Disk Storage Systems (continued)
IP Attached Storage Products
| IBM TotalStorage NAS Gateway 500 |
| IBM TotalStorage DR550 |
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| ● Designed as a preconfigured, integrated offering to help store, retrieve, manage, share and secure regulated |
| ● Increased |
| and nonregulated data in |
| client being directly connected by Fibre Channel |
| ● Designed to offer automatic provisioning, migration, expiration and archiving capabilities |
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| ● Supports nondisruptive enterprise scalability of up to 56TB physical capacity |
| network complexity and expense, and allow data to be shared across the organization |
| ● Offers a comprehensive suite of software tools for policy- and |
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| ● Designed to avoid single points of failure |
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Scalability | Up to 224TB of | Single node: 3.5 and 7TB, Dual node: 3.5 7, 14, 28 and 56TB |
Nodes | Single- or | Single- or |
Processors | 1.45GHz POWER4+™ processor (orderable as | One 1.5GHz POWER5™ processor per node |
Network Protocol | NFS v2 and v3 (UNIX and Linux), CIFS (Windows), HTTP, FTP, NTP, SNMP, SMTP | IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Data Retention application programming interface (API) |
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Operating System | AIX 5L™ 5.2B | AIX 5.2 ML4 |
Performance** | 276MB/sec CIFS 68,444 I/Os per sec NFS v3 | Performance testing not completed at time of publication |
PCI Slots Available | 6/node | N/A |
Network | Eight (10/100/1000) Ethernet ports (copper and fiber) for file serving or service management on PCI adapters | 2 port Gigabit Copper or Fibre Ethernet (upgrades available) |
Connectivity | Eight (2Gbps) Fibre Channel ports for external tape and storage attachment |
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ECC SDRAM | 16GB with | 1GB per node |
Memory (max) |
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Data Protection | Mirrored OS, | |
| snapped data. |
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| remote disaster recovery sites |
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Redundancy/High | Redundant, hot swappable disk bays, power supplies, fans and PCI adapters | HACMP, redundant DS4100 controllers, RDAC driver to provide path failover, RAID |
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Backup | External tape (SCSI or FC) | External tape (recommended IBM 3592 WORM tape) |
RAID Levels | SAN disk dependent | |
Systems | NAS WebSM, SMIT, SNMP v3, NAS CLI | SMIT, DS4000 Storage Manager GUI, SNMP |
Management |
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Storage | IBM Tivoli® Storage Resource Manager (ITSRM) agent, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager client and storage agent, | IBM Tivoli Storage Manager client and storage agent |
Management | IBM Tivoli SAN Manager (ITSANM) agent; additional |
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