EMC has formally launched its down-sized VMAX, the VMAXe. The system is physically smaller in size than VMAX, coming in a 19-inch rack and only needing single-phase power. It uses the VMAX architecture and software (Enginuity 5875+) and is a pre-configured hardware and software offering with optional fully-automated storage …

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Thursday 14th July 2011 09:07 GMT melt

VMAX?

I kept reading that as "VAX" and getting all excited. Bah.

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Thursday 14th July 2011 09:40 GMT Anonymous Coward

Motorcycle parrallels?

Lets hope not. V-max's are notorious for being expensive, ugly, over-powered, inefficient (worse mpg than some 2.0l cars), ill-handling death traps.

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1. Thursday 14th July 2011 19:21 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Yes but I want one because
  
  (a) they're soooooo impressive
  
  (b) I only want to ride in a straight line and
  
  (c) they're so pig-ugly that they make even me look handsome by comparison!
  
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Thursday 14th July 2011 11:38 GMT Anonymous Coward

A realistic graph would look very different

The cost scale on that graph should be labelled with a logarithmic scale, with the axis starting at "Too Expensive" and going up to "Trowser Browning"

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Thursday 14th July 2011 14:57 GMT Anonymous Coward

A clearer VMAX/VMAXe description

I don't think the article was clear on the VMAX/VMAXe processing configs - here's my take on it:

A Symmetrix VMAX/VMAXe director has CPU processing, memory for caching, and back-end and front-end I/O connectivity. 2 directors make up 1 engine. A VMAX can have 1-8 engines and a VMAXe can have 1-4 engines.

VMAX: 2 quad-core Intel Harperton CPUs per director for a total of 4 CPU sockets and 16 CPU cores running 16 physical threads per engine (no hyperthreading).

VMAXe: 1 quad-core Intel Westmere CPU per director for a total of 2 CPU sockets and 8 CPU cores running 8 physical threads and 16 "hyperthreads" per engine (using hyperthreading).

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1. Thursday 14th July 2011 19:21 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Also...
  
  Also I believe there are limits to SRDF and possibly Timefinder operations in the VMAXe. I also seem to recall having heard that they only let you have thin provisioning, but that may be just a default config thing.
  
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Thursday 14th July 2011 20:23 GMT Michael Duke

I have worked out the car equivalent of the VMAXe

Its like the new Rolls Royce mini, the badge and all the elements of the bigger more expensive array without the really useful bits :)

Would make a good pairing with the new mini IBM Z Series I guess.

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