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Dell EMC’s Technical Evangelist for VMAX, Vince Westin, gives an overview of their VMAX All Flash Solution. VMAX is designed to support apps with the highest mission-critical, scaled, and availability needs. VMAX does this with 6x9s availability, 6 million+ IOPS, with support for thousands of workloads within a massive cache.
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Dell EMC’s Technical Evangelist for VMAX, Vince Westin, digs into available VMAX family of hardware, the 250F and 950F. The 250F represents roughly half of existing VMAX business, providing resiliency and some scalability while moving VMAX to a larger market. The 950F is designed for customers who need the highest IOPS per GB, while provides robust scaling support. Both feature class leading availability for mission critical applications.
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Dell EMC’s Technical Evangelist for VMAX, Vince Westin, goes intro an architectural deep dive into VMAX. This offers true non-disruptive upgrades within ten seconds per array, with no component downtime or server disruption. The discussion then goes into VMAX’s RAID protection scheme and cache management.
Personnel: Vince Westin
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Dell EMC’s Technical Evangelist for VMAX, Vince Westin, reviews the data services available on VMAX arrays. This includes SnapVX for local replication with automation deletion on expiration. Non-disruptive migrations and remote replication are also supported.
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Adnan Sahin, CTO and Distinguished Engineer for Dell EMC VMAX All Flash, gives the delegates an overview of the company’s overall NVMe strategy, and specifically with VMAX. This includes a review of the previous storage technology transitions. Adnan looks at how that informs the media disruption brought by NVMe.
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Todd Toles, Field CTO, Modern Infrastructure, Dell EMC, introduces XtremIO X2 to the delegates. This next generation offers modernization without losing the consistent performance or their legacy of inline data services. XtremIO X2 now offers metadata-aware native replication, an HTML5 UI, and software driven efficiency improvements.
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Todd Toles, Field CTO, Modern Infrastructure, Dell EMC, delves into the hardware models offered by XtremIO X2. These include the X2-S with typical effective storage of 103.9TB in clusters up to 4 bricks, and the X2-R which scales up to 8 bricks offering 493.6TB effective capacity. The X2 as a platform offers 50% more cores than its predecessor, twice the memory, and 16Gb Fibre Channel.
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Todd Toles, Field CTO, Modern Infrastructure, Dell EMC, looks at how XtremIO X2 handles copy data management. This includes a look at how their virtual copies reduce overall IO workload. He then reviews the automation and orchestration features built into the platform.
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Zvi Schneider, Chief Architect, XtremIO, Dell EMC, looks at Write Boost, one of the major differentiators in XtremIO X2 to reduce latency and improve application performance. This is based on their observation to optimize for small IOPS. Dell EMC found that over 65% of IOPS were under 8k.
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