2014
ENTERPRISE
MIDRANGE ARRAY
BUYER’S GUIDE
THE INSIDER’S GUIDE TO EVALUATING
ENTERPRISE MIDRANGE ARRAYS
By Jerome Wendt and Ken Clipperton
www.dcig.com
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Table
Contents
Table ofofContents
1
Introduction
3
Executive Summary
5
18
How to Use this Enterprise
Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide
Enterprise Midrange Array Models
19 Aberdeen AberSAN ZXP2 HA
High Availability ZFS SAN
47 IceWEB Unified Storage
Appliance Model 7000
20 Aberdeen XDAS D42F7 8GB FC
48 Imation Nexsan E60
21 Aberdeen XDAS iSD41
49 Imation Nexsan NST5500
22 Aberdeen XDAS iXD32 10G
50 Infortrend EonStor
DS B24F-R2852
23 Aberdeen XDAS T42F
6
Disclosures
6
Enterprise Midrange Array
Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria
7
24 Celeros SmartSAN XT23S-FC
25 Celeros SmartSAN XT235-iSCSI
26 Dell Compellent SC8000
27 Dell EqualLogic
PS6100/PS6110 Series
28 Dell EqualLogic
PS6500/PS6510 Series
The 8-Step Process Used to Score
and Rank Enterprise Midrange Arrays
29 Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 Series
30 Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4000 Series
8
DCIG Comments and Thoughts
on Enterprise Midrange Array…
8
31 Dot Hill AssuredSAN Pro 5000 Series
32 EMC VNX5700
33 EMC VNX7500
Value of Included Software
8Automation
34 EMC VNXe3300
9
VMware Integration
35 Hitachi Data Systems HUS 150
9
Flash Memory Support
36 Hitachi Data Systems HUS VM
9Reliability
37 HP EVA P6550
9
38 HP StoreEasy 5000
Performance and Pricing
39 HP StoreVirtual 4730 Storage
10
40 HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400
Observations and Recommendations
Regarding Each Midrange Array Ranking
41 Huawei OceanStor S2600T
42 Huawei OceanStor S5800T
10 "Best-In-Class" Ranking
11 “Recommended” Ranking
11 “Excellent” Ranking
12 “Good” Ranking
12 “Basic” Ranking
13
Enterprise Midrange Array
Scores and Rankings
69
14 Overall Scores and Rankings
16 Management Software Scores
and Rankings
51 Infortrend EonStor
DS S16E-R2152-6 1GBE
52 Infortrend EonStor
DS S16E-R2251 10GbE
53 Infortrend EonStor
DS S16F-R2852-6 8G FC
54 Infortrend EonStor
DS S48F-R2652-4 16Gb FC
55 Infortrend ESVA E60-2230
56 Infortrend ESVA F75-2830
57 NEC M500
58 NetApp E2600-12
59 NetApp E5460
60 NetApp FAS3250
61 Oracle Pillar Data Systems
Axiom 600
62 Oracle Sun ZFS Storage ZS3
63 Overland Storage
SnapSAN S5000
64 Overland Storage
SnapScale X2
43 IBM DCS3700
65 Scale Computing
ICOS Storage Nodes M Series
44 IBM DS5300
66 Starboard AC4500
45 IBM Storwize V7000U
67 X-IO Hyper ISE 7-Series
46 IBM XIV Gen 3
68 X-IO ISE 200 Series
Product Rankings Dashboard
Appendix
A-1 Appendix A—Definitions, Explanations and Terminology
B-1 Appendix B—Enterprise Midrange Array Provider Contact Information
C-1 Appendix C—Author Contact Information
D-1 Appendix D—Complete List of Midrange Arrays
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Introduction
Amid the ever-changing nature of technology and the advancements continually showing up
throughout the data storage industry, one important aspect is unchanging: corporate data is
being created at in ever greater quantities, and the pace is increasing in unpredictable ways.
According to one recent multi-university study of 26 corporations and large nonprofits, the
volume of data is expanding by 35% to 50% every year in most organizations, which essentially doubles the volume of data stored every two years. The highest rate observed was
150% growth. Additionally, the researchers observed that in every organization studied,
data growth far exceeded revenue growth.1
Because of this accelerating data growth, many organizations are evaluating storage
purchases. There are many enterprise midrange storage arrays available to meet this data
explosion. This Buyer’s Guide includes standardized data sheets for 50 arrays from 19
providers. In most cases, each data sheet represents an array series. As a result, the 50
data sheets actually represent well over 100 specific array models.2
The word “Enterprise” is new in the title for this year’s refresh of the DCIG 2014 Enterprise
Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide. The term “Enterprise Midrange Array” is intended to reflect business expectations regarding continuous availability, comprehensive features, and storage capacity.
The arrays highlighted in this Buyer’s Guide offer organizations the redundancy they are
looking for along with data protection features like snapshots and replication capabilities.
Although there is no official maximum on storage capacity for the arrays included in the
DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide, those products included generally
scale to less than one petabyte.
Although the word “Enterprise” is often associated with high costs, it is notable that both
new entrants and dominant vendors now make enterprise features available in arrays at
prices within reach for mid-sized organizations. Illustrating this price shift, the overall top
scoring array in the 2014 Buyer's Guide has a starting list price under $50,000.
Like all prior DCIG Buyer’s Guides, this DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide
does the heavy lifting for organizations as they look to purchase a midrange array by:
• Listing each individual midrange array model by storage provider
• Listing different midrange array features, whether or not they are supported and,
where appropriate, how they are implemented
• Weighting these features according to what organizations consider most important
• Scoring these features
• Ranking each midrange array model
• Creating a data sheet for each midrange array model
1. Beath, Cynthia, Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Jeanne Ross, and James Short. "Finding Value in the Information Explosion." MIT Sloan
Management Review RSS. MIT Sloan Management Review, 19 June 2012. http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/
finding-value-in-the-information-explosion/.
2. Each array model represented in this Buyer’s Guide by the most robust model in that array series. Detailed data was collected
on each model in the series and is available in the associated DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Interactive Buyer’s Guide.
A comprehensive list of array models is given in Appendix D-1.
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Introduction
continued
The end result is that this DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide gives organizations the opportunity to do “at-a-glance” comparisons between many different arrays. This
will enable them to more quickly sort through the many arrays to identify a short list of products that meet their specific needs. Prospective purchasers can focus their product evaluation
energies on those selected arrays and move more quickly to the competitive bid process.
Note that this Buyer’s Guide is not intended to be a substitute for bringing individual
midrange arrays models in-house for testing. That function should still be done, if possible,
since every array will perform differently under different application workloads and data
center environments.
We hope you find that this Buyer’s Guide meets its intended purpose in your environment.
Ken & Jerome
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Executive Summary
The DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide is a tool designed to cut time
and cost from the product research process. DCIG invested hundreds of hours designing a survey that would capture the data that matters most to prospective midrange array
purchasers, gathering the relevant data, and then analyzing the results.
The data collection survey included 104 scored questions with 288 scored items per
midrange array. The resulting data was categorized, standardized and distilled into summary
scoring and ranking tables as well as a one-page data sheet for each array.1 This powerful combination of summary data and data sheets make it easy to do quick, side-by-side
comparisons of storage arrays.
On the demand side, multiple factors contribute to a newly dynamic and competitive
environment. Enterprises are keeping more data and seeking to do more with the data they
keep. Beyond data growth, consolidated virtual server environments create a highly random
work load that is challenging for traditional storage arrays. Desktop virtualization creates yet
another new set of challenging storage workloads.
On the supply side, advances in available CPU cores and DRAM capacity, coupled with the
arrival of flash memory on the enterprise storage scene, have created new opportunities
to meet storage capacity and performance demands through new storage architectures,
super-sized caches, and storage software that provides advanced capabilities like dynamic
automated storage tiering.
Meeting performance and reliability requirements at the lowest possible cost is a high priority
for many enterprises; and they realize that gaining the ability to quickly understand what is
happening in their storage environment and to automate manual processes gives them the
opportunity to reduce the cost of managing their data center infrastructures. Therefore, this
Buyer’s Guide incorporates data on integrated performance monitoring software and automation hooks for provisioning and ongoing management of storage arrays.
Like previous Midrange Array Buyer’s Guides, VMware integration is broken out from other
software-enabled capabilities because VMware integration is so critical for enterprise data
centers. The majority of enterprises use VMware in their environments.
In addition, the depth of VMware storage-related API support can enhance server and storage performance while reducing administration overhead. Extensive VMware integration from
a storage array equates to higher performance and a lower cost of ownership.
Although VMware dominates the enterprise virtualization space, other hypervisors are gaining traction with the install base for Microsoft Hyper-V having risen to nearly 28% this year.2
Multiple hypervisors in the data center is now embraced as an organizational strategy not
merely an accident of acquisition. Consequently, when compared to previous editions, this
year’s DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide incorporates more data about
support for hypervisors other than VMware.
1. Additional detail about the scoring and ranking process is included in “The 8-Step Process Used to Score and Rank Products”
section of this Buyer’s Guide.
2. Jones, Steven D. “Microsoft Quietly Gains Share in Virtualization.” Digits: Tech News & Analysis from the WSJ. The Wall Street
Journal, 31 May 2013. http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/05/31/microsoft-quietly-gains-share-in-virtualization/
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Executive Summary
continued
Although software capabilities are critical, robust hardware options are still of great
importance when selecting a midrange array. As such, this Buyer’s Guide still scores and
places a greater emphasis on controller configurations, hard drive capabilities and available
ports on each array. CPU cores, cache size, storage density and storage capacity are also
scored. Enterprise-level organizations require standards like hot swap drives and redundant controllers to ensure there is no single point of failure, and those necessary hardware
elements are addressed.
The DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide is our largest Buyer’s Guide project
to date. Although the print edition of the DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s
Guide includes 50 midrange array data sheets, at least 100 arrays are actually represented,
because nearly every data sheet represents a series of arrays.
For example, the HP StoreVirtual 4130, 4330, 4530 and 4730 are represented only by the
HP StoreVirtual 4730 in the print version. If you would like to more closely examine each
model in a series, the data is broken out individually in the DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange
Array Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) module which users may subscribe to at http://www.
dcig.com/interactive-buyers-guide.html.
It is in this context that DCIG presents its DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s
Guide. As prior Buyer’s Guides have done, it puts at the fingertips of organizations a
resource that provides them with a comprehensive list of midrange arrays that can assist
them in this all-important buying decision while removing much of the mystery around how
midrange arrays are configured and which ones are suitable for which purposes.
This DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide accomplishes the following objectives:
• Provides an objective, third party evaluation of midrange arrays that evaluates
and scores their features from an end user’s viewpoint
• Includes recommendations on how to best use this Buyer’s Guide
• Scores and ranks the features on each midrange array based upon the criteria that
matter most to end users so they can quickly know which midrange arrays are the most
appropriate for them to use and under what conditions
• Provides data sheets for 50 midrange arrays from 19 different storage providers so end
users can do quick comparisons of the features that are supported and not supported
on each midrange array
• Provides insight into which features on a midrange array will result in improved performance
• Provide insights into what features midrange arrays offer to optimize their VMware integration
• Gives any organization the ability to request competitive bids from different providers of
midrange arrays that are “apples-to-apples” comparisons
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How to Use this Enterprise
Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide
In determining how to best use the information contained in
this DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide,
it is important to note that it is intended to help enterprise
organizations in their purchase of a midrange array. The
purpose of this Buyer’s Guide is NOT to tell users exactly
which midrange array to purchase. Rather, it is to help guide
them in coming up with a list of competitive products that
have comparable features that meet their specific needs.
It is also important for users to note that just because a
product scored the highest in a particular category or is
ranked a certain way does not automatically mean that it is
the right product for their organization. If anything, because
of the scope of the midrange array models evaluated and
analyzed, it may have features that are too robust for the
needs of an individual department or organization.
However, what this Buyer’s Guide does is give users some
sense of how each array compares to others classified as
“midrange arrays” for enterprise organizations, as well as
offers additional insight into what product offerings are available on the market.
DCIG recommends that you use this DCIG 2014 Enterprise
Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide in the following seven ways:
• Eliminate the painstaking research associated with
coming up with a short list of midrange arrays that
meet their needs. This Buyer’s Guide ranks, scores
and contains data sheets for 50 different models from
19 different providers. Each midrange array is scored
and then ranked as “Best-in-Class,” “Recommended,”
“Excellent,” “Good” and “Basic” based upon its score.
On each array, over 100 different features were evaluated, weighted, scored and then ranked. All an organization has to do is look at the scores and features of each
product in order to come up with a short list of products
for consideration.
• Identify comparable apples-to-apples midrange
arrays from different storage providers. In today’s
crowded storage market, it behooves organizations to
get competitive bids from multiple storage providers.
After all, when they compete, you win! But that tactic
only works well when organizations know that they are
receiving competitive bids on products that are roughly
comparable. Using this DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange
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Array Buyer’s Guide, organizations can do a better job of
accomplishing that objective.
• Separate the apples from the oranges. Just as
important as doing apples-to-apples comparisons is
identifying when an orange is thrown into the mix.
Sometimes it is very difficult for an organization to know
if it is truly getting a good deal when bids come in from
multiple storage providers that include different models.
Now organizations can refer to the scores and rankings
of each midrange array in this guide so they know when
they are getting a good deal, a great deal or just a
“so-so” one.
• Gain perspective on how models from less well
known storage providers compare against established and better known brands. Anyone involved
with storage has probably heard of Dell, EMC, HP,
IBM and NetApp. This creates a certain built-in level of
comfort when buying products from these companies
and a corresponding built-in resistance to buying
midrange arrays from companies that are perceived
as unknown quantities.
This Buyer’s Guide helps to remove some of that
apprehension about buying from a less well known
provider or even a less well known model from an
established provider. Using this Buyer’s Guide organizations can see how these models from lesser known
companies as well as lesser known models from
established providers stack up.
• Take advantage of normalized storage terminology.
