All About Clariion CX4 The Clariion CX4 Architecture is based on Intel Xeon Powerful and Efficient Processors.

Major Differences (Hardware) CX4-120: Smallest Foot Print 1 Cab Upto 120 Drives 6GB Cache Std 4 FC / 4 ISCSI Max 16 Front end FC and/or ISCSI CX4-240: Mid Size Foot Print 2 Cab Upto 240 Drives 8GB Cache Std 4 FC / 4 ISCSI Max 20 Front end FC and/or ISCSI CX4-480: Mid Size Foot Print 3 Cab Upto 480 Drives 16GB Cache Std 8 FC / 4 ISCSI Max 24 Frond end FC and/or ISCSI Support Flash Drives CX4-960: Largest Foot Print 6 Cab Upto 960 Drives 32GB Cache Std 8 FC / 4 ISCSI Max 32 Front End FC and/or ISCSI Support Flash Drives CX4 will still be classified as Mid Tier Storage (Next Generation Architecture) Flash Drives (Tier 0) storage with 30x more IOPS Virtual Provisioning (increased and easy utilization / provisioning) Drive Spin Down (Low Power SATA) Adaptive Cooling (Energy Efficiency Technology) Concurrent Local and Remote Replication (Integration Recovery Point splitter to simply deployments) 64 Bit Flare + Multi-Core 2X Performance and Scale Persistent Cache Ultra Flex Technology (Dual Protocol, Hot Pluggable, Future ready)

CX4 Flash Drives (Tier 0) Requirements First and Only Midrange Storage Array to Support Flash Drives Faster Performance (30X IOPS and less than 1 millisecond response time) More Energy Efficient (38% less per TB and 98% less per IOP) Better Reliability (No moving parts, faster RAID Rebuilds) CX4 Drive Spin Down Inactive Disks are placed in sleep mode, Disks Spin up on demand Leverages robust array capabilities to maintain drive quality Array-Wide flexibility: Ability to support a mix of disparate applications some that utilize spin down, others that do no Useful Spin Down Cases: Backup to Disk, Disk based archiving, Test and Development, Selective Applications CX4 Virtual Provisioning Simple to Create Simple to Assign Simple to Manage Supports Advanced Capabilities like Virtual LUN, Navisphere, QOS Manager, Navisphere Analyzer, Thin Replicas Energy Efficient Features Writeable Snaps SnapSure Virtual Provisioning FileMover Drives RecoveryPoint/SE for Clariion (Concurrent Local and Remote Replication) Simple to Deploy RecoverPoint splitter built into Flare Protection for FC and ISCSI environments Optimizes bandwidth upto 10X Easy to Manage One Product for Local and Remote Applications Supports all major applications and operating systems Integrated with VMware Site Recovery Manager Concurrent Local and Remote, Upto 2048 LUNs per Array, Any Point in time roll back, Bandwidth reduction Upto 10K