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The EMC VNX series unified storage system models consists of VNX5300 mid-range/entry, VNX5500 mid-range, VNX5700 high-end/medium-capacity

and VNX7500 high-end/largecapacity. They are unified storage platforms which combine Block array and the File serving components into a single unified Block and File, File only, or Block only storage solution. The VNX series storage systems uses famous Intel multi-core CPUs and PCI Express 2.0 interconnects to deliver uncompromising scalability and flexibility. Entry level VNX5100 which is only available in a Block only configuration (it's not too unified as it can't handle File storage and iSCSI) The VNX series implement a modular architecture concurrently supporting native NAS, iSCSI, FC and FCoE protocols for host connectivity and 6Gb SAS backend topology. The VNX5700 and VNX7500 utilize Storage Processor Enclosure (SPE) architecture and the mid-range models utilize Disk Processor Enclosure (DPE) architecture.

A High End VNX can scale up to 60 CPU cores, there are 12 CPU cores dedicated to high performance Block serving using six core CPUs on two SP's. There can be up to 48 CPU cores dedicated to networked File system management and data sharing via six core CPUs on eight XBlades. Block connectivity is via FC, FCoE, and iSCSI, and File is via NAS including NFS, CIFS, MPFS, pNFS. Like a CLARiiON each SP has an associated Management Module which provides the SP management connections via one Ethernet (RJ-45) port, another port is a service port for laptop connection. Management module also includes 2 RS-232 ports, one for service laptop connection and second one is for SPS connectivity. The VNX series includes SAS I/O module in slot 0 for connectivity to DAEs. Each port on this module represents a backend bus. The number of ports depends on system model. An 8 Gb FC I/O Module, located in slot 4 (VNX7500 and VNX5700), provide connectivity to the X-Blades (NAS head). They are factory installed in unified and file only systems. The rest of the I/O slots are used for block server access with a maximum number of configurable slots of three per SP on the VNX5700 and four per SP on the VNX7500. Note that the I/O modules must be symmetrical between SPs. The VNX series offers Block connectivity via 4 Frontend I/O Module options:

Two port 10GbE FCoE i/O module (SFP) Four port 1Gb BaseT iSCSI I/O module (RJ45) Two port 10 GbE iSCSI I/O module (SFP or Twinax Copper) Four port 2/4/8 Gb FC module (SFP)

The default mode for Block connectivity is ALUA (active/active), the path to the SP that owns the LUN is marked as Optimized and the other is marked as Non-Optimized. I/Os can be redirected to the non-owning SP via the CMI (inter SP link) as needed without requiring a LUN trespass.

VNX DPE components include redundant SPs, two Power Supply/Cooling Modules, and the first set of drives for the VNX5500, VNX5300, and VNX5100 storage systems. The VNX DPE has the same management and service connections as the SPE based models. There are two RS-232 DB-9 serial ports, a Power LED and Fault LED, and two RJ-45 ports. The VNX series comes with 2 DAE options: a 2U DAE may contain up to 25 2.5 inch, 6Gbit SAS drives and a 3U DAE may contain up to 15 3.5 inch, 6Gb SAS drives. Both types of DAEs may be installed in the same array. Each DAE can contain a mixture of all drive types (Flash, SAS, and NL SAS). The DAEs are connected via a 4 lane, 6Gb/s per lane connection which results in a 24Gb/s SAS connection. The SAS lanes are similar to the lanes in a PCI bus. The DAE includes the 15 disk drives, two Link Control Cards (LCC A and LCC B), and two Power Supply/Cooling Modules (PS A and PS B). The LCCs and Power Supplies are locked into place using captive screws to ensure proper connection to the midplane. The VNX series Data Mover Enclosure can contain one or two X-Blades. The X-Blades provide File connectivity via DART Operating System. The different VNX series models use the same DMEs and vary only in the maximum number of X-Blades, the maximum number of I/O Modules per X- Blade, and the X-Blade CPU speed and memory specifications. X-Blades include a four port 8 Gb Fibre Channel I/O Module in slot 0. Two ports are for connectivity to the Storage Processors and two are for connectivity to a backup tape device. The rest of the I/O slots are used for File connectivity and there must be at least one network I/O Module in each XBlade. The VNX series storage systems support X-Blade failover. By default, an X-Blade failover group includes one primary X-Blade and one standby X-Blade. The primary and standby XBlades within a group must have identical I/O Module configurations. To act as a standby server, an X-Blade must first be configured as a standby for one or more primary X-Blades.

SAN
A storage area network (SAN) is a high-speed special-purpose network (or subnetwork) that interconnects different kinds of data storage devices with associated data servers on behalf of a larger network of users. Typically, a storage area network is part of the overall network of computing resources for an enterprise. A storage area network is usually clustered in close proximity to other computing resources such as IBM z990

NAS vs SAN

NAS provides both storage and a file system. This is often contrasted with SAN (Storage Area Network), which provides only block-based storage and leaves file system concerns on the "client" side. SAN protocols are SCSI, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, ATA over Ethernet (AoE), or HyperSCSI. One way to loosely conceptualize the difference between a NAS and a SAN is that a NAS appears to the client OS (operating system) as a file server (the client can map network drives to shares on that server) whereas a disk available through a SAN still appears to the client OS as a disk, visible in disk and volume management utilities (along with client's local disks), and available to be formatted with a file system and mounted. Despite their differences, SAN and NAS are not mutually exclusive, and may be combined as a SAN-NAS hybrid, offering both file-level protocols (NAS) and block-level protocols (SAN) from the same system. An example of this is Openfiler, a free software product running on Linux-based systems.

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