Disk Storage Systems (continued)
IP Attached Storage Products
| IBM TotalStorage N3700 |
| IBM TotalStorage DR550 |
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| ● Operational |
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| retention managed data and other critical information assets over extended periods of time |
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| ● Integrated |
| help reduce network complexity and expense, and allow data to be shared across the organization |
| and secure regulated and nonregulated data in |
| ● IP SAN – Supports iSCSI protocols for IP SAN attachment to a multitude of host servers including Microsoft |
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| Windows, UNIX and Linux systems |
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| petabytes of storage with attached tape |
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| minimize downtime |
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| ● Native support for LTO Gen 3 WORM Tape |
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| Management applications |
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| ● Synchronous |
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| be maintained on DR550s in separate locations. |
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| ● Disaster Recovery |
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| nesses to use tape libraries with advanced LTO Gen 3 tape drives with WORM capabilities to provide efficient |
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| and cost effective replication of data objects. |
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| ● Operating in conjunction with an enterprise |
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| Message Monitoring and Retention (CM MMR) helps enable centralized management through a single inter- |
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Scalability | Up to 16TB of physical storage |
| Single engine: 3.5 and 7TB, Dual engine: 3.5, 7, 14, 28 and 56TB of physical storage, up to petabytes with |
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Nodes | Single- or |
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Processors | Based On Broadcom® |
| One 1.5GHz POWER5™ processor per server |
Network protocol | NFS v2, v3, v4 (UNIX and Linux), CIFS (Windows), iSCSI, HTTP, FTP, NDMP, SNMP |
| IBM System Storage Archive Manager application programming interface (API) |
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Operating system | Data ONTAP™ 7.1 |
| AIX 5.2 ML4 |
Performance | 13,620 I/Os per sec NFS v3 |
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PCI slots available | N/A |
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Network | Two (10/100/1000) Ethernet ports per controller |
| 2 port Gigabit Copper or Fibre Ethernet (upgrades available) |
connectivity | Two Fibre Channel ports for attachment to tape backup and expansion unit |
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ECC SDRAM | 1GB single controller |
| 1GB per node |
memory (max) | 2GB dual controller |
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Data protection
Mirrored OS,
Data Encryption for enhanced security for disk and tape via
Redundancy/high | Redundant, hot swappable disk bays, power supplies, fans and controllers | 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) |
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Systems | FilerView™, SecureAdmin™, SNMP | SMIT, DS4000 Storage Manager GUI, SNMP |
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Storage | Industry standard NDMP protocols | IBM Tivoli Storage Manager client and storage agent |
management
* Please visit ibm.com/totalstorage/nas for additional N3700 performance information. ** Please visit ibm.com/totalstorage/dr550 for current DR550 performance results.
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