The current trend toward data center consolidation and virtualization, driven by the need to reduce both capital and operating expenses, is also fueling data growth. Consolidating this data with enterprise applications such as OLTP, databases, and ERP requires flexible storage that is highly dense, scalable, and reliable, supports multiple service levels, and provides a high level of automation.
The Fujitsu ETERNUS DX8900 S4 is capable of storing all this data, helping businesses prepare for petabyte-scale storage requirements where all-flash systems can deliver the necessary access and response times. The shift to all-flash storage will also decrease data center power consumption by eliminating spinning disks and thus reducing cooling requirements and heat output.
The ETERNUS DX8900 S4, based on a scale-out, multi-redundant architecture, is designed for modular scalability, from a two-controller configuration up to 24 controllers, and to deliver leading performance and business continuity. It allows for the combination of disk and flash drives to easily balance capacity, data access speed, and cost requirements. A major step toward the all-flash data center, a single ETERNUS achieves peak performance of up to 10,000,000 IOPS and houses up to 140 PB of flash capacity—twice that of its predecessor.
The ETERNUS DX8900 S4 can be configured for SSD, HDD, or a combination of disk and flash, and is compatible with ETERNUS AF flash arrays. It also leverages extreme caching (up to 307.2TB) powered by Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) for accelerated read access and turbocharge performance.
Hardware-accelerated quality of service and data reduction are also included.
The ETERNUS DX8900 S4 offers enhanced efficiency, with all compression managed by hardware, improving performance by up to a factor of six. In scale-out configurations, performance improves with each additional controller module.
Fujitsu's new system also ensures that application performance remains unaffected and minimizes administrative overhead by consolidating diverse workloads and storage tiers. Built-in Quality of Service (QoS) functionality handles automatic CPU prioritization, bandwidth allocation, and managed tiering, specifying required response times. These fully automated QoS features, along with data reduction technologies, make the ETERNUS DX8900 S4 ideal for dynamic enterprise applications such as OLTP, databases, ERP, data analytics, and high-performance computing.
Built-in multiple redundancy provides comprehensive, enterprise-class protection against the failure of disks, controllers, interconnects, or even the entire system. In addition, features such as zero-downtime migration, snapshots, remote replication, and transparent failover help ensure business continuity. Based on Fujitsu's ETERNUS family architecture, smaller ETERNUS DX or ETERNUS AF systems can replicate data to an ETERNUS DX8900 S4, providing cost-effective system failover and flexible disaster recovery for geographically distributed branches and subsidiaries.
