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EMC Celerra
Industry leading unified storage platform optimised for VMware

 
 

Available from:

£15,000* (NX4)
£18,000* (NS-120)

Replicated solutions from:

£34,000* (NX4 to NX4)
£38,000* (NS-120 to NX4)

* Each array includes approximately 2TB of usable RAID 5 high-speed storage and 3 years 24x7x4 Premium maintenance (9x5 next business day Enhanced maintenance on the recovery array)

 

EMC Celerra can provision block and NAS networked storage and consolidate applications and data to eliminate “islands of storage” and physical servers.

Celerra is easy to install and use, requiring as little as 15 minutes to go from power-up to production.

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New features

Unisphere - next-generation management interface for block and NAS storage
FAST Cache - expands the cache using Flash drives to increase application performance
VMware vCenter plug-in - view, provision, and manage storage resources from vSphere

Block
FAST Sub-LUN - automatically moves storage between Flash, FC and SATA for optimal TCO
Heterogeneous drive types in pools - such as Flash, Fibre Channel, and/or SATA drives
Pool enhancements - support for thick and thin LUNs, and RAID 1/0
Block Data Compression - compresses inactive data to reclaim valuable storage capacity
FCoE support - non-disruptive hot add of 10GbE FCoE for converged IP and storage networks
VMware VAAI support - offloads storage tasks from the server to the storage array
VMware-aware management interface
- displays virtual machine to physical LUN mappings

NAS
pNFS support - parallel NFS for high-speed transfer of large NFS files
Customer-upgradeable - Unisphere provides an automated software upgrade process
Data reduction for virtual machines - reduces the space consumed by up to 50%
Celerra plug-in for VMware - enables VM compression, cloning and storage provisioning
SMB 2.1 support - for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 Release 2 Server

Key benefits

Server consolidation - reduce operating costs by consolidating file and application data
Improve backup and restore - perform backups on clones, not production data
Disaster Recovery - create a complete copy of your data in another location
Information lifecycle management - tiered storage, backup-to-disk and data migration

Key features

Hardware
Proven high availability - delivers "Five 9s" availability (99.999%)
Multiple protocol - support for block (FC and iSCSI) and NAS (CIFS and NFS)
UltraFlex technology - enables support for additional I/O connectivity (10GbE, 8Gb FC or FCoE)
Enterprise Flash drive (EFD) support - offering Tier "0" storage with 30 times more IOPS
Scalability - NS-120 models can be upgraded to support 960 drives (EFDs, FC and SATA)
Disk drive spin down - improves energy and cost efficiencies

Software
Windows file serving - managed using standard tools with DFS, VSS and quota support
File system deduplication with compression - delivers maximum storage efficiency
Thin provisioning - for increased utilisation and just-in-time capacity allocation
SnapSure - provides multiple point-in-time snapshots of production file systems
Automated Volume Management - provisions file systems optimised by workload
High-speed file backup - using FC attached libraries and volume rather than file backups
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager support - includes additional failback plug-in

Optional software

Unisphere Analyzer - provides real-time and historical performance data
PowerPath/VE - dynamic path management and load balancing for improved performance
Replication Manager - application consistent replication of Exchange, SQL and Oracle

Block
MirrorView - synchronous and asynchronous data replication for disaster recovery
SnapView - provides multiple point-in-time snapshots and full-volume copies
RecoverPoint - local and remote continuous protection via the integrated splitter

NAS
Celerra Replicator - asynchronous data replication for disaster recovery
File Management Appliance/VE - policy based automated multi-tier file archiving

 
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