Dell | EMC NS and Dell NX

The Dell | EMC NS and Dell NX Storage Family

Easily add shared storage to heterogeneous networks

Unified Storage

The Dell Difference:Impressive flexibility and scalability

Reduce file server and storage sprawl with your choice of delivery and connectivity with either file or block based protocols, Fibre-channel, iSCSI or NAS, and share file data across heterogeneous networks through CIFS and NFS. A single storage system scales up to 960 drives, 32GB of cache, 32 ports, and 1024 replication sessions.

Dramatic next generation storage efficiency

Maximizing for both cost and performance are new automated data services FAST, FAST cache and compression. FAST cache enables up to a 2TB read/write cache, FAST enables automated tiering at sub-LUN levels of granularity, and Compression improves utilization of capacity gated workloads. It’s not your daddy’s “raid storage”…

Self service from your application with Unisphere

Radically simplified storage manage-ment enables self-service provisioning of resources without ever leaving your application console. Unisphere simplifies configuration with VMware, Microsoft Management Console, Oracle dNFS, RecoverPoint, and leading backup, antivirus and quota management tools.

Simplifying IT:The Dell / EMC NS Series Unified Storage family

enables customers to drive down costs, meet

demanding service levels and simplify management

with an easy to use unified storage solution. With

powerful, Unified Storage from Dell / EMC that’s easy to

deploy, use, and manage, one can affordably

consolidate applications and file server data onto a

single shared storage system. Leveraging standard

IP-network protocols, Dell / EMC NS family supports

CIFS, NFS, FC, ISCSI and MPFS, which allows file-system

and data sharing across mixed Unix®, Linux and

Windows® environments. A breadth of features are

included in one price, including data protection,

advanced management, compliance and high

availability features that will encourage customers to

revisit their storage infrastructure and unleash

new efficiencies.

Dell | EMC NS and Dell NX

Consolidate application data into a single storage system

The Dell / EMC NS family of unified storage offers an excellent combination of performance, flexibility, and scalability for users with high availability requirements. It is well suited for demanding file and block workloads or other applications that benefit from array-based replication. The adaptability offered with this highly scalable storage array can help protect your company’s bottom line by allowing your storage infrastructure to scale to meet your needs today and tomorrow. Also, the Dell / EMC NS family enables your users in Windows, Linux, and UNIX environments to share files easily and efficiently.

As your storage needs grow, the Dell / EMC NS systems can add processing and capacity to match your growing business, while helping you save administrative time and lower costs. The NS family is designed to remove unnecessary costs associated with multiple storage systems, duplicate data and over-provisioning.

Massive flexibility and scalability

The ability to scale up to 960 drives and 32GB of system cache and add flash drives provides a monumental level of performance scalability, giving you more opportunities to address storage needs with a single solution. The new UltraFlex I/O modules enable you to scale the ports on your array as needed — FC or iSCSI — up to a total of 32 back-end ports. Instead of complex solution islands, the Dell / EMC NS arrays can be managed as a single storage system — regardless of scale — standardizing a manageable IT infrastructure.

Optimize storage utilization with virtual provisioning

With the Dell / EMC NS family, utilize virtual provisioning to help reduce acquisition and operational costs while improving capacity utilization. This can result in fewer drives and reduce hardware costs, management time, and power consumption. The Dell / EMC NS family also supports Automatic File System extension and Dynamic iSCSI LUN extensions that allow you to increase physical allocation on the fly, as needed.

Lower power and cooling costs

Innovations built into the Dell / EMC NS arrays help reduce power consumption and cooling requirements. These improvements include drive spin-down, new options for disk drives and data tiering as well as

Simply put:Dell / EMC storage delivers solutions for maximum scalability, flexibility and availability designed to reduce your total cost of ownership. With Dell / EMC storage, you’re able to simplify and automate your operations and enable investing resources in future growth and innovation. The Efficient Enterprise runs on Dell.

adaptive cooling that enables fans to spin only at the speed necessary to keep the array cool. The energy-efficient SATA drives consume up to 32%* less energy than standard (7200 rpm) drives, and at similar performance levels, flash drives consumes up to 98%* less power than 15K FC drives.

