What is the expected uptime percentage for a VPLEX system operating under normal conditions?

The expected uptime percentage for a VPLEX system operating under normal conditions is 99.999%. This level of availability, often referred to as "five nines," indicates extremely high reliability and minimizes downtime, which is critical for environments that rely on continuous access to data and applications.

The VPLEX system is designed to provide not just data mobility but also robust fault tolerance and failover capabilities, ensuring that it can maintain operations even in the event of hardware or component failures. Achieving 99.999% uptime means that the system can generally be expected to be down for no more than about five minutes in a year, which is crucial for mission-critical applications that cannot afford significant interruptions.

In contrast, the other options represent lower levels of availability. A 99.0% uptime would allow for more downtime than most environments can tolerate, particularly in high-availability contexts. Similarly, 99.5% availability also results in a significant amount of expected downtime, which would not meet the stringent requirements of most businesses relying on VPLEX for continuous data availability. While 98.0% uptime offers even lower reliability, it is far from the expectations set for high-performance enterprise systems like VPLEX.