Performance - up to two-times higher I/Os per second and three-times higher bandwidth
Unified pools - Thick and Thin LUNs, FAST VP and Compression support for NAS and block
Unified replication - RecoverPoint/SE support for both NAS and block data
Drive support - 6Gbs SAS, Nearline SAS and Flash with no limitations on mixing drives
Drive trays - 2U 25 2.5" drive DAE and DPE available for increased density
Increased NAS capacity - support for 256TB of NAS data (200TB on VNX5300)
Simpler licensing - per array licensing for RecoverPoint/SE and Replication Manager
Application-centric view of storage - with best practice wizards to simplify provisioning

Simple
Centralised management with EMC Unisphere for file, block and software services

Efficient
Efficient data services with Block Compression, File Deduplication and Compression, Virtual Provisioning, Automated tiering and application-centric protection

Powerful
Flash optimised, allowing customers to use Flash drives as extendable cache and in the storage pools

Software
FAST VP - automatically moves storage between Flash, SAS and NL-SAS for optimal TCO
FAST Cache - expands the cache using Flash drives to increase application performance
Virtual Pools - with support for thick and thin LUNs, and Data Compression
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
Unisphere - next-generation management interface for NAS and block storage

VMware integration
VMware VAAI support - offloads storage tasks from the server to the storage array
VMware-aware UI - displays virtual machine to physical LUN mappings
VMware vCenter plug-in - view, provision, and manage storage resources from vSphere
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager support - includes additional failback plug-in

FAST Suite
Includes FAST Virtual Pools and Caching, Performance analyser and Quality of Service

Security and Compliance Suite
Includes Host Encryption, File-Level Retention and event integration with third-party products

Local Protection Suite
Includes support for local snapshots and continuous data protection (CDP)

Remote Protection Suite
Includes support for asynchronous, synchronous and continuous remote replication (CRR)

Application Protection Suite
Includes application consistent replica management and replication analysis

Cloud Tiering Appliance/VE
Lowers the total cost of ownership by moving inactive data to lower-cost tiers of storage

PowerPath/VE
VMware vSphere dynamic path management and load balancing for improved performance