IBM N series offers an innovative thin provisioning capability to help you eliminate stranded storage by expand ing or contracting LUNs and volumes by using a common pool of spare capacity without IT staff intervention. When more performance or scalability is required, you can preserve invest ments in staff expertise and capital equipment by installing a more powerful N series controller that enables you to keep your data in place and use the same management tools.
Maximize your resources
IBM N6000 series systems can help you reduce costs in many aspects of your storage environment by simplifying data management and maximizing stor age utilization to conserve raw storage, power, cooling, and data center space. N6000 systems can help you spend less time waiting and more time inno vating, thanks to high system perform ance, fast backup, and recovery, and rapid cloning of data sets.
Improve your business efficiency
Clients with different storage subsys tems in their SAN environments can now take advantage of the N6000 series Gateway capabilities to help improve business efficiency and reduce data management complexity. IBM N6000 series ordered under Gateway structure is able to support the attachment to a broad range of IBM, EMC, Hitachi, Fujitsu, 3PAR, and HP storage subsystems, including the IBM Enterprise Storage Server® (ESS) series, IBM System Storage™ DS8000™, and DS4000™ series.
Software
Operating system | Data ONTAP |
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Operating systems supported | Windows 2000, Windows Server® 2003, Windows XP, Linux, Sun™ Solaris™, IBM AIX®, |
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Software features | Standard |
| Integrated RAID manager, including |
| FlexVol®; FlexShare; Disk Sanitization; SecureAdmin™; Network Data Management |
| Protocol (NDMP) |
| Licensed |
| CIFS; NFS; HTTP; FTP; iSCSI; FCP; FlexCache™; FlexClone®; FlexScale; MultiStore®; |
| Clustered Failover; SnapMirror®; SyncMirror®; SnapRestore; Single Mailbox Recovery; |
| Open Systems Snap Vault; SnapVault®; SnapMover®; NearStore®; Advanced Single |
| Instance Storage; SnapValidator®; SnapLock®; MetroCluster |
| Manageability software |
| Application Suite; SnapManager for Microsoft® Exchange; SnapManager for Microsoft SQL |
| Server®; SnapManager for Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server; SnapManager for Oracle; |
| SnapManager for SAP; SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure; Server Suite; SnapDrive®; |
| Virtual File Manager™ – Enterprise Edition; Virtual File Manager – Migration Edition; Storage |
| Suite; Protection Manager; Provisioning Manager; File Storage Resource Manager; |
| Operations Manager |
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