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Symmetrix 5000 Enterprise Storage Systems

EMC Enterprise Storage systems advance the standard for performance, continuous availability, and connectivity.

The Symmetrix 5000 family of EMC Enterprise Storage systems provides the industrys highest performance and scalable capacity with unique information protection, sharing, and management capabilities for mainframe, UNIX, Windows NT, and AS/400 systems.

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Consolidated, highly scalable enterprise storage systems Multihost and ESN connectivity to support the entire enterprise Industry-leading performance enables new opportunities

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Highest levels of information protection for business continuance Cross-platform information sharing for enterprise advantage Centralized information management for productivity gains

Enterprise Storage Systems for leveraging information into competitive advantage.

Do things with storage you never thought possible.

Symmetrix 5000 Enterprise Storage systems bring unprecedented levels of performance, capacity, availability, and manageability to todays fast-paced business and government agency operations. The Symmetrix 5000 family is the industrys premier mainframe storage solution, fully supported on all IBM and IBM-compatible mainframes. Through its operating system-independent technology, Symmetrix enables you to consolidate storage from multiple hosts. And since Symmetrix does not require specialized host device drivers, you can add new versions of operating systems and platforms while minimizing operational impact. Optional Symmetrix Enterprise Storage Platform (ESP) software allows mainframe, UNIX, Windows NT, and AS/400 information to be resident and accessible on the same Symmetrix 5000 system. The result is a powerful, high performance
EMC Enterprise Storage solution that is

family offers a range from 35GB to multiple terabytes of fully protected capacity which can be allocated across different hosts and managed centrally. Symmetrix 5000 Enterprise Storage systems protect the largest relational databases and most demanding applications with the highest degree of data protection continuous availability. Your enterprise is fully protected against planned or unplanned disruption to information availability and accessibility.
ISA and MOSAIC:2000 keep your investment current, your information available.

remains constant while other elements are added or replaced. Designed-in investment protection is a hallmark of all
EMC Enterprise Storage systems. Performance for your most demanding applications.

The Symmetrix 5000 family incorporates EMCs industry-leading enterprise storage technology to provide the highest performance systems to enhance online transaction processing and other response-time intensive applications. Recent performance enhancements include increased cache capacity integration of faster backplane, disk, interconnect, and microprocessor technologies. Up to 16GB of non-volatile cache (8GB on Symmetrix 5630 systems) helps ensure that all of your applications run at top speed. Symmetrixs unique software takes full advantage of this large cache and will actually self-adjust based on user access patterns to continuously improve performance. In addition to its large, intelligent cache, Symmetrixs parallel processing capabilities achieve levels of performance that result in dramatic reductions in both online response times and batch processing windows.
Information protection extends to the enterprise. EMC Corporation has designed Symmetrix 5000 Enterprise Storage systems to ensure the highest levels of availability for your information to keep your business running.

The Symmetrix 5000 family enterprise storage design is based on EMCs powerful software and hardware architectures:
ISA and MOSAIC:2000.

truly open storage that is simple to manage, delivered in an architecture that is upgradeable, scalable, and protected. Symmetrix 5000 Enterprise Storage systems have set a new standard for consolidated storage, reducing the growing cost and complexity of storage management. Your staff has just one storage system to learn and operate. The Symmetrix 5000

This combination of powerful software and hardware results in EMC Enterprise Storage solutions that are unique in the industry, providing value that extends well past simply storing data. Symmetrix provides real solutions for business problems like information protection, information sharing, and information management that help you meet the challenges of your enterprise and your industry. When advances in software, connectivity, or disk technology offer enhanced capabilities, they are easily and economically integrated into Symmetrix 5000 family systems. The basic system infrastructure

HIGHLIGHTS

Centralized, shareable storage.

Consolidated, scalable (35GB to multiple terabytes) enterprise storage systems to support mission-critical OLTP, database, and data warehouse applications.

