
EMC Infrastructure for Virtual Desktops Enabled by EMC VNX, VMware vSphere 4.1,
VMware View 4.5, and VMware View Composer 2.5
Executive summary
Introduction to the VNX family of unified storage platforms
The EMC
®
VNX
™
family delivers industry-leading innovation and enterprise capabilities for
file, block, and object storage in a scalable, easy-to-use solution. This next-generation
storage platform combines powerful and flexible hardware with advanced efficiency,
management, and protection software to meet the demanding needs of today’s enterprises.
All of this is available in a choice of systems ranging from affordable entry-level solutions to
high-performance, petabyte-capacity configurations servicing the most demanding
application requirements. The VNX family includes the VNXe
™
series, purpose-built for the IT
manager in entry-level environments, and the VNX series, designed to meet the high-
performance, high-scalability requirements of midsize and large enterprises.
The VNX family includes two platform series:
The VNX series, delivering leadership performance, efficiency, and simplicity for
demanding virtual application environments that includes VNX7500
™
, VNX5700
™
,
VNX5500
™
, VNX5300
™
, and VNX5100
™
The VNXe (entry) series with breakthrough simplicity for small and medium businesses
that includes VNXe3300
™
and VNXe3100
™
Customers can benefit from new VNX features as follows:
Next-generation unified storage, optimized for virtualized
applications
Capacity optimization features including compression,
deduplication, thin provisioning, and application-centric
copies
High availability, designed to deliver five 9s availability
Automated tiering with FAST VP (Fully Automated Storage
Tiering for Virtual Pools) and FAST Cache that can be
optimized for the highest system performance and lowest
storage cost simultaneously
Multiprotocol support for file and block protocols
Object access through Atmos
™
Virtual Edition (Atmos VE)
Simplified management with EMC Unisphere
™
for a single
management framework for all NAS, SAN, and replication
needs
Up to three times improvement in performance with the
latest Intel multicore CPUs, optimized for Flash
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