Fujitsu Eternus DX Shattering 1,000,000 IO/s

Fujitsu Limited announces several enhancements to the ETERNUS DX family of disk-based storage systems to broaden and deepen access to performance-hungry scenarios such as business analytics, data bases and OLTP.

 
ETERNUS DX S2

To help to deal better with the peak loads of every-day enterprise and deliver the SLAs of business-critical applications, Fujitsu is offering a free-of-charge, easy-to-download enhancement for the ‘start small to high end’ ETERNUS DX8700 S2 system which can increase the performance up to 50% and up to a total of one million IO/s.

Fujitsu is committed to enabling customers of all sizes and pockets to benefit from flash-disk technology to support critical applications including business analytics, OLTP and big data. Now available across the ETERNUS DX product line, further innovations include the support of MLC SSDs, plus new functionality in the ETERNUS SF 15.3 system management.

Pricing and availability
The upgrades are available from July 2013, and can be implanted during system operation with no downtime required. The ETERNUS DX family of disk-based storage products is available globally and is sold via direct sales or Fujitsu Channel Partners. System prices vary depending on configuration.

Technical details

• Performance upgrade for ETERNUS DX8700 S2 improves SLA’s of business critical applications: With new and downloadable system enhancement customers can achieve an overall increase of performance between 25% up to 50% depending on block-size, volume type and RAID level. Tests showed that up to 1,000,000 IO/s can be achieved. A new optimized routing of the inter-controller data flow increases access times and response times enabling customers to serve higher peak loads at no extra costs. The new upgrades will be available as of end of July and can be implanted during operations without any system downtime.
• Availability of SSDs in MLC technology offers more performance at lower price for nearly all ETERNUS: With the release of 400GB and 800GB SSD’s with MLC technology customers can benefit from flash-disk technology at a lower price level in order to support performance-critical applications like business analytics, large scales OLTP applications and big data.
• New features in ETERNUS SF storage management software drives efficiency of operations through increased automation: The Automated Storage Tiering (AST) functionality can now set thresholds automatically based on best practices in balancing capacity and performance. An extensive set of parameters in terms of thresholds and quotas for capacity allocation can be defined to automatically maintain SLAs. These improvements reduce the need for special skills and relieve the administrator from time consuming research and planning
• Application integration makes backup and restore an easy task: Easy-to-use wizards are implemented with ETERNUS SF 15.3 which simplify backup and restore processes of Exchange Server. Furthermore automated backup and restore of dedicated VMs help customers to reduce unplanned downtime of their virtual data centre environments.