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EMC CLARiiON AX4 2008 CLARiiON Family Today’s Challenges Business is growing, and applications must stay online 50 percent annual information growth commands more effective storage management Environments are becoming increasingly more complex due to additional servers, new applications, and virtualization VMware deployments require networked storage for optimal performance Traditional backup approaches are no longer satisfactory Customer Requirements for Networked Storage Affordable Budgets aren’t all flexible Easy to use Not everyone is a storage specialist Highly available Everyone’s applications are critical Clear growth path Requirements will change CLARiiON AX4 Simple, highly available storage system Unmatched comprehensive suite of software is included Ideal growth path for customers consolidating for the first time Optional software functionality and services allow growing environments to evolve Designed to enable key elements of VMware environments CLARiiON AX4 Storage Systems Highly available iSCSI or Fibre Channel storage Scales from 4 to 60 drives (up to 60 TB*) Mix serial-attached SCSI (SAS) and serial ATA (SATA) drives SAS for I/O-intensive applications SATA for cost-effective high capacity Comprehensive suite of included management software and functionality Optional EMC value-added software Choice of “Enhanced” or “Premium” support options CLARiiON AX4 Architecture Single or dual storage controllers One Intel Xeon processor per Storage Processor 1 GB cache memory per Storage Processor Intermix SAS and SATA within same disk array enclosure Connectivity 64 high-availability hosts (physical or virtual) Two front-end 1 Gb/s iSCSI ports per SP or two front-end 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel ports per SP SAS back-end expansion—one port per SP Virtual LUN technology enables tiering within the system Scalability Up to 512 LUNs From 4 to 60 drives 146 GB and 300 GB 15K rpm SAS drives 400 GB 10K rpm SAS drives 750 GB and 1 TB* SATA drives Comprehensive Suite of I