Enterprise availability & data protection

Your data is the livelihood of your organization, and it deserves to be stored on something trustworthy. The Dell / EMC NS family is designed to bring both your file and block storage to an enterprise level of availability that you need in your business critical operations. The NS systems support the Data Access in Real Time (DART) operating system. DART’s sophisticated file management ensures that data is highly available and protected, offering dynamic failover to a hot standby X-Blade — which means the NS family can continue to meet the performance expectations of your business applications.

The Dell / EMC NS family offers a number of easy to use features that can help users establish greater levels of protection and availability. Celerra SnapSure™ software creates copies of file systems and iSCSI LUNs for online backups and fast recovery of deleted files. Optional Celerra Replicator™ software creates a point-in-time, read-only/read-write copy of a production file system on a local or remote system, providing multi-site protection. The Celerra FileMover API provides simple data tiering and integration with backup and archiving. Mix application or workload environments to meet your tiered storage needs, and move files between tiers of storage automatically, based on policies.

Built to protect, built for value, built for flexibility

Dell | EMC NS and Dell NX

Simplify Your IT at Dell.com/emc

*Based on drive specifications. Actual power consumption will vary based on configuration, usage, and manufacturing variability.

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Feature Dell NX4 Dell / EMC NS-120 Dell / EMC NS-480 Dell / EMC NS-960

Number of X-Blades (aka: data-movers) 1 or 2 2 or 4 2 to 8

Number of Control Stations 1 1 or 2

Number of Storage Processors 1 or 2 2

Number of drives Up to 60 across5 enclosures

Up to 120 across8 enclosures

Up to 480 across32 enclosures

Up to 960 across 64 enclosures

Maximum File Storage 32 TB maximum16 TB per X-Blade

64 TB maximum32 TB per X-Blade

192 TB64 TB per X-Blade

896 TB128 TB per X-Blade

Network Access Copper GigE, Optical 10GigE, Fibre Channel, 10/100/1000 Ethernet

Network Protocols NFS, CIFS, FTP, FTP Secure, SNMP, NDMP, NTP, SNTP, TFTP, ISCSI, MPFS, Fibre Channel Option

Memory

Data Movers: 4 GB each

Storage Processor: 1 GB each

Data Movers: 4 GB each

Storage Processor: 3 GB each

Data Movers: 4 GB each

Storage Processor: 8 GB each

Data Movers: 4 GB each

Storage Processor: 16 GB each

HW Raid Levels 0/1, 3, 5, and 6 0/1, 5, and 6

Drives Supported SAS, SATA EFD, FC, SATA

Hardware Redundancy

Hot-Swappable Drives: YesPower Supplies/Fans: Yes

I/O Subsystem: YesX-Blades: Yes

Operating Environments Unix, Windows, Linux, Novell (iscsi only), Mac (NAS only)

Management Options Celerra Manager (Basic or Advanced Edition), Microsoft Management Console, Command Line Interface (CLI), VMWare snap-in, Oracle dNFS snap-in

Bundled Software Celerra Manager-Basic, Celerra SnapSure™, Virtual Provisioning, Celerra Data Deduplication, NDMP support

Optional Software

Celerra Event Enabler (anti-virus and event publishing)Celerra Automated Volume Management

Celerra Data DeduplicationCelerra ReplicatorCelerra SnapSureCelerra FileMover

Celerra File Level Retention (Enterprise and Compliance options)Celerra MPFS

Celerra FAST SuiteNavisphere Manager, SnapView, SANCopy, MirrorView/A/S

Increase storage efficiency with file deduplication and compression

Intelligently reduce your primary storage space by getting your unstructured file data under control. The Dell / EMC NS family combines file-level deduplication and compression with an integrated policy engine that works in the background, transparently monitoring file activity and attributes to help ensure that performance is not compromised, compressing files with low activity and single-instancing files to remove duplicates. Allows a full system restore of deduplicated or compressed file systems. The Dell / EMC NS family is designed to maximize storage savings while lowering resource usage — which can be as much as 50% for typical unstructured file share datasets.

A trusted advisor

The Dell / EMC Storage family is validated with proven solutions into a broad family of mission critical applications, such as Microsoft® Exchange®, Microsoft® SQL, Oracle® Database 11g, VMware®, Microsoft® HyperV™, to help solve your most important business needs. Dell Services offers a comprehensive suite of configurable consulting, deployment, manage, train and support services to help customers maximize their investment and get the most from their Dell / EMC Storage systems and data management practices.