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All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners. © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Published in the USA. Revision Date: August, 2013 Revision Number: MR-1WP-SYMMFD. 5876.129.144 Copyright © 2013 EMC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Symmetrix Fundamentals 1 This course focuses on the Symmetrix VMAX family of products, describing the various models and characteristics. Copyright © 2013 EMC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Symmetrix Fundamentals 2 This module covers customers’ needs in a system storage and explains how the EMC Symmetrix product family address those needs. An overview of the Symmetrix VMAX product line, which includes a description of the VMAX 10K, 20K and 40K arrays, is also presented. Copyright © 2013 EMC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Symmetrix Fundamentals 3 Symmetrix is the world’s most trusted storage platform. It meets all the storage requirements for today’s business needs. Key reasons why customers choose Symmetrix are listed on this slide, along with the business challenges they address. The Symmetrix VMAX product family is purpose-built for virtual environments. Integration with virtualized servers enable virtual environments. High-end capabilities are combined with unmatched levels of scale, ease of use, and automation. The Symmetrix VMAX family of products delivers higher service levels through scale-out and tiering at a low total cost of ownership. For space efficiency, Virtual Provisioning with new automation enables the customer to easily grow and reclaim storage. For data security, Symmetrix provides data encryption with PowerPath and Data-At-Rest-Encryption. Copyright © 2013 EMC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Symmetrix Fundamentals 4 The VMAX family consists of three platforms optimized for specific market segments and competition: VMAX 10K, formerly the VMAXe; VMAX 20K, formerly the VMAX; and the VMAX 40K. This allows for a comprehensive and current VMAX portfolio. All three platforms are built on the industry-leading Virtual Matrix Architecture and run the same Enginuity code. The VMAX 40K boasts a redesigned architecture with unmatched levels of performance and scale, two times over the competition. It is bigger, better and faster, and there is no competitive offering. Note that throughout this training program, the reference VMAX Family refers to all three Symmetrix VMAX platforms. Copyright © 2013 EMC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Symmetrix Fundamentals 5 Listed on this slide are some of the key reasons why customers choose Symmetrix VMAX, including its high-end capabilities that are combined with unmatched levels of scale, ease of use, and automation to enable virtual environments. Also, Symmetrix VMAX enables you to deliver higher service levels through scale-out and tiering at the lowest total cost of ownership. Symmetrix VMAX offers FAST, which automatically optimizes performance to meet service level requirements. Users can also start small and scale out resources to provide performance, on demand, with predictable service levels. Lastly, Symmetrix VMAX achieves ‘always-on’ availability to eliminate outages and improve service delivery. Copyright © 2013 EMC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Symmetrix Fundamentals 6 Symmetrix has a solid history of supporting mission-critical applications in Tier 1 environments across mainframes, open systems, and files, when deployed with NAS gateways. As companies now move to the cloud, Symmetrix VMAX with Enginuity 5876 is uniquely positioned to continue this support and help enable you to virtualize those Tier 1 applications with confidence. With Symmetrix VMAX, EMC is bringing these same capabilities to newer cloud-based environments with support for virtual machines, virtual desktops, and even object data with EMC Atmos. As customers look to virtualize Tier 1 applications, doing so with Symmetrix VMAX using EMC’s proven legacy, simplifies the process. Copyright © 2013 EMC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Symmetrix Fundamentals 7 This slide provides a quick comparison between VMAX family offerings. Please take a moment to review the table. Copyright © 2013 EMC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Symmetrix Fundamentals 8 As with all Symmetrix VMAX family products, the Global Memory is truly global in nature. In the Virtual Matrix architecture, Global Memory is distributed across all Directors. The Virtual Matrix allows access to all Global Memory from all Directors. A distributed Global Memory means that from the viewpoint of a Director, some Global Memory is local and some resides with other Directors. The Virtual Matrix Architecture allows direct access to local parts of Global Memory. Access to Global Memory on other Directors is by way of highly available, low-latency, high-speed RapidIO® Interconnect. This Interconnect enables a Director to communicate with every other Director. The Virtual Matrix Interconnect is a core logical construct of the architecture, requiring some form of fabric-based, redundant mesh design in contrast to copper etch on a single backplane. Additional VMAX engines are added non-disruptively to efficiently scale system resources. Copyright © 2013 EMC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Symmetrix Fundamentals 9 The Symmetrix VMAX Engine supports up to 128 ports per system. The back-end ports provide connections to enterprise Flash drives, Fibre Channel drives, and SATA drives. The core processing consists of four Quad-core Intel processors. The Global Memory is shared across Symmetrix engines. The Virtual Matrix interface connects and shares resources across the entire system. The VMAX 10K Engine also provides a high-availability base configuration. The Engine is connected to the Virtual Matrix, except in one model, and allows all system resources, including CPU, memory, disks, and host channels, to be dynamically accessed and shared by any application. Copyright © 2013 EMC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Symmetrix Fundamentals 10 The VMAX 10K system offers 144GB per engine, for a total of 576G. However, Enginuity allows addressing of 128GB per engine of that memory, so the maximum memory configurable is actually 512GB. There is overhead that is associated with each of the Directors that requires 6GB of memory to be used per Director, bringing that total down to 464GB. Because we mirror cache, 232GB is the true usable maximum amount. Copyright © 2013 EMC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Symmetrix Fundamentals 11 In the VMAX 20K, each engine contains a portion of Global Memory and two Directors capable of managing hosts, disks, and remote connections simultaneously. As shown, the VMAX 20K has 16 Directors, each with eight slices. This architecture allows for scalability in all aspects; Front-end connectivity, Global Memory, Back-end connectivity, and disk capacity. In the VMAX 20K system, the largest installable cache configuration is 1024GB. This is eight engines with 128GB per engine, or 64GB per Director. With the 64GB Directors, 59GB is actually usable and 5GB