EMC Corp. has released new, lower-cost models of EMC Celerra network attached storage (NAS) systems.
The new Celerra NS500 system is available in an integrated or gateway configuration. The NS500 models are designed to let customers build around existing storage area networks (SANs). The Celerra NS500 is available immediately with a list price of $40,000 (U.S.) for a 1 terabyte, single data mover, integrated configuration, with CIFS and SnapSure.
The Celerra NS704G provides Celerra NS500G/NS600G/NS700G customers with an upgrade path to increased performance and advanced clustering capability. The Celerra NS704G is available with four data movers and supports both single and dual Control Station configurations. The Celerra NS704G delivers more than 100,000 NFS operations per second, the company said. The Celerra NS704G is available immediately with a list price of $165,000 (U.S.) for a four-data-mover configuration with CIFS and SnapSure.
EMC has also released a new version of its DART operating environment, including enhancements to the Celerra Manager Basic Edition and iSCSI support. With iSCSI support, Celerra now offers an "all-in-one" storage solution that allows customers to consolidate both storage and servers into a single, centrally managed platform, it said. New features include a graphically displayed "at-a-glance" status-monitoring capability that improves ease of use by helping administrators quickly identify potential system or performance issues. The "at-a-glance" screen displays memory and CPU usage, performance and throughput information, the number of active network connections, information about open files, storage utilization and more. Additionally, through integration with Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS), users can now perform file-level restores using MS Explorer's "previous versions" property tab, EMC said. This capability can lower customers' support costs by enabling users to recover their own files.