Dell EMC Unity XT 680 Hybrid Flash Storage Array
Dell EMC Unity XT 680: A powerful hybrid flash storage array that intelligently blends flash and spinning media for balanced performance and cost-effectiveness. It’s designed for diverse, demanding applications and consolidating mixed data, leveraging inline data reduction for its flash tier.
Description
Specifications:
- Type: Hybrid Flash Storage Array (Flash & HDD tiers)
- Form Factor: 2U (Base Enclosure)
- Controllers:
- 2x Active-Active Controller Modules
- Processors (per controller): 2x Intel CPUs (e.g., up to 10-core per controller)
- Memory (per controller): Up to 128 GB DRAM
- Max Raw Capacity: Up to 7.5 PB (with DPE + DAES)
- Max Drives: Up to 750 SAS Drives (Flash & HDD)
- Drive Types Supported: SAS SSD (Performance/Endurance), SAS HDD (10K/15K), NL-SAS HDD (7.2K)
- Drive Form Factors: 2.5″ SFF, 3.5″ LFF
- Protocols Supported:
- Block: iSCSI, Fibre Channel (FC)
- File: NFS, SMB/CIFS, FTP/SFTP
- Virtual: VMware VVols
- Front-end I/O Ports (per controller):
- Base: 2x 10GbE SFP+ (iSCSI/NAS) or 2x 16Gb FC
- I/O Modules: Optional 4-port 10GbE, 25GbE, or 16Gb/32Gb FC I/O Modules
- Data Reduction: Inline Data Reduction (Deduplication & Compression) for flash tier
- Advanced Features: Snapshots, Asynchronous/Synchronous Replication, Thin Provisioning, Data-at-Rest Encryption (D@RE), CloudIQ, Integrated Data Protection
- Management: Dell EMC Unisphere (HTML5), CLI, REST API, CloudIQ
- Power Supply: Redundant, hot-swappable
- Ideal Use Cases: Mixed workloads, consolidated storage, data analytics, virtualization, transactional applications, backup and recovery.
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