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IT Challenges: Tougher than Ever
Four central themes facing every decision maker today
Overcome flat budgets

Manage escalating complexity
Cope with relentless data growth

Meet increased business demands
IT Challenges: Tougher than Ever
Four central themes facing every decision maker today
Overcome flat budgets Affordable

Manage escalating complexity Simple
Cope with relentless data growth Efficient

Meet increased business demands Powerful
Next-Generation Unified Storage

Optimized for todays virtualized IT
EMC Unisphere
VNXe3100
VNXe3300
VNX5100
VNX5300
VNX5500
VNX5700
VNX7500
Affordable. Simple. Efficient. Powerful.

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Software. Simple. Powerful.
Total Data Management and Protection

Peace of mind without the complexity
Total Protection
Total Value
Total Protection
Total Efficiency
FAST Suite
Performance and capacity self-optimization
Security and Compliance Suite

Version integrity and audit readiness
Local Protection Suite

File and block snapshots
Remote Protection Suite
Disaster recovery and business continuity
Application Protection Suite

Application-driven data protection Software Suites Software Packs
Simple. Efficient. Affordable.
Configure in A new seconds

Get more to at capacity less cost think
way
shared Starting storage under $10K
Rest easy, about rock solid
Storage. Click. Done.
More Storage. Less Effort.

The easiest, most efficient array ever
Next-Generation Architecture
Advanced multi-core platform
No-single-point-of-failure design Multi-protocol: CIFS, NFS, and iSCSI Powerful 6 Gb/S SAS back end Compact 2U and 3U design
Storage. Click. Done. Streamlined for Ease Of Use

Designed for the IT generalist
Application-optimized wizards Configurable with just a few clicks Built-in snapshots and replication Perfect for small or remote offices
Storage Made Simple

PROVISION DIAGNOSE
FIX
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Storage Made Simple for the Microsoft Administrator

Storage provisioning for Windows and SharePoint
Application-aware storage provisioning

MS application administrator
Windows MMC-based Free of charge
Microsoft Management Console (MMC)

EMC Storage Integrator for SharePoint EMC Storage Integrator for Windows
Supports VNXe, VNX, Symmetrix VMAX, CLARiiON CX4, and NS Series

Block and file support
More efficient management

Four-times faster to provision and protect SharePoint MS administrators can use a single tool versus eight
Easy to use, specialized MMC plug-ins for the application user
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Instant Expertise
Best-practice wizards configure storage with just a few clicks Email Wizard
Set up hundreds of Exchange mailboxes in fewer than 10 clicks
VMware Wizard
Set up 1 TB VMware datastore in 10 minutes
Hyper-V Wizard
Set up 1 TB Hyper-V datastore in 10 minutes
Share Wizard
Set up NFS and CIFS shares in minutes
Volume Wizard
Set up iSCSI volumes in minutes
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Instant Insight with EMC Unisphere
Navigate all common tasks through an easy dashboard
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Instant Insight with Unisphere
View detailed reports of how resources are being used
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Visually drill down to individual components
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Enlist community help when solving problems
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Unisphere Remote
All VNXes
Single screen captures entire VNXe environment

Customize by adding or modifying portlets Flexibly create multiple dashboards by application, location, etc.
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VNXe Series Models

VNXe3100
Form factor Maximum drives Drive types Protocols Configurable I/O slots Embedded I/O ports per SP Storage processors (controllers) System memory 1 or 2 2 or 4 SAS ports 2 or 4 Gigabit Ethernet ports 1 or 2 4 or 16 GB 2U 48 or 96 3.5 SAS, NL-SAS
VNXe3300
3U 120 3.5 SAS, NL-SAS, Flash NFS, CIFS, iSCSI 2 4 SAS ports 8 Gigabit Ethernet ports 2 24 GB
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Small or Remote Office Environment

Server-based, direct-attached storage is challenging
Islands of direct-attached storage
Clients Exchange Server SQL Server
Separate storage Separate management
Inefficient use of storage resources

Web server File server File server File server Application server File server
Over-provisioning Cant share capacity
Data availability and protection is server based

Manual tape handling and tracking
Storage growth is expensive and complex to manage

Adding capacity means adding servers
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Small or Remote Office Solution

