Symmetrix VMAX 20K
Powerful, trusted, smart enterprise storage for software-defined data centers
EMC Symmetrix VMAX 20K: Designed for performance, consolidation, and automation in demanding virtual data center environments.
Powerful
VMAX 20K is a global leader in enterprise storage for performance and scale for the most demanding workloads.
Trusted
VMAX 20K is the world’s most trusted storage platform, with unmatched availability and information-centric security built in to protect the most mission-critical applications.
Smart
VMAX 20K is the smartest enterprise storage array with new levels of automation, nondisruptive data movement, virtual server integration, and ease of management.
Software
EMC VMAX 20K arrives preconfigured with core VMAX software. Optional software titles are also available.
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Enginuity for EMC VMAX 20K Core Software
Core software includes Enginuity for VMAX 20K with Federated Tiered Storage, Dynamic Cache Partitioning, and Symmetrix Priority Controls. -
EMC VMAX 20K Bundled Software
Ensure scalable, high-availability networked storage. Choose the functionality you need and maximize availability with built-in redundancy. -
EMC VMAX 20K Optional Software
Optional software is available if your IT environment requires additional capabilities to help you take maximum advantage of your VMAX 20K array.
Resources
Analyst Reports
Videos
- Accenture and Navitaire Trust in VMAX
- CMA Trusts VMAX Availability and Reliability for their Oracle Environments
- Rackspace Leverages EMC VMAX Systems for High Performance and Scalability
- Sanofi's IT Transformation Customer Video
- SIA Optimizes Mainframe Storage with EMC FAST VP
- HOT Telecommunication Systems Ltd. on EMC VNX and EMC VMAX
Product Demos
Data and Spec Sheets
White Papers
- White Paper: New Features in EMC Enginuity 5876 for Mainframe Environments
- White Paper: z/OS and Virtual Provisioning Best Practices
- White Paper: Enginuity 5876 New Features for the EMC Symmetrix VMAX Family Storage Systems
- White Paper: EMC Symmetrix VMAX RecoverPoint Splitter and Enhancements in Enginuity 5876
- EMC Infrastructure for VMware Cloud Environments - EMC Symmetrix VMAX 40K, EMC Symmetrix FAST VP, EMC SRDF, NEC Express5800/A1080a-E, VMware vSphere 5.0
- EMC Mission-Critical Business Continuity for SAP
Customer Profiles
- Ochsner Health System with VMAX, VPLEX, and VMware vSphere
- Customer Profile: Hospital of Saint Raphael
- We Energies
- Alexander Forbes Customer Profile
- Customer Profile: Columbia Sportswear
Technical Documents
Customer Profiles
Ochsner Health System
Delivering scalable performance and high-end availability for enterprise-wide Epic electronic medical records infrastructure
To deliver improved performance, reliability, and patient care, Ochsner consolidates their EMR applications using EMC Symmetrix VMAX enterprise storage. Ochsner also implements EMC VPLEX storage federation solution to enable disaster recovery and fast, flexible migration of storage resources between data centers.
Hospital of Saint Raphael
EMC ProSphere storage resource management software improves efficiency, visibility, and reliability of managing storage assets of renowned teaching hospital
WE Energies
Energy utility consolidates and simplifies IT operations with EMC solutions and services
Alexander Forbes
Symmetrix provides needed stability, increased performance and improved end-customer experience
Columbia Sportswear
EMC Symmetrix enterprise storage drives innovation, growth and efficiency
Related Offerings
Products
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Fully Automated Storage Tiering for Virtual Pools (FAST VP)
Automate and dynamically optimize performance in a tiered environment, reducing cost, footprint, and management.
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Geographically Dispersed Disaster Restart (GDDR)
Automate disaster restart of applications and systems in mainframe environments in the event of a planned or an unplanned outage.
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Migration to Symmetrix VMAX
Enable data mobility and nondisruptive migration of critical business information and applications to VMAX.
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Symmetrix Federated Tiered Storage (FTS)
Consolidate and simplify storage management under VMAX control by using trusted Symmetrix services across the entire data center.
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SRDF
Implement disaster recovery and business continuity with the trusted suite of remote storage replication solutions leveraging the Symmetrix platform.
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Symmetrix Virtual Provisioning
Improve capacity utilization, boost performance, and simplify storage management by allocating storage to applications only as needed.
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Symmetrix VMAX Management
Simplify management and monitor performance in Symmetrix VMAX environments with an easy-to-use, intuitive management framework.
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TimeFinder
Take advantage of trusted local storage replication, leveraging the high-end Symmetrix VMAX architecture.
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RecoverPoint
Get continuous data protection with multiple recovery points to restore applications instantly to a specific point in time.
Solutions
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Storage Resource Management
Optimize storage resources to achieve application service level and cost objectives using storage management built for the cloud computing era.
News
News
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Apr 30, 2013
World’s Most Trusted Storage Delivers More Data Protection to Mission-Critical Data Centers -
Oct 15, 2012
EMC Signs Extension to IBM Licensing Agreement Through 2017 -
Sep 25, 2012
Ochsner Health System Transforms Its Backup and Recovery with EMC -
Aug 28, 2012
EMC VFCache First to Deduplicate Server Flash Cache -
Aug 24, 2012
Customers Single Out EMC as #1 Storage for VMware by Wide Margin -
Jul 10, 2012
EMC Enables State of Michigan’s Transformation to IT-as-a-Service






