EMC Symmetrix 8000 Storage Systems

EMC Symmetrix 8000 storage system family is EMC's fastest, highest capacity line of intelligent enterprise information storage systems. These systems enable you to consolidate storage from virtually all major mainframe, UNIX, Windows 2000/NT, PC LAN, and AS/400 servers combined with unprecedented levels of performance, capacity, availability, and manageability.

There are currently three Symmetrix 8000 systems: the 8830 with up to 70TB of storage; the Symmetrix 8530 with increased capacity and performance for multiple applications; the Symmetrix 8230 with full Symmetrix functionality in a small footprint.

• New Fibre Channel directors offer four- or 12-port per director connections; system capacities scale from 73GB to 70TB of fully protected storage.
• Choice of data protection at the disk level: Mirroring, the optimal RAID level for both performance and availability; EMC’s RAID-S enhanced parity protection; Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) for remote mirroring; and dynamic sparing.
• Global cache directors with CacheStorm technology: EMC-exclusive technology implements advanced arbitration, buffering, and contention-eliminating techniques
• Enhanced mainframe support: FICON support, GDPS compliance, RAID 10 for IBM z/OS and OS/390, dynamic PAV/MA support, and other Enginuityoperating environment enhancements.