Every computing industry has a proclivity to adopt
acronyms and jargon that is specific to its lexicon. But the
data storage industry seems to go out of its way to not
only use unfamiliar terms but refer to the same technology in different ways. This Buyer’s Guide sifts through the
acronyms and storage jargon and terms and normalizes
them. This minimizes or even eliminates the need for
users to try to understand all of the industry terminology.
• Do side-by-side comparisons. The product data
sheets available from the different storage providers
are rarely laid out in the same way or contain the same
information. Some storage providers even have data
sheet formats that vary from model to model within their
own product portfolio. This Buyer’s Guide tackles the
problem by creating a standard, easy to read data sheet
for every midrange array. In this way, product data sheets
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for individual products can be printed out, laid down side
by side and then the features on them quickly compared.
• Justify technical buying recommendations to
business folks. Nothing is easier for those on the
business side to understand than a number when doing
comparisons. So at the top of every midrange array
model data sheet, a product score is included so the
business side of the house can quickly see how the
different midrange array models compare.
Disclosures
Over the last few years the general trend in the US has been
for both large and boutique analyst firms to receive some or
all of their revenue from storage providers.
• Because of the number of features analyzed, how these
features were weighted and then how these enterprise
midrange array models were scored and then ranked,
there was no way for DCIG to predict at the outset how
individual enterprise midrange array models would end
up scoring or ranking
DCIG would like to emphasize that no storage provider
was privy to how DCIG did the scoring and ranking of the
midrange arrays. In every case the storage providers only
found out the scores and rankings of its midrange array
model(s) after the analysis was complete.
Enterprise Midrange Array
Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria
DCIG is no different in this respect as it also receives
payment for the different services it performs for storage
providers. The services that DCIG provides include blogging, case studies, product reviews, executive white papers,
full length white papers and special reports. For more information on DCIG, visit www.dcig.com.
The term “midrange array” has become a nebulous term
at best considering all of the new architectures and designs
of midrange arrays that have emerged in the last decade.
Terms like “scale-out storage” and “unified storage” have
only further served to blur the lines of what constitutes a
“midrange array.”
In the interest of being fully transparent, a number of the
storage providers included in this DCIG 2014 Enterprise
Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide are, or have been DCIG
clients. This is not to imply that they were given preferential
treatment in the Buyer’s Guide. All it meant was that DCIG
had more knowledge of their midrange arrays and that
DCIG was aware that they offered arrays that might qualify
for inclusion in this Buyer’s Guide.
DCIG incorporated input from key users and vendors into
defining the criteria we would use to decide what arrays
belonged or did not belong in this Buyer’s Guide. This Buyer’s
Guide attempts to take into consideration as many of these
variables as possible, but likely failed to account for all of
them. While this may have resulted in a specific model not
being covered in this Buyer’s Guide when it rightfully may have
belonged, DCIG believes the following criteria were consistently applied as we did our research and made our decisions.
In that vein, there are a number of important facts to keep in
mind when considering the information contained in this DCIG
2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide and its merit.
• No storage provider paid DCIG any fee to develop
this Buyer’s Guide
• DCIG did not guarantee any storage provider that its
enterprise midrange array(s) would be included in this
Buyer’s Guide
• DCIG did not imply or guarantee that a specific enterprise midrange array model would receive a good score
on this Buyer’s Guide ahead of time
• All research was based upon publicly available information, information provided by the storage provider and
the expertise of those evaluating the information
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The rationale that was used to determine the inclusion and
exclusion of specific models in this Buyer’s Guide is as follows:
• It had to support either the Fibre Channel (FC)
or iSCSI block-based protocol. Well over half of the
models included in this report supported both protocols
but even if they supported only one, they were still
included in the Buyer’s Guide. If the midrange array did
not support at least one of these protocols, it was not
included in this Buyer’s Guide.
• It had to scale to support at least 60 TBs of raw
capacity. 60 TBs is a previously established benchmark as
DCIG specifically wanted to exclude the large number of
midrange arrays that only supported a single drawer of
sixteen (16) HDDs. It is understood that as arrays scale to
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support 60 TBs or greater that many of the features that
are of the most interest to organizations begin to surface.
• It had to support two controllers with some method
for failover. It needed to support some type of two
controller configuration such that a second controller
could take over the application workload should the
primary controller fail. This failover switching could be
a more advanced configuration with both controllers
configured in an Active-Passive, Dual-Active, or ActiveActive state. Configurations where the data is asynchronously replicated by the primary controller to a second
controller for use in case of a failover were excluded from
the DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide.
• There had to be sufficient information available to
DCIG to make meaningful decisions. DCIG made a
good faith effort to reach out and obtain information from
as many enterprise midrange array providers as possible
by providing surveys to them for them to complete.
However, in a few cases midrange array models may
have been excluded because of a lack of reliable data.
• The model had to be shipping as of September 1, 2013.
A cut off date had to be put in place or this Buyer’s Guide
would never be published. Some allowances were made
for feature or product enhancements that were made in
August 2013 that did not adversely affect the analysis
done in developing this Buyer’s Guide.
The 8-Step Process Used to Score
and Rank Enterprise Midrange Arrays
To score and rank each midrange array model, DCIG went
through an eight step process to come to the most objective
conclusion possible.
1. DCIG listed out all of the features available on all of
the midrange arrays. Prior to selecting the features that
were included in the final evaluation in the Buyer’s Guide,
DCIG went through and quantified what features midrange
arrays possessed. As part of this process, DCIG ‘normalized’ the list of features available on midrange arrays such
that a common name for each feature was established.
2. DCIG established which features would be included
in the Buyer’s Guide and which ones would not. One
of the goals of this Buyer’s Guide was to try to only
include features on each midrange array model that
could be objectively and authoritatively analyzed.
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For example, “Maximum Raw Storage Capacity”
was evaluated as a feature instead of “Maximum
Usable Storage Capacity.” While usable storage
capacity is what users ultimately care about, a
consistent objective answer cannot be arrived at
as most midrange arrays offer multiple RAID options.
So “Maximum Raw Storage Capacity” was selected
as the feature to be evaluated since an objective
answer could be ascertained and supported.
3. Each feature had a weighting associated with it.
The weightings were used to reflect if a feature was
supported and potentially how well it was implemented.
For example, the “Concurrent RAID Mix” feature is more
of a “Yes” or “No” type of response whereas the “Internal
HDDs Connectivity” feature covered a number of
different disk drive interfaces with varying connectivity
options. As such each of these features were weighted
and scored differently.
4. A survey that asked about all of the features
scored in this Buyer’s Guide was sent to each
storage provider. In addition to using the information
that was publicly available on each storage provider’s
website, each storage provider included in this Buyer’s
Guide had the opportunity to respond to a survey sent
to it by DCIG. The survey elicits more data than was
available on any vendor web site to provide a more
thorough analysis of each midrange array. This was
done to both verify that the information DCIG found on
the storage provider’s website was correct as well as
remove any ambiguities that existed regarding how
some of the features were implemented.
5. All vendors were given the opportunity to review
their data sheets before the final scores and
rankings were determined. To ensure the information
presented in this Buyer’s Guide is up-to-date and
reliable, DCIG provided each vendor a copy or copies
of their data sheets that appeared in this Buyer’s Guide
without the scores and rankings on them. In this
way they had the opportunity to validate the information
and correct it before it was publicly released.
6. All of the features were scored based upon the
information that was gathered. The weighting and scoring
of the features were done by a DCIG research analyst.
7. The features were broken down into four general
categories. The features included in this Buyer’s Guide
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broke down into a total of four broad categories that are
reflected on each midrange array data sheet. These four
categories include Management & Software, VMware
Integration, Hardware, and Support.
8. The midrange arrays were ranked using standard
scoring techniques. One of the goals of this Buyer’s
Guide is to establish clear lines of differentiation between
midrange arrays with conclusions that are arrived at
objectively. To accomplish this goal, the mean or average
score for each classification was first determined and then
the standard deviation.
Using the mean of the scores from all of the midrange arrays
from which the standard deviation was calculated, DCIG
developed a ranking for each midrange array model based
upon the following in each classification:
• Those models that were .5 or greater standard deviations below the mean were given the rank of “Basic”
• Those models that were .5± standard deviations above
or below the mean were ranked as “Good”
• Those models that were .5 – 1.5 standard deviations
above the mean were ranked as “Excellent”
• Those models that were greater than 1.5 standard
deviations above the mean were ranked as
“Recommended”
• The model(s) with the highest score were given the
designation of “Best-in-Class”
• It is for this reason that in each classification the number
of models that achieved a certain ranking varied. Using
this scoring and ranking method, DCIG feels confident
that all of the models included in this report could be
reasonably classified as midrange arrays suited for
enterprise organizations.
DCIG Comments and Thoughts
on Enterprise Midrange Array…
Value of Included Software
Vendors that sell their arrays with all software features fully
licensed as part of the standard array package create extra
value for purchasers by reducing the number of decision
points in the purchasing process and by smoothing the path
to full utilization of the array’s capabilities.
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Separate license fees for features can reduce the agility
of the IT department in responding to changing business
requirements because the purchase approval and ordering
process may take several weeks. If implementation services
are required, that may add additional weeks to the process.
Separate licensing fees may be minor, or they can have a
noticeable impact on the overall cost of ownership for an
enterprise midrange array. Therefore, the annual cost of
software licenses and associated support contracts should
be incorporated into TCO (total cost of ownership) and ROI
(return on investment) calculations.
This Buyer’s Guide acknowledges the value of included
licenses by awarding a significant number of points to those
arrays that ship with features already licensed. In particular,
we give attention to licensing for snapshots, replication and
thin provisioning features.
Automation
Data center automation is an area of emphasis for many
organizations because it promises to facilitate efficient
management of their data center infrastructure and enable a
more agile response from IT to changing business requirements. Ultimately, automation means more staff time can be
spent addressing business requirements rather than managing the routine tasks of a data center.
Organizations can implement automation in their environment through management interfaces that are scriptable and
offer additional enhancements with API and SDK support.
Support for automated provisioning is an area where improvement in the near future is expected. Currently, less than 20% of
midrange arrays featured in this Buyer’s Guide expose an API
for third-party automation tools, while 11% provide an SDK for
integration with management platforms. As more organizations
place a premium on automating their storage environment,
these numbers should go up.
A higher percentage of these arrays support automated
storage tiering, which is offered by 45% of arrays. This
automated tiering capability can be important for achieving
maximum benefits from flash memory when using flash for
more than just a larger cache.
Similarly, 40% natively support the reclamation of freed
blocks of thinly provisioned storage. These freed blocks are
then available for reuse. Native support for this capability
8
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eliminates the cost and additional infrastructure complexity
associated with licensing a third party product or the inefficiency associated with manual reclamation processes.
Along the same lines, 21% of arrays are recognized by third
party software, such as Symantec Storage Foundation,
that can simplify storage management by reclaiming freed
blocks of thinly provisioned storage automatically.
VMware Integration
In general, DCIG emphasizes advanced software features
in the DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide.
This is especially true of integration with VMware vStorage
APIs such as VAAI (vStorage APIs for Array Integration) and
VASA (vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness). The
VAAI and VASA APIs can dramatically improve overall data
center performance.
Given the wide adoption of VMware by enterprises, it follows
that they are seeking hardware that can take advantage of
the “force multiplication” these APIs provide for existing and
future VMware deployments.
The good news is that 62% of the midrange arrays in this
Buyer’s Guide support all of the VAAI 4.1 APIs. However, only
10% of the arrays support the full set of VAAI v5 features.
Of the VAAI v5 features, Dead Space Reclamation (SCSI
UNMAP) fares best with 26% of arrays supporting this feature.
Similar to the currently low support for VAAI v5.0, less than
a fourth of the arrays support VASA. These integrations are
key to the software defined data center and to minimizing
ongoing management overhead for the large number of
data centers that utilize VMware.
Robust VMware support is a product differentiator that
matters to many potential array purchasers, and is an area
where we expect to see further improvement in the coming
year. Those organizations embracing VMware as their
primary hypervisor will want to pay particular attention to
how an array’s VMware support maps to their requirements
Flash Memory Support
Flash memory is clearly of growing importance in data
center storage. Within the enterprise midrange array
segment of the market, the importance of flash memory
is demonstrated by the fact that 77% of the arrays in this
Buyer’s Guide now support the use of flash memory in addition to traditional disk drives.
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Nevertheless, just 45% support automated storage tiering, a
technology that helps get the most benefit from the available flash memory. Also, only 15% of arrays implement any
of the flash memory optimization techniques—such as write
coalescing—that enhance both performance and reliability.
So while support for flash memory in midrange arrays has
grown dramatically, the depth of integration still varies widely.
Reliability
This Buyer’s Guide only attempts to provide some insight
into a midrange array’s reliability by examining whether or
not it has redundant hardware, hot swappable components
and what type of technical support it provides.
For quick comparison purposes, all of the arrays in the DCIG
2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide include redundant fans and power supplies. Nearly all arrays in the Buyer’s
Guide support hot-swap of drives, power supplies and fans,
though a few featured redundant, but not hot-swappable fans.
It is a core expectation of the enterprise-level organization
that the enterprise midrange array being purchased offers
near continuous availability. The arrays in this Buyer’s Guide
account for that baseline need.
Performance and Pricing
Two factors that strongly influence buying decisions are
performance and cost. So it may come as a surprise to
those who look at this DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange
Array Buyer’s Guide to see no performance benchmarks
as to how any of the midrange arrays performed and only
high-level pricing information. There are two core reasons
why performance or detailed pricing information were not
included in this Buyer’s Guide.
Performance will vary according to data center environment,
the data being stored, and implementation decisions. So to
introduce any type of performance metric would only result in
the analysis and evaluations of the midrange arrays included
in this Buyer’s Guide becoming more subjective, not less.
The intent of this Buyer’s Guide is to provide a near realtime snapshot of the enterprise midrange arrays currently
available in the marketplace. If DCIG had tried to test and
establish performance benchmarks for all of these midrange
arrays, the next generation of midrange arrays from all of
these storage providers could well be available before the
testing was completed, making this Buyer’s Guide obsolete
before it ever saw the light of day.
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As for pricing, each midrange array data sheet provides only
a starting list price for that midrange array. These list prices
had no bearing in the weighting of any midrange array and
are provided for reference purposes only.
