable of of Contents Contents 1 Introduction 18 Enterprise Midrange Array Models 19 Aberdeen AberSAN ZXP2 HA 47 IceWEB Unified Storage 3 Executive Summary High Availability ZFS SAN Appliance Model 7000 20 Aberdeen XDAS D42F7 8GB FC 48 Imation Nexsan E60 5 How to Use this Enterprise 21 Aberdeen XDAS iSD41 49 Imation Nexsan NST5500 Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide 22 Aberdeen XDAS iXD32 10G 50 Infortrend EonStor 23 Aberdeen XDAS T42F DS B24F-R2852 24 Celeros SmartSAN XT23S-FC 51 Infortrend EonStor 6 Disclosures 25 Celeros SmartSAN XT235-iSCSI DS S16E-R2152-6 1GBE 26 Dell Compellent SC8000 52 Infortrend EonStor 6 Enterprise Midrange Array DS S16E-R2251 10GbE 27 Dell EqualLogic Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria PS6100/PS6110 Series 53 Infortrend EonStor DS S16F-R2852-6 8G FC 28 Dell EqualLogic 7 The 8-Step Process Used to Score PS6500/PS6510 Series 54 Infortrend EonStor DS S48F-R2652-4 16Gb FC and Rank Enterprise Midrange Arrays 29 Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 Series 55 Infortrend ESVA E60-2230 30 Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4000 Series 56 Infortrend ESVA F75-2830 8 DCIG Comments and Thoughts 31 Dot Hill AssuredSAN Pro 5000 Series 57 NEC M500 on Enterprise Midrange Array… 32 EMC VNX5700 58 NetApp E2600-12 8 Value of Included Software 33 EMC VNX7500 59 NetApp E5460 8 Automation 34 EMC VNXe3300 60 NetApp FAS3250 9 VMware Integration 35 Hitachi Data Systems HUS 150 61 Oracle Pillar Data Systems 36 Hitachi Data Systems HUS VM 9 Flash Memory Support Axiom 600 37 HP EVA P6550 9 Reliability 62 Oracle Sun ZFS Storage ZS3 38 HP StoreEasy 5000 9 Performance and Pricing 63 Overland Storage 39 HP StoreVirtual 4730 Storage SnapSAN S5000 10 Observations and Recommendations 40 HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400 64 Overland Storage Regarding Each Midrange Array Ranking 41 Huawei OceanStor S2600T SnapScale X2 10 "Best-In-Class" Ranking 42 Huawei OceanStor S5800T 65 Scale Computing 11 “Recommended” Ranking 43 IBM DCS3700 ICOS Storage Nodes M Series 11 “Excellent” Ranking 44 IBM DS5300 66 Starboard AC4500 12 “Good” Ranking 45 IBM Storwize V7000U 67 X-IO Hyper ISE 7-Series 12 “Basic” Ranking 46 IBM XIV Gen 3 68 X-IO ISE 200 Series 13 Enterprise Midrange Array Scores and Rankings 69 Product Rankings Dashboard 14 Overall Scores and Rankings 16 Management Software Scores Appendix and Rankings A-1 Appendix A—Definitions, Explanations and Terminology B-1 Appendix B—Enterprise Midrange Array Provider Contact Information C-1 Appendix C—Author Contact Information D-1 Appendix D—Complete List of Midrange Arrays © 2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. Licensed to HP for distribution. i DCIG 2014 ENTERPRISE MIDRANGE ARRAY BUYER'S GUIDE THE INSIDER’S GUIDE TO EVALUATING ENTERPRISE MIDRANGE ARRAYS Introduction Amid the ever-changing nature of technology and the advancements continually showing up throughout the data storage industry, one important aspect is unchanging: corporate data is being created at in ever greater quantities, and the pace is increasing in unpredictable ways. According to one recent multi-university study of 26 corporations and large nonprofits, the volume of data is expanding by 35% to 50% every year in most organizations, which essen- tially doubles the volume of data stored every two years. The highest rate observed was 150% growth. Additionally, the researchers observed that in every organization studied, data growth far exceeded revenue growth.1 Because of this accelerating data growth, many organizations are evaluating storage purchases. There are many enterprise midrange storage arrays available to meet this data explosion. This Buyer’s Guide includes standardized data sheets for 50 arrays from 19 providers. In most cases, each data sheet represents an array series. As a result, the 50 data sheets actually represent well over 100 specific array models.2 The word “Enterprise” is new in the title for this year’s refresh of the DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide. The term “Enterprise Midrange Array” is intended to reflect busi- ness expectations regarding continuous availability, comprehensive features, and storage capacity. The arrays highlighted in this Buyer’s Guide offer organizations the redundancy they are looking for along with data protection features like snapshots and replication capabilities. Although there is no official maximum on storage capacity for the arrays included in the DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide, those products included generally scale to less than one petabyte. Although the word “Enterprise” is often associated with high costs, it is notable that both new entrants and dominant vendors now make enterprise features available in