New Levels of Affordability and Ease of Use for Tiered Storage

EMC CLARiiON CX3-20

The CX3 model 20 of the CLARiiON CX3
UltraScale Series within the StoreWay
offer is ideal for small and medium
businesses, as well as distributed
branches offices of larger
organizations looking for a high
performing platform that scales and can
deliver array-based replication
capabilities for disaster recovery.
The CX3 Model 20 benefits from the high
performance, cost-effective and compact
UltraScale architecture; it delivers
leading flexibility with support for
Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity to
simplify deployments in SAN
infrastructures, and offers a complete
suite of advanced storage software, in
particular local and remote replication
features.

Fibre Channel and iSCSI SAN

connectivity
Scalable to 120 drives; more than
210 TB raw capacity
Up to 128 high-availability
connected hosts
Up to 1024 LUNs
4 GB cache memory
CX3-20C: 4 x 4 Gb/s FC and 8 x 1
Gb/s iSCSI front-end ports
CX3-20F: 12 x 4 Gb/s FC front-end
ports
2 x 4 Gb/s FC back-end disk ports
Support for RAID 6 dual parity
Fibre Channel and native iSCSI
connectivity for remote replication

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UltraScale Architecture benefits

The CLARiiON CX3 UltraScale architecture is
designed from the ground up to deliver
optimized performance, new levels of
scalability, flexible configurations, and even
higher resilience.
Leading flexibility with support for 1, 2,
and 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel with auto-negotiation
and iSCSI connectivity to simplify deployment
in existing SANs.
High bandwidth throughout the new CX3
UltraScale architecture - from the
4 Gb/s SAN, through the innovative native PCI
Express I/O interconnect, to the 4 Gb/s
UltraPoint technology, and on to highperformance 4 Gb/s 15k RPM disk drives allows customers to realize the full power of
the CLARiiON CX3 series.

Built-in high availability

RAID protection levels 0, 1, 1/0, 3, 5 and
6, all of which can co-exist in the same array
to match the different protection
requirements of data.
Write mirrored cache.
Battery backup for controllers and cache
vault disks to ensure data protection in the
event of a power failure.
Automated system diagnostics.
Global and proactive hot-spare technology.
Redundant data paths, power supplies, drive

connections and storage processors.

Advanced Storage Software

Navisphere Manager simplifies and automates
the management of the storage infrastructure.
Navisphere Analyser allows the investigation
of performance and trends.
Navisphere Quality of Service Manager
enables scheduling of user-defined policies to
benefit from consolidation while optimizing
the performance of mission-critical
applications.
PowerPath offers multi-path management and
I/O balancing for physical and virtual
environments.
SnapView creates point-in-time snapshots and
full-copy clones of production data for faster
backup and restore operations.
MirrorView performs remote data mirroring
for data protection and application
recoverability in the event of disaster.
SAN Copy enables high-speed data copying
between multi-vendor storage arrays.
Bull delivers professional services and
support services for the optimized use of the
CX3-20.

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TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
Form Factor

Storage Processor
Host Connectivity
Cache Memory
Supported Protocols
SAN
LUNs
Max. Hosts
Min/Max. Disk Drives
Max. Capacity (raw/formatted)
Drives Supported
SATA II 5400rpm
SATA II 7200rpm
Fibre Channel 10Krpm
Fibre Channel 15Krpm
RAID Support
Back-end Connectivity
Reliability
Availability

Standard NEMA 19-inch rackmount;

2U Storage Processor Enclosure
including Standby Power Supplies
(SPS);
3U 15-slot Disk Array Enclosure
Dual active/active, Asymmetric
Logical Unit Access (ALUA)
CX3-20C: 4 x 4Gb/s FC + 8 x 1 Gbit/s
Ethernet; CX3-20F: 12 x 4Gb/s FC
2GB per storage processor
Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP);
iSCSI (CX3-20C only)
1024 Max.
128 HA hosts
5 up to 120
More than 210 TB *
1 TB** and 2 TB** 4Gb/s
1 TB** and 2 TB 4Gb/s
146 GB** 2Gb/s; 300, 400**, 450 and
600 GB 4Gb/s
73**, 146**, 300, 450 and 600 GB
4Gb/s
RAID 0, 1, 1/0, 3, 5, 6
2 x 4Gb/s FC (1 dual loop)
Redundant, hot-swappable
controllers, drives, power, cooling
multi-path access
mirrored cache, disk vault protected
preventive disk monitoring
on-line upgrade
global and proactive hot-spare disks
battery backup unit

HOST ENVIRONMENT
FC Host Support
iSCSI Host Support

Windows, Solaris, Linux, AIX, HP-UX,

GCOS 7 (hosted on Windows), VMware
***
Windows, Solaris, Linux, VMware, AIX
***

Technical Specifications
ENVIRONMENT (Cont'd)
degrees C) max.

POWER
Input Voltage
Frequency
Power consumption
Storage Processor Enclosure
Disk Array Enclosure
Heat Dissipation

100-240 VAC 10 %, single phase

47-63 Hz
240 VA (230 W) max.
440 VA (425 W) max.
SPE: 785 BTU/hr; DAE: 1,450 BTU/hr

REGULATORY & SAFETY

Safety

Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC)

UL 60950, CSAC 22.2-60950, FN 60950,

NEBS Level 3 Certification, ETSI EN
300 386; Manufactured under an ISO
9000-registered quality system
FCC Class A, CE Mark, ICES-003 Class
A (for Canada), EN55024 Immunity
ITE, EN55022 Class A, VCCI Class A
(for Japan), AS/NZS 3548 Class A
(For Autralia, New Zealand), BSMI
Class A (for Taiwan)

WARRANTY
Standard warranty
Extended Warranty

World Wide; 3 years Hardware

Support, 9x5 Next Business Day,
onsite response
4 hour, 7x24 onsite response
(depending on location)

* The FLARE storage operating environment requires 33 GB of disk space on each of

the first five drives
** These disk drives are no longer commercialised
*** Consult EMC Interoperability Support Matrix

MANAGEMENT & ADMINISTRATION

Storage Management
Multi-path Management
Snap Shot
Performance Monitoring
Local Data Replication
Remote Data Replication
Other

Navisphere Manager, Navisphere

Quality of Service Manager
PowerPath for physical and virtual
environments
SnapView
Navisphere Analyzer
SnapView
MirrorView, SAN Copy
ControlCenter 6.1 option

PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS

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Dimensions (HxWxD)
Storage Processor Enclosure

Disk Array Enclosure

Weight
Storage Processor Enclosure
Disk Array Enclosure

3.29 in. (8.36 cm) 2 EIA units x

18.92 in. (48.06 cm) x 31.58 in
(80.21 cm) including SPS
5.25 in. (13.33 cm) 3 EIA units x
17.72 in. (45.0 cm) x 14.00 in.
(35.56 cm)
90 lb (41.0 kg) max. including SPS
68 lb (30.9 kg) max.

ENVIRONMENT
Temperature
Humidity
Altitude

50-104 degrees F (10-40 degrees C)

20% to 80 % (non-condensing)
8,000 ft. (2438.4 m) @ 104 degrees
F (40 degrees C) max.; 10,000 ft.
(3048 m) @ 98.6 degrees F (37

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