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VNX: In keeping with EMC understatement, VNX is tagged as the “World’s Most Powerful Midrange Storage.” It’s the beefier cousin to the VNXe and is effectively a marriage of EMC’s two existing, market leading mid-range offerings, CLARiiON and Celerra, although with much improved performance and operational value over either of those platforms. Very clearly an enterprise-class device, it offers much of the same features and manageability as the VNXe, but has extended capabilities exactly where one would expect them: far more scalability; extended “UltraFlex IO” connectivity that adds FC, FCoE, IP, pNFS, and MPFS protocols together with a heavy focus on a single optimized storage pool that takes automated advantage (via EMC “FAST VP,” Fully Automated Storage Tiering for Virtual Pools) of flash; high-speed; and high-capacity drives. Its target user will know that file, block, and object storage is on hand and tuned - both by EMC itself and also via access to a support community - for virtual server environments and applications. While integration with VMware is naturally tight, EMC has made considerable efforts to embrace Microsoft Hyper-V and other virtualization platforms as well.
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