Unsurpassed connectivity.
Up to 32 host connections; including combinations of ESCON, parallel, Fibre Channel, and Ultra and FWD SCSI channels; support attachment to multiple mainframe and industry-standard UNIX, Windows NT, AS/400 systems, and ESN environments.

Industry-leading performance.
Up to 16GB integrated high speed cache, intelligent caching algorithms, state-of-the-art disks, proven microcode, and high speed interfaces yield unsurpassed performance.

Intelligent Storage Architecture (ISA)

EMCs Intelligent Storage Architecture (ISA) consolidates information management functions including backup/restore, disaster recovery, migration, and information sharing into a single enterprise storage system. This provides a single consistent platform from which to manage, access, and share information.
Database Applications APIs Connectivity Information Management Provides graphical user interfaces to make configuration and management of storage activity easy. Information Protection Ensuring the highest availability in the event of planned or unplanned information systems interruptions. Information Sharing Multihost support allows high-speed movement of large amounts of information between different platforms. Management

Your business or agency remains online and unaffected even as it gains the advantages offered by enhanced capabilities. Symmetrix systems feature a full-system battery which guarantees no lost writes and orderly transitions or shutdowns during power outages. Extensive proactive and predictive intelligent maintenance features, such as cache and disk scrubbing and an integrated Remote Maintenance Processor (RMP), add to Symmetrixs information protection and continuous information availability features.
Providing the path to information sharing.

Performance, Availability

MOSAIC:2000

Maintainability, Scalability, Compatibility

The systems availability features are unmatched in the industry and designed to provide continuous enterprise operation. Protection choices include disk Mirroring (RAID 1), Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) remote mirroring software, hardware redundancy, and nondisruptive microcode and component replacement. The Symmetrix architecture ensures data integrity during each step of the data transfer process. Only Symmetrix veries your data from host to cache to disk and back using the same data verication codes which are generated once at the entry point.
EMCs disk Mirroring provides the high-

in the event of planned or unplanned system or data center outages.

EMC TimeFinder is the only software

est data availability for mission-critical applications. By creating two copies of data on separate disk drives, Mirroring ensures both the highest availability and highest system performance.
SRDF is exclusive Symmetrix software

solution in the industry that allows businesses to create independently addressable business continuance volumes (BCVs) for mainframe and open systems enterprise information. The BCVs are copies of active production volumes that can be used to run simultaneous tasks in parallel with one another. This gives customers the ability to do concurrent operations, such as data warehouse loads and refreshes or pointin-time backups, without affecting production systems. Symmetrix Data Migration Services (SDMS), an optional EMC service, enables data migration from aging mainframe disk devices or older Symmetrix systems to new Symmetrix systems. It is a unique approach to solving the problem of providing continuous enterprise operations while replacing older technology storage. In addition, Symmetrix systems support nondisruptive microcode update loading.

Symmetrix 5000 Enterprise Storage systems are on the leading edge in providing centralized, shareable enterprise storage to help you manage rapidly changing environments supporting mission-critical OLTP applications, databases, and data warehouses. This starts with mainframe connectivity provided through both ESCON and block multiplexor channels. In addition, Symmetrix ESP software adds simultaneous support for industry-standard interface connections such as new Fibre Channel, Ultra SCSI, and fast-wide-differential (FWD) SCSI channels. Depending on the Symmetrix 5000 model and interface used, up to 32 channels are available (16 for Fibre Channel), with each channel supporting simultaneous peak transfer rates for maximum connectivity and performance. Symmetrix supports channel

that extends EMCs information protection solutions. This optional software maintains mirrored copies of data on physically separated Symmetrix systems to ensure continuous business operations

Information protection choices.

Disk Mirroring and remote mirroring (SRDF), redundant hardware, nondisruptive microcode and component replacement ensure continuous information availability.

Information sharing.
Optional software allows co-residence of mainframe, open system, and other data formats; easy le transfers and backups; fast mainframe-to-open database loads; and frequent database refreshes.

Centralized information management.

Common information management environment simplies IS operational tasks such as backup/restore, training requirements, maintenance, capacity planning, and resource allocation.

