VMworld 2015: VNXe 1600

All the attention goes to the biggest, baddest thing on the block.  

People can overlook powerful things in small packages - and as I keep reminding people, they do that at their peril ;-)

It is as “beastly” to launch the EMC VNXe1600 - an entry-level block storage solution that brings the proven enterprise-level feature set of the VNX Family to the low-end market, as it is to launch a monster XtremIO 4.0 8 X-Brick cluster.  Why?  because it can reach and help a LOT more people.

The VNX family adds more new customers to EMC than anything else we make.   In Q2, the VNX family added almost 1800 new customers - and the majority of that came in from the VNXe 3200 - the smallest thing we made.    The VNXe 1600 has an even smaller entry point.

The VNXe 1600 starts at around $8,000 USD.   You heard that right.   A thing from EMC that starts at $8,000 :-)

It is an ideal solution for small and medium-size businesses (SMB) as well as the Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO) deployments of larger organizations - when they are well below the smallest hyper-converged appliances on the market.  

The VNXe1600 system is designed with simplicity in mind so that administrators with limited storage expertise are able to leverage the enterprise-level features provided by the system. The major benefits of the VNXe1600 storage system include:

• Performance and Efficiency – By using many of the same MCx technologies available in the VNX2 and VNXe3200 systems, the VNXe1600 includes the ability to better utilize Flash storage, processor cores, and other technologies to offer better price/performance ratios.

• Expanded Connectivity Support – VNXe1600 systems include an onboard Converged Network Adapter (CNA) which can be configured for either 8Gb Fibre Channel, 16Gb Fibre Channel, 10GbE Optical, or 10GbE TWINAX connectivity for deployment flexibility. VNXe1600 systems also support additional connectivity via an optional 8Gb Fibre Channel, 10 GbE Optical, or 1 GbE copper I/O module.

• Snapshots – For local protection, the VNXe1600 is able to take point-in-time snapshots of block data using the same storage space as the target resource. Snapshots on the VNXe1600 are based on redirect-on-write technology, which can also be found on VNX2 and VNXe3200 systems.   These are having nothing to do with the ancient Copy-on-write snapshots people associate with CLARiiONs form ages past - in fact, we would almost be better off to call VNXe 1600 and VNXe 3200’s something different (they have little to no code association with the past).
• Rich Replication capabilities – The VNXe1600 offers native asynchronous replication to provide a local and remote replication solution that is compatible with other VNXe1600 and VNXe3200 systems.

• High Availability – The VNXe1600 has many High Availability considerations, such as hardware redundancy and RAID protection ensuring constant data flow to users and administrators. Furthermore, administrators can take advantage of multipathing software on hosts to manage multiple connection paths to the VNXe1600.•
• VMware Integration – The VNXe1600 provides best-in-class VMware integration. By utilizing VASA, VAAI, and VMware Aware Integration, the VNXe1600 is able to integrate fully with VMware vCenter and ESXi hosts. This enables the monitoring of storage directly from VMware interfaces and the creation of datastores from Unisphere. In addition, support for VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) helps the VNXe1600 fit into a user’s disaster recovery plan.  
• I’ll double check this (not 100% sure), but the VNXe 1600 integrates with AppSync (for app-integrated replicas for vSphere, Exchange, Oracle, SQL Server, Sharepoint), Virtual Storage Integrator (for complete manageability directly from vCenter), EMC Storage Integrator (for complete manageability from Microsoft’s ecosystem management tools) - and in the future from the ViPR Controller (for integration into a ton of different northbound management tools).

Oh - and did I say it started for around $8K?   Wow.

If you want more information on the VNXe1600, check out the EMC Store for specifications, video demos, and training.

 

 

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[Hema]

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[Hema]

good information..Heard emc wants to give tight competition to HP MSA and hence VNXe 1600 is born..looking forward to hear more interesting news about this product .Thanks