HDS has leveraged its highly recognised enterprise disk capabilities to produce an enterprise class, cost-effective, modular mid-range disk array.
Utilising the same management framework (Command Suite) as the rest of the portfolio, and many of the capabilities of the enterprise offerings, HDS has released a powerful new midrange storage offering with formidable properties, that include:
Scalability
- Highly scalable (up-to nearly 3PB)
- Add NAS support as required (BlueArc which translates to performance)
Reliability
- Full Redundancy
- Load-balancing active-active controllers
- Supports up-to 1024 snapshots (with minimal system overhead)
- Backed by HDS’ renowned local support
Performance
- Load balancing Active / Active controllers
- Cache partitioning and cache residency (for block)
- Efficient and Proven Auto-tiering (borrowed from VSP)
- Cache Extender (uses SSD as an extension of controller cache)
Functionality
- Dynamic Provisioning
- Disk pools (wide striping, grow and shrink)
- Volume migration
- Thin provisioning
- Zero Page reclaim
- Auto-Tiering
- Snapshots and Clones (a very efficient implementation)
- FC / iSCSI / CIFS / NFS
Cost Effective
- Low capital cost
- Frame based licensing
- High density disk shelves (48 x LFF in 4U)
- Scale capacity and capability as required
