New EMC VMAX3 redefines enterprise storage

This fundamentally changes what has – until now – been possible with enterprise storage by bringing new levels of cloud-like agility, efficiency and control within the data center, EMC said in a press statement.

The VMAX3 enterprise data service platform enables customers to regain control of where best to run specific workloads, within the data center or in the public cloud. VMAX3 introduces this innovation to help customers manage their Storage-as-a-Service through predictable service levels at hybrid cloud scale.

The rearchitecture of VMAX3 is based upon the new HYPERMAX OS and Dynamic Virtual Matrix architecture.

HYPERMAX OS is the industry’s first open converged storage hypervisor and operating system. It enables VMAX3 to embed storage infrastructure services like cloud access, data mobility and data protection directly on the array. This delivers new levels of data center efficiency and consolidation by reducing footprint and energy requirements. In addition, HYPERMAX OS delivers the ability to perform real-time and non-disruptive data services. The Dynamic Virtual Matrix architecture enables customers to dynamically allocate processing power for improved performance and to ensure predictable service levels at scale.

 

VMAX3 combines the control and trust of the traditional data center with the flexibility, economics and scale of the cloud, delivering customers a more powerful, trusted and agile system.

 

The new VMAX3 hybrid systems – including the 100K, 200K and 400K – are purpose-built to support the hybrid cloud by dynamically allocating up to 384 processing cores on-demand to meet the performance requirements of dynamic mixed workloads. VMAX3 enables customers to hyper-consolidate enterprise applications. The new systems are designed so that customers can start “small” – from 100’s of virtual machines – and grow to tens of thousands of virtual machines, all while delivering predictable service levels. 

VMAX3 offers up to 3X faster performance and 50% lower total cost of ownership as the previous generation VMAX, accelerating Oracle, SQL, SAP transactional processing, high bandwidth data analytics and file workloads. 

The new flash-optimized VMAX3 delivers the agility and economics of the cloud, with the control and trust of the VMAX Family’s greater than 99.9999% (“six nines”) availability. 

EMC ProtectPoint, a new data protection solution, enables direct backup from primary storage to protection storage. Providing up to 10x faster backup and instant access to protected data, this innovative approach enables backing up the VMAX3 directly to a Data Domain system, eliminating the need for traditional backup infrastructure and reducing total cost of ownership by up to 65%.

 

VMAX3 delivers radically simple single-click provisioning and enables customers to define service level objectives across consolidated mixed workloads using the new VMAX Advanced FAST Suite. With EMC ViPR integration, these capabilities are provided through a self-service model. 

 

Brian Gallagher, President, Enterprise and Midrange Systems Division, EMC, said: “The rearchitecture of VMAX3 – from enterprise storage to an open enterprise data service platform – delivers customers the ability to transform a traditional storage infrastructure to an agile data center infrastructure. Simply put, it’s hyper-consolidation for existing workloads, and their underlying infrastructure. As the first open enterprise data service platform, VMAX3 is the foundation for hybrid cloud as customers look to deliver Storage-as-a-Service with simple, policy-based service levels.”