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Fujitsu Introduces Eternus DX8000 S3 Series of Disk Storage Systems

Up to 14PB with 4,608 drives

Fujitsu Limited announced the storage Eternus DX8000 S3 series.

Fujitsu_ETERNUS DX8000 S3 Series

The three models in the Eternus DX8000 S3 series – the DX8100 S3, DX8700 S3, and DX8900 S3 – represent the pinnacle of company’s storage products, and are suited to a range of applications, whether maintaining or upgrading an existing enterprise system or building a new system for innovation from scratch. The DX8100 S3 model is only available in Japan. In addition to company’s technologies for reliability, the series incorporates performance improvements that make I/O speeds roughly eight times faster than its predecessor, and achieves world-class processing performance (1), thereby supporting the stable operations of mission-critical enterprise systems and social infrastructure systems. The series supports the deployment and integration of storage for various business-oriented and information-oriented systems and improves operational efficiency due to improved responsiveness via new auto-tuning functionality and upgraded connection functions that make it easy to run backups and set up storage in virtual environments.

Background
With the spread of the Internet of Things, there is a need for new ‘systems of engagement,’ which are used to consolidate and analyze heterogeneous data, in addition to the existing ‘systems of record,’ which are used in enterprise systems to keep accurate records of the results of business processes. While systems of record will continue to be used and upgraded in the future, there will be a need to build new systems that can connect to systems of engagement to encourage new ways to use data. Fujitsu is offering the Eternus DX8000 S3 series, with improved processing performance for diverse applications ranging from enterprise systems for business and social infrastructure systems to new types of systems designed for innovation that require flexibility.

Key features of Eternus DX8000 S3 series:

Processing performance for instant access to data

  • Improving controller performance and maximizing the number of controllers improves peak performance eight-fold compared to the previous model (2), achieving roughly four million IO/s (3). This processing performance ensures instant data utilization.

  • Newly added support for Extreme Cache (4), an SSD cache built into the controller using the latest flash technology, greatly increases the rate of cache hits on read operations, resulting in a four-fold performance improvement in an internal comparison (5). Using a large Extreme Cache alleviates loads at times of heavy access and can flexibly accommodate unpredictable changes in the environment.

Self-tuning functionality improves responsiveness, enabling flexible resource utilization
An automatic hierarchical-control function that redistributes storage targets among disks and SSDs in response to access frequency is connected to a QoS function (6) that automatically adjusts internal storage resource allocation in response to performance targets, improving responsiveness. When targeted responsiveness levels are not achieved using the QoS function’s automatic tuning, data is redistributed to high-speed storage targets using the storage automatic hierarchical-control function, which boosts responsiveness. This provides required performance levels in diverse access environments without complex performance settings.

Efficient operations in virtual environments
Support has been added for vSphere Virtual Volumes (7), which makes storage operations efficient for virtualized server environments using the vSphere virtualization platform. By simplifying storage settings, it had been the case that multiple VMs were stored in an equivalent storage volume and operated on a per-volume basis. This made backups and performance tuning for each VM difficult. Using vSphere Virtual Volumes makes it easy to set operations policies for VMs, such as backups and QoS, and using the vSphere Web Client interface storage operations can be optimized for the requirements of each VM.

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Product Name Shipment Key Specifications
ETERNUS DX8100 S3
(Japan only)
November 30, 2015
  • Physical capacity: 288TB max
  • Number of drives: 96 max
  • Cache capacity: 64GB max
  • Controllers: 2
  • Compatible with mainframes, open systems
ETERNUS DX8700 S3 July 31, 2015
  • Physical capacity: 4,608TB max
  • Number of drives: 1,536 max
  • Cache capacity: 1,024GB max
  • Controllers: 2-8
  • Compatible with mainframes, open systems
ETERNUS DX8900 S3 July 31, 2015
* Shipment date for edition with controller for 10-24 units: November 30, 2015
  • Physical capacity: 13,824TB max
  • Number of drives: 4,608 max
  • Cache capacity: 6,144GB max
  • Controllers: 2-24
  • Compatible with open systems

 

[1] Processing performance
Random-access performance reaches approximately four million IO/s on Eternus DX8900 S3.
[2] Eight-fold performance improvement over the previous model
The random-access performance of Eternus DX8900 S3 is improved eight times compared to the previous model, Eternus DX8700 S2.
[3] IO/s
A measurement of the number of R/W operations that can be processed per second.
[4] Extreme Cache
SSD caches are options on the Eternus DX8700 S3 and DX8900 S3. Support is newly added for the Eternus DX8000 series.
[5] Four-fold performance improvement in internal comparison
Performance improvement achieved by adding four Extreme Cache units to DX8700 S3 in a 100-disk configuration.
[6] Newly connected to a QoS function
The DX8000 series has support in the form of the connectivity functions in the software Eternus SF Storage Cruiser.
[7] Support for vSphere Virtual Volumes
The DX8000 series has support in the form of the connectivity functions in the software Eternus SF Storage Cruiser.

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