EMC Celerra NS-480
The EMC Celerra NS-480 unified storage system brings advanced clustering availability to multi-protocol environments. With Celerra NS-480, you can connect to multiple storage networks via network-attached storage (NAS), iSCSI, Fibre Channel SAN, and Celerra Multi-Path File System (MPFS). MPFS improves performance over traditional NAS.
Overview
Move beyond direct-attached storage with an integrated EMC CLARiiON CX4 that scales up to 480 disks.

And simplify your common administrative tasks with included functionality like Celerra Manager, filesystem deduplication, virtual provisioning, automated volume management, and Celerra SnapSure.
Features
EMC NS-480 Features
- Unified storage Consolidate NAS, MPFS, FC-SAN, and iSCSI storage in a single system.
- Scalability Scale to 480 drives, and upgrade easily from two to four X-Blade servers to move more data from disk to network.
- Advanced failover (N+1 or N+M) Rely on one or a shared pool of hot spares to assume your full workload at the same performance and service levels.
- VMware and Microsoft certification Virtualize with confidence, and use iSCSI capabilities to consolidate your Exchange and SQL data.
- Web-based management with virtual provisioning Set up, manage, and monitor your Celerra NS-120 quickly and easily. Simplify provisioning and improve utilization.
- Deduplication with compression Reduce filesystem capacity requirements.
- File-level retention Tap disk-based WORM functionality with a compliance option for filesystem archiving.
- Celerra FAST Automate storage tiering to lower costs and deliver higher service levels.