EMC offers virtual data center storage

 BENGALURU, INDIA: EMC Corporation has unveiled high-end data storage with new architecture purpose-built to support virtual data centers. EMC also announced the first storage system based on this architecture, which will serve as a cornerstone of virtual computing infrastructures that are transforming the technology landscape.

The first storage system based on this innovative new architecture is the EMC Symmetrix V-Max system, which is now available. Combined with enterprise flash, fibre channel and SATA drives, the Symmetrix V-Max system allows users to cost effectively meet storage requirements for high performance and high capacity in a single system. It joins the EMC Symmetrix DMX-4 system and expands EMC’s high-end portfolio.

The Symmetrix V-Max engine at the center of the new system is a flexible building block that features multiple redundant Quad-core Intel Xeon processors with up to 128GB of memory and up to 16 host and 16 drive channel connections.

The virtual matrix architecture allows Symmetrix V-Max engines to interconnect and share resources. This enables a Symmetrix V-Max system to scale to 1024GB of global memory, with twice as many front-end and back-end connections compared to the Symmetrix DMX-4 systems.

The ability to interconnect and share resources to easily and linearly scale out is a key customer requirement as virtual machines and applications are dynamically added and shifted.