EMC Announces Virtual Provisioning for SSD-Based Symmetrix

By Greg McNevin

January 16, 2008: Following on from yesterday’s announcement that it will be offering solid state disks in its enterprise class Symmetrix DMX storage systems, EMC has announced virtual provisioning and new management capabilities for the systems.

The firm is trumpeting the new Virtual Provisioning and other management capabilities for the DMX systems, claiming that they help to both simplify and speed both virtual and physical provisioning of storage capacity, lowering the total cost of ownership in high-end storage environments.

EMC claims that Virtual Provisioning simplifies and accelerates the process of allocating storage capacity across storage tiers in a storage array - including the highest performance ‘tier zero’, which makes use of STEC's Zeus-IOPS solid state drives.

The company says that system enables an application to be presented with more capacity than is physically allocated, delivering ‘just-in-time’ capacity allocation when it is needed, increasing management flexibility and overall system utilisation.

“No one understands high-end storage infrastructure requirements like EMC, with more customers trusting their mission-critical storage operations to Symmetrix DMX than any other storage platform,” said David Donatelli, President of EMC’s Storage Division.

“Symmetrix DMX-4 offers full-featured thin provisioning that enterprise customers can depend on for simplified management and improved utilisation in demanding production, replication and application development operations.”

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