Business-centric Storage
for small and medium-sized enterprises
ETERNUS
DX60 S2 ETERNUS DX100 S3 ETERNUS DX200 S3 ETERNUS DX500 S3 ETERNUS DX600 S3 Architecture Flexible and seamless family design with uniform storage management
Segment Entry-level Scalable unified entry-level and midrange systems
Maximum Storage Capacity 96 TB 576 TB 1,056 TB 2,112 TB 4,224 TB
Maximum Disk Drives 24 144 264 528 1,056
Storage Controllers 1/2 1/2 1/2 2 2
Maximum Cache Memory 2 GB 8 GB (Block)
16 GB (Unified) 16 GB (Block) 32 GB (Unified) 64 GB (Block) 96 GB (Unified) 128 GB (Block) 192 GB (Unified) Host Interface Type 4 Gbit/s FC
1 Gbit/s iSCSI 3 Gbit/s SAS 8/16 Gbit/s FC 10 Gbit/s FCoE 1/10 Gbit/s iSCSI 6 Gbit/s SAS 1/10 Gbit/s Ethernet 8/16 Gbit/s FC 10 Gbit/s FCoE 1/10 Gbit/s iSCSI 1/10 Gbit/s Ethernet Storage Management ETERNUS SF V16 Software Suite
Quality of Service Automated management of service level agreements (SLA management) Expandability Extensive scalability with seamless upgrade options
Efficiency Thin Provisioning with zero space reclamation
Replication Remote Equivalent Copy (REC)
Data Integrity Reliability/RAID protection
Encryption Based on system controller and/or self-encrypting disks Controller
Redundancy Dual controller/redundant components
ETERNUS DX Online Storage Family
■ Compression increases storage capacity and transmission capacity
■ Deduplication technology reduces disk capacity requirements
■ InfiniBand host interface
Mastering the challenges of data management
Here are a few tips that have been very helpful in daily practice: Consolidate your storage infrastructure. In environments that have evolved historically it is nearly impossible to make sweeping and consistent improvements. That is true for data availability as well as backup and recovery, not to mention reductions in data management tasks and costs. But there is some good news: If you choose a modern and efficient solution to consolidate your environment, you will also automatically benefit from IT operations that are robust and reliable. Align your storage strategy with the IT and business plans of your enterprise. One of the key questions to consider applies to the expected development of your application landscape. To ensure that this land-scape is flexible and efficient, most enterprises have discovered that sooner or later server virtualization is a necessity because it prevents uncontrolled growth of the infrastructure and thus keeps costs and
workloads at reasonable levels. However, it should be noted that virtu-alization leads to higher demands on the performance and reliability of the storage solution.
Be prepared for the fact that the volume of data will continue to grow. Forecasts are difficult to make, therefore your storage solution should give you enough leeway to gradually increase capacity and performance. It is also essential to use management software having intuitive features so that you benefit from operations that run efficiently. Be more flexible. Business plans change and that impacts IT more often than most people think. Therefore, it is important to have a storage solution that adjusts to changing business developments. Having a consistent system family concept, ranging from entry-level to high-end models with standardized software and hardware functions, is of great advantage.
Data management requirements are increasing day by day
Storage administrators are familiar with the hard work involved in IT management. In many cases storage operations are inefficient and time- consuming. In addition, storage investments and operating costs must be kept low – especially in light of shrinking budgets. Therefore it is important that storage systems are scalable, future-proof and reliable as data loss could seriously harm business and revenue.
That is why the scalable and unified Fujitsu ETERNUS DX S3 storage series delivers enterprise-class functionality to small and medium-sized companies and subsidiaries with an excellent price/performance ratio. It is the perfect solution when consolidating data for server virtualization, e-mail, databases and business applications as well as centralized file services. Simple, intuitive system management, highly flexible network connectivity and the option of field upgrades to higher system classes significantly reduce operational and migration costs. The ETERNUS DX family architecture lets you benefit from software options such as thin provisioning, automatic storage tiering and quality of service management.
Typical signs that call for rethinking your storage strategy ■ Long search and response times reduce user productivity. ■ Administrators are always busy taking care of routine tasks. ■ Capacity and/or network bottlenecks occur frequently. ■ Steps taken to prevent interruptions in daily business operations
(such as redundancy and disaster recovery concepts) are difficult to implement and costly.
