Comments on: DMX-4 http://thestoragearchitect.com/2007/07/17/dmx-4/ Storage, Virtualisation & Cloud Thu, 17 May 2012 20:23:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: the storage anarchist http://thestoragearchitect.com/2007/07/17/dmx-4/#comment-117 the storage anarchist Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:34:00 +0000 http://thestoragearchitect.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/dmx-4/#comment-117 Thin Provisioning is indeed something to be used with care - this is not an implementation-specific statement, nor would it be an excuse not to provide it to our customers.<br/><br/>And as we announced at EMC World back in May, thin provisioning will be supported across all of EMC's storage platforms. Celerra has supported thin provisioning since January 2006, and we'll be building the capability for the Symmetrix and CLARiiON platforms based on our experiences from that implementation, along with customer input and feedback on competitor's offerings.<br/><br/>The Symmetrix implementation (targeted for Q1'08) will support local and remote replication out of the chute, and you'll be able to use both FC and SATA storage (although you'll probably want to create separate tiers with different drive & protection types). Perhaps more importantly, it will be available for both the DMX-3 and the DMX-4 platforms.<br/><br/>I'll try to give more details on my blog, but the launch has kept us pretty busy around the office. Hopefully I'll get my next post up by the end of the week... Thin Provisioning is indeed something to be used with care – this is not an implementation-specific statement, nor would it be an excuse not to provide it to our customers.

And as we announced at EMC World back in May, thin provisioning will be supported across all of EMC’s storage platforms. Celerra has supported thin provisioning since January 2006, and we’ll be building the capability for the Symmetrix and CLARiiON platforms based on our experiences from that implementation, along with customer input and feedback on competitor’s offerings.

The Symmetrix implementation (targeted for Q1’08) will support local and remote replication out of the chute, and you’ll be able to use both FC and SATA storage (although you’ll probably want to create separate tiers with different drive & protection types). Perhaps more importantly, it will be available for both the DMX-3 and the DMX-4 platforms.

I’ll try to give more details on my blog, but the launch has kept us pretty busy around the office. Hopefully I’ll get my next post up by the end of the week…

]]> By: Josh Maher http://thestoragearchitect.com/2007/07/17/dmx-4/#comment-116 Josh Maher Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:32:00 +0000 http://thestoragearchitect.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/dmx-4/#comment-116 hehe, that is funny :)<br/><br/>I would be interested in a more in depth analysis of the new offerings from you though! hehe, that is funny :)

I would be interested in a more in depth analysis of the new offerings from you though!

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