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Dell/EMC AX and CX Series Benefits Brief

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Proven, high performance architecture scales from three to 240 drives in modular, pay-as-you-grow increments. The new AX100i and award-winning AX100 arrays accommodate entry-level SAN environments while the CX series accommodates NAS, SAN and DAS deployments. Designed to prevent a single-point-of-failure while providing multi-path data access, mirrored cache and automated system diagnostics along with many other features to ensure high availability. Investment protection through incremental scalability and future-generation data-in-place upgrades for the CX series.

Leading-edge Dell/EMC Storage Systems Bring High-End Functionality at Mid-Tier Affordability Storage capabilities that were once only relevant to high-end enterprise-class storage systems are now necessary criteria in smaller businesses and departments within larger enterprises. Criteria such as a proven architecture and data availability and integrity, all at an affordable price, are necessities in todays mid-tier market. Dell/EMC storage meets these criteria. From the entry-level Dell/EMC AX100i, AX100 and CX300 to the robust CX500, powerful CX700 and flexible NS500G, these storage systems offer a balanced mix of features, power, capacity and versatility to help you gain the most value for your organization. Dell/EMC Architecture Built to Last, Built for Value Grow when and how you need to with one of the industrys safest investments. Protect past, present, and future investments with data-in-place upgrades between new and existing CX systems, consistent software capabilities among generations, and non-disruptive hardware and software upgrades. Dell/EMC networked storage systems feature a high availability architecture that enables the AX100i and AX100 along with the CX and NS series to span a broad range of storage solutions, from the workgroup to the data center including SAN, NAS and DAS environments. Dell/EMCs CX series arrays can scale from five disk drives all the way to 240 without having to transfer data1. Plus, the modular design of the CX series systems enables you to start with smaller configurations, the CX300 array for example, and grow to the CX500 or CX700 arrays as your needs and your business expand.

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Dell/EMC NS Series Benefits Brief

Easy-to-use browser based management tools with configuration wizards, remote administration capability and simple management interface. By allowing both block and file data to be stored on a CX series array, the NS500G simplifies operations and helps improve utilization rates.

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Dell/EMC Storage is Designed to Fit Your Exact Needs Dell/EMC AX100i, AX100, CX300, CX500, CX700 and NS500G storage devices are built to power your small and mid-tier network with high performance and dynamic scalability in an easy-to-manage format. With the

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AX100i, you gain the choice of a non-Fibre Channel solution with this iSCSI array. The AX100i connects as many as eight servers using standard IP infrastructure so that you can enjoy the benefits of a SAN on your LAN. The AX100 and CX arrays utilize the full potential of Fibre Channel by integrating 2Gbs Fibre Channel and delivering both high data throughput and high I/O performance. Yet they provide exceptional flexibility by also supporting
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ATA disk drives as a lower cost alternative to Fibre Channel technology. Dell/EMC AX100i and AX100 Storage Arrays Each Dell/EMC system is designed to meet the particular needs of your organization during different phases of its growth. For instance, the AX100i and AX100 RAID arrays are ideal for organizations implementing their first storage network, including those moving from Direct Attach Storage solutions. The AX100 is also perfect for customers wanting a SAN-capable DAS system to be able to easily expand storage capability in the future. And the AX100i solution makes it simple to implement a SAN using familiar and well-understood IP equipment. Both systems deliver high availability storage and are easy to install, even for people with little IT knowledge. These customer-installable arrays featuring integrated management software are easy to manage from virtually anywhere. In fact the Dell/EMC AX100i and AX100 are the first SANs specifically designed to be easy to install, easy to use and easy on the budget for small organizations and workgroups making them exceptionally cost-effective solutions for your first SAN. Dell/EMC CX300 Storage Array

Award-winning Dell/EMC AX100

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For customers who require higher-level performance and scalability than the AX100i and AX100 storage systems offer, the Dell/EMC CX300 array is similarly small in size and price, but offers large capacity. The CX300 boasts cached performance of up to 680MB/s and 50,000 I/Os per second. Available in a rack-mount chassis, the Dell/EMC CX300 provides an attractive storage entry point of just five disk drives that scale dynamically to 60. The Dell/EMC CX300 storage system is ideal for organizations deploying cost-effective Windows, Linux, NetWare and UNIX workgroup SAN and direct-attach storage solutions. It offers the ease of management and performance required by companies running file/print, e-mail, light database and Web services applications. Dell/EMC CX500 Storage Array For customers who want high performance and mirroring capabilities, the Dell/EMC CX500 array extends the CX family into the heart of the mid-tier storage market. The CX500 delivers exceptional performance with cached throughput rates of up to 760MB/s and 120,000 I/Os per second along with providing up to 35.7TB of raw storage. The CX500 array delivers this tremendous amount of power in an amazingly small form factor. The entry CX500