■ Backup and archiving are complicated and expensive. ■ Storage costs are exploding
Optimize your data management
with Fujitsu and ETERNUS DX
Fujitsu is one of the few global players with in-depth competence in server, storage, network infrastructure and service solutions. This competence is complemented by the global ETERNUS storage portfolio from Fujitsu. The brand stands for reliable, powerful and straightfor-ward storage solutions. Combining a leading performance architecture with automated quality of service management, the ETERNUS DX series based on Intel® Xeon® processors aligns storage resources with business priorities, thus enabling higher system utilization and delivering in-creased system consolidation capabilities and a faster ROI.
Unified scalable entry-level and midrange systems, a seamless family concept enabling system upgrades and ETERNUS SF, the unified manage-ment suite across the product line, reduce operation and migration costs. ETERNUS SF provides enterprise-class functionalities in the entry and midrange class, and supports flexible disaster recovery concepts for the different model sizes, thus decreasing investment costs. Even the entry-level ETERNUS DX systems offer the design and func-tionality normally expected of much larger systems, for example all RAID levels and intelligent functions like Data Block Guard to ensure data integrity. Other safeguards include data encryption to prevent unauthorized access, redundant copy for automatic recovery of a hard disk at the first sign of an imminent failure, and advance copy func-tions for data backup with snapshots, not to mention cloning to support business continuity.
In addition to such high performance, ETERNUS DX storage systems also promise excellent adaptability. The systems support Fibre Channel and Ethernet (iSCSI, FCoE)-based infrastructures as well as various disk drive types (even in mixed configurations). What’s more, capacity en-hancements can be made during running operations without having to swap out the data.
Left: ETERNUS DX100 S3 offering up to 576 TB of capacity Middle: ETERNUS DX200 S3 with expansion shelves offering up to 1,056 TB of capacity
Right: High density shelf, which is available for all ETERNUS DX S3 systems and which saves floorspace.
The ETERNUS SF Express
management software
as well as 16 snapshots
come free of charge with
the entry systems!
Your benefits:
■ Simplified storage infrastructure and less administration ■ Minimized risk of interrupted business operations ■ Optimal support for IT virtualization
■ Readiness to handle growing volumes of data
■ High performance for even the most demanding applications ■ High availability is made affordable
Best practice: ARA Assistance
ARA Assistance GmbH, in cooperation with ARCD e.V.
(Automobile and Travel Club of Germany) and Auto&Reise
GmbH, offers first-class call center and customer
manage-ment services. A large number of insurance companies,
customer clubs and carmakers rely on the experience
and competencies of ARA Assistance when it comes to
serving their customers.
All of the IT services are provided from the ARA Assistance
data center. The goal of the project was to bring down the
rising complexity and costs of administration and
mainte-nance for the ten servers in the data center. At the same
time, new IT resources would also make the system
land-scape less complicated while boosting performance and
availability. After consulting with Bechtle, a Fujitsu SELECT
Partner, the IT managers at ARA Assistance decided in
fa-vor of a virtualization solution distributed over two data
center sites, with one ETERNUS DX storage system at each
location. In this fast SAN storage solution, all of the data
and applications of ARA Assistance reside on high
perfor-mance platforms featuring high availability. ETERNUS SF
Storage Management Software, and functions such as
au-tomatic SLA management and thin provisioning, have made
data storage management much easier. What’s more, the
number of servers in the data center was reduced from
ten to just three. All of these improvements mean that
ARA Assistance can now cut the costs for energy,
mainte-nance and administration by 55 percent annually.
ETERNUS DX60 S2 ETERNUS DX100 S3 ETERNUS DX200 S3 ETERNUS DX500 S3 ETERNUS DX600 S3
Entry-level Scalable unified entry-level and midrange systems ETERNUS SF V16 Storage Management Software
ETERNUS SF Express
Different usage scenarios and company sizes require different storage systems. The ETERNUS DX60 S2 is ideal if you want to start small (with a maximum of 50 users) with a very affordable SAN storage system. It is perfect for Microsoft applications, and it can even cope with small virtualization projects. Do you need more performance, capacity or ad-ditional functionalities such as thin provisioning? Are you searching for a scalable entry system with unified SAN and NAS access to improve your ROI? Then the new ETERNUS DX100 S3 would be the best choice. Are you thinking about expanding your business and setting up a sec-ond IT site? In this case the ETERNUS DX200 S3 model is perfect as it offers mature high-availability functionalities like remote replication for copying data from one location to another. It also supports the imple-mentation of effective disaster recovery concepts with transparent failover functionality for the highest availability as well. Still not enough capacity or performance? The ETERNUS DX500 S3 scales to up to 2,112 TB and the DX600 S3 even scales to 4,224 TB – combined with leading performance.
When and what system to choose
New with the ETERNUS DX S3 Series
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