arrays at prices within reach for mid-sized organizations. Illustrating this price shift, the overall top scoring array in the 2014 Buyer's Guide has a starting list price under $50,000. Like all prior DCIG Buyer’s Guides, this DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide does the heavy lifting for organizations as they look to purchase a midrange array by: • Listing each individual midrange array model by storage provider • Listing different midrange array features, whether or not they are supported and, where appropriate, how they are implemented • Weighting these features according to what organizations consider most important • Scoring these features • Ranking each midrange array model • Creating a data sheet for each midrange array model 1. Beath, Cynthia, Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Jeanne Ross, and James Short. "Finding Value in the Information Explosion." MIT Sloan Management Review RSS. MIT Sloan Management Review, 19 June 2012. http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/ finding-value-in-the-information-explosion/. 2. Each array model represented in this Buyer’s Guide by the most robust model in that array series. Detailed data was collected on each model in the series and is available in the associated DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Interactive Buyer’s Guide. A comprehensive list of array models is given in Appendix D-1. © 2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. Licensed to HP for distribution. 1 DCIG 2014 ENTERPRISE MIDRANGE ARRAY BUYER'S GUIDE THE INSIDER’S GUIDE TO EVALUATING ENTERPRISE MIDRANGE ARRAYS Introduction continued The end result is that this DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide gives organi- zations the opportunity to do “at-a-glance” comparisons between many different arrays. This will enable them to more quickly sort through the many arrays to identify a short list of prod- ucts that meet their specific needs. Prospective purchasers can focus their product evaluation energies on those selected arrays and move more quickly to the competitive bid process. Note that this Buyer’s Guide is not intended to be a substitute for bringing individual midrange arrays models in-house for testing. That function should still be done, if possible, since every array will perform differently under different application workloads and data center environments. We hope you find that this Buyer’s Guide meets its intended purpose in your environment. Ken & Jerome © 2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. Licensed to HP for distribution. 2 DCIG 2014 ENTERPRISE MIDRANGE ARRAY BUYER'S GUIDE THE INSIDER’S GUIDE TO EVALUATING ENTERPRISE MIDRANGE ARRAYS Executive Summary The DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide is a tool designed to cut time and cost from the product research process. DCIG invested hundreds of hours design- ing a survey that would capture the data that matters most to prospective midrange array purchasers, gathering the relevant data, and then analyzing the results. The data collection survey included 104 scored questions with 288 scored items per midrange array. The resulting data was categorized, standardized and distilled into summary scoring and ranking tables as well as a one-page data sheet for each array.1 This power- ful combination of summary data and data sheets make it easy to do quick, side-by-side comparisons of storage arrays. On the demand side, multiple factors contribute to a newly dynamic and competitive environment. Enterprises are keeping more data and seeking to do more with the data they keep. Beyond data growth, consolidated virtual server environments create a highly random work load that is challenging for traditional storage arrays. Desktop virtualization creates yet another new set of challenging storage workloads. On the supply side, advances in available CPU cores and DRAM capacity, coupled with the arrival of flash memory on the enterprise storage scene, have created new opportunities to meet storage capacity and performance demands through new storage architectures, super-sized caches, and storage software that provides advanced capabilities like dynamic automated storage tiering. Meeting performance and reliability requirements at the lowest possible cost is a high priority for many enterprises; and they realize that gaining the ability to quickly understand what is happening in their storage environment and to automate manual processes gives them the opportunity to reduce the cost of managing their data center infrastructures. Therefore, this Buyer’s Guide incorporates data on integrated performance monitoring software and auto- mation hooks for provisioning and ongoing management
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