Disk Storage Systems (continued)
Selecting a Solution
Local copy within controller
Remote Copy (>10 km)
Centralized management
Storage area network
Concurrent heterogeneous servers (UNIX and Intel)
Concurrent microcode install
Intermix disk capacities
Multiple RAID options
Rack mount
Virtualization
Virtualization through SAN Volume Controller
ESS | DS8300 | DS8100 | DS6800 | DS4500 |
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Product | Highlights |
Enterprise Storage | ● Provides enterprise strength reliability and function, |
Server 800 | ● Designed to provide high availability, performance, manageability and scalability |
| ● Host connectivity via SCSI, FC/FICON, or ESCON interfaces to a wide variety of UNIX, Windows, iSeries, and zSeries servers |
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Enterprise Storage | ● ESS 800 reliability and function at an attractive entry capacity enterprise storage price point . |
Server 750 | ● Includes ESS 800 comprehensive server support and support for state of the art copy services |
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DS8300 | ● A new standard in enterprise class functionality with extraordinary performance and up to 192TB of physical capacity |
| ● Host connectivity via FC/FICON or ESCON interfaces to a wide variety of UNIX, Windows, iSeries, and zSeries servers |
| ● Top notch storage consolidation system with Storage System LPAR capability |
| ● Offers FlashCopy and Global and Metro Mirroring functions that are interoperable with the DS6000, ESS 800 and 750 |
| ● Call home and remote support as well as a |
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DS8100 | ● A new standard in enterprise class functionality and performance with up to 115TB of physical capacity |
| ● Host connectivity via FC/FICON or ESCON interfaces to wide variety of UNIX, Windows, iSeries and zSeries servers. |
| ● Offers FlashCopy and Global and Metro Mirroring functions that are interoperable with the DS6000, ESS 800 and 750 |
| ● Call home and remote support as well as a |
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DS6800 | ● Provides |
| ● Designed to provide host connectivity via FC/FICON to a wide variety of UNIX, Windows, iSeries, and zSeries servers |
| ● Features interoperability of advanced copy services with ESS 800, ESS 750, and DS8000 series |
| ● Designed for easy installation and serviceability and includes a |
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DS4500 | ● Provides |
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| ● Supports business continuance with its optional |
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DS4400 | ● Provides |
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| ● Supports business continuance with its |
| ● Helps protect customer data with its |
Selecting a Solution (continued)
DS4300 | ● Provides four 2Gb FC host ports to support multipath failover for directly attached UNIX and |
Local copy within controller
Remote Copy (>10 km)
Centralized management
Storage area network
Concurrent heterogeneous servers (UNIX and Intel)
Concurrent microcode install
Intermix disk capacities
Multiple RAID options
Rack mount
Virtualization
Virtualization through SAN Volume Controller
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DS4400 | DS4300 | DS4100 | DS400 | DS300 | 7133 | 320 |
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* Remote Copy (>10 km) is via TotalStorage Proven vendors (Legato, CNT, NSI) |
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| ● Designed to deliver high performance of up to 768MB/sec throughput with turbo option |
| ● Supports up to 112 fibre disk drives or 16.4TB capacity with Turbo option, 112 SATA disk drives or 28TB capacity with dual |
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| ● Can help improve service response time with automated alerts from the optional DS4000 Service Alert feature |
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DS4100 | ● Features SAN ready, Fibre Channel attach, single or dual controller models, |
| data archiving, reference data, and |
| ● Provides a low cost, entry level solution for UNIX and Intel servers |
| ● Designed to provide scalability for easy growth (250GB to 28TB) |
| ● Offers powerful, intuitive storage management tools |
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DS400 | ● Designed to provide |
| ● Designed to support heterogeneous operating environments including Windows, Linux, VMWare and Netware |
| ● Features |
| ● Feature reliable Ultra320 SCSI drives |
| ● Designed to scale to 5.8TB physical capacity with EXP400 SCSI Enclosures |
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DS300 | ● Designed to provide iSCSI host connectivity that leverages standard Ethernet Infrastructure |
| ● Designed to support heterogeneous operating environments including Windows, Linux and Netware |
| ● Features |
| ● Designed to scale to 2TB physical capacity |
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EXP Plus 320 | ● Provides flexible, scalable and |
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7133 Serial Disk | ● Provides |
System | ● Incorporates an architecture that avoids single points of failure and includes |
| ● Provides concurrent maintenance with redundant power and cooling components |
| ● Provides flexibility and availability with its |
Additional information on these IBM Disk Storage products is available on the Web at ibm.com/totalstorage/disk