Consolidated network storage with replication
Affordable Consolidate and share storage resources Cut cost by 50 percent with thin provisioning and deduplication Simple Provision file or block storage for any application with automated wizards
Clients
Exchange Server
SQL Server
Web server
Application server File server File server
File File server server Main data center
Protect data with application-intelligent snapshot management

Unisphere Remote centralizes monitoring across hundreds of sites Efficient Eliminate file servers and reduce power and footprint
VNXe series
Streamline and automate replication, backup, and recovery
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Make Your Storage Easier

Designed for the IT generalist Wizard-driven provisioning Streamlined ease of use Ideal for small and remote offices Starting at less than $10,000
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Optimized for todays virtualized IT
VNXe3100
VNXe3300
VNX5100
VNX5300
VNX5500
VNX5700
VNX7500

Virtualization Changes Everything

Static RAID Groups
Discrete servers
To move to virtual servers demands new storage solutions Self-Optimizing Storage Pools
Virtual server pool
AUTOMATIC APPLICATION OPTIMIZATION
AUTOMATIC DATA OPTIMIZATION
RAID groups
Storage pool
Storage system
Storage system
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Click. Automate. Done.
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More Power, Less Management

The most efficient and automated system ever
Next-generation architecture
Intel Xeon 5600 multi-core processors Expanded UltraFlex I/O: Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI, CIFS, NFS, pNFS Redundant 6 Gb/s SAS back end Optimized For Flash SSDs and highcapacity SAS drives
Designed for the enterprise

FAST Suite self-optimizing storage pools Ideal for virtualized applications
Unified protocol support: file, block, and object
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3 to 10 Times the Performance

Run applications faster than ever
3x the number of users and transactions

3x the number of transactions 10x the performance at 1/8th the TPM cost
3x faster VDI boot time

3x quicker VDI refresh time
3x the number of users

3x the number of transactions
10x the performance at 1/8th the TPM cost
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FLASH 1st Data Strategy

Hot
Hot data on FAST Flash SSDscold data on dense disks
high activity
Data Activity
Highly active data is stored on Flash SSDs for fastest response time
As data ages, activity falls, triggering automatic movement to highcapacity disk drives for lowest cost
Flash SSD
Highcapacity HDD
Movement Trigger
Low Activity
Cold
Data Age
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The FAST Suite

Real-time caching with FAST Cache
A FLASH 1st strategy enabler

FAST Cache continuously ensures that the hottest data is served from high-performance Flash SSDs FAST VP* optimizes storage pools automatically, ensuring that active data is being served from SSDs, while cold data is moved to lowercost disk tiers
Flash Flash SSD
15K HDD Highcapacity HDD
Together they deliver a fully automated FLASH 1st storage strategy for optimal performance at the lowest cost attainable
Monitor and tune the whole system with the complementary Unisphere Quality of Service Manager and Unisphere Analyzer
Scheduled optimization with FAST VP

* Not available for VNX5100
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3-Times More Efficient
More storage, better utilization, lower cost
FAST Suite File Deduplication and Compression
Thin Provisioning Classic Provisioning
MORE EFFICIENT
3X
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3-Times Easier
Smarter management, greater automation, faster results
Manage it all
VNX, CLARiiON, and Celerra Storage pools, virtualization, replication File, block, and object
from a single interface with Unisphere
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Automate Applications
Without FAST VP
Analyze Design 4 hours 4 hours
More productivity, less time, lower costs

With FAST VP
Automated 1 hour
Implement
Manage Totals
4 hours
4 hours 16 hours
2 hours
Automated 3 hours
Source: EMC Proven: Tuning Storage for SQL OLTP report
Replace lengthy manual processes with FAST VP and dynamically tune application workloads in 80 percent less time
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Optimized for Virtualization

Industry-leading integration
VAAI* offload
Storage Administrator Unisphere Less net I/O More VMs vCenter Server Virtual Server Integration Administrator and VASA**
Manage storage and VM resources in unison

Control offload functions and integrated replication
Faster response
SAN and NAS connect
Manage storage and VM resources in unison

Control offload functions and integrated replication
* VAAI = VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration
** VASA = VMware vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness
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Best Storage Vendor for VMware Integration

HP 3% Hitachi Other Don't 1% 3% know 1%
VNX is rated #1 as the best product for VMware integration
IBM 3% Dell 6%
NetApp 29%
EMC 53%
Source:VMware Storage Integration Journey, Wikibon, April 2011, n = 361
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Total Protection: Better Than Ever

