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The Dell EMC VNX8000 is the top model of the VNX2 unified storage series, serving block (FC, iSCSI, FCoE) and file (NFS, SMB) storage with four 8-core Intel Xeon E5 processors, 256 GB of memory and support for up to 1,500 drives.
Where it fits: large SAN and NAS consolidation in EMC VNX2 environments, expanded with 15-, 25-, 60- or 120-drive DAEs. Tell us the drive count, protocols and number of Data Movers you need and we confirm the configuration with your quote.
Dell EMC VNX Part Number: VNX8000
Product Description: Dell EMC VNX8000 Unified Storage System
All EMC VNX2 models support 2.5 inch and 3.5 inch SAS drives using either the 15-drive DAE, 25-drive DAE, 60-drive DAE, or 120-drive DAE and they also utilize the 6 Gb/s SAS back-end.
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives, Near Line Serial Attached SCSI (NL-SAS) disk drives, and Flash drives are supported.
The EMC VNX2 series offers:
- PCI-E Gen 3 I/O modules
- 6 Gb/s x 4 lanes SAS back-end infrastructure
- Up to x 8 wide (6 Gb/s x 8 lanes) high-bandwidth connection to 60 drive DAE with new 6 Gb SAS I/O module
- Intel Xeon E5 multicore processors
- Expanded UltraFlex I/O, with denser packaging
- NEBS (Network Equipment-Building System) certified DC-powered arrays on the VNX5200, VNX5400, and VNX5600
- Block functionality that supports the FC, iSCSI, and FCoE protocols
- File functionality that supports the NFS, CIFS, and pNFS protocols
- Maximum of up to 1,500 drives
- 120-drive DAE
- Automated tiering with Fully Automated Storage Tiering for Virtual Pools (FAST VP) for block and file data
- Controller based, drive level, Data-At-Rest Encryption
- Updated unified management with Unisphere delivers a cohesive, unified user experience
Install tips:
- Spread flash drives across all available buses, and place them in the lowest numbered enclosures
- Use your flash storage for the active dataset for the best performance
- Plan to reserve at least one of every 30 installed drives of a given type for Hot Sparing. Hot sparing rebuilds the data from a failed drive onto a selected compatible drive. The count can be checked in the GUI at "System->Hot Spare Policy" and at the command line with "naviseccli hotsparepolicy -list"
What drives do you need?
SAS Flash
For extreme performance; these provide the best performance for transactional random workloads, and the lowest write service times. Required for Multicore FAST Cache.
SAS Flash VP
For extreme performance FAST VP tier; these are a higher capacity flash option. Not for use with Multicore FAST Cache.
SAS
For general performance tier.
NL-SAS (generally mechanically the same as 7,200 RPM SATA disks, but feature a SAS interface)
For less active data, well-behaved streaming data, archive purposes, and backups.
EMC VNX Acronyms:
BBU = Battery Backup Units
DAE = Disk Array Enclosures
DME = Data Mover Enclosure
DPE = Disk Processor Enclosure
NEBS = Network Equipment-Building System
SP = Storage Processors
SPE = Storage Processor Enclosure
SPS = Li-Ion Standby Power Supplies
| VNX8000 Specs | |
| Specs | Dell EMC VNX 8000 |
| Max Raw Capacity | 6.0 PB |
| Min/Max Drives | 4/1500 |
| Max Total Ports per Array | 88 |
| Max FC Ports per Array | 72 |
| 1 GBaseT iSCSI Max Total Ports per Array | 32 |
| 10 GbE iSCSI Max Total Ports per Array | 32 |
| Max FCoE Total Ports per Array | 36 |
| Max FAST Cache | 4.8TB |
| Max SAN Hosts | 8,192 |
| IO Modules per Array | 22 |
| Max Number of Pools | 60 |
| Max Number of LUNs (Pool) | 4,000 |
| Max Number of LUNs (Classic) | 8192 |
| Protocol | Fibre Channel |
| Model | Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) |
| Model | Network File System (NFS) |
| Model | SMB 3.0 (CIFS) |
| Model | iSCSI |
| Drive Enclosure | 2.5 inch SAS/Flash (2U), 25 drives |
| Model | 2.5 inch SAS/Flash (3U), 120 drives |
| Model | 3.5 inch SAS/Flash (3U), 15 drives |
| Model | 3.5 inch SAS/Flash (4U), 60 drives |
| CPU per Array | 4 x Intel Xeon E5-2600 8-Core 2.7 GHz |
| Memory per Array | 256 GB |
| 2/4/8 Gb/s FC Max Ports per Array | 72 |
| 1 GBASE-T iSCSI Max Total Ports per Array | 32 |
| Max FCoE Ports Per Array | 36 |
| RAID Options | 0/1/10/3/5/6 |
| Qty of Data Movers | 2-8 |
| Data Mover CPU | Intel Xeon 5600 |
| Data Mover RAM | 24 GB |
| IO Modules per Data Mover | 5 |
| Max FC Ports per Data Mover | 4 |
| Max IP Ports per Data Mover | 16 |
| Max 1 GBaseT Ports per Data Mover | 16 |
| Max 10 GbE Ports per Data Mover | 8 |
| Standby Power | 2x2U rack mount 2.2KW Li-Ion |
| Primarily For | Mid-Range Storage |
| Model | Enterprise-Class Storage |
| Model | Storage Consolidation |