DCIG recognizes that features like price and performance
are relevant and even key considerations when buying an
Enterprise Midrange Array. However, it is also almost impossible for a third party like DCIG to objectively measure these
features on a large scale. Therefore, evaluating these factors is
a part of the buying process that is still best left to end users.
Observations and Recommendations
Regarding Each Midrange Array Ranking
"Best-In-Class" Ranking
The HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400 earned the “Best-in-Class”
ranking among enterprise midrange arrays evaluated this
year. In comparison to its counterparts, this array stood
out in the following ways:
• Achieved the highest score in three of the four scoring
categories, including Management and Software,
VMware Integration, and Support
• A single array can be scaled out to 4 mesh active
controllers managing up to 864 TBs of data
• Offers HP 3PAR Peer Persistence and Remote Copy
software to synchronously replicate data and then
implement uninterrupted VM failover and failback
without needing to implement a third party appliance
or replication software
• Has “Best-in-Class” features, yet carries a starting list
price below $50,000—which puts it within reach of
many midsized organizations
Recommendations:
The HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400 brings together the best
of what both block and file have to offer: block storage
services in the form of its 3PAR StoreServ family and file
storage services with its 3PAR StoreServ File Controller.
The new HP 3PAR StoreServ File Controller means organizations can trade up to the benefits that converged storage
systems have to offer without needing to trade-off on either
features or performance.
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The HP 3PAR StoreServ is highly regarded for its performance due to its storage architecture and how it manages
data placement within its system. As part of its architecture,
HP 3PAR offers organizations the choice of using all hard
disk drives (HDDs), a hybrid configuration consisting of both
HDDs and solid state drives (SSDs), or an all flash memory
array in the form of its new HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450.
To meet the increased performance demands that
consolidated environments require as well as to deliver the
higher levels of performance available on SSDs, HP 3PAR
StoreServ scales up to four controllers in the 7400. As
such there is minimal risk an organization's performance
demands will outstrip the ability of HP 3PAR StoreServ
to deliver on them.
The array further optimizes performance through the use
of its wide striping technology. Wide striping places small
chunks of data across all of the drives in a system to
harness their collective throughput. Additionally, its Dynamic
Optimization software ensures the chunks of data are on
the right tier of storage. Wide striping places frequently
accessed data on the most responsive tier of storage while
moving infrequently accessed data to slower drives.
HP 3PAR StoreServ conserves storage capacity through its
thin provisioning feature. The array allocates only as much
storage to the application as it actually uses while holding
the rest of the requested storage capacity in reserve until
it is required. Another feature of thin provisioning is its Thin
Persistence feature, which identifies the storage capacity no
longer used by the application and automatically returns it to
the available pool of storage.
Storage capacity used by the array’s replication and snapshot
features is efficiently managed by the unique methods that HP
3PAR StoreServ uses to provision storage so organizations
may use these features without detecting extra overhead on
the system or having to buy extra storage capacity.
HP pairs these native HP 3PAR StoreServ features with
its HP 3PAR StoreServ File Controller. Based on Windows
Storage Server 2012, organizations have the immediate
assurance that the HP 3PAR StoreServ converged storage
system will non-disruptively integrate with their existing
Windows environments.
The HP 3PAR StoreServ File Controller brings data deduplication and advanced file classification capabilities to
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HP 3PAR storage. Files may first be classified based on
their metadata. An organization can then create policies
that perform tasks such as managing retention and placing files on the appropriate tier of storage based on each
file's profile and classification.
The emergence of OpenStack storage technology has,
among other things, created more confusion for storage
purchasers. The good news is that HP's support for these
OpenStack block storage Cinder drivers on its 3PAR (FC and
iSCSI) storage arrays coupled with its support matrices, close
alliances with hypervisor providers, back-end support and
wide use of HP 3PAR StoreServ among top service providers
makes HP 3PAR storage a safe bet for enterprises that may
wish to implement OpenStack in the future.
Some of the analysis presented above goes beyond
the data collected for this Buyer’s Guide by drawing
on earlier DCIG analysis. To learn more about DCIG’s
business-value-oriented take on HP 3PAR storage,
see http://hpstorage.dcig.com.
“Recommended” Ranking
Observations:
The EMC VNX7500 and VNX5700 arrays share the
“Recommended” label with the Hitachi Data Systems
HUS 150 and HUS VM and NetApp FAS3250 arrays.
The enterprise midrange arrays ranked as “Recommended” in
this Buyer’s Guide generally shared the following characteristics:
• Scored at least 1.5 standard deviations above the mean
in at least three of the four scoring categories
• Support all VAAI v4 and v5 features, and nearly all of the
other VMware integration options measured—including
SIOC, Storage DRS, VADP, VASA and VASRM
• Support multi-tenancy
• Scale well beyond 1 PB
• Support unified block (SAN) and file (NAS) storage
• Provide concurrent FC and iSCSI connections
• All five arrays have a starting list price above $50,000
Recommendations:
Like the “Best-in-Class” HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400, these
arrays outshone the competition across the board. The
EMC VNX7500 and VNX5700 arrays were distinguished by
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comprehensive hypervisor and operating system support.
The EMC arrays also provide superior file system support,
including NFS v4.1 (pNFS), SMB 2.1 and 2.2. The EMC
arrays provide API support for integrating into data center
operations management tools and an SDK for integration
with management software. The availability of the API may
account for the ability of the EMC VNX arrays to integrate
with CA Unicenter, HP Operations Manager, IBM Tivoli,
Nagios XI and Zenoss Service Dynamics.
The Hitachi Data Systems HUS 150 and HUS VM and
NetApp FAS3250 arrays also deserve serious consideration among enterprise midrange arrays. These arrays
have native thin reclamation capabilities and Active-Active
controllers. The HUS 150 also supports 16Gb FC and
40Gb Ethernet storage networking ports. The HDS arrays
feature larger caches (160 GB and 384 GB) than the
EMC (36 GB and 48 GB) or HP (64 GB) arrays.
The NetApp FAS3250 tops this category with a Hardware
score in the “Recommended” range and all other scores
in the “Excellent” range. The most comprehensive set of
software and management features and the second highest
VMware Integration score among “Excellent” arrays were
key to its top ranking.
“Excellent” Ranking
Observations:
The midrange arrays ranked as “Excellent” in this Buyer’s
Guide generally shared the following characteristics, with
some exceptions:
• Scored “Excellent” in Management and Software and
VMware Integration while achieving only a “Good” or
“Basic” ranking in at least one category
• Support the big three data management tools of
snapshots, replication and thin provisioning
• Support all VAAI v4 but not all VAAI v5 features
• Support unified block (SAN) and file (NAS) storage
In total, nine arrays earned an “Excellent” ranking. Eight
vendors are represented, including two that also have arrays
in the “Recommended” category—HP and EMC. Most of
these arrays are from storage industry titans, but Overland
Storage and startup Starboard Storage also have arrays
that achieved “Excellent” rankings.
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Beyond their shared characteristics, half of which include
exceptions, these arrays diverge in most other measures.
Seven of the nine arrays support FC and iSCSI, four are
scale-out architectures and three support multi-tenancy.
Despite the diversity of options, all of these arrays are
characterized by a solid enterprise feature set.
Recommendation:
The Huawei OceanStor S5800T took “Best-in-Class” in
the Hardware category. The Starboard Storage AC4500
achieving an “Excellent” ranking is remarkable in large
part because Starboard Storage is a startup founded in
2010, and released their first arrays in February 2012. The
AC4500’s little brother—the AC4000—won the 2013 Flash
Memory Summit’s Best of Show award for Most Innovative
Flash Memory Enterprise Business Application. Starboard’s
products are unified hybrid flash-HDD arrays. The management team includes founders/co-founders of multiple storage companies, including LeftHand Networks.
“Good” Ranking
Observations:
The enterprise midrange arrays ranked as “Good” in this
Buyer’s Guide generally shared the following characteristics:
• All support the big three data management tools of
snapshots, replication and thin provisioning
• Support all VAAI v4 features, except for the HP EVA
P6550, which does not support any VAAI features
• Limited or no support for VAAI v5 features and
other VMware integrations
• Support iSCSI connections
and IBM XIV. Depending on business requirements, data
center technologies and vendor relationships, any of these
may be suitable for a given organization.
“Basic” Ranking
Observations:
The 17 enterprise midrange arrays ranked as “Basic” in
each classification of this Buyer’s Guide generally shared
the following characteristics:
• Very limited or non-existent VMware integration
• No multi-tenancy
• No integration with Data Center Operations
Management Software
• Support only a single SAN protocol (FC or iSCSI)
at a time, except for IceWEB Unified Storage which
supports both
• No support for NAS protocols, except for IceWEB
Unified Storage and HP StoreEasy
• Only 7 of the 15 arrays support all three of the big
data management tools of snapshots, replication
and thin provisioning
Recommendation:
When choosing an array ranked as “Basic” an organization must understand its needs, and then let those needs
determine which solutions are the best for its data center.
A “Basic” array may address the need that prompted the
organization to begin looking at enterprise midrange arrays
in the first place. However, most of the “Basic” arrays
provide significantly less deployment flexibility than their
higher scoring competitors.
• SAN block storage devices, with only the top scoring
Nexsan NST5500 supporting unified block (SAN) and
file (NAS) storage
Recommendation:
Arrays achieving a “Good” overall ranking are still suitable for
enterprise data centers. More than half of the arrays scored
in the “Excellent” range for at least one scoring category,
yet are less feature complete overall than the arrays that
achieved a “Recommended” or “Excellent” ranking.
The “Good” arrays include innovative new products as well
as the current arrays in established series like the HP EVA
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ENTERPRISE
MIDRANGE ARRAY
SCORES AND
RANKINGS
The scores and rankings for the backup appliances contain
the following information:
•A chart that includes the scores and rankings
for all of the products
•The mean and the standard deviation that were used
to establish how each backup appliance was ranked
•A summary of the primary findings
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OVERALL SCORES AND RANKINGS
Enterprise Midrange Arrays
Score
Ranking
1.
HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400
147.00
Best-in-Class
2.
EMC VNX7500
145.90
Recommended
3.
EMC VNX5700
143.70
Recommended
4.
HDS HUS 150
139.60
Recommended
5.
HDS HUS VM
139.60
Recommended
6.
NetApp FAS3250
134.50
Recommended
7.
Dell EqualLogic PS6100/PS6110
114.50
Excellent
8.
Huawei OceanStor 5800T
110.70
Excellent
9.
Dell Compellent SC8000
107.20
Excellent
10.
Starboard Storage AC4500
104.15
Excellent
11.
EMC VNXe3300
103.50
Excellent
12.
IBM Storwize V7000U
103.50
Excellent
13.
HP StoreVirtual 4730 Storage
102.05
Excellent
14.
Imation Nexsan NST5500
101.80
Excellent
15.
Dell EqualLogic PS6500/PS65100
100.25
Excellent
16.
Huawei OceanStor S2600T
99.35
Good
17.
Oracle Pillar Data Systems Axiom 600
97.95
Good
18.
Overland Storage SnapSAN S5000
95.85
Good
19.
NetApp E5460
94.15
Good
20.
Imation Nexsan E60
90.30
Good
21.
Dot Hill AssuredSAN Pro 5000 Series
90.05
Good
22.
NetApp E2600-12
89.65
Good
23.
Infortrend EonStor DS S16F-R2852-6 8G FC
86.45
Good
24.
Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3
84.55
Good
25.
Infortrend EonStor DS B24F-R2852
80.85
Good
26.
Infortrend EonStor DS S16E-E2251 10GbE
82.20
Good
27.
Infortrend EonStor DS S48F-R2652-4 16Gb FC
82.20
Good
28.
HP EVA P6550
80.35
Good
29.
IBM XIV Gen 3
79.90
Good
30.
Dot Hill AssuredSAN 300 Series
77.85
Good
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(continued)
Enterprise Midrange Arrays
Score
Ranking
31.
X-IO Hyper ISE 7-Series
73.85
Good
32.
NEC M500
73.10
Good
33.
Infortrend EonStor DS S16E-R2152-6 1GbE
69.90
Good
34.
Aberdeen AberSAN ZXP2 HA ZFS SAN
69.70
Basic
35.
Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4000 Series
68.05
Basic
36.
Infortrend ESVA F75-2830
65.45
Basic
37.
Infortrend ESVA E60-2230
64.65
Basic
38.
X-IO ISE 200 Series
62.30
Basic
39.
Scale Computing ICOS Storage Nodes M Series
58.80
Basic
40.
Overland Storage SnapScale X2
54.60
Basic
41.
IceWEB Unified Storage Appliance Model 7000
53.55
Basic
42.
Aberdeen XDAS D42F7 8Gb FC
51.30
Basic
43.
Aberdeen XDAS iSD41
49.55
Basic
44.
IBM DS5300
49.10
Basic
45.
IBM DCS3700
47.60
Basic
46.
Aberdeen XDAS iXD32 10G
45.90
Basic
47.
Celeros SmartSAN XT23S-FC
45.20
Basic
48.
Celeros SmartSAN XT23S-iSCSI
42.20
Basic
49.
HP StoreEasy 5000
42.05
Basic
50.
Aberdeen XDAS T42F
34.85
Basic
Total Number of Products 50
Rankings
Highest Score
Lowest Score
Average (Mean)
Standard Deviation
147.00
34.85
84.72
29.72
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Recommended 129.31 –
Excellent
99.59 –
Good
69.86 –
Basic
34.85 –
147.00
129.30
99.58
69.85
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Management Software Scores and Rankings
Enterprise Midrange Arrays
Score
Ranking
1.
HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400
66.70
Best-in-Class
2.
EMC VNX5700
61.95
Recommended
3.
EMC VNX7500
60.95
Recommended
4.
HDS HUS 150
60.50
Recommended
5.
HDS HUS VM
59.15
Recommended
6.
NetApp FAS3250
52.90
Excellent
7.
Starboard Storage AC4500
48.05
Excellent
8.
Oracle Pillar Data Systems Axiom 600
47.35
Excellent
9.
