FAST (FULLY AUTOMATED STORAGE TIERING) FAST made a debut in the storage market yesterday (12/08/09). Finally after the market buzz we got a preview of the product in terms of its features, functionality, characteristics, possible shortcomings and use cases. This blog post focuses on the … [Read more...]
After all, FAST makes a debut
December 10, 2009 by Leave a Comment
So EMC has proved critics like me wrong and have introduced EMC FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering) as an offering in Dec 2009. There were many skeptics like me that saw this product release being stalled because of various reasons, here. FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering) … [Read more...]
EMC Symmetrix DMX-4 and Symmetrix V-Max: Basic Differences
July 7, 2009 by 1 Comment
In this post we will cover some important aspects / properties / characteristics / differences between the EMC Symmetrix DMX-4 and EMC Symmetrix V-Max. It seems like a lot of users are searching on blog posts about this information. From a high level, I have tried to cover the differences in … [Read more...]
EMC Symmetrix V-Max: Supported drive type
July 2, 2009 by Leave a Comment
With the release of EMC Symmetrix V-Max systems, EMC introduced higher density EFD’s (Enterprise Flash Disks) than being supported on its predecessor, the EMC Symmetrix DMX-4. Below are some stats related to the supported drive types on a Symmetrix V-Max system with 5874.123.104 … [Read more...]
EMC Symmetrix V-Max: Enginuity 5874
July 1, 2009 by Leave a Comment
EMC Symmetrix V-Max systems were introduced back in the month of April 2009. With this new generation of Symmetrix came a new name V-Max and a new Enginuity family of microcode 5874. To read about Symmetrix on StorageNerve Blog: http://storagenerve.com/tag/symmetrix To read about V-Max systems on … [Read more...]