Unified replication with the Total Protection Pack
Local and remote data recovery with DVR-like rollback Restore individual or multiple virtual machines with a single click Define and enforce custom recovery point objectives and service level agreements across virtual infrastructure Automated failover and failback Proven Reference Architectures
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Powerful, Flexible, Modular Architecture

More processing power, self-optimizing pools, any network
SAN
BLOCK
iSCSI FC FCoE
NAS
CIFS NFS pNFS MPFS
CLOUD
OBJECT
REST SOAP
Unified multi-protocol
Share files and volumes on any network
FILE
Multi-controller scale
Add processors as needed
SSD
HDD
Scale up to 96 CPU cores and thousands of drives
Self-optimizing pools
Achieve lowest transaction cost and lowest capacity cost dynamically and simultaneouslyall the time
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VNX Hardware Innovations

High bandwidth
3X
The capacity
New VNX5500 high-bandwidth option increases bandwidth up to 6.5 GB/s Adds an additional 6 Gb/s four-lane SAS UltraFlex I/O Module MS SQL and Oracle Data Warehouse solutions High-end video production Seismic interpretation for Oil and Gas
1.5X
The bandwidth
High-density chassis
Shelves: 60 drives, 4U 3 TB NL-SAS drives Rack: Same height and width, 5 deeper Up To 1.6 PB per floor tile
Where floor space is at a premium Larger archiving deployments
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VNX5500-F
Flash array with proven high availability and high performance

Delivers 10x performance at 1/8th the TPM cost versus all HDD VNX for Oracle and Microsoft SQL OLTP Five 9s (99.999%) availability for mission-critical OLTP
Data integrity, proactive global sparing, replication, EMC quality enterprise Flash
Starter configuration at 2 TB or 4 TB of Flash

21 x 2.5 drives with 100 GB or 200 GB SLC SSDs
Upgradable to tiered storage and FAST Suite

From 49 TB of Flash to 679 TB of tiered storage (Flash, SAS, NL-SAS) as data ages
Advanced data efficiency services

Compression, deduplication, and thin provisioning reduce capacity requirements by 50 percent
100 GB SSD
200 GB SSD
Full unified protocol support

CIFS, NFS, pNFS, iSCSI, FCP, and FCoE
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VNX Series Models

Simple. Efficient. Powerful.
VNX5100 Form factor Number of drives Drive types I/O slots per X-Blade File System Modules X-Blades Memory Protocols Storage Processors I/O ports per SP I/O slots per SP Memory Protocols n/a n/a n/a n/a 4U 75
VNX5300 4U7U 125 3 1 or 2 6 GB/Blade 12 GB
VNX5500 4U7U 250 4 1, 2, or 3 12 GB/Blade 36 GB 2
VNX5700 5U8U 500 4 2, 3, or 4 12 GB/Blade 48 GB
VNX7500 5U8U 1,000 5 28 24 GB/Blade 192 GB
3.5 Flash, SAS, and NL-SAS and 2.5 SAS
NFS, CIFS, MPFS, pNFS n/a 5 36 GB n/a 5 48 GB
Storage Pool Modules
4 Fibre Channel Ports, 2 Back-End SAS Ports n/a 8 GB Fibre Channel 2 16 GB 2 24 GB
Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, iSCSI
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VNX VBLOCK SERIES 300

Engineered. Integrated. Supercharged.
300
SERIES
VBLOCK
Vblock Vblock Vblock Vblock
Series Series Series Series
300 300 300 300
Model Model Model Model
EX (VNX5300) FX (VNX5500) GX (VNX5700) HX (VNX7500)
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VNX Series Gateways

Simple. Efficient. Powerful.
VG2 Form factor Storage capacity support X-Blades I/O slots per X-Blade Ethernet support 3U4U 256 TB 1 or 2 4 10/100/1000 BaseT and 10 Gb 6 GB/Blade 6 or 12 GB NFS, CIFS, MPFS, pNFS
VG8 3U10U 1.8 PB 2 to 8 5 24 GB/Blade 192 GB
Memory
Protocols Systems supported
Up to 4 VNX, Symmetrix, or CLARiiON in any combination
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Typical VNX Series Deployment

Oracle, Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint
Virtual Server Pool
Shared storage for virtual servers and applications

Simple Tune SQL Server in 80 percent less time with FAST VP Provision SharePoint four-times faster with a single tool Efficient Realize 50:1 server consolidation without creating storage bottlenecks with FAST Cache
Storage Pool
vCenter
Unisphere
Powerful Run virtualized Microsoft SQL and Oracle three-times faster
VNX series
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with VNX

Citrix XenDesktop or VMware View
Any device. Anywhere. Any time.