Dell EqualLogic PS6100/PS6110
46.20
Excellent
10.
HP StoreVirtual 4730 Storage
45.55
Excellent
11.
Huawei OceanStor 5800T
44.95
Excellent
12.
IBM Storwize V7000U
44.20
Excellent
13.
Dell EqualLogic PS6500/PS65100
43.30
Excellent
14.
Overland Storage SnapSAN S5000
43.15
Excellent
15.
EMC VNXe3300
42.60
Excellent
16.
Dell Compellent SC8000
41.30
Excellent
17.
Dot Hill AssuredSAN Pro 5000 Series
40.15
Good
18.
Imation Nexsan NST5500
39.95
Good
19.
Huawei OceanStor S2600T
39.95
Good
20.
Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3
38.50
Good
21.
Infortrend EonStor DS S16F-R2852-6 8G FC
34.85
Good
22.
Infortrend EonStor DS B24F-R2852
34.85
Good
23.
Infortrend EonStor DS S48F-R2652-4 16Gb FC
34.85
Good
24.
Infortrend EonStor DS S16E-E2251 10GbE
33.85
Good
25.
NetApp E5460
33.30
Good
26.
NetApp E2600-12
32.80
Good
27.
NEC M500
32.55
Good
28.
Imation Nexsan E60
31.65
Good
29.
HP EVA P6550
31.15
Good
30.
IBM XIV Gen 3
28.85
Good
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Management Software Scores and Rankings
(continued)
Enterprise Midrange Arrays
Score
Ranking
31.
Infortrend ESVA E60-2230
28.70
Good
32.
Overland Storage SnapScale X2
27.50
Good
33.
Dot Hill AssuredSAN 300 Series
27.25
Good
34.
Aberdeen AberSAN ZXP2 HA ZFS SAN
26.75
Basic
35.
X-IO Hyper ISE 7-Series
26.35
Basic
36.
Infortrend EonStor DS S16E-R2152-6 1GbE
26.00
Basic
37.
Infortrend ESVA F75-2830
25.55
Basic
38.
Scale Computing ICOS Storage Nodes M Series
24.65
Basic
39.
Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4000 Series
21.15
Basic
40.
Aberdeen XDAS iSD41
20.10
Basic
41.
Celeros SmartSAN XT23S-FC
19.55
Basic
42.
Aberdeen XDAS D42F7 8Gb FC
19.10
Basic
43.
X-IO ISE 200 Series
18.10
Basic
44.
Aberdeen XDAS iXD32 10G
18.00
Basic
45.
IBM DCS3700
17.80
Basic
46.
Celeros SmartSAN XT23S-iSCSI
17.55
Basic
47.
IceWEB Unified Storage Appliance Model 7000
16.50
Basic
48.
HP StoreEasy 5000
13.10
Basic
49.
IBM DS5300
7.10
Basic
50.
Aberdeen XDAS T42F
6.00
Basic
Total Number of Products 50
Rankings
Highest Score
Lowest Score
Average (Mean)
Standard Deviation
66.70
6.00
34.06
14.40
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Recommended 55.66 –
Excellent
41.26 –
Good
26.86 –
Basic
6.00 –
66.70
55.65
41.25
26.85
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MODELS
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Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
69.70
26.75
33.45
0.00
9.50
GOOD
GOOD
EXCELLENT
BASIC
GOOD
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
2
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Active-Active
1
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
16 cores
FC or SAS HDD
Cache (Max)
1616 GB
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
Unlimited
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD‡
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
RoHS Compliant
24 ports
16 ports / 8 ports
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
VAAI v5† (Total #)
8 ports
/
Other VMware Integrations
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
1
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
4
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
2
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
RAID Options
Policy-based Provisioning†
(Total #)
Performance Monitoring App
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
8
VASRM
Storage DRS
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Notification† (Total #)
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
DCM Software† (Total #)
(Total #)
VADP
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
AQDT
0, 1, 5, 6
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
1
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Compression
Snapshot
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
HDD Interface
2
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
5 Years
Business Day
1
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
All information on this product is based strictly upon DCIG's own research and information found on the provider's web site.
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
19
Aberdeen XDAS D42F7 8GB FC
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
51.30
19.10
22.70
0.00
9.50
BASIC
BASIC
BASIC
BASIC
GOOD
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
2
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Active-Standby
1
Cache (Max)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
2 cores
FC or SAS HDD
SSD‡
8 GB
696 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
/
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
8 ports
8 ports
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
VAAI v5† (Total #)
/
Other VMware Integrations
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
2
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
2
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
RAID Options
(Total #)
Performance Monitoring App
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
4
Notification† (Total #)
2
DCM Software† (Total #)
(Total #)
AQDT
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30,
50, 60
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
7.2K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
HDD Interface
1
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
5 Years
Business Day
1
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
All information on this product is based strictly upon DCIG's own research and information found on the provider's web site.
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
20
Aberdeen XDAS iSD41
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
49.55
20.10
19.95
0.00
9.50
BASIC
BASIC
BASIC
BASIC
GOOD
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
2
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Active-Standby
1
Cache (Max)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
2 cores
FC or SAS HDD
SSD‡
4 GB
312 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
12 ports
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
/
12 ports
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
VAAI v5† (Total #)
Other VMware Integrations
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
1
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
2
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
RAID Options
(Total #)
Performance Monitoring App
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
4
Notification† (Total #)
2
DCM Software† (Total #)
(Total #)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
AQDT
0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
HDD Interface
1
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
5 Years
Business Day
(local time)
1
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
All information on this product is based strictly upon DCIG's own research and information found on the provider's web site.
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
21
Aberdeen XDAS iXD32 10G
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
45.90
18.00
18.40
0.00
9.50
BASIC
BASIC
BASIC
BASIC
GOOD
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
2
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
1
1 core
FC or SAS HDD
SATA‡
Cache (Max)
SSD‡
Unlimited
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
4 ports
/ 4 ports
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
VAAI v5† (Total #)
Other VMware Integrations
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
RAID Options
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
2
(Total #)
Performance Monitoring App
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
4
Notification† (Total #)
2
DCM Software† (Total #)
(Total #)
AQDT
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30,
50, 60
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
7.2K, 15K RPM
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
Active-Standby
(CONTINUED)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
HDD Interface
1
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
5 Years
Business Day
(local time)
1
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
All information on this product is based strictly upon DCIG's own research and information found on the provider's web site.
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
22
Aberdeen XDAS T42F
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
34.85
6.00
19.35
0.00
9.50
BASIC
BASIC
BASIC
BASIC
GOOD
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
HARDWARE*
HARDWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
Controller Config
Asynch Replication
Cores (Max)
Active-Standby
Supported Drives
1 core
FC or SAS HDD
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Cache (Max)
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
SSD‡
2 GB
252 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
/
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
8 ports
8 ports
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
VAAI v5† (Total #)
/
Other VMware Integrations
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
RAID Options
(Total #)
Performance Monitoring App
0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30,
50, 60
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
6
Multi-tenancy
7.2K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
AQDT
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
1
Notification† (Total #)
2
DCM Software† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
(Total #)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SATA, SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
5 Years
Business Day
(local time)
1
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
All information on this product is based strictly upon DCIG's own research and information found on the provider's web site.
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
23
Celeros SmartSAN XT23S-FC
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
45.20
19.55
20.15
1.50
4.00
BASIC
BASIC
BASIC
BASIC
BASIC
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
1
HARDWARE*
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Dual-Active
Supported Drives
1 core
FC or SAS HDD
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Cache (Max)
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
SSD‡
8 GB
192 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
/
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
8 ports
8 ports
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
VAAI v5† (Total #)
/
Other VMware Integrations
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
3
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
3
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
RAID Options
(Total #)
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
7
Performance Monitoring App
2
Notification† (Total #)
3
DCM Software† (Total #)
(Total #)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
2
AQDT
0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
HDD Interface
1
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
3 Years
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
All information on this product is based strictly upon DCIG's own research and information found on the provider's web site.
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
24
Celeros SmartSAN XT235-iSCSI
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
42.20
17.55
19.15
1.50
4.00
BASIC
BASIC
BASIC
BASIC
BASIC
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
1
Asynch Replication
Synch Replication
HARDWARE*
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
FC or SAS HDD
Scale-out (Max controllers)
SATA‡
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
192 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
8 ports
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
/
8 ports
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
VAAI v5† (Total #)
Other VMware Integrations
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
3
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
3
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
RAID Options
(Total #)
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
7
Performance Monitoring App
2
Notification† (Total #)
3
DCM Software† (Total #)
(Total #)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
1
AQDT
0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SSD‡
8 GB
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
Supported Drives
Cores (Max)
Cache (Max)
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
Dual-Active
(CONTINUED)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
HDD Interface
1
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
3 Years
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
All information on this product is based strictly upon DCIG's own research and information found on the provider's web site.
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
25
Dell Compellent SC8000
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
107.20
41.30
34.80
18.00
13.10
EXCELLENT
EXCELLENT
EXCELLENT
EXCELLENT
EXCELLENT
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
1
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Active-Standby
2
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
12 cores
FC or SAS HDD
Cache (Max)
128 GB
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
960+ TB
SSD‡
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
20 ports / 20 ports
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
32 ports / 12 ports
44 ports
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
1
Other VMware Integrations
9
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
7
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
10
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
3
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
RAID Options
Policy-based Provisioning†
(Total #)
Performance Monitoring App
AQDT
0, 5, 6, 10
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
8
Multi-tenancy
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
3
Notification† (Total #)
1
DCM Software† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
(Total #)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
FC-AL, SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
8
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
26
Dell EqualLogic
PS6100/PS6110 Series
Approximate Starting List Price: $30,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
114.50
46.20
33.90
23.00
11.40
EXCELLENT
EXCELLENT
EXCELLENT
EXCELLENT
GOOD
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
2
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
2
Cache (Max)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
Active-Standby
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
FC or SAS HDD
36 controllers
SATA‡
8 GB
SSD‡
1,536 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
128 ports
128 ports / 32 ports
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
1
Other VMware Integrations
13
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
7
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
13
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
3
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
(Total #)
2
RAID Options
Performance Monitoring App
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
6
Notification† (Total #)
3
DCM Software† (Total #)
(Total #)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
AQDT
5, 6, 10, 50
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
1
RoHS Compliant
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
Policy-based Provisioning†
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Compression
Snapshot
Supported Drives
8 cores
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
HDD Interface
2
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
7
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
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Licensed to HP for distribution.
