VNX Series
Simple. Efficient. Powerful.
EMC VNX Series: High-performing unified storage with unsurpassed simplicity and efficiency, optimized for virtual applications. With the VNX Series, you’ll achieve new levels of performance, protection, compliance, and ease of management.
UNIFIED
Leverage a single platform for file and block data services. Centralized management makes administration simple. Data efficiency services reduce your capacity requirements up to 50 percent.
OPTIMIZED
Optimize for virtual applications with VMware and Hyper-V integration. Wizards make deployment easy – you’ll provision a 1 TB VMware data store in less than 10 minutes.
AUTOMATED
Provision hundreds of Microsoft Exchange mailboxes in just a few clicks. With integrated support, you’ll diagnose issues automatically and resolve them quickly and efficiently.
HIGH PERFORMANCE
Take advantage of Flash-optimized performance from an all Flash array to using Flash drives for extendable cache and in the virtual storage pool. High-bandwidth configurations are ideal for data warehousing.
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EMC VNX Series Unified Storage Systems
| Maximum number of drives | Drive types | File: Number of X-Blades | File: Protocols | Block: Number of Storage Processors | Block: Protocols | Management and Base Software | |
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EMC VNX 5100 |
75 | FLASH, SAS, NL-SAS | none | n/a | 2 | FC | Unisphere Protocols Virtual Provisioning SAN Copy |
EMC VNX 5300  |
125 | FLASH, SAS, NL-SAS | 1 or 2 | NFS, CIFS, MPFS, pNFS | 2 | FC, iSCSI, FCoE | Unisphere Protocols File Dedupe / Compression Block Compression Virtual Provisioning SAN Copy |
EMC VNX 5500  |
250 | FLASH, SAS, NL-SAS | 1 or 2 or 3 | NFS, CIFS, MPFS, pNFS | 2 | FC, iSCSI, FCoE | Unisphere Protocols File Dedupe / Compression Block Compression Virtual Provisioning SAN Copy |
EMC VNX 5700  |
500 | FLASH, SAS, NL-SAS | 2 or 3 or 4 | NFS, CIFS, MPFS, pNFS | 2 | FC, iSCSI, FCoE | Unisphere Protocols File Dedupe / Compression Block Compression Virtual Provisioning SAN Copy |
EMC VNX 7500  |
1000 | FLASH, SAS, NL-SAS | 2 to 8 | NFS, CIFS, MPFS, pNFS | 2 | FC, iSCSI, FCoE | Unisphere Protocols File Dedupe / Compression Block Compression Virtual Provisioning SAN Copy |
Software Suites
FAST Suite
Improves performance, boosts storage efficiency, and lowers costs by automatically tiering and serving data from the most cost-effective drive type.
Local Protection Suite
Delivers any-point-in-time recovery of production applications with minimal data exposure. Use copies of production data for development, testing, reporting, and other tasks.
Remote Protection Suite
Provides block and file replication for disaster recovery protection of any host and any application, with immediate DVR-like recovery to any point in time.
Application Protection Suite
Automate application consistent copies of Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, and Oracle for assured recovery. Alert for recovery gaps and prove protection policy compliance.
Security and Compliance Suite
Protects data from unwanted changes and other actions. Data is encrypted where created and protected anywhere outside the server. File-level retention supports compliance.
Resources
Analyst Reports
Customer Profiles
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Safe Systems
Learn why Safe Systems chose EMC VNX and VNXe unified storage for efficiency, simplicity and performance in 100% virtualized private cloud infrastructure. -
Watertown Regional Medical Center
To drive storage performance and integration, this hospital turned to EMC VNX and EMC RecoverPoint for affordable, high performance unified storage -
Medwest Heatlh Customer Profile
EMC VNX, EMC Avamar, and VMware deliver performance, flexibility, and efficiency for a Medwest Health System
Data and Spec Sheets
- VNX Family Data Sheet
- VNX Series Specification Sheet
- VNX Software Suites Data Sheet
- EMC VNX5500-F Unified Storage Flash Array
EMC Perspectives
White Papers
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Virtualization
Citrix Executive Briefing Center: A Mission-critical Virtual Desktop Environment Enabled by EMC Unified Storage and Citrix XenDesktop -
EMC VNX Series
VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration with EMC VNX Series for SAN - EMC VFCache Accelerates Oracle - EMC VFCache, EMC VNX, EMC FAST Suite, Oracle Database 11g
- EMC VFCache Accelerates Microsoft SQL Server — EMC VFCache, EMC VNX, Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Product Demos
Solution Overviews
- Top 10 Reasons Why Customers Deploy Virtualized Microsoft Applications on EMC VNX
- EMC VNX Series For Your Hgh-bandwidth Microsoft SQL Server Requirements
- EMC VNX Series For Your Oracle Hgh-bandwidth Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Requirements
Technical Documents
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Deployment Guide
EMC Atmos Virtual Edition with EMC VNX Series Deployment Guide -
VMware vSphere
TechBook: Using EMC VNX Storage with VMware vSphere
Videos
Related Offerings
Products
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Unisphere
Gain a simple, integrated experience for managing EMC VNX Family, EMC CLARiiON, and EMC Celerra storage systems
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Cloud Tiering Appliance
Move inactive data to lower-cost storage tiers to optimize and lower the total cost of ownership of your network-attached storage (NAS) infrastructure.
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Replication Manager
Manage EMC replication technologies and coordinate the entire replication process—from discovery and configuration to the operation of multiple disk-based replicas.
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RecoverPoint
Intelligent network-based continuous replication enabling point-in-time application recovery of physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures.
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Data Protection Advisor
Consolidate operational backup and replication data into a single console to increase visibility, find and anticipate problems, and prove compliance.
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Atmos
Cloud storage platform that enables enterprises and service providers to store, manage, and protect globally distributed, big data at scale.
News
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October 20, 2011
EMC Raises Performance Bar for VNX Unified Storage in Mission-Critical Microsoft and Oracle EnvironmentsThe new EMC VNX option offers 50 percent more bandwidth, Flash VNX delivers 10 times the performance at 80 percent lower cost per transaction, and a denser rack provides 1.6 petabytes per floor tile. -
August 17, 2011
Texas School District Gives EMC VNX an A+ -
May 25, 2011
New EMC Solution for Citrix XenDesktop Supports Thousands of Virtual Desktops -
March 8, 2011
EMC VNX Unified Storage Delivers 25% More Storage Efficiency — Guaranteed -
March 8, 2011
New EMC VNXe and VNX Unified Storage Now Shipping Worldwide -
February 24, 2011
EMC VNX Unified Storage Shatters Benchmark Performance Records -
January 18, 2011
EMC Unveils New VNX Unified Storage Family Delivering Record Breaking Simplicity, Efficiency and Affordability
