EMC Symmetrix VMAX storage arrays is considered EMC’s flagship product, it is targeted for mainframe and open systems in medium to large size enterprise organizations, It was first introduced as a competitor to IBM disk subsystems in the early 90’s.

Symmetrix went into ten generations evolution; currently in “2015” we are seeing the 10th generation, which is “VMAX3” with three models “VMAX100K, VMAW200K, and VMAX400K”.

 

VMAX 100K VMAX 200K VMAX 400K
All-Flash or Hybrid Flash
Provision by Service Level Objective
Integrated Data Services (NAS, Backup, Management)
FAST.X Tiering
Maximum Controllers 8 8 16
Maximum CPU Cores 96 128 384
Maximum Cache 4 TB 8 TB 16 TB
Maximum Ports 128 128 256
Maximum Drives 2,880 2,880 5,760
Data at Rest Encryption
Open Systems, IBM I, Linux on System z (FCP Only)
Fibre Channel, NAS, iSCSI & FCoE

 

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