27
Dell EqualLogic
PS6500/PS6510 Series
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
100.25
43.30
24.55
24.00
8.40
EXCELLENT
EXCELLENT
GOOD
EXCELLENT
BASIC
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
1
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
2
Cache (Max)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
Dual-Active
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
FC or SAS HDD
16 controllers
SATA‡
4 GB
SSD‡
2,300 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
4 ports
4 ports / 4 ports
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
1
Other VMware Integrations
13
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
7
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
11
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
3
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
(Total #)
2
RAID Options
Performance Monitoring App
AQDT
5, 6, 10, 50
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
Multi-tenancy
1
RoHS Compliant
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
Policy-based Provisioning†
7.2K, 10K RPM
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Compression
Snapshot
Supported Drives
1 core
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
6
Notification† (Total #)
3
DCM Software† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
(Total #)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SATA, SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
1 Year
24×7×365
7
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
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information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
28
Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 Series
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
77.85
27.25
25.60
12.00
13.00
GOOD
GOOD
GOOD
GOOD
EXCELLENT
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
2
HARDWARE*
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Dual-Active
Supported Drives
2 cores
FC or SAS HDD
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Cache (Max)
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD‡
4 GB
384 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
RoHS Compliant
8 ports
8 ports / 4 ports
4 ports
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
1
Other VMware Integrations
7
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
5
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
10
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
AST† (Total #)
Policy-based Provisioning†
(Total #)
3
RAID Options
Performance Monitoring App
AQDT
0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
Multi-tenancy
1
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Compression
Snapshot
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
6
Notification† (Total #)
2
DCM Software† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
(Total #)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
7
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
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information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
29
Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4000 Series
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
68.05
21.15
25.50
9.00
12.40
GOOD
BASIC
GOOD
GOOD
EXCELLENT
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
HARDWARE*
HARDWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
Controller Config
Asynch Replication
Cores (Max)
Dual-Active
Supported Drives
2 cores
FC or SAS HDD
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Cache (Max)
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
SSD‡
8 GB
384 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
RoHS Compliant
Snapshot
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
/
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
8 ports
8 ports
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
/
Other VMware Integrations
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
5
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
9
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
(Total #)
3
RAID Options
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
Multi-tenancy
Performance Monitoring App
5
AQDT
0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
Policy-based Provisioning†
1
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Compression
AST† (Total #)
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
6
Notification† (Total #)
3
DCM Software† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
(Total #)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
7
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
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information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
30
Dot Hill AssuredSAN Pro 5000 Series
Approximate Starting List Price: $50,000–$100,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
90.05
40.15
25.50
12.00
12.40
GOOD
GOOD
GOOD
GOOD
EXCELLENT
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
2
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Dual-Active
3
Cache (Max)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
2 cores
FC or SAS HDD
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD‡
8 GB
433 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
RoHS Compliant
8 ports
8 ports / 8 ports
8 ports
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
1
Other VMware Integrations
7
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
5
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
9
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
2
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
(Total #)
3
RAID Options
Performance Monitoring App
AQDT
6, 10
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
Multi-tenancy
1
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Compression
Snapshot
7.2K, 10K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
6
Notification† (Total #)
2
DCM Software† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
(Total #)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
7
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
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information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
31
EMC VNX5700
Approximate Starting List Price: $50,000–$100,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
143.70
61.95
37.15
30.50
14.10
RECOMMENDED
RECOMMENDED
RECOMMENDED
RECOMMENDED
RECOMMENDED
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
4
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Dual-Active,
Active-Standby
3
Cache (Max)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
4 cores
FC or SAS HDD
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD‡
36 GB
1,500 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
RoHS Compliant
72 ports
64 ports / 36 ports
40 ports
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
10
VAAI v5† (Total #)
10
Other VMware Integrations
17
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
8
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
15
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
4
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
(Total #)
2
RAID Options
Performance Monitoring App
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
6
Notification† (Total #)
3
DCM Software† (Total #)
6
(Total #)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
AQDT
0, 1, 5, 6, 10
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
5
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Compression
Snapshot
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
4
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
9
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
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information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
32
EMC VNX7500
Approximate Starting List Price: $50,000– $100,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
145.90
60.95
39.35
31.50
14.10
RECOMMENDED
RECOMMENDED
RECOMMENDED
RECOMMENDED
RECOMMENDED
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
4
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Active-Standy,
Dual-Active
3
Cache (Max)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
6 cores
FC or SAS HDD
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD‡
48 GB
3,000 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
RoHS Compliant
160 ports
144 ports / 76 ports
64 ports
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
5
Other VMware Integrations
18
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
8
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
15
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
4
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
(Total #)
2
RAID Options
Performance Monitoring App
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
6
Notification† (Total #)
3
DCM Software† (Total #)
6
(Total #)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
AQDT
0, 1, 5, 6, 10
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
5
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Compression
Snapshot
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
4
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
9
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
33
EMC VNXe3300
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
103.50
42.60
26.70
23.00
11.20
EXCELLENT
EXCELLENT
GOOD
EXCELLENT
GOOD
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
2
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Active-Standby,
Dual-Active
2
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
4 cores
FC or SAS HDD
Cache (Max)
24 GB
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
360 TB
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD‡
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
RoHS Compliant
16 ports
6 ports / 4 ports
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
4
Other VMware Integrations
11
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
5
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
12
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
AST† (Total #)
Policy-based Provisioning†
(Total #)
4
RAID Options
Performance Monitoring App
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
4
Notification† (Total #)
3
DCM Software† (Total #)
(Total #)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
AQDT
5, 6, 10
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
2
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Compression
Snapshot
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
HDD Interface
2
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
6
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
34
Hitachi Data Systems HUS 150
Approximate Starting List Price: $50,000–$100,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
139.60
59.15
38.45
30.00
12.00
RECOMMENDED
RECOMMENDED
RECOMMENDED
RECOMMENDED
EXCELLENT
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
4
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Active-Active
4
Cache (Max)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
4 cores
FC or SAS HDD
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD‡
220 GB
3,840 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
RoHS Compliant
40 ports
24 ports / 24 ports
16 ports
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
5
Other VMware Integrations
16
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
6
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
12
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
3
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
(Total #)
2
RAID Options
Performance Monitoring App
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
7
Notification† (Total #)
3
DCM Software† (Total #)
1
(Total #)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
AQDT
0, 1, 5, 6, 10
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
4
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Compression
Snapshot
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
2
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
8
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
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information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
35
Hitachi Data Systems HUS VM
Approximate Starting List Price: $150,000–$250,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
139.60
60.50
37.10
30.00
12.00
RECOMMENDED
RECOMMENDED
EXCELLENT
RECOMMENDED
EXCELLENT
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
4
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Active-Active
4
Cache (Max)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
16 cores
FC or SAS HDD
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD‡
688 GB
4,608 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
RoHS Compliant
56 ports
24 ports / 16 ports
48 ports
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
5
Other VMware Integrations
16
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
8
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
12
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
3
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
(Total #)
2
RAID Options
Performance Monitoring App
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
7
Notification† (Total #)
3
DCM Software† (Total #)
(Total #)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
AQDT
5, 6, 10
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
5
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Compression
Snapshot
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
HDD Interface
2
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
8
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
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information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
36
HP EVA P6550
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
80.35
31.15
25.90
10.00
13.30
GOOD
GOOD
GOOD
GOOD
EXCELLENT
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
2
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Active-Active
1
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
1 core
FC or SAS HDD
Cache (Max)
16 GB
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
960 TB
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD‡
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
RoHS Compliant
12 ports
8 ports / 4 ports
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
VAAI v5† (Total #)
8 ports
/
Other VMware Integrations
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
4
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
9
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
RAID Options
(Total #)
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
Performance Monitoring App
8
AQDT
0, 1, 5, 6
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
1
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Compression
Snapshot
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
3
Notification† (Total #)
2
DCM Software† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
(Total #)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
9
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
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information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
37
HP StoreEasy 5000
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
42.05
13.10
18.95
0.00
10.00
BASIC
BASIC
BASIC
BASIC
BASIC
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
HARDWARE*
HARDWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
Controller Config
Asynch Replication
Cores (Max)
Active-Standby
Supported Drives
8 cores
FC or SAS HDD
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Cache (Max)
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD‡
2 GB
402 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
RoHS Compliant
14 ports
10 ports / 4 ports
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
VAAI v5† (Total #)
/
Other VMware Integrations
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
1
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
3
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
RAID Options
(Total #)
Performance Monitoring App
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
1
Notification† (Total #)
2
DCM Software† (Total #)
(Total #)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
AQDT
0, 1, 5, 6, 10
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
1
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Compression
Snapshot
7.2K, 10K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
HDD Interface
3
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
7
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
All information on this product is based strictly upon DCIG's own research and information found on the provider's web site.
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
38
HP StoreVirtual 4730 Storage
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
102.05
45.55
22.70
21.00
12.80
EXCELLENT
EXCELLENT
BASIC
EXCELLENT
EXCELLENT
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
2
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
2
Cache (Max)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
Single Controller,
Active-Active
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
FC or SAS HDD
32 controllers
SATA‡
4 GB
SSD‡
22.5 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
RoHS Compliant
8 ports
4 ports / 2 ports
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
2 ports
/
Other VMware Integrations
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
5
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
15
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
(Total #)
2
RAID Options
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
Performance Monitoring App
5
Notification† (Total #)
3
DCM Software† (Total #)
(Total #)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
14
AQDT
5, 6, 10
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
AST† (Total #)
10K RPM
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Compression
Snapshot
Supported Drives
6 cores
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
HDD Interface
2
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
8
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
39
HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400
Approximate Starting List Price: $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
147.00
66.70
33.60
32.00
14.70
BEST-IN-CLASS
BEST-IN-CLASS
EXCELLENT
BEST-IN-CLASS
BEST-IN-CLASS
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
2
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
4
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
Active-Active
Supported Drives
6 cores
FC or SAS HDD
4 controllers
SATA‡
Cache (Max)
64 GB
SSD‡
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
864 TB
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
24 ports
8 ports / 8 ports
24 ports
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
4
Other VMware Integrations
18
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
8
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
12
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
3
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
(Total #)
7
RAID Options
Performance Monitoring App
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
6
Notification† (Total #)
3
DCM Software† (Total #)
9
(Total #)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
AQDT
0, 1, 5, 6
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
4
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
2
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
9
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
40
Huawei OceanStor S2600T
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
99.35
39.95
33.20
17.50
8.70
EXCELLENT
EXCELLENT
EXCELLENT
EXCELLENT
GOOD
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
3
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Active-Active
2
Cache (Max)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
2 cores
FC or SAS HDD
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD‡
16 GB
1,104 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
16 ports
8 ports / 8 ports
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
16 ports
/
Other VMware Integrations
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
2
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
10
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
3
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
RAID Options
(Total #)
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
8
Performance Monitoring App
2
Notification† (Total #)
3
DCM Software† (Total #)
(Total #)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
11
AQDT
0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
Policy-based Provisioning†
7.2K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
HDD Interface
2
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
3
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
41
Huawei OceanStor S5800T
Approximate Starting List Price: $100,000–$150,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
110.70
44.95
40.25
17.50
8.00
EXCELLENT
EXCELLENT
BEST-IN-CLASS
EXCELLENT
BASIC
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
3
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Active-Active
2
Cache (Max)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
8 cores
FC or SAS HDD
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD‡
192 GB
5,760 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
RoHS Compliant
24 ports
20 ports / 20 ports
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
20 ports
/
Other VMware Integrations
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
2
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
10
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
3
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
RAID Options
(Total #)
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
Performance Monitoring App
2
Notification† (Total #)
3
DCM Software† (Total #)
(Total #)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
11
AQDT
0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
Policy-based Provisioning†
1
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Compression
Snapshot
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
HDD Interface
2
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
3
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
42
IBM DCS3700
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
47.60
17.80
21.80
0.00
8.00
BASIC
BASIC
BASIC
BASIC
BASIC
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
2
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Dual-Active
1
Cache (Max)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
4 cores
FC or SAS HDD
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD‡
48 GB
1,000+ TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
16 ports
4 ports / 4 ports
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
VAAI v5† (Total #)
16 ports
/
Other VMware Integrations
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
RAID Options
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
4
(Total #)
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
AQDT
0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10
VADP
/
VASRM
Redundancy† (Total #)
Performance Monitoring App
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
2
Notification† (Total #)
2
DCM Software† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
(Total #)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
1 Year
24×7×365
7
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
All information on this product is based strictly upon DCIG's own research and information found on the provider's web site.
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
43
IBM DS5300
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
49.30
7.10
31.00
0.00
11.00
BASIC
BASIC
EXCELLENT
BASIC
GOOD
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
HARDWARE*
HARDWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
Controller Config
Asynch Replication
Cores (Max)
Dual-Active
Supported Drives
1 core
FC or SAS HDD
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Cache (Max)
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD‡
64 GB
1,440 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
16 ports
16 ports / 8 ports
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
VAAI v5† (Total #)
16 ports
/
Other VMware Integrations
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
RAID Options
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
6
(Total #)
Performance Monitoring App
AQDT
0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
8
Multi-tenancy
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
2
Notification† (Total #)
2
DCM Software† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
(Total #)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
FC-AL, SATA, SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
7
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
All information on this product is based strictly upon DCIG's own research and information found on the provider's web site.
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
44
IBM Storwize V7000U
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
103.50
44.20
27.50
22.00
9.80
EXCELLENT
EXCELLENT
GOOD
EXCELLENT
GOOD
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
2
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
3
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
Dual-Active
Supported Drives
4 cores
FC or SAS HDD
8
SATA‡
Cache (Max)
16 GB
SSD‡
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
480 TB
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
16 ports
4 ports / 4 ports
8 ports
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
4
Other VMware Integrations
9
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
9
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
12
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
2
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
(Total #)
6
RAID Options
Performance Monitoring App
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
4
Notification† (Total #)
2
DCM Software† (Total #)
1
(Total #)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
AQDT
0, 1, 5, 6, 10
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
1
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
2
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
FC-AW, SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
5
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
45
IBM XIV Gen 3
Approximate Starting List Price: $1,000,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
79.90
28.85
27.75
15.00
8.30
GOOD
GOOD
GOOD
EXCELLENT
BASIC
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
1
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
2
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
Active-Active
Supported Drives
1 core
FC or SAS HDD
15 controllers
SATA‡
Cache (Max)
96 GB
SSD‡
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
360 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
22 ports
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
24 ports
24 ports
/
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
Other VMware Integrations
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
7
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
7
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
RAID Options
10
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
Multi-tenancy
Performance Monitoring App
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
(Total #)
7.2K RPM
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
9
AQDT
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
3
Notification† (Total #)
DCM Software† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
(Total #)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
3
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
All information on this product is based strictly upon DCIG's own research and information found on the provider's web site.
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
46
IceWEB Unified Storage Appliance
Model 7000
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
53.55
16.50
28.75
0.00
8.30
BASIC
BASIC
GOOD
BASIC
BASIC
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
2
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Active-Standby,
Active-Active
1
Cache (Max)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
1 core
FC or SAS HDD
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD‡
1,024 GB
960 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
26 ports
26 ports / 12 ports
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
VAAI v5† (Total #)
12 ports
/
Other VMware Integrations
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
AST† (Total #)
1
RAID Options
Policy-based Provisioning†
(Total #)
Performance Monitoring App
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
6
3
Notification† (Total #)
1
DCM Software† (Total #)
(Total #)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
AQDT
0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface FC-AL, FC-SW, SAS 6Gb
2
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Hardware Warranty
Contract Support Availability
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
3
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
All information on this product is based strictly upon DCIG's own research and information found on the provider's web site.
