EMC specifically released two products at EMC World 2010 in Boston on Monday, V-Plex Local and V-Plex Metro. Both are available now, with prices starting at $77,000 for the on-premises solution and $26,000 for a subscription version of the product.
Both products are comprised of appliances, called engines, which consist of dual quad-core processors, a 32 GB cache and an 8 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) connection with an InfiniBand internal network. VPlex utilizes technology obtained from YottaYotta about three years ago, though what once was YottaYotta's own operating system in its storage virtualization products has now been ported to Linux.
VPlex Local can hold up to four VPlex engines and 8,000 storage volumes for non-disruptive data migrations between EMC and non-EMC arrays in one data center.
V-Plex Metro offers the ability to connect two V-Plex Local storage clusters across separate locations (up to 100km/60 miles apart) and treat them like a single pool of storage. In 2011, EMC also plans to extend this concept to a larger regional solution (V-Plex Geo), and then eventually offer a global solution (V-Plex Global). The diagram below offers a look at the four flavors of V-Plex.
Below are couple diagrams that EMC provided to help conceptualize V-Plex. The first one shows that EMC sees this as a multi-platform, mutli-vendor strategy (rather than an integrated, vertical strategy). The second one shows how the primary goal of V-Plex is to enable seamless moving of virtual machines, applications, and data across different storage arrays and data centers.
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