1. Symmetrix and MOSAIC:2000

• New Level of Performance, Reliability, and Lower Cost of Ownership
• Superior Enterprise Systems Performance based upon Industry Standards for Storage Connection
• Once again, expansion to an already successful architecture

2. Leapfrog of Technology

• Competitors Focused on Last Years standards

3.Technology Engineering Excellence

4. ISA: A New Vision of Information Management

5. Provides a New Level of Competitive Advantage to our Customers

• Increased bandwidth from 720MB/Second to 1440MB/Second
• Reduced bus contention
• More I/O's per second

2. Power PC processors on all directors

• Raw processor power increased 8 times
• Faster protocol processing for SCSI, ESCON, FC and disk directors
• More power for applications running on Symmetrix (SRDF, TimeFinder,etc)

3. Symmetrix 5 disk drives

• 10,000 RPM 18GB and 36GB 3.5" disks
• 7,200 RPM 50GB 3.5" disks
• Faster access to data, improved data transfer rate,
• Increased capacity intermixing of 18s, 36s and 50s are available

4. New memory architecture - M3

• Regions increased to 4 per board up to 16 total
• Less lock contention - region instead of board
• Two memory ports per director
  • Independently accessible by directors
• Available cache board sizes - 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and 8GB
• Up to 32GB configurable
• Cache configurations with an odd number of boards are not acceptable
  • Only exception is the 24GB (3 x 8GB) configuration

5. New Disk Drive Layout

• Faster IMPL
• Improved destaging of write pending data
• Sequential writes across cylinder boundaries

6. Raid - 1, Raid - S, and SRDF Available at GA

8430 and 8730 Transparent Implementation

1. Enginuity 5566 based

2. All current software supported with 5566

3. No host operating system changes required

8430 and 8730 SRDF

1. SRDF supports

• Fibre RA's (DP3FCD2 and DP3FCD2S)
• ESCON RA's

2. SRDF connectivity between current platform and New Symmetrix is transparent
3. Fiber support for 5 to 5, 5 to 4/4.8, 4/4.8 to 4/4.8

• Up to 4 times the throughput improvement from ESCON in Symmetrix 5 to Symmetrix 5

4. Single mode fiber port now available on SYMM 5

• 10 kilometers with single mode - one port per FA board

Symmetrix 8430 Diagram

Enhanced Channel Feature allows for two additional host channels and two less memory boards

	EAs SAs FAs RAs
	384 Drives

Symmetrix Four Bus Architecture

8430 Feature Summary

Usable Mirrored Capacity Up to 96 3.5" 18 GB 10K RPM disks M/F Capacity - 71 to 858 GB Open System Capacity - 72 to 868 GB SRDF Raw - Up to 1,736 GB Up to 96 3.5" 36 GB 10K RPM disks M/F Capacity - 143 to 1,715 GB Open System Capacity - 145 to 1,737GB SRDF Raw - Up to 3,473 GB Up to 96 3.5" 50 GB 7200 RPM disks M/F Capacity - 197 - 2358 GB Open System Capacity - 199 - 2387 GB SRDF Raw - Up to 4774 GB   Enhanced performance Processor power increased Busses Increased to four More concurrent operations Increased bus bandwidth   10,000 RPM 36GB disks Maximum of 32GB cache 8-12 concurrent I/O's - Mainframe 16-24 concurrent I/O's - SCSI or ULTRA SCSI 8-12 concurrent I/O's fiber channel No main frame parallel channel suppor

8730 Feature Summary

Usable Mirrored Capacity Up to 384 18GB 10K RPM disks M/F Capacity - 143 to 3,431 GB Open System - 145 to 3,473 GB SRDF Raw - Up to 6,947 GB Up to 256 36GB 10K RPM disks M/F Capacity - 286 to 4,575 GB Open System - 289 to 4,631 GB SRDF Raw - Up to 9,262 GB Up to 384 50GB 7200 RPM disks M/F Capacity - 383 to 9,432 GB Open System - 393 to 9,432 SRDF Raw - Up to 19,097 GB Enhanced performance Processor power increased Busses increased to four - more concurrent operations Increased bus bandwidth 10,000 RPM 36GB disks Maximum of 32GB cache 16 concurrent I/O's - mainframe 32 concurrent I/O's - SCSI or ULTRA SCSI 16 concurrent I/O's - FC No main frame parallel channel support

Symmetrix Product Comparison Summary

Symmetrix HDA Comparisons

8430 and 8730 Summary

1. Faster Subsystem Processing
   • Application time is lowered
   • Higher throughput for applications
   • Improvements in performance for business continuance and application sharing environments
   • Improved adaptability to changing environment

    

2. Minimized Risk
   • New systems built on the success of previous versions

    

3. Cascadability of Older Systems
   • Larger and faster systems support consolidation of smaller systems
   • Cascadability of current Symmetrix