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configuration is only 4U high and fits in an industry-standard rack. The CX500 can be configured with as few as five and up to 120 disk drives in a maximum of 26U of rack space. Dell/EMC CX700 Storage Array For customers who demand enterprise-class storage functionality, the CX700 array expands storage infrastructure easily beyond the CX500. The Dell/EMC CX700 provides one of the industrys most powerful mid-tier storage platforms. The CX700 delivers over 1,520MB/s of cached throughput and more than 200,000 cached I/Os per second. Additionally, the CX700 can be configured with five to 240 disk drives, and it fits easily in an

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Dell/EMC NS500G NAS Gateway The NS500G is an enterprise-class NAS device that offers outstanding flexibility and choice for Dell customers looking to consolidate their file serving needs. It converts file data to block data so that it can be stored on a CX SAN array instead of on a separately managed NAS device. Not only does this help improve SAN utilization and simplify operations, it brings SAN performance and data protection to NAS applications while minimizing costs. With dual Pentium 4 processors and 4GB of DDR RAM memory, the NS500G NAS gateway offers excellent performance. Its enterprise-class features include 2x2Gbs Fibre Channel ports and 4X10/100/1000 BaseT ports. The NS500G NAS gateway can significantly improve the storage utilization rate of high value SAN attached storage, thereby helping organizations to receive a higher return on their SAN investments. Continuous Availability and Data Integrity to Keep Your Business Running A high-performance array such as the CX700 is meaningless without uninterrupted information access. All Dell/EMC systems feature advanced high availability technology designed to keep your information where you need it when you need it. With Dell/EMC products, your data is protected at the fundamental storage processor level in addition to being protected throughout the data path as it travels and is stored in your network. Each storage processors cache mirrors the other processors cache. As a result, the write cache in each storage processor contains both its own primary cached data and a secondary copy of the cache of its peer storage processor. If a storage processor fails, the cached data in the surviving storage processor, both primary and secondary, are immediately written to disk ensuring writes are safely stored. Whats more, if your power should fail, full-system battery backup and an orderly shutdown process saves cached data on disks to provide data protection. RAID Flexibility for Easy Configuration Dell/EMC CX systems also offer a variety of RAID data-protection choices. These include RAID levels 1/0, 0, 1, 3 and 5 (RAID 1/0 and RAID 5 are offered on the AX100i and AX100). All levels can co-exist in the same array simultaneously to match the right protection characteristics to the value of the data. All disks are dual-ported for redundant access should one port fail. And all major Dell/EMC components such as power supplies, disk drives and storage processors are capable of being replaced without shutting down your entire system or disrupting data access. Dell/EMC products and services provide you with a complete solution for data availability and integrity. The AX100i and AX100 storage arrays offer data integrity with battery-backed cache, cache de-staging, hot disk sparing and active/active failover storage processor modules. Likewise, continuous cache and disk data integrity detection/correction, fault isolation, automatic diagnosis and phone-home capabilities round out the CX series data integrity features. As a result, you can rely on peace-of-mind and a cost-effective storage system designed to help your organization achieve its goals. Match Drive Technologies to Application and Performance Requirements The Dell/EMC AX100i and AX100 support the lower cost, SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) hard drive, while the Dell/EMC CX series and the NS500G supports both Fibre Channel and ATA hard drives. This deployment flexibility enables customers to better match their application requirements with their performance and cost requirements. ATA devices, which attach to the CX line, are ideal for: Backup-to-disk applications improving their service levels over traditional tape solutions Data replication deploying low cost ATA drives with EMC SnapView and MirrorView replication storage2 Large file applications enabling applications that can handle massive data sets

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Operating systems Server platforms Maximum servers direct attach Maximum servers attached to a single array in a SAN Maximum storage capacity Drives per enclosure Drives per subsystem Performance Maximum cache RAID levels Disaster recovery Form factor

Dell/EMC AX100i Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Standard, Enterprise, Data Center, Web Additions) Variety of Dell PowerEdge, Compaq, HP and IBM servers Two 8 3TB with SATA drives 12 one-inch SATA drives Up to 12 drives Up to 150MB/s; 30,000 cached I/Os per second3 1GB 5, 1/0 Snapshot management Disk array enclosure: 2U; standby power supply: 1U (for dual storage processor configurations) Dell/EMC CX300 Dell/EMC CX500

Dell/EMC AX100 Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Novell NetWare, Red Hat Linux and Sun Solaris 8, 9, 10 Variety of Dell PowerEdge, Compaq, HP and IBM servers Four 8 3TB with SATA drives 12 one-inch SATA drives Up to 12 drives Up to 300MB/s; 30,000 cached I/Os per second 1GB 5, 1/0 Snapshot management Disk array enclosure: 2U; standby power supply: 1U (for dual storage processor configurations) Dell/EMC CX700 Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Novell NetWare, Red Hat Linux, Irix and TRU-64 Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell/EMC supported servers; Variety of Compaq, HP, IBM and Sun SPARC servers Eight 256 35TB with Fibre Channel drives or 74.2TB with ATA drives 15 one-inch FC2 or ATA drives 5 to 240 drives 1,600MB/s; 200,000 cached I/Os per second 8GB 0, 1, 1/0, 3, 5 Optional SnapView, Replication Manager Local and Replication Manager SE, SANCopy and MirrorView software Storage processor enclosure: 4U; disk array enclosure: 3U; standby power supply: 1U