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
47
Imation Nexsan E60
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
90.30
31.65
31.15
14.00
13.50
GOOD
GOOD
EXCELLENT
GOOD
EXCELLENT
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
1
HARDWARE*
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Active-Active
Supported Drives
4 cores
FC or SAS HDD
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
Cache (Max)
32 GB
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
720 TB
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD‡
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
12 ports
8 ports / 8 ports
8 ports
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
2
Other VMware Integrations
6
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
5
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
16
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
RAID Options
(Total #)
Performance Monitoring App
AQDT
0, 1, 4, 5, 6, 10
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
Multi-tenancy
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
6
Notification† (Total #)
3
DCM Software† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
(Total #)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SATA, SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
9
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
48
Imation Nexsan NST5500
Approximate Starting List Price: $50,000-$100,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
101.80
39.95
35.55
15.50
10.80
EXCELLENT
GOOD
EXCELLENT
GOOD
GOOD
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
1
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Dual-Active
4
Cache (Max)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
12 cores
FC or SAS HDD
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD‡
384 GB
5,040 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
16 ports
12 ports / 4 ports
12 ports
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
2
Other VMware Integrations
8
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
6
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
11
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
2
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
(Total #)
1
RAID Options
Performance Monitoring App
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
7
Notification† (Total #)
3
DCM Software† (Total #)
(Total #)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
AQDT
5, 6, 10
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
HDD Interface
2
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
Contract Support Availability
SATA, SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
7
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
49
Infortrend EonStor
DS B24F-R2852
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
83.45
34.85
26.40
13.00
9.20
GOOD
GOOD
GOOD
GOOD
GOOD
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
3
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Active-Standby
3
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
4 cores
FC or SAS HDD
Cache (Max)
32 GB
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
288 TB
SSD‡
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
4 ports
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
8 ports
12 ports
/
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
1
Other VMware Integrations
7
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
5
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
11
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
AST† (Total #)
Policy-based Provisioning†
(Total #)
1
RAID Options
Performance Monitoring App
AQDT
0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
Multi-tenancy
7.2K, 10K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
4
Notification† (Total #)
2
DCM Software† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
(Total #)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SATA, SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
5
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
50
Infortrend EonStor
DS S16E-R2152-6 1GBE
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
69.90
26.00
27.40
7.50
9.00
GOOD
GOOD
GOOD
GOOD
GOOD
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
2
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Active-Standby
1
Cache (Max)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
4 cores
FC or SAS HDD
SSD‡
16 GB
960 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
12 ports
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
/
12 ports
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
Other VMware Integrations
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
2
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
7
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
RAID Options
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
Multi-tenancy
Performance Monitoring App
0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30,
50, 60
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
(Total #)
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
2
AQDT
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
4
Notification† (Total #)
2
DCM Software† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
(Total #)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SATA, SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
5
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
51
Infortrend EonStor
DS S16E-R2251 10GbE
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
82.20
33.85
27.15
12.00
9.20
GOOD
GOOD
GOOD
GOOD
GOOD
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
3
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Active-Standby
3
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
4 cores
FC or SAS HDD
Cache (Max)
16 GB
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
960 TB
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD‡
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
4 ports
4 ports / 4 ports
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
1
Other VMware Integrations
5
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
5
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
11
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
AST† (Total #)
Policy-based Provisioning†
(Total #)
1
RAID Options
Performance Monitoring App
0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30,
50, 60
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
Multi-tenancy
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
AQDT
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
4
Notification† (Total #)
2
DCM Software† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
(Total #)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SATA, SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
5
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
52
Infortrend EonStor
DS S16F-R2852-6 8G FC
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
86.45
34.85
29.40
13.00
9.20
GOOD
GOOD
GOOD
GOOD
GOOD
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
3
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Active-Standby
3
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
4 cores
FC or SAS HDD
Cache (Max)
16 GB
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
960 TB
SSD‡
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
4 ports
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
8 ports
8 ports
/
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
1
Other VMware Integrations
7
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
5
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
11
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
AST† (Total #)
Policy-based Provisioning†
(Total #)
1
RAID Options
Performance Monitoring App
0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30,
50, 60
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
Multi-tenancy
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
AQDT
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
4
Notification† (Total #)
2
DCM Software† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
(Total #)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SATA, SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
5
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
53
Infortrend EonStor
DS S48F-R2652-4 16Gb FC
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
82.20
34.85
25.15
13.00
9.20
GOOD
GOOD
BASIC
GOOD
GOOD
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
3
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Active-Standby
3
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
4 cores
FC or SAS HDD
Cache (Max)
16 GB
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
960 TB
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD‡
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
8 ports
4 ports
/
/ 4 ports
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
1
Other VMware Integrations
7
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
5
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
11
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
AST† (Total #)
Policy-based Provisioning†
(Total #)
1
RAID Options
Performance Monitoring App
0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30,
50, 60
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
Multi-tenancy
7.2K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
AQDT
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
4
Notification† (Total #)
2
DCM Software† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
(Total #)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
5
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
54
Infortrend ESVA E60-2230
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
64.65
28.70
27.45
0.00
8.50
BASIC
GOOD
GOOD
BASIC
BASIC
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
2
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
1
Cache (Max)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
Active-Standby
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
FC or SAS HDD
12 controllers
SATA‡
8 GB
SSD‡
4,800 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
RoHS Compliant
4 ports
/ 4 ports
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
VAAI v5† (Total #)
Other VMware Integrations
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
2
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
9
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
3
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
RAID Options
Policy-based Provisioning†
(Total #)
Performance Monitoring App
0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30,
50, 60
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
Multi-tenancy
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Compression
Snapshot
Supported Drives
1 core
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
AQDT
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
4
Notification† (Total #)
2
DCM Software† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
(Total #)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
4
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
55
Infortrend ESVA F75-2830
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
67.45
25.55
27.90
5.00
9.00
BASIC
BASIC
GOOD
BASIC
GOOD
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
HARDWARE*
HARDWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
Controller Config
Asynch Replication
Cores (Max)
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
1
Cache (Max)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
Active-Standby
Supported Drives
1 core
FC or SAS HDD
12 controllers
SATA‡
16 GB
SSD‡
4,800+ TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
4 ports
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
8 ports
12 ports
/
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
Other VMware Integrations
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
2
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
11
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
3
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
RAID Options
(Total #)
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
Multi-tenancy
Performance Monitoring App
0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30,
50, 60
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
Policy-based Provisioning†
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
AQDT
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
2
Notification† (Total #)
2
DCM Software† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
(Total #)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
5
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
56
NEC M500
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
73.10
32.55
26.55
10.00
4.00
GOOD
GOOD
GOOD
GOOD
BASIC
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
2
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Active-Active
2
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
1 core
FC or SAS HDD
Cache (Max)
40 GB
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
192 TB
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD‡
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
8 ports
8 ports / 4 ports
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
8 ports
/
Other VMware Integrations
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
4
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
7
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
RAID Options
Performance Monitoring App
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
3
Notification† (Total #)
3
DCM Software† (Total #)
(Total #)
6
AQDT
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60,
Triple Parity
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
(Total #)
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
HDD Interface
2
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
3 Years
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
All information on this product is based strictly upon DCIG's own research and information found on the provider's web site.
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
57
NetApp E2600-12
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
89.65
32.80
31.85
13.50
11.50
GOOD
GOOD
EXCELLENT
GOOD
GOOD
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
2
HARDWARE*
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Dual-Active
Supported Drives
1 core
FC or SAS HDD
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Cache (Max)
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD‡
2,048 GB
768 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
8 ports
8 ports / 4 ports
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
8 ports
/
Other VMware Integrations
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
2
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
10
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
3
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
RAID Options
(Total #)
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
10
Performance Monitoring App
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Notification† (Total #)
DCM Software† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
(Total #)
6
AQDT
0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
Policy-based Provisioning†
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
8
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
58
NetApp E5460
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
94.15
33.30
33.85
15.50
11.50
GOOD
GOOD
EXCELLENT
GOOD
GOOD
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
2
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Dual-Active
2
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
1 core
FC or SAS HDD
Cache (Max)
2,048 GB
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
1,536 TB
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD‡
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
16 ports
/ 4 ports
16 ports
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
Other VMware Integrations
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
2
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
10
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
3
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
RAID Options
(Total #)
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
10
Multi-tenancy
Performance Monitoring App
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Notification† (Total #)
DCM Software† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
(Total #)
5
AQDT
0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
Policy-based Provisioning†
7.2K, 10K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
8
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
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Licensed to HP for distribution.
59
NetApp FAS3250
Approximate Starting List Price: $50,000–$100,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
134.50
52.90
43.00
26.50
12.10
RECOMMENDED
EXCELLENT
RECOMMENDED
EXCELLENT
EXCELLENT
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
1
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
4
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
Active-Active
Supported Drives
16 cores
FC or SAS HDD
24 controllers
SATA‡
Cache (Max)
2,048 GB
SSD‡
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
2,880 TB
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
52 ports
52 ports / 24 ports
24 ports
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
4
Other VMware Integrations
17
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
8
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
13
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
3
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
(Total #)
1
RAID Options
Performance Monitoring App
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
4
Notification† (Total #)
3
DCM Software† (Total #)
(Total #)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
AQDT
4, 6
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
1
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
10K, 15K RPM
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
HDD Interface
2
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
Contract Support Availability
SAS 3GB, 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
7
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
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information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
60
Oracle Pillar Data Systems Axiom 600
Approximate Starting List Price: $50,000–$100,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
97.95
47.35
33.10
9.00
8.50
GOOD
EXCELLENT
EXCELLENT
GOOD
BASIC
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
3
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
1
Cache (Max)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
Active-Active
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
FC or SAS HDD
8 controllers
SATA‡
48 GB
SSD‡
1667 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
RoHS Compliant
32 ports
32 ports / 16 ports
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
VAAI v5† (Total #)
16 ports
/
Other VMware Integrations
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
6
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
9
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
2
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
(Total #)
1
RAID Options
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
Performance Monitoring App
3
Notification† (Total #)
3
DCM Software† (Total #)
(Total #)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
7
AQDT
0, 1, 5, 10, 50
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
10K, 15K RPM
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Compression
Snapshot
Supported Drives
4 cores
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
HDD Interface
2
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
Contract Support Availability
FC-SW
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
1 Year
24×7×365
7
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
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information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
61
Oracle Sun ZFS Storage ZS3
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
84.55
38.50
37.55
0.00
8.50
GOOD
GOOD
RECOMMENDED
BASIC
BASIC
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
2
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Active-Active,
Active-Standby
3
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
80 cores
FC or SAS HDD
Cache (Max)
23,000 GB
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3,456 TB
SSD‡
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
40 ports / 24 ports
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
16 ports / 16 ports
40 ports
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
VAAI v5† (Total #)
Other VMware Integrations
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
2
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
13
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
3
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
(Total #)
2
RAID Options
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
AQDT
0, 1, 5, 6, Triple Parity
VADP
/
VASRM
Redundancy† (Total #)
Performance Monitoring App
7
Notification† (Total #)
3
DCM Software† (Total #)
(Total #)
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
3
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Snapshot
Policy-based Provisioning†
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
HDD Interface
2
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
1 Year
24×7×365
9
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
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information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
62
Overland Storage SnapSAN S5000
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
95.85
43.15
26.20
16.50
10.00
EXCELLENT
EXCELLENT
GOOD
EXCELLENT
GOOD
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
1
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Active-Active
2
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
1 core
FC or SAS HDD
Cache (Max)
16 GB
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
384 TB
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD‡
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
RoHS Compliant
8 ports
4 ports / 4ports
4 ports
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
4
Other VMware Integrations
6
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
4
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
3
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
2
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
(Total #)
5
RAID Options
Performance Monitoring App
AQDT
0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
8
Multi-tenancy
1
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Compression
Snapshot
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
5
Notification† (Total #)
2
DCM Software† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
(Total #)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
5
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
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information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
63
Overland Storage SnapScale X2
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
54.60
27.50
18.90
0.00
8.20
BASIC
GOOD
BASIC
BASIC
BASIC
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
1
HARDWARE*
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Cache (Max)
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
Active-Active
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
FC or SAS HDD
144 controllers
SATA‡
32 GB
SSD‡
512, 000 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
RoHS Compliant
4 ports
4 ports / 4 ports
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
VAAI v5† (Total #)
/
Other VMware Integrations
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
1
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
6
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
RAID Options
AQDT
(Total #)
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
5
Multi-tenancy
Performance Monitoring App
1
Notification† (Total #)
3
DCM Software† (Total #)
(Total #)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
7.2K RPM
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Compression
Snapshot
Supported Drives
4 cores
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
HDD Interface
2
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
Contract Support Availability
SAS
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
1 Year
24×7×365
7
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
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information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
64
Scale Computing
ICOS Storage Nodes M Series
Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
58.80
24.65
22.15
5.50
6.50
BASIC
GOOD
BASIC
BASIC
BASIC
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
1
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
1
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
Active-Active
Supported Drives
1 core
FC or SAS HDD
20 controllers
SATA‡
Cache (Max)
96 GB
SSD‡
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
160 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
80 ports
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
/
80 ports
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
VAAI v5† (Total #)
Other VMware Integrations
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
3
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
2
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
RAID Options
10
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
(Total #)
Multi-tenancy
Performance Monitoring App
1
Notification† (Total #)
2
DCM Software† (Total #)
(Total #)
5
AQDT
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
15K RPM
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
HDD Interface
3
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
1 Year
Contract Support Availability
SATA, SAS 3Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
All information on this product is based strictly upon DCIG's own research and information found on the provider's web site.
©2013 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The
information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
65
Starboard AC4500
Approximate Starting List Price: $64,995
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
104.15
48.05
28.30
15.00
12.80
EXCELLENT
EXCELLENT
GOOD
EXCELLENT
EXCELLENT
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
2
HARDWARE*
Controller Config
Cores (Max)
Asynch Replication
Active-Standby
3
Cache (Max)
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
8 cores
FC or SAS HDD
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD‡
6,400 GB
576 TB
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
RoHS Compliant
10 ports
10 ports / 2 ports
2 ports
/
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
2
Other VMware Integrations
8
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
4
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
10
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
3
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
RAID Options
Policy-based Provisioning†
(Total #)
Performance Monitoring App
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
2
Notification† (Total #)
3
DCM Software† (Total #)
1
(Total #)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
AQDT
10, 50, Triple Parity
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
Multi-tenancy
3
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Inline Compression
Snapshot
7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
Supported Drives
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
HARDWARE*
2
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
3 Years
24×7×365
7
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
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information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable.
Licensed to HP for distribution.
66
X-IO Hyper ISE 7-Series
Approximate Starting List Price: $100,000–$150,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
73.85
26.35
24.00
9.00
14.50
GOOD
BASIC
BASIC
GOOD
RECOMMENDED
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
HARDWARE*
HARDWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
Controller Config
Asynch Replication
Cores (Max)
Active-Active
Supported Drives
4 cores
FC or SAS HDD
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
Cache (Max)
8 GB
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
36 TB
SSD‡
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
/
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
8 ports
8 ports
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
VAAI v4† (Total #)
/
Other VMware Integrations
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
6
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
10
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
2
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
RAID Options
(Total #)
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
Multi-tenancy
Performance Monitoring App
3
AQDT
5, 10
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
Policy-based Provisioning†
10K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
4
Notification† (Total #)
2
DCM Software† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
(Total #)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
5 Years
24×7×365
5
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
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Approximate Starting List Price: Under $50,000
DCIG Scores and Rankings
OVERALL
SCORE
Management
& Software*
Hardware*
vSphere
Integration*
Support
62.30
18.10
22.20
7.50
14.50
BASIC
BASIC
BASIC
GOOD
RECOMMENDED
MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE*
HARDWARE*
HARDWARE*
Snapshots† (Total #)
Controller Config
Asynch Replication
Cores (Max)
Active-Active
Supported Drives
4 cores
FC or SAS HDD
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Synch Replication
Thin Provisioning† (Total #)
3rd Party Storage
Reclamation
Cache (Max)
8 GB
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
36 TB
Storage Networking Ports
(Max)
Replication
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports
(Max)
Thin Provisioning
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports
(Max)
SSD‡
SSD Optimization† (Total #)
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
RoHS Compliant
Inline Compression
Snapshot
vSPHERE INTEGRATION*
8
/ 8 ports
8 ports
/
VAAI v4† (Total #)
Other VMware Integrations
FC
Snapshot Integration
with vSphere‡
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
FCoE
Performance Metrics for VAAI
Multipathing† (Total #)
6
iSCSI
vSphere Plug-in for
Array Management
Hypervisor/OS† (Total #)
10
Concurrent FC & iSCSI
SIOC
AST† (Total #)
Concurrent SAN & NAS
VASA
Policy-based Provisioning†
RAID Options
/
Redundancy† (Total #)
9
Multi-tenancy
Performance Monitoring App
1
AQDT
5, 10
Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes
3
VAAI v5† (Total #)
Re-striping Data on New
Disk/LUN
(Total #)
10K RPM
SATA‡
Inline Deduplication
Feature License Included
(CONTINUED)
VADP
VASRM
Storage DRS
Drives: Global Hot Spares
Mgt Interfaces† (Total #)
4
Notification† (Total #)
2
DCM Software† (Total #)
Network File Systems†
(Total #)
SUPPORT
Anti-vibration
Hardware Warranty
Advanced HDD Spin Down
HDD Interface
Contract Support Availability
SAS 6Gb
Concurrent HDD Mix
In Controller‡
Contract Support† (Total #)
5 Years
24×7×365
5
Non-Contract Support‡
*The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each
array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet.
