The Symmetrix V-Max series is built on a revolutionary Virtual Matrix architecture. Symmetrix V-Max, along with Enginuity 5874, delivers unprecedented performance, availability, functionality, and economic advantages.
<p class="Body"><!--more--> The Symmetrix V-Max series, with the unique scale-out Virtual Matrix architecture, can be configured with 96 to 2,400 drives and usable capacity up to 2 PB. Systems provide up to 1 TB of global memory and up to 128 Fibre Channel ports, 64 FICON ports, 64 Gigabit Ethernet ports, or 64 iSCSI connections.</p>
<p class="Body">The Symmetrix V-Max series is a distributed multi-node storage system that can scale from one to eight highly available V-Max Engines. Systems are configured around a central system bay and adjacent storage bays of up to 240 drives each. A full range of drive options is available scaling from ultra-fast enterprise Flash drives, to Fibre Channel drives, to the highest capacity 1 TB SATA II drives.</p>

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<p class="Body"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;"> </span></span></span><!-- [endif]--><strong>Reduce total cost of ownership with scale-out and tiering capabilities</strong> . Symmetrix V-Max provides the highest performance and capacity over competing platforms in a smaller footprint—multi-core CPU processors, twice the cache memory expansion, up to 2 PB usable capacity, and twice the port connectivity to consolidate more workloads in a single system. This platform is optimized for increased capacity utilization on all tiers and RAID types, reducing total cost of ownership.</p>
<p class="BulletRound"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;"> </span></span></span><!-- [endif]--><strong>Second generation of enterprise Flash drives</strong> meets the demands of the most stringent workloads with new 200 GB and 400 GB capacity offering Tier 0 storage with 30 times more IOPS and 98 percent lower energy costs per IO.</p>
<p class="BulletRound"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;"> </span></span></span><!-- [endif]--><strong>Lower power consumption </strong>via<strong> </strong>innovative architecture with high-density electronics that consumes up to 16 percent less power for demanding, high-growth customer environments.</p>
<p class="BulletRound"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;"> </span></span></span><!-- [endif]--><strong>New management abstraction</strong> enables ease, speed, and automation. Symmetrix V-Max with Enginuity 5874 provides simpler and more efficient management of large and virtualized environments with initiator groups, Virtual LUNs, and Virtual Provisioning—allowing quick response to rapidly changing business requirements.</p>
<p class="BulletRound"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;"> </span></span></span><!-- [endif]--><strong>Transparently optimize service</strong> <strong>levels</strong> to lower total cost of ownership with second-generation Flash, Fibre Channel, and SATA drives, as well as policy-based Quality of Service capabilities. New Virtual LUN technology allows transparent migration of information across all storage tiers and RAID types.</p>
<p class="BulletRound"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;"> </span></span></span><!-- [endif]--><strong>Delivers 24x7 application availability</strong> . Rock-solid availability and proven disaster recovery continue to be leading reasons why customers exclusively deploy Symmetrix technology, and with SRDF/Extended Distance Protection (SRDF/EDP), customers can now get a cost-effective, zero data loss solution that spans long distances.</p>
<p class="BulletRound"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;"> </span></span></span><!-- [endif]--><strong>Symmetrix V-Max provides “always-on” application service</strong> <strong>levels</strong> with fully nondisruptive operations that eliminate unplanned and planned outages.</p>