Bull StoreWay Catalogue

EMC CLARiiON CX3-40

• Leading Price/Performance for Data Center Requirements

The CX3-40 model of the CLARiiON CX3 UltraScale Series within the StoreWay offer is ideal for businesses with demanding OLTP workloads, and looking for a high performing platform that scales and can deliver array-based replication capabilities for disaster recovery.
The CX3-40 model benefits from the high performance, cost-effective and compact UltraScale architecture. It delivers leading flexibility with support for Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity and fits perfectly within SAN infrastructures; it offers a complete suite of advanced storage software, in particular local and remote replication features.

Fibre Channel and iSCSI SAN connectivity

Scalable to 240 drives; more than 450TB raw capacity

Up to 128 high-availability connected hosts

Up to 2048 LUNs

8 GB cache memory

CX3-40C: 4 x 4 Gb/s FC and 8 x 1 Gb/s iSCSI front-end ports; 4 x 4 Gb/s FC back-end disk ports

CX3-40F: 8 x 4 Gb/s FC front-end ports; 8 x 4 Gb/s FC back-end disk ports

Support for RAID 6 dual parity

Fibre Channel and native iSCSI connectivity for remote replication


UltraScale Architecture benefits
	The CLARiiON CX3 UltraScale architecture is designed from the ground up to deliver optimized performance, new levels of scalability, flexible configuration, and even higher resilience. Leading flexibility with support for 1, 2, and 4 Gb/s FC connectivity with auto-negotiation and iSCSI connectivity to simplify deployment in existing SANs. High bandwidth throughout the new CX3 UltraScale architecture - from the 4 Gb/s SAN, through the innovative native PCI Express I/O interconnect, to the 4 Gb/s UltraPoint technology, and on to high-performance 4 Gb/s 15k RPM disk drives - allows customers to realize the full power of the CLARiiON CX3 series.
Built-in high availability
	RAID protection levels 0, 1, 1/0, 3, 5 and 6, all of which can co-exist in the same array to match the different protection requirements of data. Write mirrored cache. Battery backup for controllers and cache vault disks to ensure data protection in the event of a power failure. Automated system diagnostics. Global and proactive hot-spare technology. Redundant data paths, power supplies, drive connections and storage processors.
Advanced Storage Software
	Navisphere Manager simplifies and automates the management of the storage infrastructure. Navisphere Analyser allows the investigation of performance and trends. Navisphere Quality of Service Manager enables scheduling of user-defined policies to benefit from consolidation while optimizing the performance of mission-critical applications. PowerPath offers multi-path management and I/O load balancing for physical and virtual environments. SnapView creates point-in-time snapshots and full-copy clones of production data for faster backup and restore operations. MirrorView performs remote data mirroring for data protection and application recoverability in the event of disaster. SAN Copy enables high-speed data copying between multi-vendor storage arrays.
	Bull delivers professional services and support services for an optimized usage of the CX3-40.