Ethernet/NFS/CIFS
XenDesktop 5 Controller #1 XenDesktop 5 Controller #2 SQL Server AD/DNS/ DHCP vCenter Server ESX 4.1 #1
ESX 4.1 #1
XenDesktop #1
ESX 4.1 #3
FAST VP FAST Cache

HDD
Fibre Channel/FCoE
XenDesktop #999 ESX 4.1 #16 XenDesktop #1000
SSD
Easily provision and manage thousands of virtual desktop images
Boot up to 1,000 virtual desktops in as few as eight minutes
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EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance

Simple, scalable, policy-based file tiering, archiving, and migration
Reduce CapEx and improve utilization of primary storage Lower OpEx for infrastructure Reduce backup windows and improve performance
NAS EMC Data Domain EMC VNXe
AUTO-TIERING
FAST
VP
EMC VNX
Public cloud
ARCHIVING
Only auto-tiering solution for in-the-box, between boxes, and to the cloud
NAS
MIGRATION
EMC VNX
EMC VNXe
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EMC #1 Storage Provider for Key Applications

IDCs research confirms that EMC is #1 for
Oracle SAP Exchange Server SharePoint BI/Analytics VDI Home Directory
Source: Storage User Demand Study, 2011 Spring Edition: Unlocking the Minds of Storage Users, IDC, Doc #230148, September 2011, n=998
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EMC: Voted "Storage Vendor of the Year for 2011
November 2011
for the judges, EMCs entry stood out above all the others.
VNX: Awarded Silver Community Choice Award for Best Hardware: Storage
November 2011
VNX: Awarded Silver Community Choice Award for Best Hardware: Storage
November 2011
EMC: Winner of best SMB Network Storage, Enterprise Network Storage, and Backup and Recovery Software
VNX Family Awards
VNXe: Wins CRNs Most Innovative Storage Technology for 2011

October 2011
August 2011
VNX and VNXe: Named one of the top 10 biggest storage stories of 2011
December 2011
VNXe: Named the inner of the most innovative storage product of 2012
Unisphere: Received 2010 product of the year finalist award
December 2011
January 2011
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Optimized for todays virtualized data IT
Plug and play Works on any IP network Up and running quickly Easier than ever
Scales large and fast Self-optimizes for performance and capacity efficiency Works on any network Everything is fully automated
VNXe3100
VNXe3300
VNX5100
VNX5300
VNX5500
VNX5700
VNX7500


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IT Challenges: Tougher than Ever

Four central themes facing every decision maker today

Overcome flat budgets

Cope with relentless data growth

Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

IT Challenges: Tougher than Ever

Four central themes facing every decision maker today

Overcome flat budgets Affordable

Cope with relentless data growth Efficient

Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

Next-Generation Unified Storage

Affordable. Simple. Efficient. Powerful.

Software. Simple. Powerful.

Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

Total Data Management and Protection

Performance and capacity self-optimization

Security and Compliance Suite

Local Protection Suite

Remote Protection Suite

Disaster recovery and business continuity

Application Protection Suite

Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

Simple. Efficient. Affordable.

Configure in A new seconds

shared Starting storage under $10K

Rest easy, about rock solid

Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

Storage. Click. Done.

Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

More Storage. Less Effort.

Storage. Click. Done. Streamlined for Ease Of Use

Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

Storage Made Simple

Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

Storage Made Simple for the Microsoft Administrator

Application-aware storage provisioning

Windows MMC-based Free of charge

Microsoft Management Console (MMC)

Supports VNXe, VNX, Symmetrix VMAX, CLARiiON CX4, and NS Series

More efficient management

Easy to use, specialized MMC plug-ins for the application user

Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

Instant Insight with EMC Unisphere

Navigate all common tasks through an easy dashboard

Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

Instant Insight with Unisphere

View detailed reports of how resources are being used

Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

Instant Insight with Unisphere

Visually drill down to individual components

Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

Instant Insight with Unisphere

Enlist community help when solving problems

Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

Single screen captures entire VNXe environment

Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

VNXe Series Models

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Small or Remote Office Environment

Separate storage Separate management