Dell CX3-40 Specifications - Page 1

Dell™ | EMC® CX3-40f and CX3-40c High-performance networked enterprise storage with outstanding capacity and protection for use in growing SAN environments. Dell | EMC CX3-40f Dell | EMC CX3-40c The Dell™ | EMC® CX3 series delivers a true end-to-end 4GB architecture to redefine Dell's midrange storage array market in performance and scalability. Now in its third generation, the Dell | EMC CX3 series offers a redesigned architecture that is designed to deliver maximum performance, versatile connection options and an expansive range of scalability. The Dell | EMC CX3-40f and Dell | EMC CX3-40c offer an excellent combination of performance and scalability and are well suited for OLTP and messaging workloads, or other applications that benefit from array-based replication. Both 1U Storage Processor Enclosures (SPE) offer four Intel® Xeon® processors and 8GB memory. The Dell | EMC CX3-40f offers eight 4GB Fibre Channel host connections and four back end drive loops. The Dell | EMC CX3-40c provides four 4GB Fibre Channel host connections and eight iSCSI host connections, along with two back end drive loops. Both models support directly connected hosts or up to 128 HA (dual-connected) SAN connected hosts. And, each array supports up to 240 disk drives for a maximum raw capacity of up to 173TB2. The Dell | EMC CX3 series also marks the introduction of the new DAE4P which supports both Fibre Channel and SATA II drives allowing storage administrators to create an optimal blend of performance and capacity tailored to their unique application requirements. Excellent Performance and Expansive Scalability The third generation fully-integrated 4GB Dell | EMC CX3 arrays can deliver 2x the capacity and dramatically increased performance as compared to the corresponding previous models. Throughput and performance gains can provide faster access to data, particularly applications characterised by large block sequential I/O (disk based backup and restore, audio/video streaming, and replications). Email/messaging, database, OLTP (online transition processing), and other compute-intensive applications (such as seismic data analysis, computational chemistry, and genome sequencing), may see shorter response times. Designed to maximise throughput and performance, the Dell | EMC CX3 series is designed from the ground up to take advantage of end-to-end 4GB architecture. State-of-the-art embedded storage processor technology leverages the highly scalable PCI Express® interconnect, which offers low latency and high bandwidth. Streamlined SAN deployment and Management Experience To further streamline SAN deployment, Dell™ ships PowerEdge™ servers from the factory builtto-order with SAN components pre-installed to help streamline deployments. Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) enable direct connectivity to a storage array or SAN fabric via a Fibre Channel switch. EMC® Navisphere® Manager Server Utility and PowerPath® can be preloaded on servers to help reduce software installation and SAN configuration time. To help reduce the complexity of managing a SAN, Dell offers simple systems management tools with robust capabilities such as Dell IT Assistant and EMC Navisphere. Moreover, core business applications, such as Oracle®, Microsoft® Exchange, Microsoft SQL™, are tested and validated on Dell enterprise systems to form a stable and supported infrastructure for your most critical information.