†The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements
supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG.
‡See the IBG for a complete list of supported options.
Supported
Unsupported
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Appendix B—Storage Provider Contact Information
APPENDIX
Appendix A: Definitions, Explanations and Terminology
Appendix B: Storage Provider Contact Information
Appendix C: Author Contact Information
Appendix D: Complete List of Midrange Arrays
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Definitions, Explanations and Terminology
This section contains brief definitions and/or explanations of the terms used and assumptions made when developing the
data sheets found in the DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide. These terms are in the same order as they
appear on the individual data sheets.
Management & Software
Snapshots (Total #)
This score indicates if the array can do snapshots and, if it
can, how many snapshot options it support. A numeric
score (if present) represents the number of snapshot
options it supports. An “X” indicates no support for this
feature. A check mark indicates support for this feature
though insufficient information was provided by the vendor
or vendor website to confidently ascertain which snapshots
were supported. See the DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide
(IBG) for a list of supported snapshot options for any
particular array. Snapshot options covered in the IBG are:
AoW: Allocate-on-write snapshot. Blocks of data are
locked down until all snapshot pointers to those blocks
are no longer referenced.
CoW: Copy-on-write snapshot. Copies changes to stored
data every time new data is entered or existing data is
updated to a new location before the existing data is
updated.
Split-Mirror: References all data on a set of mirrored
volumes and, every time a snapshot is created, one of
the LUNs or volumes and all of its data is split off from
the other one.
Full Copy: References all data on a volume and, every
time a snapshot is created, copies all of the data on the
volume to another.
Asynch Replication
Indicates if the array can asynchronously replicate data to
another midrange array from the same storage provider.
Asynchronous replication may be continuous or periodic.
See the DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a list of
supported options for any particular array. Supported
options may include:
Continuous: Every write I/O is copied, stored in a local
disk cache and then replicated as soon as possible to a
secondary midrange array.
Periodic: A snapshot of one or more volumes is periodically taken with that snapshot and then replicated to a
secondary midrange array.
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Synch Replication
Indicates if the array can synchronously replicate data to
another midrange array from the same storage provider.
Write I/Os need to be received at the primary or source
array and then copied and written to the secondary, or
target array, with the write confirmed as complete by both
before processing can continue. A check mark indicates
this feature is supported.
Thin Provisioning (Total #)
Using thin provisioning, only as much storage capacity as
the host consumes on the array is actually allocated to the
host. The rest of the storage capacity remains in the
storage array’s free storage pool until it is needed by the
array. A numeric score (if present) represents the number of
thin provision options the array supports. An “X” indicates
no support for this feature. A check mark indicates support
for this feature though insufficient information was provided
by the vendor or vendor website to confidently ascertain
which thin provisioning features were supported. See the
DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a detailed list of
supported options for any particular array.
3rd Party Storage Reclamation
Indicates if the array is recognized by third party software,
such as Symantec Storage Foundation, that can reclaim
freed blocks of its thinly provisioned storage put back in a
free storage pool. A midrange array may also natively
support its own storage reclamation features.
Feature Software Included
A check mark indicates if the array includes the Snapshot,
Replication or Thin Provisioning feature without an extra
licensing fee.
Re-striping data on new disk/LUN
A check mark indicates the array offers the capability
for data to be re-striped across all its disks or LUNs
when new disks or LUNs are added to the Virtual Storage
Pool. Possible options available to re-stripe data include
Automatic (re-striping occurs as soon as disk or LUN
is added), Manual (re-striping occurs only when the
process is explicitly initiated), or Scheduled (re-striping
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occurs when the process is scheduled). See the DCIG
Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a detailed list of
supported options for any particular array.
Mixed Drive Types in LUN
A check mark indicates that a Virtual Storage Pool can
contain disks of various types (SAS and/or FC, SATA, SSD)
and/or LUNs of mixed RAID types (1, 5, 6, etc.).
Multipathing (Total #)
Indicates if the array supports third party multipathing
software. A numeric score (if present) represents the
number of multipathing options it supports. An “X” indicates
no support for this feature. A check mark indicates support
for this feature though insufficient information was provided
by the vendor or vendor website to confidently ascertain
which multipathing software was supported. See the DCIG
Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a detailed list
of supported options for any particular array.
Hypervisor/OS (Total #)
Indicates the extent to which hypervisor host and/or client
operating systems are certified with the array and on the
operating system provider’s hardware compatibility list
(HCL). Possible options supported include Microsoft
Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Windows, and HP-UX,
among others. A numeric score (if present) represents the
number of hypervisors/OSes it supports. An “X” indicates
no support for this feature. A check mark indicates support
for this feature though insufficient information was provided
by the vendor or vendor website to confidently ascertain
which hypervisors/OSes were supported. See the DCIG
Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a detailed list of
supported hypervisors/OSes for any particular array.
AST (Total #)
Automated Storage Tiering (AST) places data on the
appropriate tier of storage (SATA, SAS, FC or SSD) within
the array based upon policies that are either built into the
storage array, set by the storage administrator or some
combination of both. Moving data between tiers may
occur at pre-scheduled times or dynamically. A numeric
score (if present) represents the number of AST options it
supports. An “X” indicates no support for this feature. A
check mark indicates support for this feature though
insufficient information was provided by the vendor or
vendor website to confidently ascertain which AST
options were supported. See the DCIG Interactive
Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a detailed list of supported
options for any particular array.
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Policy-based Provisioning (Total #)
Policy-based provisioning automates some aspect of the
provisioning process. Answer options include: Policy-based
storage selection, create storage templates to include SLA/
QoS requirements, provisioning via server groups linked to
storage templates, self-service portal for server and/or
storage administrators, automated reclamation when virtual
server is decommissioned, scheduling and notification of
provisioning activities, exposes APIs for use by 3rd party
storage automation tools, support integration with ITSM
products (Remedy, Tivoli), and SDK for integration with
management software. A numeric score (if present)
represents the number of policy-based provisioning options
it supports. An “X” indicates no support for this feature.
A check mark indicates support for this feature though
insufficient information was provided by the vendor or
vendor website to confidently ascertain which policy-based
provisioning options were supported. See the DCIG
Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a detailed list of
supported options for any particular array.
Multi-tenancy
The array can securely serve multiple customers by
controlling what resources on the array each customer can
access through either hard or soft provisioning of storage
array resources. It also offers the ability to control and
allocate the resources to which they do have access.
A check mark indicates this feature is supported.
Performance Monitoring App
The array provides an application that monitors and reports
on how resources (disk drives, storage networking ports,
cache, LUNs, VMs, etc.) within it are being utilized and
how well they are performing. A check mark indicates this
feature is supported.
Mgt Interfaces (Total #)
Answers the question, “In what ways is the array able to
be managed?” Possible answers include: Web-based,
Client/Server application, Command Line Interface (CLI),
Telnet, SSH, Console, Application Programming Interface
(API), and mobile application. A numeric score (if present)
represents the number of management interfaces
supported. An “X” indicates no support for this feature.
A check mark indicates support for this feature though
insufficient information was provided by the vendor or
vendor website to confidently ascertain which management
interfaces were supported.. See the DCIG Interactive
Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a detailed list of supported options
for any particular array.
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Notification (Total #)
Indicates the type of system logging the array supports
between available options of SMTP Notification, SNMP
Logging and Notification, or Syslog. A numeric score (if
present) represents the number of notification and logging
options it supports. An “X” indicates no support for this
feature. A check mark indicates support for this feature
though insufficient information was provided by the vendor
or vendor website to confidently ascertain which notification and logging options were supported. See the DCIG
Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a detailed list of
supported options for any particular array.
DCM Software (Total #)
DCM software indicates the number of data center operations management (DCM) software options offered by the
array. Options include CA Unicenter, CENTOROS, EMC
Control Center, HP Operations Manager, IBM Tivoli, Nagios
XI, nlyte Enterprise Edition, Quantum Vision, and Zenoss
Service Dynamics. A numeric score (if present) represents
the number of DCM software options it supports. An “X”
indicates no support for this feature. A check mark indicates
support for this feature though insufficient information was
provided by the vendor or vendor website to confidently
ascertain which DCM software options were supported.
See the DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a complete
list of supported options for any particular array.
Network File Systems (Total #)
Network File System (NFS) is a protocol that allows the
“mounting” of devices or file systems on other systems
over a network. A numeric score (if present) represents the
number of NFS options it supports. An “X” indicates no
support for this feature. A check mark indicates support for
this feature though insufficient information was provided by
the vendor or vendor website to confidently ascertain
which NFS options were supported. See the DCIG
Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a detailed list of
supported options for any particular array.
Hardware
Controller Config
Active-Active: Two controllers are configured with
multipathing software and have concurrent access to the
disk drives that are then presented as LUNs to attached
hosts. In the event a controller fails or is taken offline,
attached host(s) may detect little or no interruption in
service as the other controller takes over for the failed unit
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though a drop in performance may occur. This is considered an enterprise class feature.
Active-Standby: All LUNs are controlled and assigned to
a single active controller through which all storage I/O traffic
is routed. A secondary standby controller takes over the
storage I/O traffic for the active controller should it fail or be
taken offline. The secondary controller also assumes
control of the array’s LUNs at any time.
Dual Active: Both controllers are active and have concurrent access to the disk drives that are presented as LUNs to
the attached hosts. The difference from Active-Active is that
half of the array’s LUNs are assigned to and controlled by
one controller, and the other half of the LUNs to the other,
so a LUN can only be accessed down one path through
one controller at a time. If a controller should be taken offline
or fail, the other controller assumes control for its LUNs.
Cores (Max)
The number listed indicates the maximum number of
processor cores available in the array’s controller.
Scale-out (Max controllers)
Indicates the maximum number of controllers that the
model can support in a single logical configuration. An “X”
indicates that this array does not support a scale-out SAN
configuration.
Cache (Max)
The maximum number of gigabytes (GBs) of cache that the
array controllers can support. This cache may consist of
any combination of DRAM, NVRAM and SSD.
Raw Storage Capacity (Max)
The maximum amount of raw storage capacity in
terabytes (TBs) that the array can have under its
management. However, this number only includes the
array’s footprint and not the storage capacity of other
systems it may have virtualized.
Inline Deduplication
Deduplication is a specialized data compression technique
for eliminating duplicate copies of repeating data. Inline
deduplication is the process where the deduplication hash
calculations are created on the target device as the data
enters the device in real time. If the device spots a block
that it already stored on the system it does not store
another new block, but instead references to the existing
block. A check mark indicates this feature is supported.
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Inline Compression
Compression involves encoding data to take up less
storage space by finding repeatable patterns of binary 0s
and 1s. The more patterns can be found, the more the
data can be compressed. Inline compression is a process
where data is compressed as it is stored in the array, rather
than being compressed at a later time using the postprocess method or left uncompressed. A check mark
indicates this feature is supported.
Storage Networking Ports (Max)
The maximum number of ports available in any
configuration to connect the array to hosts or to a
dedicated storage network. Controllers that support
both Ethernet and Fibre Channel may also support
concurrent use of both technologies. See “Concurrent
FC & iSCSI” for additional clarification. Controllers may
also include ports for managing the array or interconnecting multiple storage controllers. Those ports are not
included in this count.
1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports (Max)
Indicates the maximum number of 1 Gb and 10 Gb
Ethernet ports supported by the array in any configuration.
An “X” indicates no support for the feature.
8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports (Max)
Indicates the maximum number of 8 Gb and 16 Gb Fibre
Channel ports supported by the array in any configuration.
An “X” indicates no support for the feature.
FC (Fibre Channel)
Fibre Channel (FC) is used as a networking protocol to
transmit data between computer devices, such as a
server and a storage device. A check mark indicates this
feature is supported.
FCoE
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) allows Fibre Channel
communication over selected full duplex IEEE 802.3
networks. A check mark indicates this feature is supported.
iSCSI
Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCI) is a
block-based protocol for running SCSI commands
over Internet Protocol (IP) on Ethernet to access
storage resources. A check mark indicates this
feature is supported.
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Concurrent FC & iSCSI
The ability for the storage array to connect to hosts over
Fibre Channel and iSCSI at the same time. A check mark
indicates this feature is supported.
Concurrent SAN & NAS
The ability for the storage array to communicate with
applications using both block (SAN) and network file
system (NAS) clients at the same time.
RAID Options
Lists the RAID levels supported by the array.
Multi-RAID/ Erasure Codes
Indicates if the array concurrently supports different RAID
levels on different HDDs. (E.g., within a single array
controller, some HDDs can be configured as RAID 1, others
as RAID 5 and still others as RAID 50.) A check mark
indicates this feature is supported.