Operating systems

Server platforms

Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Novell NetWare, Red Hat Linux, SGI, Irix and TRU-64 Variety of Dell PowerEdge, Compaq, HP and IBM servers Four 64 8.8TB with Fibre Channel drives or 16.5TB with ATA drives 15 one-inch FC2 or ATA drives 5 to 60 drives 680MB/s; 50,000 cached I/Os per second 2GB 0, 1, 1/0, 3, 5 LEGATO RepliStor, SnapView software and Replication Manager Local and Replication Manager SE Disk processor enclosure: 3U; disk array enclosure: 3U; standby power supply: 1U Dell/EMC NS500G: Single DM

Maximum servers direct attach Maximum servers attached to a single array in a SAN Maximum storage capacity Drives per enclosure Drives per subsystem Performance Maximum cache RAID levels Disaster recovery

Form factor

Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Novell NetWare, Red Hat Linux, Irix and TRU-64 Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell/EMC supported servers; Variety of Compaq, HP, IBM and Sun SPARC servers Four 128 17.5TB with Fibre Channel drives or 35.7TB with ATA drives 15 one-inch FC2 or ATA drives 5 to 120 drives 760MB/s; 120,000 cached I/Os per second 4GB 0, 1, 1/0, 3, 5 Optional SnapView, Replication Manager Local and Replication Manager SE and MirrorView software Disk processor enclosure: 3U; disk array enclosure: 3U; standby power supply: 1U

Dell/EMC NS500G: Dual DM FC: 16TB; FC and ATA: 32TB Up to 4 CX arrays 8 10/100/1000 BaseT 50,335 ops/s NFS v34 4 X 1.6 GHz Pentium 4 4GB DME: 3U; CS: 1U 3 and 5 with FC drives; 3 and 5 with ATA drives

Capacity Maximum supported arrays Network connection Performance Processors Cache Rack size (DAE2) RAID levels Management software Snapshot/replication Protocol support Optional software Server platforms

FC: 8TB; FC and ATA: 16TB Up to 4 CX arrays 4 10/100/1000 BaseT 25,891 ops/s NFS v34 2 X 1.6 GHz Pentium 4 2GB DME: 3U; CS: 1U 3 and 5 with FC drives; 3 and 5 with ATA drives

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Celerra Manager Basic Edition; Celerra Manager Advanced Edition SnapSure and Celerra Replicator (Replication Manager/SE for iSCSI) NFSv2, NFSv3, CIFS, FTP, iSCSI, NLMv1, NLMv3, NLMv4, SNMP, NDMPv1, NDMPv2, NDMPv3, NDMPv4, ARP, ICMP, NTP client, SNTP, Kerberos Authentication, LDAP Celerra Anti-Virus Agent; NS Celerra Replicator; NS Celerra Manager Advanced Edition; SnapSure for Microsoft Exchange Dell PowerEdge Servers and Dell/EMC supported servers; variety of Compaq, HP, IBM and SUN servers

Dell is not responsible for pricing or other errors, and reserves the right to cancel orders arising from such errors. 1Dell recommends that all data on an array be backed up prior to any planned upgrades. 2SnapView is not supported on the AX100, MirrowView is not supported on the AX100 or CX300. 3Initial estimates for dual storage processor systems. Source: www.spec.org (SPEC SFS97 benchmarks NFS v3). 4Host-based software solution. Dell, the Dell logo, PowerEdge and PowerVault are trademarks of Dell Inc. EMC is a registered trademark and MirrorView, SANCopy and SnapView are trademarks of EMC Corporation. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. HP is a registered trademark of Hewlett-Packard. Sun and Solaris are trademarks of Sun Microsystems. IBM is a registered trademark of IBM Corporation. Novell and NetWare are registered trademarks of Novell, Inc. Compaq is a registered trademark of Compaq. RedHat is a registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the U.S. and other countries. Sparc is a trademark of SPARC International, Inc in the United States and other countries. LEGATO and RepliStor are registered trademarks of LEGATO Systems, Inc. Celerra is a trademark of EMC Corporation. Other trademarks and trade names may be used in this document to refer to either the entities claiming the marks and names or their products. Dell disclaims proprietary interest in the marks and names of others. Copyright 2005 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of Dell Inc. is strictly forbidden. For more information contact Dell. June 2005, Kolar.

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