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connections to all supported hosts concurrently, a capability unmatched by others in the industry and providing maximum information throughput. Fibre Channel, with its fast 100MB per second bandwidth, supports the development of cost-effective, highly available, scalable storage systems for bandwidth-intensive applications. Fibre Channel goes well beyond being just an interconnect system. It offers a signicant impact on distance and connectivity limitations. It increases the distance limit between host and I/O subsystems to one kilometer, and increases connectivity and performance capabilities. Fibre Channel technology is also helping to dene the next great advance in information consolidation, distribution, and performance capabilities EMC Enterprise Storage NetworkTM (ESN). ESN, implemented through Fibre Channel, switch, and hub technologies, provides a specialized storage area network that permits campus-wide server access to Symmetrix storage. ESN technology creates a virtual data center where servers can be located at the application sites and deployed or upgraded as needs evolve while your information remains centralized, easily accessed, managed, protected, and shared. Heterogeneous mainframe and server support is extended through exible disk device congurations. Symmetrix 5000 capacity can be shared between multiple mainframes and servers by logically partitioning a single disk drive, or a set of disk drives, between each host. Symmetrix 5000 systems offer the capability of intermixing disk capacity technologies to exactly tailor storage capability to specic application requirements.

nesses can perform updates to their data warehouses and decision-support systems as needed to ensure that decision-making is based on the most timely and accurate information available.
Smart information management.

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By consolidating storage capacity for multiple mainframes and servers, Symmetrix 5000 Enterprise Storage systems make it easier to manage large amounts of information. This efcient, consolidated approach to information management and system conguration minimizes the learning curve for you and your staff. And the optional Symmetrix Manager software provides powerful graphical-user-interfacebased management tools that put storage management literally at your ngertips.
Additional capabilities, added value.

The Symmetrix 5000 Enterprise Storage systems offer a number of standard and optional capabilities to further increase their value. Hyper-Volume Extension (HVE) permits split volume capability for support of multiple logical volumes on single physical disk drives. No modications to operating system, application, or program software are needed in order to take advantage of Symmetrixs HVE capability. The FDR family of backup/restore solutions, offered by EMC as the result of a teaming agreement with Innovation Data Processing Corporation, provides high speed, physical image backup/restore of open systems volumes to mainframe S/390 tape or disk storage. The FDR family leverages the capabilities of Symmetrix ESP by enabling mainframe access to both S/390 and open systems disks at high performance ESCON channel speeds.
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The information presented here is summary in nature, subject to change, and intended for general information only. Additional details and specications concerning the operation and use of EMC equipment and software are available in the applicable technical literature. EMC, EMC2, MOSAIC:2000, and Symmetrix are registered trademarks and EMC Enterprise Storage, EMC Enterprise Storage Network, InfoMover, The Enterprise Storage Company, SRDF, SDMS, DataReach, TimeFinder, and The EMC Effect are trademarks of EMC Corporation. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. RAB is a Certication Mark of the RAID Advisory Board, St. Peter, MN, 507-931-0967. 1998 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Printed in the USA. 12/98
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Unique to Symmetrix systems is the information sharing capability provided by EMC InfoMover. This optional and powerful software enables Symmetrix 5000 systems to transfer bulk le information among virtually any combination of mainframes and supported UNIX and Windows NT servers at very high speeds and without the use of network resources. DataReach is the rst software solution of its kind to move information directly from a mainframe database into an open systems database, thus eliminating mainframe and network resource constraints. Now busi-

Symmetrix 5000 Enterprise Storage systems are backed by EMCs highly skilled and dedicated worldwide service organization. EMCs base two-year hardware and 90-day software warranty plan includes 7day a week, 24-hour coverage.* Post-warranty service offerings include 7 x 24 coverage, technical support, and service and maintenance contracts. Needs-analysis and implementation professional services are also available.
* Warranty and service terms may vary outside of the United States. Ask your local EMC representative for non-U.S. warranty and service terms and conditions.