Erasure codes can be used to protect beyond the
two-drive failures tolerated in RAID-6. Combining erasure
coding with information dispersal algorithms can enhance
storage durability by protecting data against multiple
component failures and unrecoverable read errors. A check
mark indicates this feature is supported.
Redundancy (Total #)
The elements that make up the Redundancy score include
redundant and hot swap power supplies, fans, and drives.
A numeric score (if present) represents the number of
Redundancy features it supports. An “X” indicates no
support for this feature. A check mark indicates support
for this feature though insufficient information was provided
by the vendor or vendor website to confidently ascertain
which Redundancy features were supported. See the
DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a detailed list
of supported options for any particular array.
Drives-Global Hot Spares
Indicates if the array permits a disk drive to be designated
as a global hot spare, and be used to automatically replace
a failed HDD in a RAID set. A check mark indicates this
feature is supported.
Anti-vibration
Indicates if the array has anti-vibration technology to
minimize and control HDD vibrations to prevent HDD
failures. A check mark indicates this feature is supported.
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Advanced HDD Spin Down
Indicates the array offers advanced, user definable
spin-down HDD functions, where the disk(s) can be set
to sleep after a set timeframe, or period of inactivity, to
save energy.
HDD Interface
Indicates the interface(s) the controller uses to connect to
the back-end HDDs. Options that may be supported
include FC-AL, FC-SW, SATA SAS 3Gb and SAS 6Gb.
Concurrent HDD Mix in Controller
Indicates if the array supports a mix of HDD connection
types (FC-AL, FC-SW, SATA, SAS) concurrently.
Supported Drives
FC or SAS HDD: Indicates disk speeds (7.2K, 10K, 15K
RPM) of the FC and SAS HDDs, as supported on the array.
SATA: Indicates if the array supports Serial Advance
Technology Attachment (SATA) drives.
SSD: Indicates if the array supports Solid State
Drives (SSDs).
SSD Optimization (Total #)
Indicates the extent to which specialized SSD techniques
are supported by the array. Optimization techniques that
may be supported include: Wear leveling, Wear monitoring and alerting, Buffering and/or coalescing of writes to
match erasure block size (EBS), Variable RAID stripe
sizing to match erasure block size (EBS), Tuning of data
aging timers for write buffering, Inline deduplication,
Block level compression, and Hardware accelerated
compression. A numeric score (if present) represents the
number of SSD Optimization techniques it supports. An
“X” indicates no support for this feature. A check mark
indicates support for this feature though insufficient
information was provided by the vendor or vendor
website to confidently ascertain which SSD Optimization
techniques it supported. See the DCIG Interactive
Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a detailed list of supported
options for any particular array.
Managed UPS/Battery Backup
Indicates if the array offers a battery backup (i.e. integrated
UPS in the array) in case of power failure. A check mark
indicates this feature is supported.
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RoHS Compliant
The Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) is a
movement intended to limit certain dangerous substances
commonly used in electronic and electronic equipment.
Compliant components are tested for substances such as
lead or mercury. A check mark indicates the array has
achieved RoHS compliance.
VMware vSphere Integration
VAAI v4 (Total #)
vSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration is a set of
APIs introduced in ESX/ESXi 4.1 that provides for
hardware acceleration of certain storage operations,
reducing CPU overhead on the host. Answer options
include: Block Zeroing, Full Copy, and Hardware Assisted
Locking. A numeric score (if present) represents the
number of VAAI v4 options it supports. An “X” indicates
no support for this feature. A check mark indicates
support for this feature though insufficient information
was provided by the vendor or vendor website to
confidently ascertain which VAAI v4 options it supported.
See the DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a list of
supported options for any particular array.
VAAI v5 (Total #)
vSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration is a set of
APIs introduced in ESX/ESXi 4.1 and extended with the
release of VMware 5.0. Answer options include: Thin
Provisioning Dead Space Reclamation (SCSI UNMAP),
Full File Clone, Out-of-Space Conditions, Reserve Space,
and Extended Statistics. A numeric score (if present)
represents the number of VAAI v5 options it supports.
An “X” indicates no support for this feature. A check
mark indicates support for this feature though insufficient
information was provided by the vendor or vendor
website to confidently ascertain which VAAI v5 options
it supported. See the DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide
(IBG) for a detailed list of supported options for any
particular array.
Other VMware Integrations
This numeric score reflects all data related to VMware
integrations other than VAAI v4 and VAAI v5. Data about
specific integrations of particular interest are shown below
this heading. See the DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG)
for a list of supported options for any particular array.
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Snapshot Integration with vSphere
A check mark indicates the array supports snapshot
integration with VMware vSphere, allowing the creation of
virtual machine snapshots to be offloaded to the array.
Performance Metrics for VAAI
A check mark indicates the array provides specific
performance metrics to show the impact of VAAI on the
array subsystem.
vSphere Plug-in for Array Management
A check mark indicates the array has a vSphere plug-in to
perform array based management functions.
SIOC
Storage I/O Control (SIOC) for VMware is a dynamic control
mechanism for proportional allocation of shared storage
resources to VMs running on multiple hosts. A check mark
indicates this feature is supported.
VASA
vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness is a set of
APIs that permit storage arrays to integrate with vCenter for
management functionality. Storage Awareness collects
configuration, capability and storage health information
from storage arrays. This allows the administrator to build
Storage Profiles based on capabilities. A check mark
indicates this feature is supported.
AQDT
VMware ESX 3.5 Update 4 introduced an Adaptive
Queue Depth (AQDT) algorithm that adjusts the LUN
queue depth in the VMkernel I/O stack. This algorithm is
activated when the storage array indicates LUN I/O
congestion by returning a BUSY or QUEUE FULL status.
When LUN congestion is detected, VMkernel throttles the
LUN queue depth. The VMkernel attempts to gradually
restore the LUN queue depth when LUN congestion
conditions subside. AQDT prevents the array from being
flooded with LUN I/O requests and enables the array to
recover to a normal operational state. NOTE: This is not
applicable for NFS mounted storage. A check mark
indicates this feature is supported.
VADP
vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP) is a data
protection framework introduced in vSphere 4.0. VADP
enables centralized, off-host LAN free backup of vSphere
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virtual machines, reduces ESX host resources to do
backup processing, and enables flexible backup windows.
A check mark indicates this feature is supported.
VASRM
vStorage APIs for Site Recover Manager (VASRM) offers
remote replication features enabling a device to failover
to a recovery site. A check mark indicates this feature
is supported.
Storage DRS
Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) provides
virtual machine placement and load balancing mechanisms
based on I/O and space capacity. A check mark indicates
this feature is supported.
Support
Hardware Warranty
Indicates the length of standard warranty for the array.
Contract Support Availability
Specifies the hours when support is available when under
service contract. Examples include “business hours”
(9am–5pm, weekdays), “24x7” (24 hours a day, seven days
a week, but not holidays) and “24x7x365” (24 hours a day,
seven days a week, including holidays).
Contract Support (Total #)
Methods of support may include phone, email, web chat,
remote monitoring, remote login/problem resolution,
dispatch technician onsite, dispatch technician onsite with
4-hour GTD response, same day delivery of replacement
parts, and pre-failure shipping of replacement parts. A
numeric score (if present) represents the number of
contract support options available. An “X” indicates no
support available. A check mark indicates support for this
feature though insufficient information was provided by the
vendor or vendor website to confidently ascertain levels of
support it provided. See the DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide
(IBG) for a detailed support list for any particular array.
Non-Contract Support
A checkmark here indicates the array vendor provides
support for the model on a non-contract basis. Hours of
availability and support methods may differ from those
offered for on-contract arrays.
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Enterprise Midrange Array Provider Contact Information
Aberdeen
Huawei
10420 Pioneer Blvd.
Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
+1.562.903.1500
5700 Tennyson Pkwy., Ste. 500
Plano, TX 75024
Phone: +1.214-919-6000
http://www.aberdeeninc.com
http://www.huawei.com/us
Celeros
IBM Corporation
949 Hamilton Court
Menlo Park, CA 94025
1 New Orchard Rd
Armonk, NY 10504-1722
info@celeros.com
callserv@ca.ibm.com
+1.650.325.6900
+1.800.426.4968
http://www.celeros.com
http://www.ibm.com/storage
Dell
IceWEB Storage Corporation
1 Dell Way
Round Rock, TX 78682
+1.800.671.3355
22900 Shaw Road, Suite 111
Sterling, VA 20166-9279
http://www.dell.com
+1.800.465.4637
Dot Hill Systems Corporation
1351 S Sunset St.
Longmont, CO 80501-6533
+1.303.845.3200
http://www.dothill.com
EMC Corporation
176 South Street
Hopkinton, MA 01748
sales@IceWEB.com
http://www.iceweb.com
Imation Nexsan Solutions
1445 Lawrence Drive
Thousand Oaks, CA 91320
+1.866.463.9726
http://www.nexsan.com
Infortrend
+1.866.438.3622
A division of Virtual Graffiti, Inc.
9979 Muirlands Blvd.
Irvine, CA 92618
http://www.emc.com
Sales@InforStor.com
info@isilon.com
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation
2845 Lafayette Street
Santa Clara, CA 95050-2639
+1.408.970.1000
http://www.hds.com
Hewlett-Packard Corporation
3000 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA 94304
+1.866.625.0242
http://www.hp.com
+1.949-870-3500
http://www.infortrend.com
NEC Corporation of America
2880 Scott Blvd
Santa Clara, CA 95050
+1.408.844.1475
http://www.necam.com
NetApp
495 East Java Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
+1.877.263.8277
http://www.netapp.com
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Enterprise Midrange Array Provider Contact Information
Oracle Corporation
500 Oracle Parkway
Redwood Shores, CA 94065
+1.650.506.7000
+1.800.392.2999
http://www.oracle.com
Overland Storage
9112 Spectrum Center Blvd
San Diego, CA 92123 USA
+1.800.729.8725
http://www.overlandstorage.com
Scale Computing
5225 Exploration Drive
Indianapolis, IN 46241
+1.877.SCALE.59
http://www.scalecomputing.com
Starboard Storage Systems
12303 Airport Way, Suite 230
Broomfield, CO 80021
+1.855.790.9996
http://www.starboardstorage.com
X-IO Storage
9950 Federal Drive, Suite 100
Colorado Springs, CO 80921
Phone: +1.866.472.6764
http://xiostorage.com
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Author Contact Information
DCIG, LLC
7511 Madison Street
Omaha, NE 68127
+1.402.884.9594
C O N TA C T
Jerome Wendt
jerome.wendt@dcig.com
Ken Clipperton
ken.clipperton@dcig.com
WEBSITE
www.dcig.com
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Appendix
D—Complete
of Midrange Arrays
Appendix C—Author
ContactList
Information
Complete List of Midrange Arrays available in DCIG 2014 Enterprise
Midrange Array Interactive Buyer’s Guide
Below is a complete list of all midrange array models, arranged by vendor, that were scored and ranked for inclusion in the DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide. Because the print edition of the 2014 Buyer’s Guide
presents midrange array models as a complete series rather than individually, some arrays may appear only in the
Interactive Buyer’s Guide. The 50 arrays found in both the print edition and the interactive edition of the Buyer’s Guide
are presented in bold in the following list.
Vendor
Midrange Array Model Name
Vendor
Midrange Array Model Name
Aberdeen
AberSAN ZXP2 HA High Availability ZFS SAN
HP
3PAR StoreServ 7200
XDAS D21F7/D22F7
3PAR StoreServ 7400
XDAS D21Hm/D22Hm
P6500 EVA
XDAS D31F7/D32F7
P6550 EVA
XDAS D31H/D32H
StoreEasy 5000
XDAS D42F7 8Gb FC
StoreVIrtual 4130
XDAS D42F
StoreVIrtual 4330
XDAS iSD11m/iSD12m
StoreVIrtual 4530
XDAS iSD21/iSD22
StoreVIrtual 4730
XDAS iSD21m/iSD22m
XDAS iSD31/iSD32
Huawei
OceanStor S2600T
XDAS iSD41
OceanStor S2200T
XDAS iXD32 10G
OceanStor S5500T
XDAS T42F
OceanStor S5600T
OceanStor S5800T
Celeros
SmartSAN XT23S-FC
SmartSAN XT23S-iSCSI
Dell
EqualLogic PS6100 Series
DS5100
EqualLogic PS6500 Series
DS5300
Compellent SC8000
Storwize V7000U
XIV Gen 3
IceWEB
Unified Storage Appliance Model 7000
Infortrend
EonStor DS B24F-R2842/B24F-G2842
EonStor DS S16E-R2152-6 1GbE
EonStor DS S16E-R2251 10GbE
EonStor DS S16F-R2852-6 8G FC
EonStor DS S48F-R2652-4 16G FC
VNX5700
ESVA E10-2130
VNX7500
ESVA E60-2130
VNXe 3150
ESVA E60-2230
VNXe 3300
ESVA F10-2830
ESVA F60-2830
ESVA F75-2830
IBMDCS3700
DS5020
Dot Hill
AssuredSAN 3000 series
AssuredSAN 3003 series
AssuredSAN 4000 series
AssuredSAN Pro 5000 series
EMCVNX5100
VNX5300
VNX5500
Hitachi Data Systems
HUS VM
HUS 150
The EMC VNX2 has been announced
but information on this product was
available in time to make the cutoff
for this Buyer's Guide.
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Appendix C—Author
ContactList
Information
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Complete List of Midrange Arrays available in DCIG 2014 Enterprise
Midrange Array Interactive Buyer’s Guide
Vendor
Midrange Array Model Name
NECM100
M300
M500
NetAppE2600-12
E2624
E2660
E5412
E5424
E5460
FAS3220
FAS3250
Imation NexsanE18
E48
E60
NST5100
NST5500
Oracle
Sun ZFS Storage ZS3
Pillar Data Systems Axiom 600
Overland Storage
SnapSAN S5000
SnapScale X2
SnapSAN S1000
SnapSAN S3000
Scale Computing
ICOS Storage Nodes M Series
StarboardAC2000
AC4000
AC4500
X-IO
Hyper ISE 7-Series
ISE 19.2
ISE 200 Series
ISE 9.6
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