The perfect blend of economy and density, the EX500 injects even greater flexibility into the ECS appliance portfolio. With rack capacity ranging from 120TB to 6.1PB, the EX500 is a versatile option for midsized enterprises looking to support either modern application or deep archive use cases.
ECS, the leading object storage platform from Dell EMC, boasts unmatched scalability, performance, resilience, and economics. Deployable as a turnkey appliance or in a software-defined model, ECS delivers rich S3-compatibility on a globally distributed architecture, empowering organizations to support enterprise workloads such as cloud-native, archive, IoT, AI, and big data analytics applications at scale.
With ECS, any organization can deliver scalable public cloud services with the reliability and control of a private-cloud infrastructure. ECS provides comprehensive protocol support for unstructured—object and file—workloads on a single modern storage platform. Using ECS, organizations can easily manage globally distributed storage infrastructure under a single global namespace with anywhere access to content. ECS features a flexible software-defined architecture that is layered to promote limitless scalability. Each layer is completely abstracted and independently scalable with high availability and no single points of failure. ECS also comes in a fullyintegrated turnkey appliance that bundles software and Dell PowerEdge servers into an easily deployed object system.
ECS is currently in its third generation of hardware appliances, the EX-Series, building on the legacy of the EMC Centera and Atmos object storage platforms which predated ECS. The ECS EX-Series is comprised of four unique hardware products: the EX300, EX500, EX3000 and the all-flash EXF900.
The perfect blend of economy and density, the EX500 is a versatile option for midsized enterprises looking to support either modern application or deep archive use cases.
The perfect blend of economy and density, the EX500 delivers versatile capacity options
-Scale-out nodes.
-Improved performance via dual, 10 core processors.
-Identical performance characteristics with every node.
-Optional SSD for metadata cache.
| Node architecture | Intel x86 servers Integrated storage 12 or 24 disk drives per node |
| Network connectivity | 25GbE FrontEnd 25GbE BackEnd |
| 40U rack configurations | 1, through 16 node configurations (5 node minimum initial rack) HA power |
| Multiple storage configurations | Unstructured storage up to 6144TB per rack |
| Architecture | Standard 40U cabinet 2U node containing server and disks Fully accessible –field serviceable Conventional front to back cooling HA power cabling and cooling |
| Min / max cluster size | 5 node minimum No maximum |
| Min / max rack configuration | Min: 1 node = 1 server with included disks Max: 16 nodes = 16 servers with included disks |
| Disk type (7200rpm, SATA) | 2TB, 4TB, 8TB, 12TB, 16TB |
| Optional cache SSD | Optional SSD (960GB) drive for improved metadata read/write cache performance |
| Raw capacity (per node) | 24TB, 48TB, 96TB, 144TB, 192TB, 288TB, 384TB |
| Max raw capacity (per rack) | Up to 6144TB |
| Node dimensions | 2U x D (810 mm) Weight: 43.2KG (with 24 drives) |
| Rack dimensions | H(75”) x W(24“) x D(47“) + 4” for front door H(1905mm) x W(610mm) x D(1194mm) Weight: 887kg/1955lb with 4 switches, 16 2U nodes |
| Power specifications (server) | 2X1100W power supplies per node (HA) |
| Environmental specifications | Operating temperature (°F/°C): 41 - 90/ 5 - 32 Max. altitude: 7,500 ft/ 2,286 m @ 90°F/32°C Relative humidity: 20 - 80% non-condensing Raised floor: not required |
| Upgrade options | Scale out by additional nodes 12 drive capacity upgrade kit |
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